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Aux yeux de ses parents, de ses soeurs, Allegra passe pour " jolie, parfaite, un peu indifférente ". Elle vient de se marier : on lui prédit un avenir à son image, calme et souriant. En vérité, qui est Allegra derrière cette douceur limpide ? Il suffira d'un gosse de quatre ans, un petit garçon arabe, muet, abandonné des jours entiers dans la cour de son immeuble, pour changer bientôt son existence. Entre cet enfant qui se tait et cette jeune femme qui se cherche, il naît une passion merveilleuse. Leurs après-midi silencieux sont des aveux, leurs promenades des chansons et des aventures. Ils sont hors du monde. Autour d'eux, pourtant, tout s'écroule et change. La famille d'Allegr...
16th Century Florence: Allegra Castagno harbors a secret that can ruin her life and her father's reputation. Banned from the Florentine guilds, she devises a clever ruse in order to ply her beloved craft. Before long, the work of "La Castagna" is being praised in noble courts. Resentful of the male dominated society in which she lives, Allegra rejects all suitors until a rival melts her icy heart. Faced with a serious dilemma, she turns to her scandalous friend, Bianca Cappello for help.
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Peter Foreman. Allegra is an unusual name. It means ‘happy’ in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl who comes only at night, and whose hands and face are cold, so cold . . .
An account of Lord Byron's relationship with Miss Clairmont.
Emma Rose is SO not a diva. She doesn't want her turn on the catwalk-she'd rather be behind the scenes creating fabulous outfits! So when a famous fashionista discovers Emma's designs and offers her the opportunity of a lifetime-a feature in Madison magazine (squeal!)-Emma sort of, well, panics. She has only one option: to create a secret identity. And so Allegra Biscotti is born. Allegra is worldly, sophisticated, and bold-everything Emma is not. But the pressure is on. And Emma quickly discovers juggling school, a new crush, friends, and a secret identity might not be as glamorous as she thought.
A picaresque novel of the remarkable life of a liberated 19th-century woman.
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Weaving finely spun filaments of the lyric and mythic, Barbara Lambert creates a vivid tapestry of a year in the life of Vancouver's Allegra Schliemann, a middle-aged woman in the throes of a knotty love affair with a married man, a newly-crafted career as an artisan and a battle against a debilitating disease. Unable to see her way clear of the emotional clutter these changes wreak, Allegra hires would-be artist Brad Lindhall to fashion her a mirrored wall, praying it will bring light and clarity into the encroaching dusk of her own life. Meanwhile, in Toronto, Brad's estranged wife Mona researches a work known as A Brief History of Cloth and Clay for an upcoming installation, her voice reaching into the past and across the country. In this brilliant recasting of a traditional love triangle, three artists find their way into the heart of genius, and of darkness, emerging strangely and irrevocably intertwined. Like her many mythological predecessors — Philomela, Ariadne and Athena — Allegra encircles lovers, entraps enemies and unfurls in the face of adversity.
This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.
Allegra thinks being at a performing-arts high school will change her life and make her a better dancer. But high school is still high school, complete with cliques, competition and cruelty. Allegra's refuge comes in the form of a class she doesn't want to take, music theory, taught by a very young, very attractive male teacher. Soon all Allegra can think about is music composition, and Mr. Rochelli. But has she misunderstood his attention, or is he really her soul mate?