This definitive new edition Includes poems never previously published, restores poems from RLS's notebooks mutilated by the Boston Bibliophile Society, and offers fully edited critical texts with scholarly apparatus. Included are A Child's Garden of Verses, Penny Whistles, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Pieces in Lallan and Poems Written in America.

When Claire, the author of a novel about love among young CIA trainees, receives an e-mail from an Iranian admirer who wants to obtain a copy of her work, she agrees to meet him, but soon learns that someone is intercepting their communications.

In the seventh book in The Performers saga, it is 1873 and impoverished Sophie Lackland must marry if she is to escape a lifeof genteel poverty. Then comes a letter telling of the death of her step-grandmamma, and of a strange bequest which could make it possible for Sophie to fulfil her ambition to qualify as a physician. So Sophie sets off for London, to a new life, new career and Gilbert Stacey, who offers her charm, tenderness and excitement.

Martha Lackland dies in 1905. Her great-niece, Letty attends the funeral. Here she meets Luke O'Hare, an aspiring actor with plans to start a theatre for the poor of London. Letty falls under the spell of Luke and his circle of Bohemian friends. In an attempt to establish her independence from her domineering family she runs away to help Luke and his friends set up the theatre. It is also a time of great change for women as the Suffragette movement presents a radical challenge to the established order and Letty is drawn to the excitement and liberation it promises.

Sister Barbara is bitterly disappointed to leave London's busy Royal Hospital for health reasons, and feels life will be dull at the little cottage hospital on the South Coast, but it turns out to be engrossing work - and romantically challenging.

With the war over, it was time to look forward, and the Festival of Britain symbolised a new optimism. Poppy's catering business was proving very successful as rationing and shortages ended. For Chloe life was bitter; a marriage in ruins and a baby rejected, the baby a new burden and a new joy for Poppy.

Luc Lévesque is a celebrated Quebec novelist and the anointed Voice of a Generation. In his hometown of Montreal, he is revered as much for his novels about the working-class neighbourhood of Saint-Henri as for his separatist views. But this is 2001. The dreams of a new nation are dying, and Luc himself is increasingly dissatisfied with his life. Hannah is Luc's wife. She is also the daughter of a man who served as a special prosecutor during the October Crisis. For years, Hannah has worked faithfully as Luc's English translator. She has also spent her adult life distancing herself from her English-speaking family. But at what cost? Hugo is their troubled fourteen-year-old son. Living in the shadow of a larger-than-life father, Hugo is struggling with his own identity. In confusion and anger, he commits a reckless act that puts everyone around him on a collision course with the past.

Set in Quebec at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the story of Agnes White, a lonely orphaned girl fascinated by the "wrong" things--microscopes, dissections, and anatomy instead of more ladylike interests--who rises to the status of one of the world's most celebrated pioneering women doctors. Not only does she break through patriarchal academic barriers; she masters the science of the human heart, becoming a scholar of international fame, all in a place and time inimical to intelligent women. Inspired by the career of Maude Abbott, one of Canada's first female physicians.

Hardcover - first UK edition. Light crease on jacket's slightly marked rear; jacket otherwise excellent considering age: bright, with minimal wear. Spine head is faintly worn; one or two light marks on page block. Text is clear on clean, sound pages - a very good copy. TS

You Can Be Happy is one woman's deeply sincere and eloquent explanation of the practical faith which brought her freedom from fear and depression, and a dynamic positive outlook upon life. It is one person's example of how anyone can use the New Thought philosophy of life to improve themselves and their circumstances. This classic has been out of print and unavailable for many years. This new edition is edited into gender neutral language for the 21st century, making the author's story of her experience freshly accessible to a new audience.

A pivotal meeting between a daughter and her father. " Paris is the work of a writer entirely deserving of exposure. I can hardly wait to see what Clara Mamet comes up with next." - Backstage Paris premiered at The Ruskin Theater in 2011 originally directed by Paul Sand and starring Clara Mamet and John Pirruccello.

Tells the story of the house and the family that lived there. Describes its destruction and the memorial raised on the original site.

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Text: English (translation) Original Language: French