Showing results for "Flora" in Genre Fiction

Charlotte Patcham's dream job running the Bath Physick Garden has turned into a nightmare: the underfunded garden has become a target for vandals, and her career and her social life are succumbing to mildew. So why does she hesitate to take the job of Head Gardener at Hampshire's famous Tillingford Hall? But when fate pushes Charlie towards Tillingford Hall can she learn to work alongside Seb so they can get everything ready for the public in time for the opening Christmas concert?

On the windswept dunes of the Isle of Harris in the wild and beautiful Outer Hebrides of Scotland, is a small white house with a big history. These days, Flora’s House is a holiday home – the perfect base for visitors from far and wide to explore the stunning and often dramatic landscape. Arriving with one suitcase for clothes and another for their own decorations, retired couple Maggie and Roger have booked Flora’s House for the festive season. It’s their first trip to the island and their first Christmas away from home – but where does Roger disappear to on his long walks?

’Tis the season for mulled wine, mince pies, and magic under the mistletoe… 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 ‘An absolutely delightful festive feel good book! Perfect for snuggling up with a steaming mug of hot chocolate in front of a roaring fire!’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...

In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy. Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the world.

When warm-hearted Hannah Barry’s father passes away, her life is turned upside down when she discovers he wasn’t her biological father, and the only family she’s ever known are not related to her at all. Now their tiny farmhouse overlooking Roone Bay feels unfamiliar and cold. So when a handsome, dark-haired stranger turns up on her doorstep, his kind eyes and shy smile are a welcome escape.

It's 1944 and Flora Knox is enjoying a beautiful spring morning in the Swiss mountains, waiting on a railway station platform for a train. As Flora watches, a cattle train draws closer to the station, pulling a fleet of slatted trucks behind. But the trucks don't contain animals. From within come the sounds of humans, groaning, pleading, on a desperate journey across the Swiss countryside.

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories. Flora, her late mother's twenty-two-year old first cousin, who cries at the drop of a hat, is ardently determined to do her best for Helen.

To søstre - tvillinger er de oven i købet - og voksne - er sammen i bil på vej til en ferieby et sted i Sydeuropa. Deres mål er at besøge en onkel, der vistnok opholder sig på en slags hospital, angivelig fordi han lider af noget, der ligner paranoia. Under alle omstændigheder er han patient og under behandling eller opsyn. Og efter planen skal søstrene bo i hans lejlighed og derfra besøge ham på hospitalet i nærheden.

The world is frozen. The animals in the ascendant. And, locked in desperate pursuit of "the other father" across a grim, icy apocalypse, Jim will do anything to keep his daughter alive.

Eine Frau entdeckt ein seltenes Buch, Verbindungen zu ihrer Vergangenheit werden aufgedeckt, lang gehütete Geheimnisse über ihre vermisste Schwester und ihre Kindheit im englischen Hinterland während des Zweiten Weltkriegs enthüllt. Im kriegszerstörten London von 1939 werden die vierzehnjährige Hazel und ihre fünfjährige Schwester Flora in ein ländliches Dorf evakuiert, um den Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu entkommen.

Lo sa bene il diavolo che cosa si cela nell'animo umano, quanto in basso possono arrivare gli esseri umani pur di ottenere quello che vogliono.

It’s the late 1800s, and John Ogilvie Stevenson, pastor of the Congregational Church in Waterloo, Iowa, believes women are equal to men intellectually, and superior to men morally and spiritually. During a sermon on temperance, wherein he advocates laws to shut down the saloons, he is struck by the irony that his audiences are composed mostly of women - that segment of the citizenry who cannot vote. Thus begins his campaign for women’s suffrage.

Una hermana desaparecida, un misterioso cuento, una novela mágica sobre el poder de las historias. En el Londres de 1939, Hazel, de catorce años, y Flora,...

It was meant to be a romantic Christmas getaway... Except Flora's boyfriend Paul is more interested in whether there's WiFi in their holiday cottage than he is in the pretty village of Padcock where it's located. It seems he's incapable of taking time out from his work for gossip mag darling Maxine Marling - or Maxine Marmoset as Flora not so secretly calls her (well, she does look like a marmoset!) - to spend time with his actual girlfriend.

Topcharmerende roman fra den britiske bestsellerforfatter Jenny Colgan om den unge kvinde Flora, der forlader sit hektiske liv i London for at åbne en restaurant i sin hjemby på den skotske ø Mure. Da Flora MacKenzie forlader den skotske ø Mure og den lille, stille by, hun er vokset op i, ser hun sig ikke tilbage. Der ved alle, hvem hun er, og ingen lader til nogensinde at ville lade fortid være fortid. I Londons pulserende byliv kan hun derimod være helt anonym - og give efter for sin håbløse forelskelse i sin charmerende chef Joel.

"Lügnerin", ging es Maivy durch den Kopf. Sie war sich sicher, dass die Inhaberin des unscheinbaren Blumenladens mehr wusste, als sie preisgeben wollte. Und schon bald würde sie das dunkle Geheimnis von "Floras Blüten" lüften.

Inselflair und Glücksgefühle: Der krönende Abschluss der Frauenroman-Reihe um die kleine Sommerküche von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Jenny Colgan. Gleich drei verliebte Paare suchen in »Hochzeitsglocken auf der kleinen Insel« nach ihrem Happy End – Romantik und Sommersonne garantiert! Instagram-Star Olivia plant eine Hochzeit, die alle anderen in den Schatten stellen soll. Und das ausgerechnet auf der schottischen Insel Mure.

Weihnachtlich, romantisch, wunderbar – Feel-Good-Unterhaltung von Bestsellerautorin Jenny Colgan. Ein festlich geschmückter Kamin mit prasselndem Feuer, ein köstliches Weihnachtsmenü und glückliche Gäste – so prachtvoll soll "The Rock", das neue Hotel auf der kleinen schottischen Insel Mure, an den Feiertagen erstrahlen. Doch wenige Wochen vor dem Fest ist das Hotel eine Baustelle, der Kamin nicht einsatzbereit und die Küche ein einziges Chaos.

Deirdre Green is no stranger to losing it all. Nearly two decades after her father's mysterious disappearance, her boyfriend, her job, and her London flat all go up in smoke. But when she suddenly inherits what’s left of her family’s publishing business, Deirdre is shocked to discover the cryptic magical conspiracy revealed in its remains.