Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love

Author: Miss Read
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9781409148142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of VILLAGE SCHOOL. From organising the school summer fete... 'Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand'. ...to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood: 'I collect stones with holes in them'. Miss Read captures the essence of rural life, and in particular of village schools, as only she can. This collection also includes extracts from her letters: 'Michael Joseph wrote after the Observer thing and is throwing out feelers for a book. I shall know if he still feels like it - me too! - after we've met'. It will also include an Introduction on how 'Miss Read' was first created: 'Miss Read was born fully clothed in sensible garments and aged about forty. She was born, in fact, when I was struggling to write my first book and needed a village schoolmistress as the narrator.'

Thrush Green

Author: Miss Read
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618227594
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Miss Read introduces the inhabitants of the lovely village of Thrush Green during the course of one pivotal day--May Day.

Tales from a Village School

Author: Miss Read
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780395717622
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
40 stories in the life of a village schoolteacher.

Killing Mr. Griffin

Author: Lois Duncan
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316182648
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
From beloved author Lois Duncan comes a frightening novel about a group of students who set out to teach their malicious teacher a lesson -- only to learn that one of them could be a killer. Mr. Griffin is the strictest teacher at Del Norte High, with a penchant for endless projects and humiliating students. Even straight-A student Susan can't believe how mean he is to her crush, Dave, and to the charismatic Mark Kinney. So when Dave asks Susan to help a group of students teach Mr. Griffin a lesson of their own, she goes along with them. After all, it's a harmless prank, right? But things don't go according to plan. When one "accident" leads to another and people begin to die, Susan and her friends must face the awful truth: one of them is a killer.

An Invitation to Sin

Author: Suzanne Enoch
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006174526X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Seven marriageable daughters . . . And Lord Zachary Griffin is just the man to help them. After all, what could be more tantalizing than teaching the beautiful Witfeld sisters all the special ways of driving a man into submission—and marriage? And leading exquisite Caroline Witfeld, the most spirited and least frivolous sister, to temptation would be wildly delicious. Zachary doesn't realize that Caroline's longing gazes have less to do with attraction and more to do with admission—to a prestigious arts conservatory. If only she could set those high cheekbones, that aristocratic brow, and those powerful shoulders to canvas, her dreams would all come true. But Caroline is soon having dreams of a very different sort—ones that involve the charming rogue and some improper behavior hardly befitting a lady dedicated to her art . . .unless she becomes dedicated to the art of love.

Facing the Footlights

Author: Florence Marryat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description

Last Seen Alone

Author: Laura Griffin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593197372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
When they face the most baffling missing person's case of their careers, a fiercely ambitious lawyer and a homicide detective have no one to turn to for help except each other, from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin. Up-and-coming attorney Leigh Larson fights for victims of sexual extortion, harassment, and online abuse. She is not afraid to go after the sleaziest targets to get payback for her clients. Leigh is laser-focused on her career—to the exclusion of everything else—until a seemingly routine case and a determined cop turn her world upside down. Austin homicide detective Brandon Reynolds is no stranger to midnight callouts. But when he gets summoned to an abandoned car on a desolate road, he quickly realizes he's dealing with an unusual crime scene. A pool of blood in the nearby woods suggests a brutal homicide. But where is the victim? The vehicle is registered to twenty-six-year-old Vanessa Adams. Searching the car, all Brandon finds is a smear of blood and a business card for Leigh Larson, attorney-at-law. Vanessa had hired Leigh just before her disappearance, but Leigh has no leads on who could have wanted her dead. Faced with bewildering evidence and shocking twists, Leigh and Brandon must work against the clock to chase down a ruthless criminal who is out for vengeance.

Send Me Someone

Author: Diana von Welanetz Wentworth
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9780312322458
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Diana and Paul von Welanetz were a storybook couple. Their courtship was a transcontinental whirlwind. The enchantment of their first days together seemed to grow richer through twenty-five years of marriage. Regarded by friends as a perfect match, they were even named "One of L.A.'s Most Romantic Couples" by Los Angeles magazine. But one day, Paul was diagnosed with cancer. Diana was devastated. Soon afterward, in rapidly declining health, Paul told her, "I don't want you to be alone." She replied, "Then send me someone!" He responded, "I will." That promise is at the heart of the extraordinary story told in Send Me Someone. It is both a romantic love story and a credible account of communication with someone from "the other side": an engaging, real-life tale that proves that true love never really dies.

Early Days

Author: Miss Read
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1409105709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
The enchanting childhood memoirs of bestselling author Miss Read. Miss Read's early days were spent with two remarkable grandmothers - one in Lewisham and one in Walton-on-the-Naze. EARLY DAYS is full of childhood memories of an extended family of uncles, aunts and cousins and their houses full of mystery and adventure, where Miss Read spent so much time, living in the shadow of the First World War. At the age of seven, Miss Read moved to the small village of Chelsfield, Kent, into a magical new world - and so began her love of the English countryside which was to have such a strong influence on her career as a writer. Her evocative descriptions of the village school, the joys of exploring the woods and lanes rich in wildlife and of childhood events, from toffee-making to the treat of a lift on the corn-chandler's cart, vividly convey this time as one of the happiest of her life.

Sheldon & Mrs. Levine

Author: Sam Bobrick
Publisher: PSS Adult
ISBN: 9780843136685
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
In a parody of the best-selling Griffin & Sabine, an angst-ridden young man and his eccentric, meddlesome mother trade blows over his latest infatuation in a series of hilarious letters. 75,000 first printing.