Ergebnis für "Angie" in Märchen

Kier Sealgair is the only daughter of a family of seal hunters. Her brothers continue the family trade but the seal hunters and fishermen of the small town are struggling as catches decline and the seals are dying. Kier cannot kill and in hard times she is a burden to her family, especially now that her father is ailing. Her only friend is Fie, son of the town's tailor, living with the knowledge that his father hoped for a daughter. Near the town, high on the cliffs, is Erskine Manor. Servants come from the manor to the town to buy supplies but the family is never seen and rumours abound.

Kore has lived her entire life under her resentful mother Demeter’s shadow, trying her hardest to please a woman grown bitter by betrayal. With her self-esteem in tatters and deliberately isolated by her mother, it’s no surprise that Kore is flummoxed when she meets a collection of otherworldly women—the Goddesses of Olympus—who tell her that her mother is in truth a Goddess herself. Kore tells them her preferred name, Persephone, and hopes they will not only have answers for her new questions, but offer the friendship and love she craves.

La leyenda de los viajes de Marco Polo cobra vida en este texto de una forma nunca vista hasta entonces. De la mano de una de las escritoras de viajes más reputadas de la actualidad, Patricia Almarcegui, el hecho histórico de su partida desde Venecia hasta las profundidades de la China imperial se convierte en una trepidante narración en la que nosotros, afortunados viajeros, acompañamos a Marco Polo codo con codo en su gesta.