Ally et ses sœurs se retrouvent dans la maison de leur enfance, un magnifique château sur le bord du lac de Genève, suite au décès de leur père, un milliardaire excentrique et énigmatique qui les a toutes adoptées de pays différents....
Adoptees
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Auteur:Riley, LucindaSommaire: - Auteur:Mooney, HarrisonSommaire:
A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard - that of the child at the centre of a transracial adoption and a searing account of being raised by religious fundamentalists. Harrison Mooney was born to a West African mother and...
- Auteur:Forster, GwynneSommaire:
Coreen Treadwell heads a prominent social welfare agency, but she is haunted by her past. Raped and impregnated as a teenager, she gave up her baby, Frieda, without ever seeing her. The legacy of violence continues in her daughter's...
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Auteur:Dunaway, Dan PaxtonSommaire:Briony, a prairie girl with a disfigured face, is adopted when she is nine by a childless older couple, Dagget and Moll, who appear mysteriously one day at her orphanage. They take her to their remote town of Crowsbeak in northern...
- Auteur:Erdrich, LouiseSommaire:
The world as we know it is ending. As Cedar Hawk Songmaker goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity.
- Auteur:Fedorko, SusanSommaire:
"Cricket" is the incredible story of one woman's journey to discover her roots and define her place in a newly complex and extended family--with her adoptive family, her birth family, her husband and daughters. It's...
- Auteur:Johansen, IrisSommaire:
Jane MacGuire, adopted daughter of forensic sculptor Eve Duncan from "Blind Alley" (DC26164), is the victim of an attempted kidnapping. Jane believes that someone from her past life is involved and seeks help from con man Mark...
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Complete Surrender: the True Story of a Family's Dark Secret and the Brothers it Tore Apart at BirthAuteur:SHARP, DaveSommaire:Approximately sixty years after the event, Dave Sharp discovered that he had been given away at the age of one month. This sent him on a quest to discover the truth behind his mysterious abandonment, and finally reunited him with his...
- Auteur:Oke, JanetteSommaire:
When she learns that her husband is missing in action during World War II, a desperate young wife decides to give up their baby daughter for adoption. By the time she learns that her husband is still alive, the infant belongs to a...
- Auteur:Chung, NicoleSommaire:
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper's Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * Today From the bestselling author of ALL...
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