Helen: 3878 books

Short stories with hopeful endings have always been favorites of Helen Haught Fanick, and her own stories are no exception. Her protagonists usually discover at the end that with effort, situations can change and life can improve. The young girl with a chance to go to college sees many obstacles,...

Jill and her dad are happy enough after her mother dies. Theirs is a simple life in the outback, far from the big city where a coathanger is being built across a sparkling harbour. Until Jack arrives at their door one evening, and steps inside to find the skinny, wild-looking child sitting...

Travelogue covering California and Oregon, Scotland and England, and Norway, Denmark, and Germany. According to Wikipedia: "Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske (October 15, 1830 August 12, 1885), was a United States poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native...

According to Wikipedia: "Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (October 18, 1830 August 12, 1885) was an American writer best known as the author of Ramona, a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California... She was a classmate of the poet Emily Dickinson, also from Amherst. The two carried...

Prisoners of Poverty Abroad Helen Stuart Campbell, social reformer and pioneer in the field of home economics (1839-1918) This ebook presents «Prisoners of Poverty Abroad», from Helen Stuart Campbell. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....

This collection of poetry is evocative of growing up in Wales in the eighties and nineties. In ten short poems, Helen Treharne shines a spotlight on the decline of traditional industries and changes to our communities, as well as drugs, homelessness and youth unemployment. There's also much humour,...

The Complete Sophie Morgan Vampire Series: Books 1-3 It's tough being human, it can be even tougher being a vampire... What would you do if you discovered the supernatural world actually exists? Sophie Morgan is about to find out. Vampires have infiltrated all levels of society,...

Evocative snippets of 1920-1960s Britain and Canada shine through this personal story, as one of the least known dramas of the Second World War is brought to life. Three small children are plucked from their home in Scotland, and placed indiscriminately in the home of an abusive American foster carer,...

To escape the city, to live close to nature in the beauty and quiet of the wilderness, to try to find within oneself a pioneer resourcefulness of spirit, mind, and hand—it is an almost universal dream. Helen Hoover and her husband made it come true for themselves, and this is the richly told story...

Sarah Livingstone and Ravi Kaul meet at Oxford. She is English, sensing a chance to evade the pattern of conventional middle-class life to which her experience has so far conformed. The more sophisticated Indian, Ravi, also wishes to sample another way of life - if only temporarily. Against a quintessential...

This book is about my search for the truth about what caused or contributed to my life- long weight problem. In spite of my consulting doctors, nutritionists, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, joining Weight Loss organizations and trying numerous diets, nothing had worked. Because...

Martin’s sister worries about big things, and little things, and everything in between. Martin comes up with a plan to help, but will it stop her worrying? Do Fruit Worry About Getting Fat? is the third picture book from writer-illustrator duo Helen Vivienne Fletcher and Ian Garmonsway. If you like...

Davey and Michael can't wait to meet Aunt Kelly's Dog... but what will they do if the dog is a big, scary, people-eating monster? Aunt Kelly’s Dog is the first of three picture books from writer-illustrator duo Helen Vivienne Fletcher and Ian Garmonsway. If you like quirky stories, gorgeous illustrations...

It’s washing day at Jenny’s house, but oh no! The elastic in all of Jenny’s knickers melts in the dryer. How will Jenny solve the no-kickers problem? Jenny No-Knickers is the second picture book from writer-illustrator duo Helen Vivienne Fletcher and Ian Garmonsway. If you like quirky stories,...