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(0)Susan Fletcher
Author
Language
English
Description
The powerful new novel from the award-winning author of 'Eve Green' and 'Oystercatchers' is a tale of love and the lore of the sea. A profound tale of love, loss and the lore of the sea. The islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss, and a man - un-named, unclothed - is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea - potent, kind and beautiful; others suspect him. For the...
2) Corrag
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling Eve Green and Oystercatchers.
The Massacre of Glencoe happened at 5am on 13th February 1692 when thirty-eight members of the Macdonald clan were killed by soldiers who had enjoyed the clan's hospitality for the previous ten days. Many more died from exposure in the mountains.
Fifty miles to the south Corrag is condemned for her involvement in the Massacre.
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Language
Deutsch
Description
Pleased to meet you, Mrs Butterfield!
Ein altes Herrenhaus mit einem großen Garten, in dem Lavendel, Mohn und Kornblumen blühen. Morgens singt der Zaunkönig in den Büschen, abends lässt man den Tag bei einem Gin Tonic unter den Apfelbäumen ausklingen. Florence Butterfield, lebenserfahren, weit gereist und ausgestattet mit unerschütterlichem Optimismus, kann sich keinen schöneren Ort für den Lebensabend vorstellen als die Seniorenresidenz...
Author
Language
English
Description
Her family's lighthouse home is an island of enchantment for 13-year-old Eliza Wells. Surrounded by whales, seals, and pelicans, she avoids the problems that beset the mainland: like the increasingly heated conflict between the local town's white and Chinese citizens. This compelling historical novel by the award-winning author of Shadow Spinner is based on actual 19th-century events. Narrator Christina Moore voices all the confusion, compassion,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Marjan is a poor, crippled orphan girl, but she is happy living with her aunt and uncle in the Sultan's city. Her hero is the beautiful Shahrazad, who has bewitched the Sultan with her nightly tales and thus keeps him from killing other wives. Marjan wonders what Shahrazad's life is like in the silken rooms of the palace. She will soon find out. Taken to the palace to help Shahrazad find new tales, Marjan realizes that the lovely woman is a prisoner...
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Mitra and her little brother, Babak, are beggars in the city of Rhagae, scratching out a living as best as they can with what they can beg for–or steal. But Mitra burns with hope and ambition, for she and Babak are not what they seem. They are of royal blood, but their father’s ill-fated plot against the evil tyrant, King Phraates, has resulted in their father’s death and their exile. Now disguised as a boy, Mitra has never given...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by Victor Hugo's classic, Les Miserables, A Little in Love beautifully conveys the heartbreaking story of street girl Eponine.
Paris, 1832A girl lies alone in the darkness, clutching a letter to her heart. Eponine remembers being a child: her swing and the peach tree, and the baby brother she loved. But mostly she remembers being miserable. Taught to lie and cheat, and to hate the one girl, Cosette, who might have been her friend. Now,...
8) Eve Green
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Eve Green, pregnant with her first child, looks back on the year her mother committed suicide and she was sent to live with her grandparents in Wales, and recalls her involvement in trying to unravel the mystery of her parents, and her attempts to shelter a friend suspected in the disappearance of a local girl.