Author : Elizabeth Mayer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1543402232
Set during the early 1900s in a European town full of old traditions, The Four Orphans is an empowering and emotionally charged family history that evokes many thoughts and feelings within the reader as they follow the lives of the Gacek family. Following the tragic loss of their parents, newly orphaned Stefan, Maria, Anna, and Rebecca have no choice but to leave their heartbreak behind as they go through all the ups, downs, and mysteries life has to offer, alone.
Author : Harry Wesley Mangold
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Labor and laboring classes
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Author : Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0141973161
The new bestseller from Jacqueline Wilson, creator of Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather and The Illustrated Mum, is a funny, moving and heartwarming story of four children who discover a way to make wishes come true. Echoing the classic E Nesbit novel, Five Children and It, this new story from this mega-selling author, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, is a brilliant read not just for those familiar with the original book but for any of Wilson's millions of fans.
Author : J. Herbert
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
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Author : Harry Wesley Mangold
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781356870998
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Author : Glynis Peters
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008492379
From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Orphan comes her brand new unputdownable historical fiction novel!
Author : Daniel Price
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399164995
The thrilling second novel in the category-defying Silvers trilogy—melding X-Men and the novels of Blake Crouch—about six extraordinary people who become unwitting refugees on an unfamiliar Earth, and their epic quest to find out why. The end of the world was just the beginning for Hannah and Amanda Given. Saved from apocalypse by three mysterious beings, the sisters, along with four other refugees from their world, were each marked with a silver bracelet and transported to an entirely different Earth: a place where restaurants move through the air like flying saucers and the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances, as well as by their very own hands—and a place where terrifying new adversaries seem to be around every corner. Now, after six months in this alt-America and a tumultuous cross-country journey that landed them in New York City, the Silvers find themselves in more trouble than ever. Their new world is dying, and a clan of powerful time benders believes that killing them is the only way to stop it. To make matters worse, the U.S. government has sent its most ruthless covert spy agency to track and capture them. But the biggest threat of all comes from the three god-like beings who first saved them. They had a reason for bringing the Givens and their friends to this world. And when the Silvers learn the awful truth, nothing will ever be the same.
Author : John C. Wright
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429915633
John C. Wright burst onto the SF scene with the Golden Age trilogy. His next project was the ambitious fantasy sequence, The Last Guardians of Everness. Wright's new fantasy is a tale about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they may not be human beings. The students at the school do not age, while the world around them does. The children begin to make sinister discoveries about themselves. Amelia is apparently a fourth-dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can control the molecular arrangement of matter around him; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls where none had previously been; Colin is a psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different paradigm or view of the inexplicable universe: and they should not be able to co-exist under the same laws of nature. Why is it that they can? The orphans have been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by super-beings no more human than they are: pagan gods or fairy-queens, Cyclopes, sea-monsters, witches, or things even stranger than this. The children must experiment with, and learn to control, their strange abilities in order to escape their captors. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Laurel Snyder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062443437
A National Book Award Longlist title! "A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon "This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical." —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away forever from the only home she’s known? "A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).
Author : Virginia C. Andrews
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 2000
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ISBN : 9780613336024
Four bestselling novels of a miniseries about four orphans in their new families are together for the first time in one volume. In "Butterfly", Janet's new mother is determined to turn her into a ballerina. In "Crystal", Crystal's interest in science could lead to disaster with a neighborhood boy. "Brooke" is the story of a girl who resists her mother's dreams of her becoming a beauty queen. "Raven" deals with a dark family secret.
