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By Catherine King. 2013
*A DIGITAL-EXCLUSIVE SHORT STORY* The day of the Langton Park community fair has arrived and Evie Preston, a well-respected professor's…
daughter, is eager to spread the word about her afternoon lecture programme for ladies. She has no clue how her ideas will affect three very different women... Lady Alice is struggling with the life her mother and brother believe she should be living. Surely she should be making these choices for herself? Florence is bright but she's bored. She's keen to continue learning but her parents think she's had all the education she needs. And then there's Meg, who is young and full of hope for the future, but frustrated with the obstacles in her way. Authentic, gripping and spellbinding, The Professor's Daughter is a short story about a group of strong women who are unable to ignore their responsibilities but who also refuse to ignore their hearts. *Contains an exclusive extract from Catherine King's new novel, A Sister's Courage: a story of tragedy, strength and hope*By Heather Birrell. 2012
In 'Frogs,' a short story from Heather Birrell's Mad Hope, a science teacher and former doctor is forced to re-examine…
the role he played in Ceau?escu's Romania after a student makes a shocking request. A free e-book single from the Journey-Prize-winning short story author.By Carole Matthews. 2013
Beth and Michael have worked hard all their married life to give their children everything they want. It hasn't been…
easy but it's been worth it. Now, as Beth enjoys quality time with her family on their beach holiday, she knows she has a lot to be thankful for. But it's not until she's faced with her biggest challenge yet that Beth really begins to understand how lucky she is.In this ebook exclusive short story, Carole Matthews will transport you to a world filled with love, family and sunshine. So put your feet up, stick the kettle on and indulge yourself for just twenty minutes.Includes an extract from Carole's fabulous festive novel, Calling Mrs Christmas.By Joyce Carol Thomas. 1986
By Pat Lowery Collins. 2009
While studying under Vivaldi, three girls in a Venice orphanage forge their own notions of love in a sensuous, engrossing…
novel told in three narrative voices. It is a longing search for love that motivates three girls living in the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage renowned for its extraordinary musical program. But for Rosalba, Anetta, and Luisa, the love they seek is not where they expect to find it. Set in the early 1700s in the heart of Venice, this remarkable novel deftly weaves the history of Antonio Vivaldi's early musical career into the lives of three young women who excel in voice and instrument. Under the composer's tutelage and care, the orphans find expression, sustenance, and passion. But can the sheltered life of the orphanage prepare them for the unthinkable dangers outside its walls?By Richard Lewis. 2004
Isaac Williams, twelve-year-old son of American doctors at a mission hospital in Java, Indonesia, is certain that his friendship with…
Ismail Sutanto is as solid and enduring as the majestic flame tree in the yard. But the haven of their small world is shattered when a fundamentalist Islamic organization begins to threaten the hospital. Terrorists infiltrate, the State Department orders an evacuation, bombs ex-plode, and Isaac is taken hostage. The experience embitters Isaac. He knows that he should forgive those who have hurt him, yet he doesn't think that he can. His life is changed forever, but will it be forever crippled by his bitterness? Set against the backdrop of September 11, 2001, The Flame Tree is a fierce novel of friendship, faith, and forgiveness. Richard Lewis tells a story that is at once timely and timeless, one that has the power to move hearts and open eyes.By Joyce Carol Thomas. 1988
By Helen Cowcher. 1991
Author Helen Cowcher addresses environmental concerns in this children's book. A tiger and her cubs leave their forest sanctuary to…
hunt. What will happen when they unknowingly attack a farmer's bull?By David Levithan, Stephen Sommers. 1999
By Lois Duncan. 1996
By Polly Samson. 2010
Do you cover up or reveal it all; seek revenge or just reassurance; let the truth be naked as the…
day or cloaked in a night-time story? The men and women of Polly Samson's debut fiction all have stories to tell, pasts to forget, futures to forge. Manipulative or meek, used or using, all are aware of the power of truth, deception and little white lies to get what they want or sometimes what they deserve. Some are concerned with the economies of speech, those little 'kindnesses' which protect our loved ones but really ourselves; some investigate the warped logic which adults serve out to children to keep them 'innocent'; all are concerned with the beds we make and the lies we tell in them. . .By Pam Muñoz Ryan. 2005
A very rare pitacohi bird falls in love with a swallow and plucks his colorful feathers to transform dry, barren…
San Juan Capistrano into a haven of flowers and flowing water, which the swallows can easily find when returning from their annual migration.By Meg Cabot. 2009
It's not easy being Nikki. Ever since former tomboy Emerson Watts's accident at the SoHo Stark Megastore and subsequent brain…
transplant into the body of teen supermodel Nikki Howard, her life has changed dramatically. Em's trying to handle the demands of school, modeling, fending off Nikki's creepy ex-boyfriends, and living with celebutante Lulu Collins. She's also trying to figure out what the Stark Corporation is really up to, and why she can't stop thinking about her former best friend Christopher and British heartthrob Gabriel Luna. Will this former tomboy be able to make it in the world of high fashion? And ...what will happen if she can't?By John Hersey. 1977
John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with…
torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down.By Joyce Hansen. 1994
When Kofi's father, an Ashanti chief, is killed, Kofi is sold as a slave and ends up in Massachusetts, where…
his fate is in the hands of Paul Cuffe, an African American shipbuilder who works to return slaves to their homeland in Africa.By Sharon Robinson. 2006
Ten-year-old Elijah Breeze, a.k.a. Jumper, is having the hardest summer of his life. His father has just died; his mother…
has moved them from the suburbs to Harlem; and he has to spend the summer at baseball camp. Basketball is Jumper's game. He doesn't know anything about baseball, or city life, or how to keep going without his dad. Jumper struggles in his new life, but he's encouraged by the support of his coach and by his grandma's wisdom. He finds out it is possible to start over in a new place with new people ... and still hold on to what's important from his past.By Victoria Christopher Murray. 2009
By Patricia C. Mckissack, Fredrick L. Mckissack. 1994
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave…
quarters just before the Civil War.Winner of the Coretta Scott King MedalBy F. Scott Fitzgerald.
By Lachelle Weaver. 2016
Three sisters and a baby equal family drama... Bridgette, Ivy and Savannah have always been close, and as with any…
sisterhood, it hasn't been without its challenges, but they always manage to come together in times of need. When the youngest, Savannah is faced with a life altering illness which threatens her lifelong desire to have children, one of her sisters offer to give her the ultimate gift--to become her surrogate. While Savannah is overwhelmed with happiness and gratitude about motherhood, not everyone in the family shares her sentiments. The upcoming addition to their family seems to cause discord rather than joy.