Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Author
Language
English
Description
"For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children-- Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six-- in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings-- love or grief, jealousy or devotion. Now modern-day romantics are enjoying a resurgence of this bygone custom. Kirkby shares the historical literary, and cultural significance of flowers.
Author
Series
Letras de bolsillo) volume 210
Publisher
Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"A los dieciocho años, tras una vida entrando y saliendo de numerosos hogares de acogida y pisos tutelados, Victoria Jones está obligada a emanciparse por ley. Se ha convertido en una joven introvertida y arisca, y sólo en su pasión por las flores se vislumbra un camino de salvación. Finalmente, tras encontrar trabajo en una floristería, se cruza con un joven a quien conoció diez años antes, durante la época en que vivió en casa de Elizabeth,...