The Girls from Greenway

The Girls from Greenway PDF Author: Elizabeth Woodcraft
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN: 1785767844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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A dramatic and nostalgic saga of two sisters coming of age in 1960s Essex. Angie Smith lives in Greenway, Chelmsford, with her elder sister Doreen, their struggling mother and their drunk, violent father. Bored of her job, and of her dull, ordinary boyfriend, Angie dreams of bigger and better things. But then she meets boutique owner Gene Battini. He is older, handsome, charming - and married. She is completely swept off her feet. But little does she know that Doreen is falling for Gene, too, and that their affair will have disastrous consequences. As things at home go from bad to worse, Angie and Doreen must struggle to fight for what they want. Can the girls from Greenway ever achieve their dreams? '[A] beautifully written saga which brims with the spirit of youth and is rich in period detail.' Lancashire Evening Post Praise for Elizabeth Woodcraft 'A book to read in great gulps' Sheila Newberry 'Beautifully written . . . she has a real talent' Mary Gibson

The Girls from Greenway

The Girls from Greenway PDF Author: Elizabeth Woodcraft
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN: 1785767844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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Book Description
A dramatic and nostalgic saga of two sisters coming of age in 1960s Essex. Angie Smith lives in Greenway, Chelmsford, with her elder sister Doreen, their struggling mother and their drunk, violent father. Bored of her job, and of her dull, ordinary boyfriend, Angie dreams of bigger and better things. But then she meets boutique owner Gene Battini. He is older, handsome, charming - and married. She is completely swept off her feet. But little does she know that Doreen is falling for Gene, too, and that their affair will have disastrous consequences. As things at home go from bad to worse, Angie and Doreen must struggle to fight for what they want. Can the girls from Greenway ever achieve their dreams? '[A] beautifully written saga which brims with the spirit of youth and is rich in period detail.' Lancashire Evening Post Praise for Elizabeth Woodcraft 'A book to read in great gulps' Sheila Newberry 'Beautifully written . . . she has a real talent' Mary Gibson

White Ghost Girls

White Ghost Girls PDF Author: Alice Greenway
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802199674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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A coming of age story of two American sisters in Hong Kong during the late 1960s. “A haunting novel written with the craft and grace of a master” (Isabel Allende). Summer 1967. The turmoil of the Maoist revolution is spilling over into Hong Kong and causing unrest as war rages in neighboring Vietnam. White Ghost Girls is the story of Frankie and Kate, two American sisters living in a foreign land in a chaotic time. With their war-photographer father off in Vietnam, Marianne, their beautiful but remote mother, keeps the family nearby. Although bound by a closeness of living overseas, the sisters could not be more different—Frankie pulses with curiosity and risk, while Kate is all eyes and ears. Marianne spends her days painting watercolors of the lush surroundings, leaving the girls largely unsupervised, while their Chinese nanny, Ah Bing, does her best to look after them. One day in a village market, they decide to explore—with tragic results. In Alice Greenway’s exquisite gem of a novel, two girls tumble into their teenage years against an extraordinary backdrop both sensuous and dangerous. This astonishing literary debut is a tale of sacrifice and solidarity that gleams with the kind of intense, complicated love that only exists between sisters. “Greenway is a remarkable young writer who vividly evokes Hong Kong’s sights, smells, and sounds in poetic, finely detailed prose. What’s more, she seems to have remembered every single charged emotion from adolescence and filters them all through the sisters’ fierce, complex relationship. A heartbreakingly beautiful debut.” —Booklist, starred review

The Girls from Greenway

The Girls from Greenway PDF Author: Elizabeth Woodcraft
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781528889629
Category : Chelmsford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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1960s Chelmsford. Angie Smith lives in Greenway, Chelmsford, with her elder sister Doreen, their struggling mother and their drunk, violent father. Bored of her job, and of her dull, ordinary boyfriend Roger, Angie dreams of bigger and better things. But then she meets boutique-owner Gene Battini. Gene is older, handsome, charming - and married. Angie is completely swept off her feet, although little does she know that Doreen too is falling for Gene, and that their affair will have disastrous consequences.

Death at Greenway

Death at Greenway PDF Author: Lori Rader-Day
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062938053
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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"Irresistible... a Golden Age homage, an elegantly constructed mystery that on every page reinforces the message that everyone counts." –New York Times Book Review AGATHA AWARD WINNER! Recommended by New York Times Book Review • Wall Street Journal • Parade • Country Living • Chicago Tribune • South Florida Sun-Sentinel • The Free-Lance Star • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • CrimeReads • Nerd Daily • Red Carpet Crash • and many more! From the award-winning author of The Day I Died and The Lucky One, a captivating suspense novel about nurses during World War II who come to Agatha Christie’s holiday estate to care for evacuated children, but when a body is discovered nearby, the idyllic setting becomes host to a deadly mystery. Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House—the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie—in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca’s Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from the Blitz. Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be touched, restrictions on rooms not to be entered, and a generous library, filled with books about murder. The biggest mystery might be the other nurse, Gigi, who is like no one Bridey has ever met. Chasing ten young children through the winding paths of the estate grounds might have soothed Bridey’s anxieties and grief—if Greenway were not situated so near the English Channel and the rising aggressions of the war. When a body washes ashore near the estate, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of a brutal killing. As the local villagers look among themselves, Bridey and Gigi discover they each harbor dangerous secrets about what has led them to Greenway. With a mystery writer’s home as their unsettling backdrop, the young women must unravel the truth before their safe haven becomes a place of death . . .

Undead Girl Gang

Undead Girl Gang PDF Author: Lily Anderson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451478258
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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"A fun, fast read...it will resonate with readers who dabble in any sort of arts, dark or otherwise." --NPR.org "With a singular and hilariously cutting teen voice, UNDEAD GIRL GANG is sure to be one of the most talked-about YA novels of the year." --BookPage Veronica Mars meets The Craft when a teen girl investigates the suspicious deaths of three classmates and accidentally ends up bringing them back to life to form a hilariously unlikely--and unwilling--vigilante girl gang. Meet teenage Wiccan Mila Flores, who truly could not care less what you think about her Doc Martens, her attitude, or her weight because she knows that, no matter what, her BFF Riley is right by her side. So when Riley and Fairmont Academy mean girls June Phelan-Park and Dayton Nesseth die under suspicious circumstances, Mila refuses to believe everyone's explanation that her BFF was involved in a suicide pact. Instead, armed with a tube of lip gloss and an ancient grimoire, Mila does the unthinkable to uncover the truth: she brings the girls back to life. Unfortunately, Riley, June, and Dayton have no recollection of their murders. But they do have unfinished business to attend to. Now, with only seven days until the spell wears off and the girls return to their graves, Mila must wrangle the distracted group of undead teens and work fast to discover their murderer...before the killer strikes again.

The Girl Upstairs

The Girl Upstairs PDF Author: Georgina Lees
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008485410
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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*Don’t miss The Lost Wife – the brand new jaw-dropping thriller from Georgina Lees* ‘Compelling, heartbreaking and beautifully written. This superb thriller will stay in my mind for a very long time’ B P Walter, Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Dinner Guest

The Bird Skinner

The Bird Skinner PDF Author: Alice Greenway
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802193633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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On a weather-beaten island in Maine, a birder and WWII vet confronts his past in this “atmospheric and engrossing” novel (People). After a recent leg amputation, ornithologist and World War II veteran Jim Kennoway retreats to an island in Penobscot Bay, off the coast of Maine. All he wants is to drink, smoke, and be left alone. From his perch, he listens for birdcalls and thinks back on his youth, his romance with his now deceased wife, his work for the American Museum of Natural History, and earlier, for Naval Intelligence in the South Pacific. Thirty years ago, while stationed in the Solomon Islands, Jim befriended Tosca, a young islander who worked with him as a scout. Now Tosca has sent his daughter to stay with Jim before she begins premedical studies at Yale. She arrives to Jim’s consternation, bringing with her a flood of troubling memories. Yet she will capture his heart and that of everyone she meets, irrevocably changing their lives. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction, Alice Greenway’s second novel is “a beautiful, ultimately painful story as haunting as its settings” (Publishers Weekly).

Good Bad Woman

Good Bad Woman PDF Author: Elizabeth Woodcraft
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9780758202598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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With her career as a London barrister in shambles, Frankie Richmond, while falling in love with a sultry lounge singer, finds her life thrown into further turmoil when she is accused of murder. Reprint.

Cold Girl

Cold Girl PDF Author: R.M. Greenaway
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459734394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best First Novel — Shortlisted 2014 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel — Winner It’s too cold to go missing in northern B.C., as a mismatched team of investigators battle the clock while the disappearances add up. A popular rockabilly singer has vanished in the snowbound Hazeltons of northern B.C. Lead RCMP investigator David Leith and his team work through the possibilities: has she been snatched by the so-called Pickup Killer, or does the answer lie here in the community, somewhere among her reticent fans and friends? Leith has much to contend with: rough terrain and punishing weather, motel-living and wily witnesses. The local police force is tiny but headstrong, and one young constable seems more hindrance than help — until he wanders straight into the heart of the matter. The urgency ramps up as one missing woman becomes two, the second barely a ghost passing through. Suspects multiply, but only at the bitter end does Leith discover who is the coldest girl of all.

Enchanted Halloween

Enchanted Halloween PDF Author: Hannah Lynn
Publisher: Permuted Press
ISBN: 9781682614921
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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An enchanting Halloween adventure awaits you in this ghoulish coloring book from artist Hannah Lynn. Trick or Treat! Witches, Vampires, Fairies, Trick or Treaters, and more are ready to be brought to life with color! Hannah Lynn’s whimsical drawings have been delighting fans around the world for close to a decade. This latest coloring book from the celebrated artist features 60 pages of all new designs perfect for the Halloween season! To learn more about Hannah Lynn, please visit HannahLynn.com