Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew...
Orphans
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Auteur:Montgomery, L. M.Sommaire: -
Auteur:Montgomery, L. M.Sommaire:Sur le quai de la gare, Marilla et Matthew attendent l'orphelin qui les aidera sur leur ferme. C'est une rouquine aux yeux pétillants qui se présente... Jouir de la magie des mots, rire de ses propres défauts, s'émerveiller face à la...
- Auteur:Phillips, Michael R.Sommaire:
Before the war, Rosewood Plantation is large and prosperous. During the war years, women and slaves struggle to keep it running. But in the bloody days following the Northern victory, a marauding band of Union soldiers ravages Rosewood...
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Auteur:Chesney, MarionSommaire:Left penniless after the death of her father, Amaryllis Duvane is forced to work as a servant in the home of her wealthy relations. When her ex-fiancé courts one of her relatives, she can't bear the thought of him seeing what's become...
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Auteur:Doerr, AnthonySommaire:From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of...
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Auteur:HEARN, LianSommaire:The first book in the Otori trilogy is a tale of war, intrigue, love and betrayal set in an imaginary ancient Japanese society and tells the story of Takeo, a young man born to a spiritual people known as the Hidden. Unbeknown to him,...
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Auteur:Seethaler, Robert, Collins, CharlotteSommaire:Shortlisted for The 2016 Man Booker International PrizeAndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with...
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Auteur:Barry, SebastianSommaire:When Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, is violently attacked, she takes matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice that will uncover the dark secrets of her past.
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Auteur:Mullin, Caryl CudeSommaire:Meryl's mother was a great bard—a storyteller and musician who sang of life and the world around her. Meet Meryl, already an orphan, who wants to follow in her mother's footsteps. Highly spirited and curious, she has broken a sacred...
- Auteur:Harris, RosieSommaire:
Julia leaves home when she discovers she is pregnant. She finds work in a hotel. Eunice, wife of the manager, is also expecting. Julia's baby is stillborn but Eunice has a healthy baby girl, Amanda. Although heartbroken at the...
- Auteur:Bradford, Barbara TaylorSommaire:
The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an...
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Auteur:Burnett, Frances HodgsonSommaire:Little Sara Crewe, a student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, suffers the ultimate setback when she loses her beloved father and goes from rich to poor overnight. Instead of wallowing in her dingy attic room, however...
- Auteur:Hendee, BarbSommaire:
""Kara, as a ward with no parentage and no future, has been raised knowing nothing outside her ladys chambers. Until Royce Capello, a visiting nobleman, is struck by her ice-pale looks, and demands her as payment for the land...
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Auteur:Schlitz, Laura AmySommaire:At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take her home and reveal to her the role she will play in their seances.
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Auteur:Jocelyn, MartheSommaire:Malou has just turned sixteen, hardly old enough to be out in the world on her own, and all she knows for sure is that she's of mixed race and that she was left at an orphanage as a newborn. When the orphanage burns to the ground, she...
- Auteur:Robertson, David Alexander, Henderson, ScottSommaire:
LA SÉRIE 7 GÉNÉRATIONS est une bande dessinée épique en deux volumes et quatre histoires : Pierre, Cicatrices, Rupture et Pacte. Elle raconte la saga d’une famille autochtone sur trois siècles et sept générations.
Pierre...
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