Alison Elliott
Author
Language
English
Description
After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her sister's mental illness and her own epilepsy, Ivy realizes they might need more than she can give. Jane Forrester, Grace County's newest social worker, doesn't realize just how much her help is needed. Drawn in by the Hart women, she begins to discover the dark secrets of the...
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A lavish, star-studded adaptation of Edith Wharton's final novel set in the early 1870s. Seen through the eyes of a family governess, four ambitious American girls secure husbands and position in England in order to live happily ever after. But life bears little resemblance to the fairytales; and castles appear a lot less magical when you have to live in them. They soon find themselves trapped by the trappings of wealth, and discover that beneath...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
Language
English
Description
A young society woman's love for a common journalist presents her with an impossible decision: leave him or marry and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist when she befriends a lonely young heiress whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible but dangerous solution.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 6
Language
English
Description
Julius insists that Nan continue with their façade of a marriage, but Nan is unable to deny her love for Guy.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 3
Language
English
Description
Virginia makes an unpleasant discovery about her new husband and gives birth to a son.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 2
Language
English
Description
The St. Georges set about finding an English governess for their youngest daughter and, having arrived in London, the Buccaneers proceed to take English society by storm.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 4
Language
English
Description
Conchita is disillusioned by her marriage, and Nan meets Julius Folyat - who is immediately attracted to her.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 5
Language
English
Description
Lizzy marries rising MP Hector Robinson and Conchita asks for Nan's help with her unwanted pregnancy.
Author
Series
Buccaneers volume 1
Language
English
Description
The holiday atmosphere of Newport, Rhode Island, is shattered when Conchita Closson, a New York debutante, announces her engagement to a British aristocrat.
16) King of the hill
Series
Criterion collection volume 698
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
King of the hill: Set in St. Louis during the Depression, it follows the daily struggles of a resourceful and imaginative adolescent who, after his tubercular mother is sent to a sanatorium, must survive on his own in a run-down hotel during his salesman father's long business trips.
Underneath: A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife...
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