Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly caught between the divergent expectations of the four men in her life: a doting father, an obdurate and vengeful brother, a good-looking and frivolous suitor...

Lavender Bathwater knows one thing for certain... Pear Tree Cottage is not just an ordinary home. What she doesn't realise is why... Then, the confusing disappearence of her mum and dad becomes even more mysterious, when her dreams reveal unspoken family secrets. Lavender and her friends, Fred Keighley and Alice Sutton find themselves in a search for answers. But who or what can provide them? Motor-cycle riding Aunt Margaret, an elderly family...

Sense and Sensibility is one of the best loved of Jane Austen's novels, populated by great comic creations like Mrs. Jennings, the unscrupulous cad Willoughby, and guileless and artful women. As ever, Austen suffuses her work with great ironic observation and tremendous wit, producing a masterpiece of romantic entanglement that time and a very different set of mores cannot diminish. Sense and Sensibility was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be...

When farmer Harold wakes to find his wife dead beside him in bed and snow threatening to crush the last life from his dwindling farm, he takes drastic steps toward a fresh start. Set in a world of stark wintry beauty, Forty Acres Deep is the brief, unrelenting tale of one person's attempt to make sense of a world he no longer recognizes while pitilessly calling himself into account. Seamed with grim humor and earthy revelations, it is an unforgiving...

The pain from years ago up until this very publication fills this published journal. A woman that had to hide so much, is imploding on the inside, so much pain, anger, fear, heartache and she is now penning her truth. Her truth must be told. The love she has for her husband, children and the rest of her family cannot be hidden. She has dealt with many years of pain from losing her firstborn, her daughter a pain that she feels will never go away and...

Hamburg - Nach dem Tod des Vaters bleibt für Anne Schneeberg kein Stein auf dem anderen. Ihr Leben nimmt mehrmals neuen Anlauf, übernimmt sozusagen die Regie für sie. Aber nicht zur Gänze. Und das ist gut so. Schlesien - Jonas und Marie Schneeberg haben dem Leben den Rücken gekehrt. Ihre vier Kinder trifft diese Zäsur mit voller Wucht. Wenzel macht den Schmerz zu Disziplin und Härte, bis er die Liebe findet, die ihm viel zu früh wieder genommen...

This book shares an eleven-year old's experience with death. She had never been close to anyone that had passed until her cousin died. She describes the pain and hurt that she felt and how she didn't know that she could feel that way.

New York City 2008 Anne sitzt fest, ein Schneesturm hat die Ostküste für einige Tage fest im Griff. Für Anne der Beginn einer Reise, ihrer Reise in die Vergangenheit ihrer Familie. Nordschweden 1865 Jonas sitzt auch fest, in einem kargen Leben am elterlichen Hof und in einer Schneiderlehre. Er will eine bessere Zukunft in einem fernen Land im Süden, das später Schlesien heißen soll, und bricht auf. Eine Familie in Gedanken auf dem Weg zueinander. Dafür...

A true story about a woman and her struggles with Domestic Violence. Told from the perspective of the woman's child on what her mother endured to provide a home, financial stability, and a father for her children. Learn how that woman's quest for the American Dream affected her and her children life. Will her pursuit for money and comfort be the very thing that tears her family apart? Will this be a story of courage, and strength or will it end in...

After reaching his twentieth birthday, Mourad, a university student, never imagined that the first and riskiest decision that fate would push him to make in his new life would be to immigrate clandestinely, or as the Algerians call it "Harga". Luckily, he knew people who would help him achieve his dream without any financial compensation, but fate was against him every time he tried to accomplish his project, so he finally realized that the secret...