Ergebnis für "Flora" in Literatur & Belletristik

Die Leute sagen, ich bin seltsam. Ich bin nicht seltsam, ich bin nur anders. Im Zentrum des Romans steht Flora, die in der Einöde der bayrischen Voralpen in völliger Isolation aufwächst. Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter wird das verwahrloste,vierzehnjährige Mädchen in die Zivilisation gebracht und in eine psychiatrische Klinik eingewiesen. Jahre später ist Flora eine erfolgreiche, mehrfach ausgezeichnete Kräuterexpertin und lebt zurückgezogen in Mühlbach. Ihr Leben ändert sich schlagartig, als Ella sie besucht, die sich als ihre Zwillingsschwester entpuppt.

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Flora, Stella et Morgane sont cousines ; leurs grand-mères étaient soeurs. Lorsque Juliette, la dernière soeur de la lignée, décède, elle lègue sa maison en Normandie et la librairie attenante aux trois jeunes femmes. Flora, galeriste d'art à Los Angeles reçoit un carton contenant des affaires ayant appartenu à sa grand-mère, Joséphine, qui a quitté son village normand au début des années 1920 pour devenir peintre... Pour reconstituer son histoire, Flora devra se rendre en Normandie, mais aussi en Grèce, sur les traces d'un tableau disparu.

Charlotte Patcham's dream job running the Bath Physick Garden has turned into a nightmare: the underfunded garden has become a target for vandals, and her career and her social life are succumbing to mildew. So why does she hesitate to take the job of Head Gardener at Hampshire's famous Tillingford Hall? But when fate pushes Charlie towards Tillingford Hall can she learn to work alongside Seb so they can get everything ready for the public in time for the opening Christmas concert?

When a woman discovers a rare book with connections to her past, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood in the English countryside during World War II are revealed in this “beguiling blend of hope, mystery, and true familial love” (Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times...

On the windswept dunes of the Isle of Harris in the wild and beautiful Outer Hebrides of Scotland, is a small white house with a big history. These days, Flora’s House is a holiday home – the perfect base for visitors from far and wide to explore the stunning and often dramatic landscape. Arriving with one suitcase for clothes and another for their own decorations, retired couple Maggie and Roger have booked Flora’s House for the festive season. It’s their first trip to the island and their first Christmas away from home – but where does Roger disappear to on his long walks?

According to Tatler's Little Black Book, The Honourable Guy Tillingford is Britain's twenty-ninth most eligible bachelor, after the Marquess of Granby and grime artist Tornado. With a seven-year-old daughter, Hatty, to care for, studious divorcee Alice Merrow doesn't have time for celebrity gossip. When Alice and her flamboyant boss, Desmond Kingston-Campbell, realise that everything – and everyone – at Tillingford Hall are not as they seem, their discoveries could tear the Tillingford family apart.

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories. Flora, her late mother's twenty-two-year old first cousin, who cries at the drop of a hat, is ardently determined to do her best for Helen.

In Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical series Lark Rise to Candleford, she explores the Oxfordshire country life of her protagonist Laura in the 1880s and 1890s. This collection includes all three works in the trilogy, Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green.

In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy. Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the world.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en el hospital de la base norteamericana de una minúscula isla italiana, un piloto de bombardero llamado Yossarian finge estar loco. Quiere evitar a toda costa perder la vida en su próxima misión aérea y regresar a casa. ¿Por qué demonios intentan todos matarle desde abajo?, se pregunta cada vez que lanza una bomba. Yossarian intenta demostrar que está loco pero cae en la «trampa 22»: una absurda y perversa regla militar que afirma que aquellos que alegan locura para no ir a la guerra son los más cuerdos.

Brillante y con tintes fantásticos como un Grimm, realista como un O. Henry o despiadado como un Saki, sus historias fueron adaptadas por Alfred Hitchcock para la televisión, y han inspirado a creadores como Steven Spielberg o Quentin Tarantino.

Heartbroken and betrayed, college senior Jenny Cates returns home for spring break, seeking solace in her family. Instead, she stumbles upon her mother, a prominent lawyer, brutally attacked in her office. With her last breath before slipping into a coma, her mother utters a desperate plea: Run, Jen. Burn the diaries and run.

To søstre - tvillinger er de oven i købet - og voksne - er sammen i bil på vej til en ferieby et sted i Sydeuropa. Deres mål er at besøge en onkel, der vistnok opholder sig på en slags hospital, angivelig fordi han lider af noget, der ligner paranoia. Under alle omstændigheder er han patient og under behandling eller opsyn. Og efter planen skal søstrene bo i hans lejlighed og derfra besøge ham på hospitalet i nærheden.

Lever les yeux vers les étoiles. Aussi, à défaut de pouvoir les approcher, dans un monde où le métier d'astronaute est réservé aux hommes, elle est devenue astrophysicienne. Mais le jour où elle apprend que la NASA recrute des scientifiques, consciente des sacrifices qui s'annoncent, elle saisit sa chance. Ce matin de décembre 1984, quand Joan arrive au centre de contrôle à Houston, elle s'attend à vivre une journée comme les autres.

Eine Frau entdeckt ein seltenes Buch, Verbindungen zu ihrer Vergangenheit werden aufgedeckt, lang gehütete Geheimnisse über ihre vermisste Schwester und ihre Kindheit im englischen Hinterland während des Zweiten Weltkriegs enthüllt. Im kriegszerstörten London von 1939 werden die vierzehnjährige Hazel und ihre fünfjährige Schwester Flora in ein ländliches Dorf evakuiert, um den Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu entkommen.

’Tis the season for mulled wine, mince pies, and magic under the mistletoe… 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 ‘An absolutely delightful festive feel good book! Perfect for snuggling up with a steaming mug of hot chocolate in front of a roaring fire!’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...

Amélia Bennett, fan de Jane Austen, s'échappe d'une visite ennuyeuse dans un manoir anglais et tombe sur un homme encore plus séduisant que Darcy lui-même. Sur le point de perdre sa demeure ancestrale pour cause de dettes familiales, le charmant aristocrate Tom Calder invite sa visiteuse américaine à se joindre à lui pour profiter de l'inestimable collection de vins du domaine. Mais lorsqu'ils se réveillent le lendemain matin dans le lit de Tom, l’esprit encore embrouillé par l’alcool, ils sont convaincus d'avoir assisté à un meurtre.

Une intrigue vertigineuse pour un grand suspense de Michel Bussi. Méfiez-vous des fils invisibles... Un corps est retrouvé dans la vallée de la Meuse, au coeur des Ardennes. Accident, suicide, meurtre ? La révélation de l'identité de la victime plonge la capitaine Katel Marelle dans la sidération. Renaud Duval menait-il... trois vies par semaine ?

Constance Macken, in her ninth decade, is looking back on a life filled with laughter and loss, tragedy and triumph, but knows it is time to right the wrongs from her past that have always haunted her. Heather Banks arrives on the island to bury her mother. Already adrift with her business sold and her divorce finalised, time on the island may be the perfect opportunity to change the course of her future.