Elizabeth: 10009 books

The dead are the best listeners. 16-year-old Violet Chance thinks so, anyway. Which is why she spends most of her time in the graveyard, concocting elaborate stories of the departed, attending the funerals of strangers, and even impersonating the dead.After an unspeakable family trauma forces...

Lisette Leigh Elizabeth Gaskell, romancière britannique (1810-1865) Ce livre numérique présente «Lisette Leigh», de Elizabeth Gaskell, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement...

Perth, Western Australia, 1913: When her conservative family tries to force Emily into an arranged marriage with a much older, wealthy man, she takes destiny into her own hands and escapes her strict father and overbearing brothers. She embarks on a ship to North-Western Australia to take up employment...

After forty-five years doing diagnostic services, Elizabeth is faced with either retiring or accepting a pay cut. She opts for retirement. She has a delightfully sardonic take on life, a fine sense of humour and enjoys poking fun at her fellow man, particularly if they are in any way fake, too trendy...

The triumphant, long-awaited return of a writer of remarkable gifts: in this collection of richly imagined stories—her first new work in twenty years—the master of short fiction delivers a diverse suite of stories about men and women confronting their vulnerabilities in times of transition and...

England, 1918. World War One rages, and Victoria Hospital harbours the wounded. Between the falling bombs, a love is blooming. Nurse Elena and Doctor Lyle fall hard for each other. Their passion rivalled only by their desire to save lives. Doomed from the start, the young lovers must hide their...

A woman's coming-of-age journey through the rugged landscape of Wales to the reflective quiet of a retreat center. Along the way she questions and explores the depth of her Methodist faith as she comes to terms with her bisexual identity. Andrew skillfully and seamlessly weaves the threads...

Henry Ian Darling is a collector of oddities, those that bring him closer to an enigma, one he hopes will be a great thing. But maybe it isn’t. Cover Design: Julie Elizabeth Powell Cover Design: Julie Elizabeth Powell

Henry Ian Darling is a collector of oddities, those that bring him closer to an enigma, one he hopes will be a great thing. But maybe it isn’t. Cover Design: Julie Elizabeth Powell

A collection of five short stories, Violent Impulses focuses on five different protagonists dealing with a serious lack of impulse control. Some are needy, some are desperate, a few are out for revenge, but all of them share in anger and blood. A small and brutal look into human interaction, Violent Impulses is the first short story collection published by Elizabeth T. Pardo.

After the intense and bloody Civil War, Elizabeth and George Armstrong Custer were stationed in Texas, Louisiana, and Kansas. Faced with flash floods, scorpions, wild animals, and Native Americans of uncertain disposition, Elizabeth recounts the reconstruction era of the South and the plains wars with the Native Americans, and the dangerous life of an army officer's wife.

‘Als ik mijn ogen sluit’ van Elizabeth Musser is niet een gewone roman, maar een ode aan vergeving en genade. Jason, het 6-jarige zoontje van Henry en Libby Blough, lijdt aan een ernstig hartdefect en moet binnenkort zijn vierde operatie ondergaan. Henry werkt bij een drukkerij en kan al die dure...

Four women each have a story worth telling about their adventures in life and love and their happy-ever-after guys. Anna is a modern-day woman with a villain threatening to kill her and must rely on Stephen to save her and love her. Tess, on the planet Nybain, battles gangsters with the help of Callahan,...

Winner of 2016 Great Southeast Book Festival Received Honorable Mention from The Great Midwest Book Festival *** At fifty-eight, Magnolia Gardner Winston needs to find answers to a lifetime of questions. Before his death, Ashton, her lost love, contacted her with an enigmatic phone call that continues...