Résultats pour "The Tree" dans Roman féminin

""If some prose sings, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s truly dances. Although set in the early sixteenth century, The Dance Tree addresses issues of the utmost importance today—the subjection of women, class inequality, the dangers of religious fundamentalism. Ultimately, however, the book’s...

After losing her husband during the Civil War, Katie Rose Kelly refuses to let tragedy define her future. Determined to rebuild her life, she journeys west to the vast Dakota Territory, where she stakes a 160-acre claim and becomes a sheepherder—one of the few women bold enough to take on such a challenge. Alone on the sweeping prairie, Katie must confront more than harsh weather and isolation. Powerful cattle barons view sheep as a threat to their grazing lands, and they are willing to intimidate anyone—especially a woman—to protect their interests.

After thirteen years away, Tina O’Grady returns to her hometown of Benson, Texas, drawn to the old oak tree in the park. She and her childhood friends, Walker and Gracie, called it the “tomorrow tree” and shared their dreams beneath its branches. But Tina, still reeling from past betrayals, has no plans to stay.

During the summer of 1952, in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, seven-year-old Tilly Harris begins to see her world differently. This story, told through her eyes, discovers prejudice against differences, truths that have to be hidden, cruelty disguised as righteousness, and strength in standing up for what is right.

An epic story about the power of words and actions, and the legacy of violence and abuse passed down through generations - and the redeeming strength of one singular woman to overcome the effects of a horrific secret. Ruth, a clear-eyed young artist with a promising future, is stymied at every turn by men who seek to maintain power over her. Gripping and inspiring, Tree of Lives spans the 20th century, and in following Ruth's development, demonstrates how feisty and independent women paved the way in the fight for social equality as the decades unraveled.

Ogni donna è una voce, uno sguardo, una sensibilità unica e irripetibile. Lo sono anche Gesuina, Maria e Lori, una nonna, una madre e una figlia forzate dalle circostanze a convivere in una casa stregata dall'assenza prolungata di un uomo. Tanto Gesuina, più di sessant'anni e un'instancabile curiosità per il gioco dell'amore, è aperta e in ascolto del mondo, quanto Maria, sua figlia, vorrebbe fuggire la realtà, gli occhi persi tra le carte di traduttrice e i sentimenti rarefatti rivolti a un altrove lontano.

Cara Jo Sanderson was left at a local hospital as an infant. As a child, she loved to visit Lindley Park, a place that inspired her to capture her art on canvas. Stumbling upon a special tree carvings on it, she learns of a dark secret. She discovers a friendship with new beginnings. Cara gets adopted by the Saunders family, where she must meet challenges that test her ability to heal from the losses she has experienced. Now a young woman, Cara has secrets that have been kept from her. Will these secrets affect her life? Will Cara move on from her past and start to love again?

Although Sara's college degree provided her an out, she always knew she’d return home to the small logging community that is like family to her. But when she learns the forest around her can talk, Sara’s focus shifts from cutting down the trees to saving them. Soon she discovers a hidden world, and among the people who live there, she finds love. But as tensions between her conservation efforts and her community rise, the people she once called family become her biggest adversaries.

When Claire Nagy marries Forster Baumsarg, the only son of prominent California citrus ranchers, she knows she's consenting to a life of hard work, long days, and worry-fraught nights. But her love for Forster is so strong, she turns away from her literary education and embraces the life of the ranch, succumbing to its intoxicating rhythms and bounty until her love of the land becomes a part of her.

A young widow inherits a run-down farmhouse and a whole new beginning in Virginia in this charming and emotional novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summerhouse. Quiet, unassuming, and overweight, Lillian did anything and everything to please her husband of twenty years, the...

Tre amici, Marco, Misia e Livio. Le loro vite si intrecciano nel corso di trent'anni, mentre i loro rapporti passano dall'amicizia più entusiasmante alla passione, all'amore, alla rivalità, fino alla constatazione di non poter fare a meno uno dell'altro. Al centro di questo triangolo emotivo è Misia, che ispira e incoraggia gli altri due e li porta alla disperazione, secondo gli alti e bassi della sua bruciante interiorità.

In Julia Glass's fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant—a richly plotted novel of friendship and love, artistic ambition, the perils of celebrity, and the power of...

As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past.

Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women - an unbroken line of daughters - living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to become the oldest person in the world. An indomitable force, strong in mind and firm in body, she rules Hill House, the family home she shares with her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter Deb, and great-great-granddaughter Erin. Though they lead ordinary lives, there is an element of the extraordinary to these women.

‘A sizzling summer read! – Sarah Morgan Is home always where the heart is? When Ellie spent a summer with her mum on a Wiltshire commune in the 90s it was a bigger disaster than Leo DiCaprio’s trip aboard the Titanic – so fleeing to America seemed a perfect plan. But now, with her...

Anna thought her marriage to Max would last forever. Having raised two happy children together, she looked forward to growing old with the man she loved. But when a revelation from her husband just before their wedding anniversary shakes her entire world, she's left uncertain of what the future holds. Needing time to herself, Anna takes up an offer from her widowed father to spend the summer on the small Aegean island of his birth, unaware that a chance discovery of letters in her aunt's house will unleash a host of family secrets.

The Christmas bells are chiming across the Outer Banks town of Bell Cove, North Carolina, but there’s one local ‘grinch’ who’s not listening . . . He’s got bad-boy looks and a Bah Humbug attitude, so when the local paper asks the villagers to vote on the “Biggest Local Grinch” as a...

When Pearl’s grandmother Nell dies unexpectedly, she and her family - mother Diana, sister Lucy - return to Kangaroo Island to mourn and say farewell to her. Each of them knew Nell intimately but differently, and each woman must reckon with Nell’s passing in her own way. But Nell had secrets, too; and as Pearl, Diana and Lucy reflect on their feelings about the island, Pearl starts to pull together the scraps Nell left behind - her stories, poems, paintings - and unearths a connection to the island’s early history.

After heartbreaking losses, Luna craves adventure. An escape into a different world away from her sheltered childhood. Lucien, a young architect and world traveler, finds a stranger’s journal at a café. Despite his pangs of guilt, he’s fascinated and goes on reading. When they meet, Luna is inspired by Lucien’s stories and adventurous spirit to go on a Peace Corps assignment to a rice-growing village in Cambodia. What she finds there defies everything she could ever have imagined. Can she leave this world unscathed?

Estate sale organizer Audrey Nealon’s long quest to become a mother may finally work out, so she’s looking forward to the holiday this year. Until her loyal assistant Ty becomes obsessed with acquiring BlastMaster, the season’s hottest toy. Determined to give his nephew the fantasy Christmas he himself never had, Ty allows his hunt for BlastMaster to lead him down some very dark alleys. His quest unleashes a world of trouble. A criminal ring, a defaced painting, and a long-unsolved murder provoke revenge that threatens Audrey’s estate sale business.