Vuelve Flower, el investigador privado gay más guapo de Los Ángeles, envuelto en un caso sencillo que se complica al máximo y se resuelve en dos tiempos. Como de costumbre, mujeres de irresistible encanto van a su caza: Galatea Doolittle, una adolescente empleada en la Biblioteca Munucipal, y Beryl
Flower
✍ Scribed by Watts, Irene N
- Book ID
- 107501266
- Publisher
- Tundra
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 419 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781770490505
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✦ Synopsis
Thirteen-year-old Katie is an unwilling summer guest in the Victorian home of her Halifax grandparents. All she wants to do is stay in her attic bedroom and brood. Disgruntled over her new stepmother's pregnancy and how a baby might affect her life, Katie takes refuge in her dreams of playing the part of the disagreeable orphan Mary Lennox in the upcoming school production of The Secret Garden.
When Katie sees a shadow on her bedroom wall of an old-fashioned girl holding a flower, she tries to convince herself it is caused by moonlight. But the girl reappears and shares her life with Katie, reaching across the years to her. Is she a ghost? As Katie searches for some tangible evidence of the girl's presence, she discovers a package of letters from World War I containing clues to a bygone time when British orphans were sent to Canada as Home Children.
In this haunting journey of a young girl looking for answers and an orphan girl from the past who tries to...
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