An orphaned girl is adopted by a farmer and his sister, after they expected to adopt a boy to help on the farm.
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Montgomery, Richard H
Anne of Green Gables, a new beginning: Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II. Her two daughters are pre-occupied with their own young families and her adopted...
Two-time Tony Award Winner and four-time Emmy Award winner Colleen Dewhurst (A Moon for the Misbegotten, Annie Hall), Academy Award nominee and Spirit Award winner Richard Farnsworth (Comes a Horseman, The Grey Fox, The Natural), and Megan Follows give unparalleled performances i...
"There's a Thing on my street. He lives at number 52. I see him sitting in his garden when I walk to school. He was big and lumbering and a wore a tiny top hat perched on top of his rather large head. She didn't think he had any friends, so she brought him a flower. It wasn't lon...
Follows the life of orphan Anne Shirley as she grows up on Prince Edward Island with adoptive family Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, goes out on her own as a teacher, and marries the man of her dreams.
A collection of Christmas and New Year's tales in addition to chapters about Christmas taken from the Anne books, all of which present the spirit of giving.
"In this critically-acclaimed anthology, a zombie outbreak reaches pandemic proportions during World War II. Soldiers not only contend with each other but with a horrifying and seemingly unstoppable army of the undead." -- Back cover.
"An anthology of fourteen Christmas stories, both previously published and newly commissioned, by such authors as Louisa May Alcott and William Dean Howells, and illustrated by such artists as Anna C. Leplar and Paolo D'Altan." -provided by publisher.
20 Great World War II era movies projecting the spirit and solidarity of Allied forces in the European and Pacific theaters. This collection features some of Hollywood's greatest stars, including Robert Mitchum, Randolph Scott, Lee Van Cleef and Glenn Ford. The Battle of El Alame...
Chapters on the history of social dancing and on the music, dance skills, and language precede step-by-step instructions for fifteen popular "touch dances," including the waltz, foxtrot, rumba, polka, and hustle.
After a struggling addict reaches her faith healer father's cabin in the Louisiana bayou, she agrees to join him on a journey to bury a mysterious dead woman.
Montgomery Brewster is a down-and-out baseball player who discovers that he is the only living relative of an eccentric multimillionaire. Monty stands to inherit $300 million, but only if he can spend $30 million in a single month without acquiring any assets. If he fails, it's b...
The literary equivalent to a comforting bath before bed, this beautiful anthology of short tales and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep. A good night's sleep is fundamental to our well being and our health, yet in our busy world, dominated by screens, and ju...
Anne leaves Green Gables and Gilbert Blythe's proposal of marriage for a teaching position. When she returns, she finds Gilbert ill with a scarlet fever and is forced to re-evaluate her true feelings for him.
Any meeting of genius may create sparks, but when military geniuses meet, their confrontations play out upon a vast panorama of states or civilizations at war, wielding the full destructive power of a mighty nation's armies. Gods of War is the first single-volume, in-depth examin...