Showing results for "Hummingbird" in Women's Fiction

'MAGNIFICENT' GUARDIAN 'A TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT' FINANCIAL TIMES 'INVENTIVE, BOLD, UNEXPECTED' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here' Guardian 'Not since William Boyd's Any Human Heart has a novel captured a single life with such invention and...

A sweeping story of love that stretches across the years from the number one bestselling author of Songs of Love and War. The war has ended and Rita Fairweather is waiting for George Bolton, her childhood sweetheart, to return home to Devon. She wants their future to be a continuing reassurance...

Lana Jacobs dreams of becoming a professional photographer. She loves to take pictures of the beauty surrounding her. Scenes of nature, such as hummingbirds and landscapes, challenge her to find the most interesting angles for her camera lens. Instead of spending her time looking at the world through a camera, Lana sits in an office, where she works at a profession she detests. Why? She tries to please her father.

Ryan Eames is a policewoman and single mother dedicated most of all to her lonely, uniquely gifted son. Stretched thin by double shifts and grappling with an out-of-season coastal wildfire, Christmas cheer feels as far away as a distant carol on a winter night. Until duty draws her into the life of a stranger.

La vida de Romina representa la de todos aquellos que sueñan con irse lejos y abrazar un nuevo futuro, con la principal ex-pectativa del amor y del encuentro consigo mismos. El viaje de los colibríes es un vuelo sin final, en el que Romina decide hacer diferentes escalas. En ellas conoce amigos, abre jaulas extrañas, descubre alas inesperadas y conquista el cielo que lleva dentro... Si una vez decidiste escapar..., ¡no dejes que nadie te atrape!

Friends since kindergarten, Carrigan, Ella Rae, and Laine thought they'd been through everything together. But when cancer threatens to rip the trio apart, their world spins in a way they've never known before. Through it all, they search for the secret to the divine taste of hummingbird...

"But Mother is always dying" is Gillian Ormsby's sarcastic response when her younger, favored sister tells her that she has to go take care of their hypochondriac mother. Much against her will, since she and her mother never have gotten along, Gillian arrives in California to find the garden and yard dead, the blinds all drawn, and her mother indeed in bed - waiting to die. But when Gillian talks with the doctor, he assures her there's no medical reason behind her mother's state.

Joanna has spent 10 years married to a monster. Everyone thinks she has the perfect life, but behind closed doors she lives in constant fear of her husband. Escape seems impossible - and then a stranger offers her a chance to flee. On the run with her young daughter, Joanna finds herself in the mysterious town of Morro. With no memory of how she got there. And no idea of what the town truly is.