Author: L. S. Rydde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986192722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
When Abby has to choose between the best friend and the hot next-door-neighbor to accompany her to the debutante ball, unexpected feelings get in the way.
The Pearls of Yesterday
Author: L. S. Rydde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986192722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
When Abby has to choose between the best friend and the hot next-door-neighbor to accompany her to the debutante ball, unexpected feelings get in the way.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986192722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
When Abby has to choose between the best friend and the hot next-door-neighbor to accompany her to the debutante ball, unexpected feelings get in the way.
The Pearl Thief
Author: Elizabeth Wein
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1484719514
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless Before Verity . . . there was Julie. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital. Desperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveler boy who found her when she was injured, and his standoffish sister, Ellen. As Julie grows closer to this family, she witnesses firsthand some of the prejudices they've grown used to-a stark contrast to her own upbringing-and finds herself exploring thrilling new experiences that have nothing to do with a missing-person investigation. Her memory of that day returns to her in pieces, and when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travelers. Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime. This exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prequel to the Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity, returns to a beloved character just before she first takes flight.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1484719514
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Don’t miss Elizabeth Wein’s stunning new novel, Stateless Before Verity . . . there was Julie. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital. Desperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scottish Traveler boy who found her when she was injured, and his standoffish sister, Ellen. As Julie grows closer to this family, she witnesses firsthand some of the prejudices they've grown used to-a stark contrast to her own upbringing-and finds herself exploring thrilling new experiences that have nothing to do with a missing-person investigation. Her memory of that day returns to her in pieces, and when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travelers. Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime. This exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prequel to the Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity, returns to a beloved character just before she first takes flight.
Revealing Eden
Author: Victoria Foyt
Publisher: Sand Dollar Press Incorporated
ISBN: 9780983650324
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A modern day Beauty and the Beast tale about a white skinned pearl in a world of dark skinned coals.
Publisher: Sand Dollar Press Incorporated
ISBN: 9780983650324
Category : Bildungsromans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A modern day Beauty and the Beast tale about a white skinned pearl in a world of dark skinned coals.
Pearl in the Mist
Author: V.C. Andrews
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451637268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) continues an engrossing saga of psychological suspense with this second book of the Landry Family series—soon to be a Lifetime movie! Fate has whisked Ruby away from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou but her new riches bring more treachery than happiness in this unputdownable and darkly evocative novel. Even a year removed from living in the bayou, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of her family’s New Orleans mansion. She rejoices in the love of the father she had never known, even as true happiness remains as elusive as swamp mist. Her stepmother sneers at her backwater upbringing, and while discovering she has a twin sister should be a cause for joy, Gisselle has greeted Ruby with nothing but a bitter heart. When Ruby’s father chooses an idyllic boarding school for his daughters’ senior years, a fresh start with Gisselle seems possible. But Ruby’s kind isn’t welcome at Greenwood, and the legendarily strict headmistress plots with her stepmother to make life miserable. Worse, with her twin on a mission to break every school rule, Ruby is left to suffer the humiliating punishments. So when a terrible tragedy leaves Ruby alone in a world that never really wanted her, only her Cajun strength can give her daring escape plan any hope of success. The weather on the bayou was nothing compared to the storm about to tear through her family.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451637268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) continues an engrossing saga of psychological suspense with this second book of the Landry Family series—soon to be a Lifetime movie! Fate has whisked Ruby away from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou but her new riches bring more treachery than happiness in this unputdownable and darkly evocative novel. Even a year removed from living in the bayou, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of her family’s New Orleans mansion. She rejoices in the love of the father she had never known, even as true happiness remains as elusive as swamp mist. Her stepmother sneers at her backwater upbringing, and while discovering she has a twin sister should be a cause for joy, Gisselle has greeted Ruby with nothing but a bitter heart. When Ruby’s father chooses an idyllic boarding school for his daughters’ senior years, a fresh start with Gisselle seems possible. But Ruby’s kind isn’t welcome at Greenwood, and the legendarily strict headmistress plots with her stepmother to make life miserable. Worse, with her twin on a mission to break every school rule, Ruby is left to suffer the humiliating punishments. So when a terrible tragedy leaves Ruby alone in a world that never really wanted her, only her Cajun strength can give her daring escape plan any hope of success. The weather on the bayou was nothing compared to the storm about to tear through her family.
Yesterday's Faces
Author: Robert Sampson
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879725143
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In this fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps. Sparkling brightly among these characters are Terence O'Rourke, Captain Blood, and the ferocious Hurricane Williams. More characters include Peter the Brazen, in China, Sanders of the River, in Africa--and much, much more.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879725143
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In this fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps. Sparkling brightly among these characters are Terence O'Rourke, Captain Blood, and the ferocious Hurricane Williams. More characters include Peter the Brazen, in China, Sanders of the River, in Africa--and much, much more.
Pearls of Childhood
Author: Vera Gissing
Publisher: Robson
ISBN: 9781861059864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In June 1939, shortly before her eleventh birthday, Vera Gissing escaped from occupied Czechoslovakia, leaving behind her parents, family and friends, to spend six years in Britain.Throughout the war years Vera kept a diary, recording her day-to-day experiences, her longing for her parents, her hopes and prayers for the freedom of her country. By the time she returned to Prague to set up home with her aunt in 1945, she knew that both her parents had died - her mother in Belsen, her father on a death march. She came back to England in 1949 and has lived here ever since.The memories and emotions rekindled by a reunion of the Czech school in Wales where she was educated, encouraged Vera to go back to the diaries and letters from her parents that she had not touched for forty years, and in 'Pearls of Childhood' 'she provides a powerful and moving account of the life of one child growing up in extraordinary circumstances.
Publisher: Robson
ISBN: 9781861059864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
In June 1939, shortly before her eleventh birthday, Vera Gissing escaped from occupied Czechoslovakia, leaving behind her parents, family and friends, to spend six years in Britain.Throughout the war years Vera kept a diary, recording her day-to-day experiences, her longing for her parents, her hopes and prayers for the freedom of her country. By the time she returned to Prague to set up home with her aunt in 1945, she knew that both her parents had died - her mother in Belsen, her father on a death march. She came back to England in 1949 and has lived here ever since.The memories and emotions rekindled by a reunion of the Czech school in Wales where she was educated, encouraged Vera to go back to the diaries and letters from her parents that she had not touched for forty years, and in 'Pearls of Childhood' 'she provides a powerful and moving account of the life of one child growing up in extraordinary circumstances.
Yesterday's Treasures
Author: Richard Denning
Publisher: Mercia Books
ISBN: 0956483585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Everyone is searching for pieces of the Crown of Knossos, historical artifacts which, when assembled, allow control over all of history in this and in the Twisted reality. As Tom and the others discover who is really after the Crown and what their motivations are, they realise the extent of the danger.
Publisher: Mercia Books
ISBN: 0956483585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Everyone is searching for pieces of the Crown of Knossos, historical artifacts which, when assembled, allow control over all of history in this and in the Twisted reality. As Tom and the others discover who is really after the Crown and what their motivations are, they realise the extent of the danger.
The Sketch
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Basic Black With Pearls
Author: Helen Weinzweig
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley and Coenraad’s affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international organization known only as the Agency. Their rendezvous take place in Tangier, in Hong Kong, in Rome and are arranged by an intricate code based on notes slipped into issues of National Geographic. He recognizes her by her costume: a respectable black dress and string of pearls; his appearance, however, is changeable. But something has happened, the code has been discovered, and Coenraad sends Shirley (who prefers to be known as “Lola Montez”) to Toronto, the last place she wants to go. There the trail leads her through the sites of her impoverished immigrant childhood and sends her, finally, to her own house, where she discards her pearls and trades in her basic black for a dress of vibrant multicolored silk. Helen Weinzweig published her first novel when she was fifty-eight. Basic Black with Pearls, her second, won the Toronto Book Award and has since come to be recognized as a feminist landmark. Here Weinzweig imbues the formal inventiveness of the nouveau roman with psychological poignancy and surprising humor to tell a story of simultaneous dissolution and discovery.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley and Coenraad’s affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international organization known only as the Agency. Their rendezvous take place in Tangier, in Hong Kong, in Rome and are arranged by an intricate code based on notes slipped into issues of National Geographic. He recognizes her by her costume: a respectable black dress and string of pearls; his appearance, however, is changeable. But something has happened, the code has been discovered, and Coenraad sends Shirley (who prefers to be known as “Lola Montez”) to Toronto, the last place she wants to go. There the trail leads her through the sites of her impoverished immigrant childhood and sends her, finally, to her own house, where she discards her pearls and trades in her basic black for a dress of vibrant multicolored silk. Helen Weinzweig published her first novel when she was fifty-eight. Basic Black with Pearls, her second, won the Toronto Book Award and has since come to be recognized as a feminist landmark. Here Weinzweig imbues the formal inventiveness of the nouveau roman with psychological poignancy and surprising humor to tell a story of simultaneous dissolution and discovery.
Meet The Baron
Author: John Creasey
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755125584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
John Mannering (‘The Baron’) makes his first appearance. Lord Fauntley shows off both his daughter and the security surrounding his precious jewels. Mannering is attracted to both. Money is tight and he plans a burglary, but this fails and unexpected consequences result. One of the many twists occurs as the police seek Mannering’s help. . .
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755125584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
John Mannering (‘The Baron’) makes his first appearance. Lord Fauntley shows off both his daughter and the security surrounding his precious jewels. Mannering is attracted to both. Money is tight and he plans a burglary, but this fails and unexpected consequences result. One of the many twists occurs as the police seek Mannering’s help. . .