LIBROS DEL AUTOR: laury a egan

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: laury a egan

  • Once, Upon an Island
    Laury A. Egan
    A sixteen-year-old girl, Olivia, who feels guilty about her younger brother’s death. Her mother, Evelyn, a glamorous artist. Travis, the charismatic owner of the Pink Fancy Hotel. A mysteri­ous Czechoslo­vakian widow, Sofiya. A sojourn on St. Croix, a tropi­cal island. Two love affairs. Secrets. Nazis. Ravensbrück concentra­tion camp. Conflict, jealousy, kindness, tenderness. A...
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    13,59 €

  • Wave in D Minor
    Laury A. Egan
    Leslie Chase, a young composer, receives the use of an ocean-side Maine house from her patron so she may complete her first opera. As Leslie struggles with loneliness and winter snowstorms, she meets a handsome but troubled man, Matti, and becomes enmeshed with him and his enigmatic relationship with her benefactor. When three opera singers visit, one of them, Sasha, begins to ...
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    11,88 €

  • Turnabout
    Laury A. Egan
    The summer of 1964. Four teenage lives intertwine as each searches for love, identity, and a passage through painful family conflicts, social isolation, and the confusion of sexual orientation.During a sailing class, four teenagers meet.Jessie Schaffer is fourteen, an intelligent and solitary girl, who dreams of becoming a writer. When she sees nineteen-year-old Lindsay Ames, t...
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    13,71 €

  • The Swimmer
    Laury A. Egan
    A fresh twist on a triangular relationship. A novel about love, compassion, selfishness, grief, bravery, sacrifice. An elegy, a reckoning, told with touches of magical realism. Psychotherapist Bess Lynch makes a sojourn to Cape Cod to deal with her impending demise from pancreatic cancer. While swimming, she encounters an enigmatic, handsome man, Stephen, who is mourning the lo...
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    13,08 €

  • A Bittersweet Tale
    Laury A. Egan
    The deck has always been stacked against you. Then an attractive woman promises love, respect, employment, and a home. Wouldn’t you be hooked? Jango Jacks is. Jango is a fifty-three-year-old Korean War vet, itinerant worker, and sweet-natured fellow who left kith and kin in Kentucky decades ago. On a hot August day in 1984, he lands in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania, pock...
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    12,46 €

  • Fabulous!
    Laury A. Egan / Laury AEgan
    A talented opera singer, Gilbert Eugene Rose, moonlights as a drag queen and diva divine, Kiri De Uwana, in order to pay his rent.Like many, Gil is dying to become famous on the New York operatic stage; unfortunately he might get his wish when he lands lead roles as a soprano and tenor in separate productions and is also hired to sing Handel by a dangerous female gangster who i...
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    18,51 €