New Year's Eve: A NovelCrown, 30. 5. 2012. - 366 страница Part contemporary family drama, part ghost story, this engrossing novel dramatizes the difficult process of letting go of one's childhood to embrace one's new chosen family. This is the story of twin sisters, their children, and an accident that claims the life of one, and leaves the others to find their way away from, and back to each other. |
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... felt better than I did . Looked better , too . Worried less . Talked more . This was to be her second child , and my first , and so she knew everything I was heading for , or at least everything she was heading for , and she made sure ...
... felt better than I did . Looked better , too . Worried less . Talked more . This was to be her second child , and my first , and so she knew everything I was heading for , or at least everything she was heading for , and she made sure ...
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... felt awful for Dad . For years , he'd been growing old gracefully , but now he was facing retirement , he seemed beset by a roving obsession with time . He was sixty - eight and hypnotized by the specter of seventy . Jeffrey , Heather's ...
... felt awful for Dad . For years , he'd been growing old gracefully , but now he was facing retirement , he seemed beset by a roving obsession with time . He was sixty - eight and hypnotized by the specter of seventy . Jeffrey , Heather's ...
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... felt a thing . As I pushed , a nurse held one of my legs up . Wilma , my doctor , held the other . At my back , Edgar held my shoulders and rolled them forward and whispered to me and exhorted . I was the center of the world . There was ...
... felt a thing . As I pushed , a nurse held one of my legs up . Wilma , my doctor , held the other . At my back , Edgar held my shoulders and rolled them forward and whispered to me and exhorted . I was the center of the world . There was ...
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... felt as if I were risking her life . I called Dad , who seemed amused by me but didn't offer a visit . If I didn't feel quite prepared to take on the hazards of being a mother , I felt even less prepared to give up the shelter of being ...
... felt as if I were risking her life . I called Dad , who seemed amused by me but didn't offer a visit . If I didn't feel quite prepared to take on the hazards of being a mother , I felt even less prepared to give up the shelter of being ...
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... felt so much of the first , so little of the second . How could I be peaceful when a life was in my hands ? Two days later , Heather still hadn't seen Sarah . " She's probably just busy , " Dad said when I'd stopped feeling hurt by his ...
... felt so much of the first , so little of the second . How could I be peaceful when a life was in my hands ? Two days later , Heather still hadn't seen Sarah . " She's probably just busy , " Dad said when I'd stopped feeling hurt by his ...
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arms asked Heather auld lang syne Aunt Heather baby bedroom birthday called Heather child couch crying Dad asked Dad's Daddy David David's dead doctor dollhouse door dream Dryope Duck Duck Goose Edgar asked Erica eyes father feel felt flowers Frank Briggs Freedo girl going Guy Lombardo hair hand happy hear heard Heather asked Heather called Heather says Heather told heaven hugged Jeffrey kids kiss kitchen knew Koenig laughed living room looked Mary Poppins miss Mom's Mommy morning mother myth never night nodded nurse okay petits fours play Play-Doh Playmobil pregnant remember Richard Rosie Sarah asked schnook seemed shouted shrugged sister sitting sleep smiled sonogram sorry Spock stared started stood sure sweetheart talk tell There's things thought took trying turned twins waiting walked watched weeks What's whispered woke wondered Year's Eve