The Widow’s Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen’s final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when Austen draws away...
Motherless families
-
Author:Butler, PaulSummary: -
Author:Bradley, AlanSummary:In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It...
- Author:Thayne, RaeAnneSummary:
"[Thayne's] books are wonderfully romantic, feel-good reads that end with me sighing over the last pages."-Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author. Celebrate the season with this sparkling and heartwarming...
-
Author:Ward, JesmynSummary:Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a...
- Author:Austen, JaneSummary:
The last novel completed by Jane Austen before her death, Persuasion is often thought to reflect on the author's own lost love. Sir Walter Elliot has raised his three daughters with his own sense of haughty pride. Elizabeth, at...
- Author:Austen, JaneSummary:
Le dernier roman de plus connues des autrices anglaises, qui a inspiré la nouvelle série Netflix avec Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding et Cosmo Jarvis.Anne Elliot est la deuxième fille de Sir Walter Elliot et le membre le plus sensée...
- Author:Parker, MichaelSummary:
Joel Junior's daddy has gone off again. And since his momma and big sister got fed up and left, he's in charge of little brothers Carter and Tank. But Daddy's got Carter, and Joel and Tank need to get away. So with no one to guide him...
-
Author:Raney, DeborahSummary:Reserved contractor Wade Sullivan never expected to fall in love with Starr Parnell or to love her three small kids as if they were his own. But that's exactly what happened. As their wedding draws near, however, tragedy strikes, and...
