Author : Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440638349
Near Sawrey, the seat of Miss Beatrix Potter?s country home, has been abuzz ever since Mr. Wickstead met his death under a tree limb. Many believe it had to do with a treasure he had dug up. And only Pickles, his dog, knows what happened. Meanwhile, Miss Potter faces dilemmas in her love life and with her parents. But she has no time to muse, what with helping humans and animals alike?and this little matter of murder.
Author : Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101543841
The latest in the Cottage Tales series-starring Miss Potter herself! It's the heart of summer in 1913, and Beatrix is eager to marry her fiancé, solicitor William Heelis. But there are a few obstacles blocking the happy couple's path to the altar, like the troubled remodeling of Castle Cottage-Will and Beatrix's future home...
Author : Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 2005-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440623376
The author of Peter Rabbit and other tales, Beatrix Potter is still, after a century, beloved by children and adults worldwide. In this first Cottage Tale, Albert introduces Beatrix, an animal lover and Good Samaritan with a knack for solving mysteries. With help from her entourage of talking animal friends, Beatrix sets out to win over the human hearts of Sawrey, where she's just bought an old farm--and plans to stay.
Author : Beatrix Potter
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Foxes
ISBN :
Author : Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2006-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440625328
Everyone in Sawrey likes Ben Hornby. So when Beatrix finds the shepherd dead in the meadow and suspects foul play, she wonders who would have done such a thing. A trio of village cats has an idea: When Ben breathed his last, his sheep must have seen his killer before scattering. So they set out to find the far-flung flock. Although she’s distracted by duties at the farm and the sad plight of a young girl, Beatrix must get to the bottom of this. As the stories intertwine, Beatrix and the creatures realize that, to solve this case, all of Sawrey, both the two- and four-legged inhabitants, must work together...
Author : Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440623368
Miss Potter's new hometown of Holly How is having its share of troubles, and three children, favorites of Beatrix, are counting on the help of the fairies of Cuckoo Brow Wood. Now, with her signature tact, Beatrix must work with her friends-human and animal-to set things right.
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765342300
An American journalist is trapped in Nazi Germany in this variation on the Sleeping Beauty theme.
Author : Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 9780425203682
Memorable debut of one of the most original and appealing new female sleuths to come along in years. Readers will identify with China Bayles as she makes the kind of tough decisions that confront us all.
Author : Louise Murphy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2003-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101495626
A poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, We Were the Lucky Ones, and Lilac Girls In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and stepmother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed “Hansel” and “Gretel.” They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called a “witch” by the nearby villagers. Magda is determined to save them, even as a German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children. Louise Murphy’s haunting novel of journey and survival, of redemption and memory, powerfully depicts how war is experienced by families and especially by children.
Author : Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425223611
Mr. Wickstead has died under a tree limb. The villagers are certain that his death had to do with a treasure he dug up last spring. But why was he in the wood on a frigid night? And what of the claw marks on the limb? And what was that treasure? As per us
