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Flowers, fire and fairy tales are the elements that will forever shape nine-year-old Alice Hart's life, in The Lost Flower's of Alice Hart, the international bestseller by Holly Ringland. Alice Hart lives in isolation by the sea, where her mother’s enchanting flowers and their hidden messages...

This is a book about phobias and obsessions, isolation and dark corners. It's about families, friendships, and carefully preserved secrets. But above everything else it's about love. Finding love - in any of its forms - and nurturing it. Miss Hayes has a new theory. She thinks my condition's...

How to be a reader - how to be a writer. All you need to know. Alice is an 18-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own niece, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself.

Alice ist auf der Suche. Sie ist ein junges Mädchen, aber, so ihre Mutter an ihrem letzten Geburtstag, jetzt kein Kind mehr. Da fällt sie eines Tages wie die gleichnamige Heldin aus Lewis Carrolls Roman in einen Kaninchenbau und gelangt so zwar nicht ins Wunderland, aber doch in das wunderbare Land der Ideen. Mit ihren Gefährten bereist sie es vom Okzident bis in den Orient und ins ferne Asien, von der Antike bis in unsere Gegenwart. An der Seite ihrer Freunde entdeckt Alice die großen Ideen der großen Philosoph*innen und lernt, dass sie uns noch heute Kompass und Wegweiser sein können.

On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Alice should be celebrating. She can finally vote, she’s almost finished high school in Tecumseh, Oklahoma, and her family and twin brother, Alistair, have thrown a party to remember. But beneath her smile, Alice hides a growing fear—she might be pregnant. As a young witch, she knows there are ways to handle such things. She vows to stay away from Johnny Ackersly, her charming but reckless boyfriend, and plans to brew a tea that will bring her body back into balance. Then Johnny gives her a gift—a necklace strung with ruby-red beads.

Alice und Barbara waren beste Freundinnen aus der Kindheit. Sie haben alles gemeinsam gemacht - Großes und Kleines und haben jedes Geheimnis miteinander geteilt. Als sie nach der Schule getrennte Wege gehen, verlieren sie den Kontakt. Vierzig Jahre später treffen sie sich zufällig wieder und beginnen sich gegenseitig Briefe zu schreiben. Sie stellen sich gegenseitig unbeantwortete Fragen aus der Vergangenheit und noch mehr Geheimnisse kommen nun auf den Tisch!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the English mathematician and author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by grotesque figures like talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children.

Approaching the end of her life, Alice Mayes, notorious caretaker of the anomaly known as The Garden of Sunray, is eager to tie up one last loose end before moving on. The last loose end. For decades, she’s been dreaming of finding someone to share her secret with, someone worthy of her truth, and in 20-year-old Emily Newell, she thinks she finally has. On a momentous stroll through her massive garden with her young friend, Alice delves back into the past, back to those five horrific, mind-bending days in the summer of 1944, when she was 16.