LIBROS DEL AUTOR: donna j burr

7 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: donna j burr

  • ’E’ is For Elephant-And I Can Spell Pachyderm
    Donna J. Burr
    From the beginning, the DeHaven’s first child was a quiet little girl; ordinary, like any other girl.With the exception of her mother, few people recognized her potential.Frequently being labelled a liar by her favorite cousin and a mischief- maker aunt, did not help her situation.In the aftermath of World War II, and encouraged by her mother to read anything and everything, Ma...
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    14,00 €

  • Sylvia! The Girls are Here!
    Donna J. Burr
    Widowed, the elderly woman from an immigrant family, has sold her old house in Albany, New York and moved to a retirement home. Her daughter is tasked with a final check of the empty house. Hidden until that day, a disconcerting  find, obviously from World War Two, sparks the daughter's overactive imagination. Once back in her own home in Louisville, Kentucky, the widow'...
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    15,88 €

  • The Promise Tree
    Donna J. Burr
    What provokes one child down a dangerous path, while her cousin takes a less tortuous direction in life? A mere six months apart in age, the girls were born near the end of World War Two, when a war tragedy set the stage for Ginger Drake's calamitous life. Ginger's 'sister at heart', cousin Glory Clayborne, has all she can do to protect the incorrigible Ginger f...
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    11,99 €

  • If I Shall Speak
    Donna J. Burr
    In the beginning of young Nettie's life, her lone escape from brutality was in deep silence, until a stranger knocked on the front door of her vile family's house. With that knock a thread was pulled and an unraveling began. That stranger and Nettie were led to an unpredictable, mysterious string of events that wove a different future for Nettie and those she encountere...
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    17,06 €

  • Lucette
    Donna J. Burr
    Named after her mother, Lucette is raised by her maiden Aunt Sophie in New York City, her mother having died during the typhoid epidemic of 1906-1907. The story opens in 1923. Just having reached her majority, at twenty-one, Lucette is sent to Giverny, France, ostensibly to study garden design and gardening under the tutelage of Claude Monet's lead gardener. As a budding wa...
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    16,37 €

  • River Soul
    Donna J. Burr
    Professional artist Sarah Ollin struggled to overcome the anguish of an ill-fated relationship. As a result, her work stalled. To recover the creative muse, she fled to the North Country, immersing herself in solitude, and the soothing, sensory beauty of the St. Lawrence River region.During that first summer sojourn, and for a fleeting moment, Sarah’s path forward seemed clear,...
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    18,25 €

  • A Current Affair
    Donna J. Burr
    All Kentucky-born Jane Denton wanted was to have an iced coffee from the comfort of the clubhouse at the Porters Ford Golf Club. Given the state of play, she faced a long wait for her husband’s foursome to come within view at the eighteenth green. Her husband, senior pro golfer Charlie Denton, was participating in the club’s annual charity golf tournament.Never a golfer herself...
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    15,14 €