Anne Twomey
1) The guardian
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four years after losing her husband, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Barenson considers falling in love again and wonders if she should choose sophisticated Richard, who treats her like a queen, or down-to-earth Mike. But when she eventually picks one man, the other man's jealousy turns into a deadly obsession.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1901 London, as the precise social order of the Victorian era winds down and the forward-looking Edwardian order takes wing, three strangers meet in the city's stony Highgate Cemetery. Beautiful Lavinia revels in the elaborate trappings of the past. Plain Maude strives to shape the future. Simon Fields, a boy their age, is bound by poverty and professional to the cemetery.As they explore the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, they bring...
4) Clara Callan
Author
Language
English
Description
Two sisters, small-town Ontario, 1934. Canadian author Richard Wright tells their story, from the ordinary to the extraordinary, with an eye for the commonplace and poignant sense of the larger undercurrents that change people's lives. Letters and journal entries form a portal into the desires and passions of two very different women, underscoring the larger tableau of an era stirring with great events - the Depression, rumblings of another world...