Résultats pour "Laurie Lee" dans Fiction de genre

Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy. Imprisoned and almost executed by his own side, he eventually joined the International Brigade. This is the story of his experiences as a Republican soldier, fighting for the losing side in a doomed war.

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For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife. Twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa...

Two years ago, I chose him over me. Just because I was stuck in this small town, living a small-town life, didn't mean he had to be stuck, too. He had so much talent, and he was destined to do big things, but I knew he'd never leave without me. Not unless I made him. I knew it would break his heart, but it was the price I'd have to pay for his freedom.

Avery Kingwood’s marriage crashed and burned…on his honeymoon. After he finds out his wife Cassie’s devastating truth, she forces him to sign a separation agreement — one that's more like a gag order. Unable to say what happened to his marriage, Cassie expertly manipulates Avery’s entire family against him. Tucked away on the opposite end of the country from his wife and family, Avery finds something that gives his life renewed meaning and hope: Sheila Beller. Perfect, well-respected, charming — and untouchable.

What Alex, illegitimate daughter of an alcoholic novelist and an artist, has always wanted is family. At 15, she falls in love with a 27-year-old photographer, whom she will leave when she comes under the spell of Ted Neal, a charismatic activist on his way to Mississippi for 1964’s Freedom Summer. That fall, Ted organizes a collective that turns to the growing antiwar movement.

Despite their 12-year age difference, and all his efforts to forget her, green-eyed Lily Beller has imprisoned Dr. Darren Mansfield’s heart for the last five years. He left his father’s medical practice to avoid the too-young temptation, but now she’s inexplicably working at the same hospital as him.