Fiona Hardingham
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. Rudolf and Verena are planning the wedding of their daughter Emmeline, while their eldest son, Arthur, is studying in Paris and Michael is just back from his first term at Cambridge. Celia, the youngest of the de Witt children, is on the brink of adulthood, and secretly dreams of escaping her carefully mapped-out future and exploring the world. But the onslaught of war changes...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1948 Australia, Anikka Lachlan is mourning the sudden death of her husband. She must forge a new path for herself and her daughter, Isabel. When Ani takes a job at the Railway Institute's local library, she begins to see what just might be the beginnings of her new story. The library has its visitors. Roy McKinnon, a poet whose most powerful work came out of the brutal chaos of war, has lost his words and his purpose in peacetime. His childhood...
4) Lovely War
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it's...