Sentences with phrase «white oleander»

The hotel is not alone in the oasis, a bristling tuft of olive, pomegranate, and tamarisk trees zapped here and there with pink and white oleander.

Maggie O'Farrell — After You'd Gone; The Hand That First Held Mine; I Am, I Am, I Am Liane Moriarty — What Alice Forgot; Big Little Lies; The Husband's Secret Maile Meloy — Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It Janet Fitch — White Oleander Colleen Oakley — Close Enough to Touch; Before I Go Lily King — Euphoria Marisha Pessl — Special Topics in Calamity Physics Jenny Offill — Dept. of Speculation Lionel Shriver — We Need to Talk About Kevin Rufi Thorpe — The Girls From Corona Del Mar Meg Wolitzer — The Interestings; The Ten - Year Nap Jhumpa Lahiri — The Namesake; The Lowland Caroline Leavitt — Pictures of You; Cruel Beautiful World Edan Lepucki — California Celeste Ng — Everything I Never Told You; Little Fires Everywhere Gabrielle Zevin — The Storied Life of AJ Firky Maria Semple — Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

Did you read about how Angels and Demons (by Dan Brown) and White Oleander (by Janet Finch) recently scored a book promotion opportunity?

White Oleander is an unforgettable story of mothers and daughters, burgeoning sexuality, the redemptive powers of art, and the unstoppable force of the emergent self.

White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances.

Like Janet Finch's 1999 bestseller White Oleander, this is a raw and all too realistic story about a California teen forced to move from house to house — and often from bad situation to worse — after her well - intentioned but self - centered mother...

The bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black transports readers to St. Petersburg in 1916.

Like life, the structure isn't straight - forward and the solutions aren't always pat, making White Oleander a surprisingly complex film for those who like to pick out the deconstruction of female archetypes.

White Oleander is very much a woman's film, but that's not to say it won't appeal to men.

Based on Janet Fitch's best selling novel of the same name, White Oleander plays more like a four part drama on life - lessons than as a cohesive, conventional thriller.

Although it sports a solid cast, White Oleander's main star is Alison Lohman (Matchstick Men, Big Fish), a relative unknown, playing the teenage girl, Astrid.

Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, releases her fourth novel, a coming - of - age story about a young woman during the Russian Revolution.

Not for White Oleander, for which she was deserving, not for The Deep End of the Ocean where she plays a grieving mother, not for my own personal favorites, What Lies Beneath, not for Hairspray — which is kind of a joke that she was overlooked.

At its heart, White Oleander is a struggle for dominance between two people, Astrid and her mother Ingrid (Pfeiffer, I Am Sam, What Lies Beneath).

Cole Hauser (Tigerland, White Oleander) is Rip Wheeler, a tough and merciless wrangler from Yellowstone Ranch who will stop at nothing to get the job done.

White Oleander, based on the novel by Janet Fitch, details the hellish experiences of Astrid Magnussen as she moves from foster home to foster home after the incarceration of her mother.

Roxie (Renee Zellweger, White Oleander, Bridget Jones's Diary) is one of these wannabes, who has questionable talent.

I agree with the mentions for Michelle Pfieffer for «White Oleander» (how did that get missed?)

Michelle Pfeiffer, White Oleander Alt: Edie Falco, Sunshine Cleaning

She was most recently seen starring opposite Janet McTeer in Amber Tamblyn's directorial debut Paint It Black, based on the book of the same name by «White Oleander» author Janet Fitch.

It is a classic battle of the sexes, between author Barbara Novak (Renee Zellweger, Chicago, White Oleander) and magazine writer Catcher Block (Ewan MacGregor, Black Hawk Down, Attack of the Clones).

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My favorite book of all time has to be White Oleander, I just love the journey Astrid goes through and how she grows!

Not exact matches

The sources of digoxin include white and purple foxglove (Digitalis lanata and D purpurea), Mediterranean sea onion, Strophanthus gratus, oleander, and numerous other tropical and temperate zone plants.

Meaning varied with shape and shade; a collection of delphiniums, hydrangeas, oleander, basil, and birdsfoot trefoil chastised the recipient as heartless, while lupins, hollyhocks, white heather, and ragged robin was synonymous with a good luck card.