Freda: 173 books

Trained as a nurse and midwife, Elizabeth Evans never wanted to help set up the fledgling town of Aspen Coulee, Alberta, but travels there with her father when he agrees to become the town doctor. Housekeeper at the Evans’ house, Ann Montgomery hoped to keep all her San Francisco secrets locked...

Three young women craving adventure join the Women’s Timber Corps - All for different reasons. . . Lou sees it as a way to stay near her lovely new husband.  Instead it brings heartache and tears, fear and betrayal.  But it is she who holds the friends together when the going gets tough. For Rose...

The Lakes 2012 - Laura is having problems with her marriage, so when she is left a house in the Lake District by her grandmother, she starts to look at her life anew. And she begins to investigate the cause of the feud between her father and his mother. What was Daisy’s Secret? Manchester...

A collection of heartwarming short stories previously published in My Weekly, People’s Friend, Woman’s Realm and other women’s magazines.

Ethel Livesey was quite a gal. An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, she had over 40 aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces. Her story stretches from industrial England to the French Riviera, from Ireland to New York, Shanghai,...

'All of the love that you put into your animals has come out on screen, on my screen and it will be there forever.' - Steven Spielberg The inspirational true story of a remarkable young woman who overcame an unconventional childhood, personal tragedy and depression to work as a stunt woman...

The Lake District, 1908. It seems as though Livia, Ella and Maggie Angel lead a charmed life on a large country estate. But since the death of their mother, their family home has been far from a quiet haven as their bullying father is determined to marry off the girls to his greatest advantage. When...

MY SISTER SLEPT ON MY HEAD is a story told by a puppy, Thumper, who lives in a box with her family. She takes us right along with her as she grows and "learns of life, love and play." AND, we meet the family who choose her as their own and "whisk her away to a new home". Thumper and her story capture the hearts of her readers.

The Honourable Felicity Travers learns she is expected to marry the entrepreneurial Jarle Blakeley, the man she believes responsible for her father’s bankruptcy. Inspired by the suffragette movement, Felicity intends to be a modern woman and make her own decisions. Blakeley proves persuasive, if...

How will she ever find him in this wild place? Jane Priddle, a proper young Englishwoman, has lived a sheltered, genteel life. In 1897, she is offered a life-changing opportunity: she will travel to Canada's northwest frontier to search for young Billie Thomm. Surviving in the gutters...

Wilful and beautiful, Charlotte Forbes is to inherit a fortune on her eighteenth birthday. But Sir James Caraddon, the rising star of Pitt’s government, informs her of a scandal lurking in her past. Charlotte runs away, joining a troupe of strolling players, while James feels obliged to protect her from the unsavoury characters who have an eye on her wealth.

Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put on the next boat back to England, leaving her family behind. But fate gives her a second chance when she befriends Lady Rosalind, a pregnant widow on her way to the home of her late husband’s father, the...

With American independence won and her brother George dead, Hester Mackay accepts Benjamin Blake’s proposal to avoid the shame of bankruptcy, despite him being an English gunrunner. Her happiness at the Georgia plantation house is short-lived as Hester learns that her new husband has already killed two wives. Can this be true, and is he now trying to kill her?

Wheat consumption has been proven to be a contributory factor to heart disease, obesity and other digestive issues. The fact that you are considering this book indicates you already have an idea of what wheat and gluten meals can do to your body. However, this book sheds valuable light on the subject...