Jilly Bond
Author
Language
English
Description
"Looking forward to a Christmas family reunion for the first time in years, the Birch family is upended by the news that their physician-activist daughter has been exposed to a foreign virus that forces the entire family into quarantine for a week also shaped by respective anxieties, past glory and a shocking secret." --
Author
Series
Little school by the sea volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The first book of Jenny Colgan's delightful new four-part series, set at a charming English boarding school on the sea. Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely salt air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea before? Why had she always looked out on housing estates and not the little white hulls of trawlers bobbing off in the distance? It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding...
Author
Language
English
Description
"London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It's summer, but school is in session in the delightful second book of New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan's utterly charming School by the Sea series, set at a girls' boarding school in Cornwall. For the second year at Downey House, it's getting harder and harder to stick to the rules . . . Maggie Adair's first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she's...
Author
Language
English
Description
After years in the United States, Jane returns to the tranquil Scottish estate, Elvie, where she spent a magical childhood. Memories of Elvie had always summoned the image of Sinclair, the rakish man Jane had once dreamed of marrying, but now that she is home, she finds Sinclair a different man. His charm has a purpose, and Jane can no longer trust him ... or herself.
Author
Language
English
Description
Flowers in the Rain & Other Stories collects sixteen of #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher's romantic tales set across Britain from the Scottish countryside to the city of London. Rosamunde Pilcher...She makes you laugh...She makes you cry...She takes you to a world of hope and romance...And into the lives of people you'll never forget. She's Rosamunde Pilcher, America's most beloved storyteller...And this audiobook is her gift...
8) The telling
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A ghost story of the most unusual kind, The Telling is a thrilling--and sometimes chilling--tale about two women, separated by almost two centuries, grappling with change and loss"--
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1921, Franc̦oise Frenkel-a Jewish woman from Poland-fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Frenkel's...
Author
Language
English
Description
A Tale of Two Murders is an engrossing examination of the Ilford murder, which became a legal cause célèbre in the 1920s, and led to the hanging of Edith Thompson and her lover, Freddy Bywaters. On the night of October 3, 1922, as Edith and her husband, Percy, were walking home from the theater, a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was none other than Bywaters. When the police discovered his relationship with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the second year at Downey House, it's getting harder and harder to stick to the rules...
Maggie Adair's first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she's learned to appreciate the mellower pace of the girls' boarding school by the sea.
Now engaged to her longtime boyfriend, sweet and steady Stan, Maggie's just got to stop thinking about David McDonald, her colleague...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018, c2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1921, Francoise Frenkel, a Jewish woman from Poland, fulfills a lifelong dream. She opens Berlin's first French-language bookshop. But Frenkel's bookshop is destroyed on Kristallnacht, and she flees to Paris. With invading German Nazis forcing her to run from one safe house to the next, Frenkel survives at the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 820L
Language
English
Description
The classic story by Margery Williams is now, for the first time, available for toddlers in a board book format. This edition features a 250 word abridgement that has all the warmth of the original. The young child will enjoy the bright illustrations and understand the Rabbit's desire to be real. In the end, of course, the Rabbit does become real- because of the love of a child.
17) Winter solstice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Following a tragedy, Elfrida Phipps takes refuge in a rambling house called Corrydale in the north of Scotland, which attracts a motley assortment of waifs and strays, each trying to escape a difficult personal past.
18) September
Author
Language
English
Description
A cast of memorable characters from Europe and America converges on the Scottish town of Strathcroy for a birthday celebration, where intertwining tales of romance, excess, and heartbreak unfold.
19) Never a bride
Author
Series
The Duke's daughters volume 4
Language
English
Description
After twelve years in Her Majesty's Navy, Griffith Davies must leave his sea-going life of outrageous freedom behind, forced to rejoin London society as the heir to the Duke of Northam. But though he is now shackled to the land, he has no desire to wed some innocently dull young thing. Who best to shield him from the matchmakers than a woman as notorious as he? Lady Della Howlett's reputation was tattered years ago, so entering into a false engagement...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Thaddeus, the new Duke of Hasford, holds his new title reluctantly, but his sense of duty is strong. Task number one: find a wife and secure an heir. He thinks he's found the perfect choice in Lady Jane Capel-until her sister Lavinia bursts onto the scene. Vivacious, rebellious, and strikingly beautiful, Lavinia is determined to keep him away from her shy, sweet sister. And she's also determined not to think so much about his broad chest and strong...