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Book Synopsis The Caxley Chronicles by : Miss Read
Download or read book The Caxley Chronicles written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Caxley, the quiet country town neighboring the village of Fairacre, The Caxley Chronicles follow two intertwined families, the Howards and the Norths, through the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century. The first Caxley tale, The Market Square, introduces the deep-rooted camaraderie of Septimus Howard and Bender North, whose friendship survives misunderstandings, the tragedy of war, and the bitterness of loss. The story of their families continues through the generations. The second tale, The Howards of Caxley, tells of Edward Howard, grandson to them both. Edward flies for the Royal Air Force Reserve as England prepares for another war -- and Caxley braces itself for overwhelming changes.
Book Synopsis The Howards of Caxley by : Miss Read
Download or read book The Howards of Caxley written by Miss Read and published by . This book was released on 1985-07-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Peaceful Retirement by : Miss Read
Download or read book A Peaceful Retirement written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trip to Florence with her friend Amy is a bright spot in Miss Read's retirement; Henry Mawne's complaints about his new wife and John Jenkins' persistent offers of marriage are not.
Book Synopsis Christmas at Fairacre by : Miss Read
Download or read book Christmas at Fairacre written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three uplifting Christmas tales--"No Holly for Miss Quinn, Village Christmas," and "The Christmas Mouse"--are offered here in one enchanting volume. The English village of Fairacre is a vision of holiday joy, but celebrations of the season do not always go as expected.
Book Synopsis Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love by : Miss Read
Download or read book Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love written by Miss Read and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.'
Book Synopsis Miss Read's Christmas Book by : Miss Read
Download or read book Miss Read's Christmas Book written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). This book was released on 1992 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers carols, selections from the Scriptures, poems, recipes, and Christmas memories
Download or read book Changes at Fairacre written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Fairacre's new commuter lifestyle causes a sharp decline in enrollment at her school, Miss Read focuses her attention on the ill health of her old friend Dolly Clare.
Book Synopsis No Holly for Miss Quinn by : Miss Read
Download or read book No Holly for Miss Quinn written by Miss Read and published by HMH. This book was released on 1976-11-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious Fairacre villager receives an unexpected Christmas gift in this heartwarming holiday novel from the popular author of the Thrush Green series. Nobody in Fairacre knows much about Miss Quinn, which is a rare state of affairs and much regretted by the villagers. Apart from the fact that she lives in the annex to Mrs. Benson’s house and that she works in Caxley, her past history and the amount of her salary remains a tantalizing mystery. In fact, Miss Quinn is a highly efficient secretary to a Caxley businessman. She runs him, and her own affairs, with terrifying competence. She is completely unsentimental and plans to spend her Christmas exactly as she wants, without fuss or family. But before the great day, her brother rings to say his wife has been rushed to the hospital, and could she come and cope with the children? Secretly dismayed, Miss Quinn sets out to do her duty. She copes as capably with the turmoil of her brother’s household as she does with the office, and the regret for her lost Christmas is mitigated by the children’s joy and the unexpected arrival of an old flame . . . “Miss Read’s novels are sheer delight.” —Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis The Eye of the Reindeer by : Eva Weaver
Download or read book The Eye of the Reindeer written by Eva Weaver and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ALCHEMIST meets THE SNOW CHILD in this beautiful odyssey through the snowy landscapes of northern Finland. Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Ritva is sent away to Seili - a remote island to the south of Finland. A former leper colony, Seili is now home to 'hopeless cases' - women who have been outcast from society. But Ritva can't understand why her father has allowed her to be taken there, and she longs to be reunited with her little sister. Hope arrives in the form of Martta, a headstrong girl who is a Sami, and who reminds Ritva of her lost mother and her tales - of Vaja the reindeer, the stolen sealskin, and of a sacred drum hidden long ago. When Ritva and Martta decide to escape, there is only one place that calls to them. And so they begin the long journey North, to the land of the Sami, in search of healing and forgiveness... Readers say: 'Some books make a lasting impression and I think this is definitely one of them. .. It's a celebration of the human spirit and our connection to nature.' Rosie Evans, Good Reads, 5 stars 'I love losing myself in a book & this one is one of those for me. I was transported to the land of the midnight sun.' Lynda, Good Reads 5 stars 'It has been one of those books that I have felt I have escaped into, because the setting is so richly described and the story line sweeps you up and carries you along.' https://becomingfinnishsite.wordpress.com 'The setting in Scandinavia and the lands at the top of the world was so well described as to almost be a character in itself and I was fascinated by the details relating to the indigenous people of this region - the Sami - and their way of life.' Bruce Gargoyle, Good Reads, 4 stars
Download or read book Storm in the Village written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Read, the headmistress of Fairacre School, learns of a proposed new housing development that soon has the citizens of Fairacre up in arms.
Download or read book Village School written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1955 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Village School" introduces cheerful schoolmistress Miss Read and her lovable group of children, who are just as likely to lose themselves as their mittens. 18 line drawings.
Download or read book We Run the Tides written by Vendela Vida and published by HarperLuxe. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An achingly beautiful and wickedly funny story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance, set in the changing landscape of San Francisco Teenage Eulabee and her alluring best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy, oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know the ins and outs of the homes and beaches, Sea Cliff's hidden corners and eccentric characters--as well as the swanky all-girls' school they attend. Their lives move along uneventfully, with afternoon walks by the ocean and weekend sleepovers. Then everything changes. Eulabee and Maria Fabiola have a disagreement about what they did or didn't witness on the way to school one morning, and this creates a schism in their friendship. The rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola's sudden disappearance--a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and threatens to expose unspoken truths. Suspenseful and poignant, We Run the Tides is Vendela Vida's masterpiece depiction of an inimitable place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre-tech boom San Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage girls at the center of this story of innocence lost, the pain of too much freedom, and the struggle to find one's authentic self. Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth, We Run the Tides is both a gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth, in all its beauty and confusion. --Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes
Download or read book Village Centenary written by Miss Read and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Miss Read story chronicle's the year Miss Read's school celebrates its 100th anniversary, with the help and sometimes hindrance of readers favorite Fairacre friends. 19 line drawings.
Download or read book Violet Swan written by Deborah Reed and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a famous abstract painter at the end of her life--her family, her art, and the long-buried secrets that won't stay hidden for much longer. Ninety-three-year-old Violet Swan has spent a lifetime translating tragedy and hardship into art, becoming famous for her abstract paintings, which evoke tranquility, innocence, and joy. For nearly a century Violet has lived a peaceful, private life of painting on the coast of Oregon. The "business of Violet" is run by her only child, Francisco, and his wife, Penny. But shortly before Violet's death, an earthquake sets a series of events in motion, and her deeply hidden past begins to resurface. When her beloved grandson returns home with a family secret in tow, Violet is forced to come to terms with the life she left behind so long ago--a life her family knows nothing about. A generational saga set against the backdrop of twentieth-century America and into the present day, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan is the story of a girl who escaped rural Georgia at fourteen during World War II, crossing the country alone and broke. It is the story of how that girl met the man who would become her devoted husband, how she became a celebrated artist, and above all, how her life, inspired by nothing more than the way she imagined it to be, would turn out to be her greatest masterpiece.
Book Synopsis Winter in Thrush Green by : Miss Read
Download or read book Winter in Thrush Green written by Miss Read and published by Orion. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a stranger arrives in the village of Thrush Green, Miss Dean's romantic prospects suddenly change.
Book Synopsis The Collector's Wodehouse by : P.G. Wodehouse
Download or read book The Collector's Wodehouse written by P.G. Wodehouse and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raise a glass as this is a time for celebration. The Collector's Wodehouse--all 99 titles--is complete!
Book Synopsis The Caxley Chronicles by : Miss Read
Download or read book The Caxley Chronicles written by Miss Read and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This omnibus contains The Market Square and The Howards of Caxley in which the lives of 2 families - the Norths and the Howards - are narrated.
