The Schoolmistress (Our Street at War, Book 2)
Title | The Schoolmistress (Our Street at War, Book 2) PDF eBook |
Author | Maggie Sullivan |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2022-10-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 000855434X |
Heartwarming and nostalgic new Saga series from the author of Mother’s Day on Coronation Street.
The Postmistress (Our Street at War, Book 1)
Title | The Postmistress (Our Street at War, Book 1) PDF eBook |
Author | Maggie Sullivan |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2022-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0008554331 |
A heartwarming and nostalgic new World War Two series for fans of Glynis Peters, Kate Hewitt and Lizzie Page!
Three Junes
Title | Three Junes PDF eBook |
Author | Julia Glass |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 652 |
Release | 2002-09-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0375422420 |
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An astonishing novel that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage.... Six years later, again in June, Paul’s death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses.... Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her. In prose rich with compassion and wit, Three Junes paints a haunting portrait of love’s redemptive powers.
By a Slow River
Title | By a Slow River PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Claudel |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307425134 |
A bestseller in France and winner of the Prix Renaudot, By a Slow River is a mesmerizing and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I.The placid daily life of a small town near the front seems impervious to the nearby pounding of artillery fire and the parade of wounded strangers passing through its streets. But the illusion of calm is soon shattered by the deaths of three innocents–the charming new schoolmistress who captures every male heart only to kill herself; an angelic ten-year-old girl who is found strangled; and a local policeman’s cherished wife, who dies alone in labor while her husband is hunting the murderer. Twenty years later, the policeman still struggles to make sense of these tragedies, a struggle that both torments and sustains him. But excavating the town's secret history will bring neither peace to him nor justice to the wicked. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Flight from the Enchanter
Title | The Flight from the Enchanter PDF eBook |
Author | Iris Murdoch |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2010-07-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1453200975 |
A charismatic businessman casts a dark spell over others in this psychologically suspenseful novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Black Prince. Mischa Fox’s name is known throughout London, though he himself is rarely seen. Enigmatic and desired, vicious yet sympathetic, he is a model of success, wealth, and charisma. When Fox turns his entrepreneurial gaze on a small feminist magazine known as the Artemis, his intoxicating influence quickly begins to affect the lives of those involved with the paper: the fragile editor, Hunter; generous Rosa, who splits her time and affections between her brother and two other men; innocent Annette, whose journey from school to the real world ends up being more fraught than she could have foreseen; and their circle of friends and acquaintances, all of whom find themselves both drawn to and repulsed by Fox. Told with dark humor, keen wit, and intense insight into the seductive nature of power, The Flight from the Enchanter is an intricate and dazzling work of fiction from the author of The Sea, The Sea and Under the Net, “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian).
The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
Title | The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Berry |
Publisher | Roaring Brook Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2014-09-23 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1596439572 |
There's a murderer on the loose—but that doesn't stop the girls of St. Etheldreda's from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce. The students of St. Etheldreda's School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr. Godding, have been most inconveniently poisoned at Sunday dinner. Now the school will almost certainly be closed and the girls sent home—unless these seven very proper young ladies can hide the murders and convince their neighbors that nothing is wrong. Julie Berry's The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place is a smart, hilarious Victorian romp, full of outrageous plot twists, mistaken identities, and mysterious happenings.
Everfair
Title | Everfair PDF eBook |
Author | Nisi Shawl |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2016-09-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 076533805X |
An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.