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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Lucy Duff-Gordon
Ten-year-old Lucy and her parents live on Earth in the last throes of its final holocaust. Their only hope is being accepted as refugees on another world; but one rejection letter after another eats away at their hope, while death closes in on them. Hope revives when a stranger arrives with a letter of acceptance from the mysterious planet, Andorpha.While Lucy, her best friend, Kim, and her parents wait to board the space ship, her parents are killed. Lucy faces danger and growth as she comes to grips with her parents' death, and the strange customsof Andorpha. While her best friend-cum-sister, Kim, laps up Andorphian love like warm milk, Lucy wonders if it's all too good to be true. When Lucy learns the Andorphians believe their planetis under a curse, she begins to suspect there is a reason she and her family were so readily accepted as refugees.Do they expect her to be the antidote to an ancient curse? When Kim urges Lucy to accept the Andorphians and their way of life, the only shot at life they have, Lucy is certain she's right. All is not what it seems.
It's Lucy's sixteenth birthday. A random meeting at the top of a ski run on Christmas Day leads to a fast moving love affair. Her mother finds out that Lucy has spent the last night of the holiday with Peter. She calls Lucy a harlot and says she will never speak to her again. Her father normally takes Lucy's side but he fails to calm down his wife. Lucy runs away from home to Scotland, mainly to save her parent's marriage. She learns to look after sheep, having rescued an elderly shepherd. She is very happy living with him and makes many, new friends. Her life takes a very rapid movement upwards after she rescues Lord Carmichael, Peter's grandfather from a car accident in a deep, cold, Scottish river. The question is, 'Will this lead her back to Peter'? The first chapter of Lucy was previously published as a short story in Three Lovely Girls.
Primatologist Jenny Lowe is studying bonobo chimpanzees deep in the Congo when she is caught in a deadly civil war that leaves a fellow researcher dead and his daughter, Lucy, orphaned. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for Lucy as her own. But as she reads the late scientist's notebooks, she discovers that Lucy is the result of a shocking experiment, and that the adorable, magical, wonderful girl she has come to love is an entirely new hybrid species--half human, half bonobo.
Lucy, a 19-year-old West Indian girl, escapes her family and past to work in New York for Lewis and Mariah and their four daughters. As she cares for them, she comes to understand the love she feels for her own mother, the love she feels for Mariah, and the longing she she has for her native land.
The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in paperback Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is. At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with Lewis's and Mariah's lives, she is also unravelling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed with adamantine clearsightedness and ferocious integrity--a captivating heroine for our time.
A fictional account of FDR's romance with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer, follows their pre-World War I affair, its impact on his marriage, and FDR and Mercer's reacquaintance years later as he prepared for an unprecedented third term. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Explore the four seasons with Lucy in this combination children's book that includes the four classics. This set includes Lucy: The Easter Bunny, Lucy: The Hiking Bunny, Lucy: The Pumpkinpatch Bunny, and Lucy: The Wintertime Bunny.
A tiny dog, a kindhearted girl, and a nervous juggler converge in a cinematic book in four acts -- a unique children's literature experience. Lucy is a small dog without a home. She had one once, but she remembers it only in her dreams. Eleanor is a little girl who looks forward to feeding the stray dog that appears faithfully beneath her window each day. Eleanor's father is a juggler with stage fright. The overlapping stories of three delightful characters, offering a slightly different perspective each time, come together in a truly original, beautifully illustrated book for dog (and underdog) lovers of all ages.
"... there's no war here. All we have is people throwing their weight around. You surely didn't think country villages were full of nice kindly people helping each other? Our war is village toughs settling scores, eyeing you up, leering at you, pawing you if they get the chance. People you wouldn't have trusted with sixpence a while ago, standing outside the grocers with pistols in their belts, pushing you in the back. Everybody spying on everybody else." Lucy is a painter. She has everything: fame, money and reputation. She also has Oscar. At least, he has always been there. One fine day, she will do something about that. It was, as she says, hardly a love affair, more a kind of marriage. Perhaps, even war-torn France is safe enough on the Oscar front. But Lucy is deceiving herself. Set before and after the second world war in London, Edinburgh, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Dundee and a remote village in war-time France, two painters struggle to come to terms with the casual brutality of war. A love story. Alan Kennedy's fourth novel - a masterly account of love, loss and reconciliation.
Washington state, November 1902 Lucy Weaver is the last of her generation. Granny Weaver Hughes' four sons have had thirteen children between them, and twelve of them have married. Only Lucy remains – and she doesn't have any prospects. Her parents keep trying to push her toward the neighbor's son, but they're just friends and have no romantic interest in each other. Aside from him, though, there are no eligible bachelors around… …until she goes to check the family's cows one evening, and finds a man bleeding to death in one of the stalls! Noel Pedersen doesn't even know where he is at first. Lucy does her best to patch him up and nurse him back to health, but he's clearly hiding things – how he got shot, why he doesn't want anyone to know where he is, what drove him all the way from Canada to collapse in the Weavers' cow barn. But secrets can't be kept forever, and as first her parents, then the law get involved, everyone is in for surprises. Get ready for a shock in LUCY, the latest in the Romancing the Weavers series – because everything hidden is going to come out!
A portrait of an indelible young woman, Kincaid's second novel is "vivid, true and necessary" (Los Angeles Times).Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple--handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place. Lucy has no illusions about her own past, but neither is she prepared to be deceived about where she presently is. At the same time that Lucy is coming to terms with the way the family lives, she is also unraveling the mysteries of her own sexuality. Gradually a new person unfolds: passionate, forthright, and disarmingly honest. In Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new character possessed of adamantine clear-sightedness and ferocious integrity--a captivating heroine for our time.
Lucy! is a buoyant picture book biography of trailblazer Lucille Ball, the comedy queen who loved to make the world laugh, from authors Amy Guglielmo and Jacqueline Tourville and bestselling illustrator Brigette Barrager. Lucy was not a proper little girl. She was sassy. She was bold. She was funny. She was a rule-breaking, chance-taking, comedy pioneer. Can’t act? Can’t sing? Can’t dance? Lucy proves them all wrong—and then has the last laugh when she finally lets her inner funny girl shine. In 1951, the hit show I Love Lucy took television by storm, and has made millions laugh ever since.Lucy! is the true story of how Lucille Ball overcame the odds to become the world’s Queen of Comedy.
A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamiliar country.
A chance encounter and a man's tenacity proves that love can heal even the most hardened heart. Four years ago, something happened that changed Lucy Reynolds forever. Or so she thought. Standing on the edge of change, staring at the light, but living in the shadows, she's still terrified of moving forward. But one weekend changes everything. Her best friend. His brother. This is not a love triangle. It's Lucy finding herself in a million tiny pieces and allowing a family to put her back together, showing her the freedom in love, family, and laughter. But when her past catches up with her and she's faced with the same terror she thought she finally escaped, will she retreat into the shadows? Or will she allow love to guide her into the light? This is the first book in the Dimarco Series. Can be read as a standalone.
This the first in a series of the escapades of a female ghost called Lucy.Lucy a sexy ghost haunting the business where she was accidently killed meets Norman the new night security guard and treats him to new experiences. The owner of the business also finds him appealing and takes to working late or arriving back late at night to join both him and Lucy.Lucy finds she seems tied to Norman and can travel where ever he goes and helps his disabled wife to enjoy life again.