Showing results for "Flora" in 20th Century

Flora Maguire is now happily married to Bunny Harrington and living in Richmond when she receives an alarming telegram informing her of her father's tragic death in a riding accident at Cleeve Abbey. Heartbroken, Flora and Bunny return to her former home, where she was governess to Eddy, Viscount Trent, and her father was butler to Earl Trent. Flora's intention was to bury him next to Lily, her mother, who sadly passed away when Flora was a small child. Mystery surrounds the final resting place of Lily.

As war rages across the world, Princess Elizabeth comes face to face with the dashing naval officer she first met in London nine years before. One of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, Philip represents everything she has always been taught to avoid. Instability. Audacity. Adventure. But when the king learns of their relationship, the suitability of the foreign prince is questioned by all at court. He is the risk she has never been allowed to take. The risk not even the shadow of the crown will stop her from taking.

1943: As war rages across the world, Princess Elizabeth comes face to face with the dashing naval officer she first met in London nine years before. One of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, Philip represents everything she has always been taught to avoid. Instability. Audacity. Adventure. But when the king learns of their relationship, the suitability of the foreign prince is questioned by all at court. He is the risk she has never been allowed to take. The risk not even the shadow of the crown will stop her from taking.

Je m'appelle Mégane Crawfords, en 1991, j'avais 16 ans et menais une vie parfaite, réussissant dans mes études et sortant enfin avec le seul garçon dont je pensais être amoureuse depuis toujours : le beau et populaire Chad. Mais ma destinée n'était pas là. Je le compris en croisant le regard de Jessy, un nouvel élève du lycée. Il me fallut du temps pour parvenir à m'approcher de lui tant il semblait fuir le monde entier alors que mon cœur battait de plus en plus fort pour lui.

Anna Roth, jeune documentaliste à Princeton, a une mission : rencontrer Adèle, la veuve de Kurt Gödel, l'un des plus grands mathématiciens du XXe siècle, afin de récupérer les documents laissés par le grand mathématicien. Par petites touches, Adèle dévoile peu à peu l'histoire d'amour improbable, l'horreur nazie, le génie et les folies de son mari Kurt Gödel.