Author: Elizabeth Goudge Publisher: Buccaneer Books ISBN: 9780899661131 Category : Frontier and pioneer life Languages : en Pages : 0
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The lives of sisters Marianne and Marguerite take very unexpected courses when William, the man they both adore, writes after a ten year absence and asks for Marianne's hand in marriage, even though it is Marguerite he has always loved.
Author: Elizabeth Goudge Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 147365632X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 718
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'Breathtaking...A long vista of undulating story, with here and there peaks of volcanic excitement' Daily Telegraph A haunting love story set between the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the 19th century. When young William Ozanne arrives on their island, sisters Marianne and Marguerite Le Patourel are both captivated. But it is tall, beautiful Marguerite who catches his eye. Years later, William leaves the island for a life at sea, eventually settling across the ocean in New Zealand. Impulsively, he invites Marguerite to join him there, but a slip of the pen results in Marianne making the journey instead. As Marguerite deals with a broken heart and the loss of her sister, Marianne must make a new life in a strange land, with a man who respects her but loves another. Can she persuade William that he chose the right sister, after all? The inspiration behind the Academy Award winning film Green Dolphin Street (1947). What readers are saying about GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY 'Fantastic' - 5 STARS 'A beautiful and unusual love story' - 5 STARS 'Full of twists and turns and beautifully written as always' - 5 STARS 'A wonderful story' - 5 STARS 'A magical story with characters that leap out from the page' - 5 STARS
Author: Scott O'Dell Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0395069629 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 195
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Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Author: Elizabeth Goudge Publisher: Lion Fiction ISBN: 1782643109 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 190
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'The Little White Horse was my favourite childhood book. I absolutely adored it. It had a cracking plot. It was scary and romantic in parts and had a feisty heroine.' - JK Rowling - The Bookseller In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather travels to her family's ancestral home, Moonacre Manor, to live with her uncle Sir Benjamin. She immediately feels right at home with her kind and funny uncle and meets a wonderful set of new friends â but she quickly learns that beneath all this beauty and comfort, a past feud haunts Moonacre Manor and itâs her destiny to right the wrongs of her ancestors and restore the peace to Moonacre Valley. A beautifully written fantasy story filled with magic, a Moon Princess, and a mysterious white horse. Little White Horse and the delightful heroine, Maria Merryweather, are sure to be loved by all children.
Author: John Green Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486263069 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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Dramatic, ready-to-color renderings of over 40 seagoing and freshwater mammals, including the bottlenose dolphin, Irrawaddy dolphin, Amazon dolphin, northern bottlenose whale, sperm whale, blue whale, killer whale, and astonishing ivory tusked narwhal. Full-color illustrations on covers. Fact-filled captions.
Author: Elizabeth Goudge Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers ISBN: 161970837X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 708
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Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and beautiful secret wife of Charles II. From her early childhood in a castle by the sea in Wales and the joys and pangs of childhood, to her tragic estrangement from the king and her death in Paris at the age of twenty-eight, Lucy Walter lived to the full a life of intense joy and equally intense drama. Miss Goudge portrays brilliantly a young love almost too ecstatic to bear. Equally moving is her characterization of Lucy—a spirited woman caught up in the cataclysmic wars and disruptive revolution of a tumultuous era. From London at the time of the Great Fire, to Paris when British royalty fled to the sanctuary of the Louvre, to Brussels and The Hague and a rich panoramic background—a master storyteller traces the life and loves of an extraordinary woman. The Child from the Sea is a superbly colorful and romantic historical novel alive with brilliant cameos and infused with a spiritual essence rare in our times.
Author: Donald Spoto Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1461741661 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 353
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This authoritative biography of film icon James Dean offers a clear-eyed look at the actor who crossed America's cinematic landscape with the brilliance and brevity of a meteor.
Author: Elizabeth Goudge Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1473656346 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 327
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A rich and beautiful story, set in a quiet cathedral city. When cathedral dean Adam Ayscough encounters clockmaker Isaac Peabody, their unlikely friendship touches the lives of the entire community. Behind the dean's fearsome reputation lies a humble man crippled by shyness. Desperate to leave behind a lasting legacy of goodness, his only wishes are to serve God and his parishioners, and to be loved by his young and dissatisfied wife. Haunted by the memories of a miserable childhood, gifted clockmaker Isaac Peabody has spent a lifetime perfecting his craft and rejecting all belief in God. Despite their fundamental differences, both men find a common understanding, and discover that faith can come in many different guises. What readers are saying about THE DEAN'S WATCH 'Goudge in the class of Victor Hugo, or Dickens' - 5 STARS 'Beautifully written, simply couldn't put it down' - 5 STARS 'An unforgettable book' - 5 STARS 'Just plain delightful' - 5 STARS 'A wonderful book, full of atmosphere' - 5 STARS 'A must for all Goudge fans' - 5 STARS
Author: Sebastian Faulks Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0804152608 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 604
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Faulks's first novel since the extraordinary success of Birdsong is written with the same passion, power and breadth of vision. Set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war. It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the occupying Nazi forces encroach ever closer in a tense waiting game. Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south from Edinburgh. Working in London, she has a brief but intense love affair with an RAF pilot. When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him--but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life. Faulks's novel is an examination of lost paradises, politics without belief, the limits of memory, the redemptive power of art and the existence of hope beyond reason. It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France and, more significantly, a revelation of the appalling price many Frenchmen paid to survive in unoccupied, so-called Free France. As the men, women and children of Charlotte's small town prepare to meet their terrible destiny, the truth of what took place in wartime France is finally exposed. When private lives and public events fatally collide, the roots of the characters' lives are torn up and exposed. These harrowing scenes are presented with the passion and narrative force that readers will recall from Birdsong. Charlotte Gray will attract even more readers to Faulks's remarkable fiction.
Author: Elizabeth Goudge Publisher: ISBN: Category : Animals, Mythical Languages : en Pages : 296
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A girl rallies her community in obtaining materials to finish construction on a beautiful ship that, due to lack of funds, is slated to be destroyed.
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