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
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,...
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.