Résultats pour "The Tree" dans Sagas

From the author of the Seven Sisters series, The Angel Tree is Lucinda Riley's compelling mystery of family secrets and forgotten pasts on the sweeping pastures of south-east Wales. Read by the award-winning actor Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) 'Sweeping, absorbing, beautifully written...

1957. El destino elige a veces caminos insospechados. Criado en un orfanato durante los duros años de la guerra, Hueso es un buscavidas que sobrevive en las calles de Palermo a base de pequeños timos y escaramuzas. Siempre lleva consigo, como un talismán, el misterioso camafeo que las monjas encontraron junto a él cuando fue abandonado a las puertas del hospicio. Él no lo sabe, pero ese colgante contiene la clave de sus orígenes: un legado que se remonta varios siglos atrás.

En 1971 una pareja muere al pisar una vieja granada en el antiguo campo de batalla del Somme, escenario de uno los episodios más cruentos de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Su hijo de tres años es encontrado cuatro días más tarde a muchos kilómetros de distancia. Edvard crecerá con su abuelo Sverre en una granja noruega ignorando el enigmático suceso hasta que, un día, alguien entrega un ataúd destinado a su abuelo: una espléndida pieza de carpintería tallada en madera de abedul.

"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But 17-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books - and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for.

Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime....

Gryff Morgan, a church-going Kentucky family man, hides a dark secret. Living under an assumed identity to avoid extradition to Argentina, not even his twin sons, Travis and Chase, know their comfortable lives are built on the proceeds of drug smuggling. Only his wife, Gwenna Garland—a failed singer—knows the truth of his Welsh origins.

When Georgia removes her autistic son, Dylan, from a prestigious Edinburgh school, she seeks refuge in her family’s ancestral home on the sunlit shores of the Greek island of Corfu. Among the olive trees and cicadas, she discovers her late mother’s diary—an intimate glimpse into a marriage shaped by love, betrayal, and tragedy. The diary’s revelations challenge everything Georgia thought she knew about her parents—and herself.

As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women’s suffrage has finally reached New Zealand. But when the tide of change rolls in, it threatens to engulf two young women from very different backgrounds, who are coming of age amid the tumult.

When 11-year-old Lizzie Mudie loses her mother in Dundee's darkest disaster, her world is shattered. Forced to grow up too soon, Lizzie uncovers a resilience beyond her years. An unexpected inheritance – Green Tree Mill, crumbling and forgotten – offers a new path. Determined to succeed, Lizzie rises to become its formidable mistress.

The continent of Amarra rests on the brink of disaster. With the heart of druidic magic failing, the balance of nature faces destruction. At the behest of the enigmatic sage Xander, elven druid Kiana Paletine joins a new party of adventurers—including a fearsome Infernal, an axe-happy half-orc, and an unpredictable mage—to help stop the spread of evil.

In a village in Wiltshire, just off a busy road, Larch Tree Lane winds slowly up a low hill. Among the residents is Maggie Hatherall, full of life despite her advancing years, who worries what she is going to do with her 200-year-old home. Lucia Grey has escaped a bad marriage but her ex is reluctant to let her start a new life free of him. And for architect Corin Drayton, an unexpected inheritance is the start of a complicated family wrangle. From the cottages and farms to the local shop, pub and old manor house, the residents' lives are set to intertwine and relationships bloom.

As his arms wrapped her in a tight embrace she swayed against him, savouring the moment. There had been times during the past years when she had wondered if she would ever see him again, would ever be enclosed in those same arms. So many men hadn’t come home. After four years facing the horrors of the trenches in France, Frank Carmody returns to make a life for himself and his wife, Nina. But it’s now 1919 and everything has changed.

It's the last Christmas season before Mark and Angela welcome their first child, and Angela is determined to have an unforgettable holiday before the baby’s arrival changes everything. She insists on hosting the holiday dinner at the farm instead of at her mother’s house, and she wants to make sure her daughter Caroline doesn’t feel left out.

At once an epic family drama and a sweeping love story that spans both an ocean and a generation, Palm Trees in the Snow is an emotionally gripping and historically vivid tale of the secrets that can destroy a family - and the bonds that endure.

Hope Stevens thinks Wedding Tree, Louisiana, will be the perfect place to sort out her life and all the mistakes she's made. Plus, it will give her the chance to help her free-spirited grandmother, Adelaide, sort through her things before moving into assisted living. Spending the summer in the quaint town, Hope begins to discover that Adelaide has made some mistakes of her own.

Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant façade. But secretly, her marriage is falling apart and her need to control people around her threatens to destroy them all. Ronnie is an actress, living in New York. But she has no money, she has no home, and her life is held together by "chewing gum, paper clips, and spit." When their father dies, the sisters inherit a house in Prosper, North Carolina.

When her beloved father dies, Manon Jenkins is left homeless and alone. She longs for Caradoc Jones, son of a famous Welsh cattle drover, and, in desperation, she accepts a job as chaperone to Caradoc's spoilt sister Georgina, and joins the drovers on the road to Smithfield market in London. Non struggles to be accepted by the other women on the journey, as they walk long miles over rugged terrain. One heady, star-filled night, Caradoc finally becomes her lover, but she is devastated when he refuses to marry her.

“FAMILY TREE is warm, rich, textured, and impossible to put down.” –Nora Roberts Dana Clarke has always longed for the stability of home and family–her own childhood was not an easy one. Now she has married a man she adores and is about to give birth to their first child. But though her...

When her favourite beech tree is felled in a storm, Ann feels as if someone has died. But when long-hidden seed packets are found inside the trunk, Ann realizes there are more memories than her own lurking within the ancient tree. A century earlier, head gardener William Hatherwick and Hester Mordaunt, mistress of Beechgrave, share a love for the mighty estate - and an undeclared love for each other. But when war breaks out, William is sent to the battlefields of France, and as the conflict rages on, Hester grieves beneath the tree.

Benny Alexander is anxious to get home to Summer County, South Carolina, to be with his baby daughter, Whitney Ivy, but being at home reminds him of the woman he lost many years ago - Whitney’s mother, Stacy Greene. Is it time for him to give up hope that she will ever return to him and their daughter? Unlike Benny, Cecile Jordon is reluctant to journey to Summer County with her best friend, Janice Atterly. Still, she promised Benny and Janice she would come for a July Fourth celebration.

. She is content there until, suddenly, she must make decisions that will change everything. Fraser Kyle, the owner of the florist’s, proposes marriage. Should she accept, or renew her childish love for Mark Lindsay the doctor from the orphanage who first showed Shona the Handkerchief Tree that inspired her?