LIBROS DEL AUTOR: lesley crewe

12 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: lesley crewe

  • Death and Other Inconveniences
    Lesley Crewe
    Well, Dick’s dead. Now what?Margo, his widow, is trying to dodge the tsunami of paperwork and other tasks coming her way. She doesn’t deal with details-why do you think she was married in the first place? Dick always handled the drudgery. Not terribly well, it turns out.Margo’s ex-husband (the first one, not the dead one) and their two adult children are trying to support Margo...
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    25,00 €

  • Nosy Parker
    Lesley Crewe
    Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe’s new novel brings readers to 1960s Montreal & features a nosy would-be child detective searching for the truth about her mother. It’s 1967 in Montreal, the Expo is in full swing, and Audrey Parker has just moved with her dad to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a whole new neighbourhood full of different kinds of people to spy on. Audrey is a lot of t...
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    25,01 €

  • I Kid You Not
    Lesley Crewe
    I Kid You Not! is a follow-up to bestselling author Lesley Crewe’s first hit column-and-essay collection, Are You Kidding Me?! Here Lesley is hilarious and insightful as ever, giving us her take on everything from hockey to wildlife to the ache of missing our ancestors in ninety essays. She shares details of her proposal for the Mere Mortal Awards (Best Director goes to the 'po...
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    25,07 €

  • The Spoon Stealer
    Lesley Crewe
    Born into a basket of clean sheets--ruining a perfectly good load of laundry--Emmeline never quite fit in on her family’s rural Nova Scotian farm. After suffering multiple losses in the First World War, her family became so heavy with grief, toxicity, and mental illness that Emmeline felt their weight smothering her. And so, she fled across the Atlantic and built her life in En...
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    24,59 €

  • Mary, Mary
    Lesley Crewe
    In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery cashier. Her well-­off aunt, the only other normal person in the family, wants to help her more, but Mary's mother is too prickly and proud...
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    25,03 €

  • Amazing Grace
    Lesley Crewe
    Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest?Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she's lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d'Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher Parsons, a giant teddy bear who's not even her husband. But Grace's blissful life is rudely interrupted when her estranged son calls ...
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    28,88 €

  • Chloe Sparrow
    Lesley Crewe
    Chloe Sparrow is a twenty-five-year-old TV producer with a hit show on her hands. The Single Guy is a popular new reality series, where dozens of women are trying to woo bachelor veterinarian Austin Hawke. As the filming gets underway, though, accident-prone Chloe finds herself in one predicament after another: a wayward puck hits her in the face during a hockey game, she sprai...
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    24,94 €

  • Relative Happiness
    Lesley Crewe
    Lexie Ivy loves her little house in Cape Breton, her big family, and the endless sea that surrounds her. She wouldn't trade her life for anything, but at thirty she's starting to feel like something's missing.Enter Adrian, a charming backpacker who takes a wrong turn at the U.S. border and ends up on Lexie's doorstep, and Joss, an irresistible man who disappears...
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    24,56 €

  • Kin
    Lesley Crewe
    Traditions, created, and subverted. Love, nurtured and destroyed. Friendships, marriages, and the wild beauty of Cape Breton Island. And above all, kin, in all its convoluted forms.In Kin, bestselling author Lesley Crewe traces the tangled lines of loyalty, tragedy, joy, and love through three generations of families. Beginning with Annie Macdonald, an effervescent seven-year-o...
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    24,42 €

  • Ava Comes Home
    Lesley Crewe
    From the author of Relative Happiness and Shoot Me comes a riveting story about one terrible secret—a secret kept in shame, buried deep for self-preservation, and exposed in a moment that changes forever the lives of everyone involved.Ava Harris is a famous actress living the life of the rich and fabulous in L.A. when a family crisis calls her home. It's been ten years sinc...
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    22,19 €

  • Her Mother’s Daughter
    Lesley Crewe
    From best-selling author Lesley Crewe comes a poignant and moving novel.Sisters Bay and Tansy are complete opposites. Widowed mother Bay has never lived anywhere but Louisbourg; restless Tansy left the town as a a teenager and stayed away for years.And now, Tansy is home. Home, and unwittingly falling in love with her sister's almost-boyfriend. Home, and befriending Ashley ...
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    24,94 €

  • Shoot Me
    Lesley Crewe
    A new smaller format of Lesley Crewe's second novel, now with a reader's guide and author interview.The South End house where Elsie Brooks and her big, complicated family live is bursting with secrets. Elsie's banished husband lives in the basement. Her lonely sister lives in the attic. Her twenty-something daughters come and go as they please. And when the renegade...
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    23,24 €