Frances: 2004 books

The internationally bestselling, “gorgeously moving, old-fashioned novel” about a woman’s life, loves, and self-discovery on the eve the Great War (O, The Oprah Magazine). Grania O’Neill, the daughter of hardworking Irish hoteliers in small-town Ontario, is five years old when she emerges...

Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives. She was taken care of primarily by servants, who pacify her as much as possible to keep her out of the way. Spoiled and with a temper,...

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden (published in 1911), A Little Princess (published in 1905), and Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6).-wikipedia

Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes: THE MAGNATE'S TEMPESTUOUS MARRIAGE Marrying a Tycoon by Miranda Lee Scott McAllister thinks Sarah is the perfect wife, until he's led to believe she committed the ultimate betrayal. Sarah's defiant...

One last Chieftain meets his match in the final book in Frances Housden's best–selling, award–winning series… For a year, Rory has dreamed of a lass, a Norse lass, under the summer solstice moon. Unable to give voice to her name or recognise her face, he will never forget the feel of...

Frances Brody returns with an intricate, absorbing plot while capturing the atmosphere and language of 1920s England in the eighth book of her cozy mystery series. Nothing ever happens in August, and tenacious sleuth Kate Shackleton deserves a break. Heading off for a long-overdue holiday...

Wer Weihnachten feiern möchte, muss unter dem Baum unbedingt ein Exemplar von unserer Sammlung der bekanntesten und schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten haben, die zur feierlichen Atmosphäre beitragen: Der Schneider von Gloucester (Beatrix Potter) Nußknacker und Mausekönig (E.T.A Hoffman) Charles...

What’s a girl to do when she’s had twelve lovers and the love of her life has only bedded two? Serena Adams, sexy makeup artist to the stars, is certain that her life is perfect – great job, devoted man and the silent promise of a ring on her finger. So when her boyfriend Markie attempts...

True-life drama of paranormal experience. Fact can be stranger than fiction. A lost soul, craving justice; of superstition, witch-hunts and murder, of haunting, devils and demons, a terrifyingly real thriller. The uninvited ghost says she is Elizabeth Frye, that she was wrongfully hanged as a witch...

They roll in from unknown places, mysterious and unexplained. They take root, take over, spread to all corners and refuse to be eradicated. No one can say why they came, but there's no arguing that they're up to no good. These plants are out for blood, and getting rid of them will take a certain kind...

In A Time to Cast Away Stones, Elise Frances Miller catapults the late 1960s beyond media stereotypes that have inflamed opinions of the era for decades. This powerful novel tells the story of Janet Magill, a shy, straight-arrow Berkeley freshman with com-pelling reasons to join the antiwar movement....

"This story surprised me. And I love when that happens..." Review on Amazon. Martin is a 50-something Yorkshireman with a penchant for swearing and making model aircraft in his shed. He also likes football and many years ago when a small, longhaired Argentinian started to play for Napoli FC,...

I am watching the news on TV. A young boy is standing before a judge. He had shot a fellow student due to bullying. I am devastated. How could this be? Why did it happen? What took place in this child's life to create this disastrous outcome?I knew that from the day I was born I had a...

In 2011, Frances Young delivered the Bampton Lectures in Oxford to great acclaim. She offered a systematic theology with contemporary coherence, by engaging in conversation with the fathers of the church - those who laid down the parameters of Christian theology and enshrined key concepts in the creeds...