Showing results for "Shelley" in Literature & Fiction

The MacInnes family is grieving. The loss of Miranda has devastated her husband, John Andrew, her eldest daughter, Tammy, and her youngest child, Dawn. Not Donnie anymore but Dawn, like sunrise, who transitioned while her mother received cancer treatment—without the rest of the family knowing. Now, when Dawn leaves Halifax for rural Nova Scotia to attend her mother's funeral, she knows she'll be meeting her sister and father for the first time as herself.

"Celle qui devint le soleil" réinvente l'ascension vers le pouvoir du premier empereur de la dynastie Ming. Zhu, l'impossible survivante, est prête à tout pour acquérir le mandat du Ciel... "Je refuse de n'être rien." Dans un village rongé par la famine, au coeur d'une plaine poussiéreuse, deux enfants reçoivent chacun une destinée. Le garçon est promis à la grandeur. La fille, au néant... En 1345, la Chine est soumise à la cruelle domination mongole. Pour les paysans faméliques des Plaines du Milieu, la grandeur n'existe que dans les contes.

A baby girl named Stephen Gordon is born to well-to-do parents. She grows from a young tomboy into a thoughtful woman who feels 'different'. Stephen is understood by her father but alienated from her mother. Bucking against the conventions of society she turns down an offer of marriage and forms a passionate attachment to an American woman. Gradually, Stephen realises she will never fall in love with a man – but will she be an outcast? In pursuit of love and experience, Stephen takes herself to bohemian Paris, a far cry from the strict confines of British society.