Laura Richards: 100 books

3rd in the Hildegarde series. This is such a nice, escapist series. It is very positive to read about people who truly enjoy every aspect of their lives. It is great fun and sometimes inspiring. A glimpse into a time when people truly seemed to care about the people around them. 

In a small waiting-room at Blank Hospital a girl was walking up and down, with quick, impatient steps. Every few minutes she stopped to listen; then, hearing no sound, she resumed her walk, with hands clasped and lips set firmly together. She was evidently in a state of high nervous excitement, for the...

Utterly enchanting children's book with the Man in the Moon as narrator and principle storyteller. The mice are actually children, five siblings the Man in the Moon calls Nibble, Brighteyes, Fluff, Puff, and Downy the baby, who come to live in an eccentric house he dubs the Mouse-Trap, in the...

TO SEÑOR, Señor the illustrious Don John Montfort. Honoured Señor and Brother: – There are several months that I wrote to inform you of the deeply deplored death of my lamented husband, Señor Don Richard Montfort. Your letter of condolation and advice was balm poured upon my bleeding wounds, received...

Pleasant tale about a young girl and a doctor. This tale is written for younger ladies, but is enjoyable by all.

The book “Three Margarets" is the first of the “Margaret Series”, which dates from the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. The three Margarets -- Margaret, Peggy and Rita -- are cousins from the East, West and Cuba. They convene at Fernley Hall, the charming, manorial home of their uncle...

Rita is the forth book of the “Margaret Series” Series. Rita is living back in Cuba. Her father has just died and left her to the care of her stepmother, with whom she doesn’t get along. This book is set in the time of the Spanish-American War. When Rita learns her stepmother wants to go into...