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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504040368
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of the Villa Fiorita written by Rumer Godden and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two English children travel to Italy to rescue their wayward mother from her lover and save their family in this New York Times–bestselling novel. The lives of the two Clavering children, Hugh and Caddie, have been abruptly upended by the bitter divorce of their parents, British Army colonel Darrell and the formerly solid, dependable Fanny. Their English country home has been abandoned in favor of a London flat, and the fate of their adored pony, Topaz, is in serious question. And it all began the day the internationally renowned movie director, Rob Quillet, came to their small village and stole Fanny’s heart. Now Fanny is gone, whisked off to the north of Italy by her famous filmmaker lover, leaving behind the jagged pieces of her broken family. While Hugh, at fourteen, understands the ways of the adult world better than his twelve-year-old sister, he is fiercely protective of stubborn, rebellious Caddie, who refuses to accept the situation or the hollow sympathy of grown-ups. So together they decide to take drastic action. Traveling alone across Europe, the siblings arrive at Quillet’s pastoral Italian villa overlooking Lake Garda, determined to do battle with the man responsible for the destruction of their family. There can be no peace until they are victorious—and victory will only be achieved when they bring their mother home. A novel that masterfully blends heart, wit, poignancy, and honesty with a breathtaking evocation of the lush Northern Italian countryside, Rumer Godden’s The Battle of Villa Fiorita is another unforgettable reading experience from the New York Times–bestselling author of The River and In This House of Brede. This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate.

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780380003105
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of the Villa Fiorita written by Rumer Godden and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1980-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

BATTLE OF THE VILLA FIORITA

Author : RUMER. GODDEN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780349017570
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (175 download)

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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781844088461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of the Villa Fiorita written by Rumer Godden and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their seemingly perfect life falls apart when their mother leaves, Hugh and Caddie Clavering are in despair. They hatch a plan to go to the Villa Fiorita, on Lake Garda, to persuade her to leave her new lover and return to London. On arrival, they can tell Fanny and Rob are deeply in love, but the scheme lives on. Will Hugh and Caddie realise that their actions have consequences before it is too late?

Fair Helen

Author : Andrew Greig
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 162365646X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Fair Helen written by Andrew Greig and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elderly narrator Harry Langton looks back on the adventures and friends of his youth, transporting the reader to the Scottish Borderlands at the end of the 16th century... The much younger Langton returns to his birthplace to aid an old friend, the brash Adam Fleming, who has fallen for legendary beauty Helen of Annandale. He has also, it seems, fallen foul of a rival for her hand, Robert Bell, a man as violent as he is influential. Fleming confesses to Langton that he fears for his life. In a land where minor lairds vie for power and blood feuds are settled by the sword, Fleming faces a battle to win Helen's hand. By virtue of being the lovers' confidant, Langton is thrust into the middle of this dangerous triangle, and discovers Helen is not so chaste as she is fair. But Langton has his own secrets to keep--and other powers to serve. Someone has noticed Langton's connections to the major players in the Border disputes, and has recruited him in their bid to control the hierarchy of the Border families--someone who would use the lovers as pawns in a game of war. Packed with swordplay, intricate politics, and star-crossed lovers whose actions could change the course of history, Fair Helen is a sumptuous, rousing adventure novel that brings to life one of English poetry's most intriguing heroines.

Listen to the Nightingale

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9781844088508
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Listen to the Nightingale written by Rumer Godden and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is delighted when Lottie gains entry to the Royal Ballet School but she is dismayed when she realises that there will be noone to care for her new dog.___k_____

An Episode of Sparrows

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590171240
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book An Episode of Sparrows written by Rumer Godden and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post-World War II London, two street-tough children attempt to build a hidden garden--an act that awakens hidden courage in the children and profoundly disrupts the neighborhood.

Illumination Night

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453225773
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Illumination Night written by Alice Hoffman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “wondrous” novel of fear, desire, loss, and discovery on Martha’s Vineyard by the New York Times–bestselling author of Practical Magic and Seventh Heaven (Chicago Tribune). Elizabeth Renny has only made two decisions of consequence in her seventy-plus years. While the first, marrying her husband, had adequate results, the second—deciding she could fly from her bedroom window—is less successful. But her flight sets in motion a series of events that will forever change the lives of six residents of Martha’s Vineyard: a young boy who refuses to grow, a wife stifled by her irrational anxiety, a husband tempted by the unknown, a girl flirting with disaster, a gentle giant tortured by his size, and an old woman with nothing to lose. Praised as “an intelligent novel” by the New York Times and “achingly vivid” by Newsday, Illumination Night is a sparkling and heartbreaking narrative that explores marriage, friendship, youth, yearning, disillusionment, and desire, a book as bright and memorable as the festival of lanterns for which it is named.

China Court

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405513500
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book China Court written by Rumer Godden and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Black Narcissus and The River 'Godden was a writer who constantly drew on her own life experiences' ROSIE THOMAS, GUARDIAN 'Her prose is pure, delicate, and gently witty' NEW YORK TIMES 'It has the rare illusive charm, the flashes of wit' KIRKUS REVIEWS Tracy Quinn, daughter of a screen star and raised on film sets around the world, returns to her adored family home, a country house named China Court. Her grandmother's recent death has set in motion events that threaten Tracy's future and the very existence of China Court. As Tracy fights to save the old house, inhabited by five generations of Quinns, the ancestors who created it are evoked: profligate, faithless Jared; Eliza, the embittered spinster; and Ripsie, an outcast orphan who rose to become the powerful matriarch. China Court is the story of the hours and days of a country house in Cornwall and five generations of the family who inhabited it.

The Greengage Summer

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504040376
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Greengage Summer written by Rumer Godden and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sixteen-year-old girl captures the dangerous attention of an older man in this New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of Black Narcissus. Soon after the end of the terrible Great War, Mrs. Grey brings her five young children to the French countryside for the summer in hopes of instilling in them a sense of history and humility. But when she is struck down by a sudden illness and hospitalized, the siblings are left to fend for themselves at the lovely, bullet-scarred hotel Les Oeillets, under the suspicious, watchful eyes of its owner, Mademoiselle Zizi. The young ones find a willing guide, companion, and protector in charming Englishman Eliot, a longtime resident at Les Oeillets and Mlle. Zizi’s apparent paramour. But as these warm days of freedom, discovery, and adolescent adventure unfold, Eliot’s interest becomes more and more focused on the eldest of the Grey children, sixteen-year-old daughter Joss. The older man’s obsession with the innocent, alluring, heartbreakingly beautiful woman-child soon threatens to overstep all bounds of propriety. And as Eliot’s fascination increases, so does the jealousy of his disrespected lover, adding fuel to a dangerously smoldering fire that could erupt into unexpected violence at any moment. Told from the point of view of Cecil, Joss’s sharp-eyed younger sister, The Greengage Summer is a beautiful, poignant, darkly tinged coming-of-age story rich in the sights, smells, and sounds of France’s breathtaking Champagne country. It remains one of the crowning literary achievements of Rumer Godden, acclaimed author of beloved classics Black Narcissus, The River, and In This House of Brede. This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate.

When the Legends Die

Author : Hal Borland
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453232346
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book When the Legends Die written by Hal Borland and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Native American raised in the forest is suddenly thrust into the modern world, in this novel by the author of The Dog Who Came to Stay. Thomas Black Bull’s parents forsook the life of a modern reservation and took to ancient paths in the woods, teaching their young son the stories and customs of his ancestors. But Tom’s life changes forever when he loses his father in a tragic accident and his mother dies shortly afterward. When Tom is discovered alone in the forest with only a bear cub as a companion, life becomes difficult. Soon, well-meaning teachers endeavor to reform him, a rodeo attempts to turn him into an act, and nearly everyone he meets tries to take control of his life. Powerful and timeless, When the Legends Die is a captivating story of one boy learning to live in harmony with both civilization and wilderness.

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita. The Greengage Summer. An Episode of Sparrows

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of the Villa Fiorita. The Greengage Summer. An Episode of Sparrows written by Rumer Godden and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Girl on the Balcony

Author : Olivia Hussey
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1496717082
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Girl on the Balcony written by Olivia Hussey and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1968, Olivia Hussey became one of the most famous faces in the world, immortalized as the definitive Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet. Now the iconic girl on the balcony shares the ups and downs of her truly remarkable life and career ... In this candid memoir, Olivia Hussey tells her story: from being an "It Girl" in swinging 60s London and her enduring friendship with Romeo & Juliet co-star Leonard Whiting, through three tumultuous marriages, motherhood, stage-four breast cancer, debilitating agoraphobia, bankruptcy, and ultimately, a journey of self-discovery in India that led her on a path to fulfillment"--Back cover

The Mousewife

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590173104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mousewife written by Rumer Godden and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband in the house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson. It is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy collecting crumbs and preparing a nest for her future mouse-babies—yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can’t imagine. “I think about cheese,” he advises her. “Why don’t you think about cheese?” Then an odd and exotic new creature, a turtledove, is brought into the house and placed in a gilded cage. A friendship develops as the dove tells the mousewife about things no house mouse has ever imagined, blue skies, tumbling clouds, tall trees, and far horizons, the memory of which haunt the dove in her captivity. The dove’s tales fill the mousewife with wonder and inspire her to take daring action. Rumer Godden’s lovely fable about unexpected friendship and bittersweet love was inspired by a story Dorothy Wordsworth wrote for her brother, William, and is accompanied by stunning pen-and-ink drawings by William Pène du Bois.

Black Narcissus

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Black Narcissus written by Rumer Godden and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anna and Her Daughters

Author : D.E. STEVENSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781915014481
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Anna and Her Daughters written by D.E. STEVENSON and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day we had been well-off and secure; the old grey London house had been 'home' and we imagined that our lives . . . would continue to run smoothly forever. The next day it was all gone. For Anna Harcourt and her three daughters-lovely Helen, who always gets what she wants, young Jane, who makes the best of what she has, and Rosalie, the middle daughter who wavers somewhere in between-the world is turned upside down by their father's death and the discovery that they will have to sell their London home. The girls are shocked when Anna buys a cottage in Ryddelton, her home town in Scotland, but they soon settle in to Scottish life, each in her own way. As time passes, the three girls must contend with love and tragedy, hope and despair, laughter and tears, all unfolding with D.E. Stevenson's incomparable storytelling and knowledge of human nature. First published in 1958, Anna and Her Daughters is a compelling, poignant, and ultimately joyful tale of family, romance, and healing. This new edition includes an autobiographical sketch by the author. "Miss Stevenson has her own individual and charming way of seeing things." Western Mail

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504040392
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy written by Rumer Godden and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times–bestselling author: A novel of a woman’s journey from prostitute to brothel madam to murderess to nun in post–World War II France. A sense of adventure and an eagerness to savor life to the fullest impel young, orphaned Elizabeth Fanshawe to escape her cold, unloving home and enlist in the British Army as a driver in 1944. Dispatched to Paris at the close of the Allies’ war against the hated Nazis, she soon finds herself swept up in the intoxicating celebratory glee of the newly liberated French. But after she meets the charming, seductive Patrice Ambard, Elizabeth’s life takes a sharp turn down a very dark road. Her love for the dashing, hypnotic Frenchman draws Elizabeth, now called Lise, into Patrice’s world of crime and high-class prostitution, where she is broken, hardened, and then transformed into the whore-turned-notorious-madam known as La Balafrée, or the Scarred One. Still, her great fall will not be complete until circumstances drive her to commit a shocking murder—and imprisonment ultimately sets her free. A haunting tale of disgrace, degradation, and glorious redemption told in flashbacks from the convent of Belle Source, where Soeur Marie Lise of the Sisters of Bethany remembers her years of sin and her eventual salvation, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is moving and powerful fiction from one of the most admired British novelists of the twentieth century. Rumer Godden, author of Black Narcissus and In This House of Brede, has crafted a truly transformative tale about faith, forgiveness, and the mercy of a loving God. This ebook features an illustrated biography of the author including rare images from the Rumer Godden Literary Estate.