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Alexandra Von Reinhardt

    A Village Affair
    Medieval - 4: By Arrangement
    Ça 1
    • A Village Affair

      • 271pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      __________ A Village Affair, by highly acclaimed author Joanna Trollope, is a stylish, warm story of a marriage, a family, and a village affair. The Grey House is the final piece in the jigsaw of Alice Jordan's perfect life. It seems to be the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy marriage - a loyal, if dull husband, three children, two cars and now the house. So why does she feel as if something is missing? As Alice and her family settle themselves into village life the something missing becomes something huge and then breaks, scandalizing the village, opening up old wounds. But because of it, Alice begins to feel that there is hope and humour and understanding and compassion in the new life she must build for herself. 'A richly textured and immensely readable novel' Sunday Times

      A Village Affair2003
      3,4
    • Medieval - 4: By Arrangement

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      The lady and the commoner... Lady Christiana Fitzwaryn was not opposed to marriage. But she demanded to be married on her own terms, not as punishment for a romantic indiscretion, and especially not to a common merchant. Yet she was in for a shock when she met David de Abyndon. For she was confronted by no ordinary merchant but a man of extraordinary poise and virility. He was unaffected by their difference in social status. And even less affected by her well-thought-out arguments against their upcoming betrothal. Instead, it was Christiana who felt uneasy in the presence of this naturally lordly man behind whose cool blue eyes she sensed the most uncompromising of passions. David de Abyndon understood Christiana's dilemma, for he too harbored a secret pain. How could he tell her that there was more to this arrangement than met the eye? How could he tell her about his deal with the king--a deal that meant he had all but bought Christiana sight unseen? What's more, now that he had seen this beautiful, spirited woman, how could he convince her that the love she sought was not in the callow knight she had romanticized but in the flesh-and-blood arms of the man who may have bought her body--but in the bargain lost both his heart and soul?

      Medieval - 4: By Arrangement2001
      3,6
    • Ça 1

      • 799pages
      • 28 heures de lecture

      Enfants, dans leur petite ville de Derry, Ben, Eddie, Richie et la petite bande du "Club des ratés", comme ils se désignaient, ont été confrontés à l'horreur absolue : ça, cette chose épouvantable, tapie dans les égouts et capable de déchiqueter vif un garçonnet de six ans... Vingt-sept ans plus tard, l'appel de l'un d'entre eux les réunit sur les lieux de leur enfance. Car l'horreur, de nouveau, se déchaîne, comme si elle devait de façon cyclique et régulière frapper la petite cité. Entre le passé et le présent, l'enfance et l'âge adulte, l'oubli des terreurs et leur insoutenable retour, l'auteur de Sac d'os nous convie à un fascinant voyage vers le Mal, avec une de ses oeuvres les plus amples et les plus fortes. [Source : 4e de couv.]

      Ça 11998
      4,3