127 Ergebnisse - Zeige 41 von 60.

Keine Beschreibung.

A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times-bestselling author Donoghue.

Praise for Room: ‘Emma Donoghue’s writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness’ Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife‘One of the most profoundly affecting books I’ve read in a long time’ John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas‘Sophisticated in outlook and execution . . . Utterly plausible, vividly described’ New York Times‘Absorbing, truthful and beautiful . . . it is a kind...

Sumac Lottery is the fifth of seven kids who share their big house with four parents, one grandfather and five pets. At nine, she's the keeper of her family's traditions - from Pow Wow to Holi, Carnival to Hogmanay, Sumac's on guard to make sure that no Lottery celebration is forgotten.But this winter all Sumac's plans go awry when a Brazilian visitor overstays his welcome. A terrible ice storm grounds all flights, so one of her dads and her f...

Irland Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts: In einem kleinen Dorf, dessen Bewohner tief im katholischen Glauben verwurzelt sind, staunt man über ein leibhaftiges Wunder. Seit vier Monaten hat die kleine Anna O'Donnell keine Nahrung zu sich genommen und ist doch durch Gottes Gnade gesund und munter. Die unglaubliche Geschichte lockt viele Gläubige an, aber es gibt auch Zweifler. Schließlich beauftragt man die resolute englische Krankenschwester Lib Wrig...

Irlanda, seconda metà dell'Ottocento. L'infermiera Lib Wright, una veterana della guerra in Crimea formatasi all'illustre scuola di Florence Nightingale, è appena giunta nelle Irish Midlands dall'Inghilterra. A convocarla è stato un comitato capeggiato dal dottor McBrearty, il medico della Contea. Il caso sottopostole è quanto mai insolito: Anna O'Donnell, una bambina in perfetta salute, afferma di non toccare cibo dal giorno del suo undicesim...

Room. Chto takoe svoboda? I kto svobodnee - chelovek, ni razu v zhizni ne pokidavshij chetyreh sten, v kotoryh rodilsja, i cherpajushhij znanija ob okruzhajushhem mire iz knig i cherez jekran televizora? Ili tot, kto zhivet snaruzhi? Dlja malen'kogo Dzheka takih voprosov ne sushhestvuet. On schastliv, s nim ego mama, on ne znaet, chto po ch'emu-to zlobnomu umyslu vynuzhden zhit' ne tak, kak zhivut drugie. No illjuzija ne byvaet vechnoj, malen'...

Sumac Lottery is the fifth of seven kids who share their big house with four parents, one grandfather and five pets. At nine, she's the keeper of her family's traditions - from Pow Wow to Holi, Carnival to Hogmanay, Sumac's on guard to make sure that no Lottery celebration is forgotten.But this winter all Sumac's plans go awry when a Brazilian visitor overstays his welcome. A terrible ice storm grounds all flights, so one of her dads and her f...

Sumac Lottery is the fifth of seven kids who share their big house with four parents, one grandfather and five pets. At nine, she's the keeper of her family's traditions - from Pow Wow to Holi, Carnival to Hogmanay, Sumac's on guard to make sure that no Lottery celebration is forgotten.But this winter all Sumac's plans go awry when a Brazilian visitor overstays his welcome. A terrible ice storm grounds all flights, so one of her dads and her f...

Keine Beschreibung.

Sumac Lottery is the fifth of seven kids who share their big house with four parents, one grandfather and five pets. At nine, she's the keeper of her family's traditions - from Pow Wow to Holi, Carnival to Hogmanay, Sumac's on guard to make sure that no Lottery celebration is forgotten.But this winter all Sumac's plans go awry when a Brazilian visitor overstays his welcome. A terrible ice storm grounds all flights, so one of her dads and her f...

Keine Beschreibung.

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of "Room" delivers the eagerly awaited sequel to her acclaimed "The Lotterys Plus One." Sumac Lottery is the keeper of her family's traditions, but this winter all Sumac's seasonal plans go awry when a Brazilian visitor overstays his welcome. Illustrations.

Keine Beschreibung.

The bestselling author of the adult novel "Room" bursts onto the children's book scene with this cross between "Little Miss Sunshine, Cheaper by the Dozen, " and "Modern Family." Illustrations.

Keine Beschreibung.

Meet the Lotterys: a unique and diverse family featuring four parents, seven kids and five pets - all living happily together in their big old house, Camelottery. Nine-year-old Sumac is the organizer of the family and is looking forward to a long summer of fun. But when their grumpy and intolerant grandad comes to stay, everything is turned upside down. How will Sumac and her family manage with another person to add to their hectic lives?The L...

The one thing in life that never changes . . . is that sooner or later things change.Meet the Lotterys: a unique and diverse family featuring four parents, seven kids and five pets – all living happily together in their big old house, Camelottery. Nine-year-old Sumac is the organizer of the family and she loves her unusual, hectic family. But, as always, things change, and when a grumpy and intolerant grandfather and a Brazillian visitor overs...

Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid i

Meet the Lotterys: a unique and diverse family featuring four parents, seven kids and five pets - all living happily together in their big old house, Camelottery. Nine-year-old Sumac is the organizer of the family and is looking forward to a long summer of fun. But when their grumpy and intolerant grandad comes to stay, everything is turned upside down. How will Sumac and her family manage with another person to add to their hectic lives?The L...