Ethel: 266 books

I feel you'll be interested in this book because it is most of all my first after year of going through hard times with doors shut in my face to success but I pressed on through for completion. I never thought or considered what I wanted to do in life as a child but grow up and get a good job plus...

Meg, feeling sad and lonely, believes her life is ruined! She is sure it is all Baylees fault. Her friend, Sabera the quail, helps her to look at things in a new way. Visit Meg, Baylee, and some of their desert neighbors, to find out how Meg changed her mind.

Chinese Tea: A Guide to the History of Chinese Tea and How it is Used to Treat Several Ailments This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: The Chinese Tea History Chapter 2: Chinese Herbal Teas Chapter 3: Chinese Black Tea Chapter 4: Chinese Diet Green Tea Good For Diet...

Echoes from the Attic is a contemporary novel, set in Boston's Back Bay. Apartment sharing turns everyday life inside out. Five strangers, separated by a generation, thrown together by chance or manipulation, spark passion and danger. They bond, reshuffle, and redefine their lives as they learn to...

Charlie Baxter has never been a success. Yes, he's popular with women, but he's not exactly a party guy. A cheerful loser, that's Charlie. He has even made a hash of his 'death'. For, having almost exhausted a legacy left to him by a rich aunt, he has planned to insure his life and then 'die'....

A child in a faded tam-o'-shanter that had once been baby blue, and a shoddy coat of a glaring, unpropitious newness, was sitting uncomfortably on the edge of a hansom seat, and gazing soberly out at the traffic of Fifth Avenue.

I shall go to sea to-morrow, said Saltash, with sudden decision. "I'm tired of this place, Larpent,—fed up on repletion." "Then by all means let us go, my lord!" said Larpent, with the faint glimmer of a smile behind his beard, which was the only expression of humour he ever...

Before you fairly start this story I should like to give you just a word of warning. If you imagine you are going to read of model children, with perhaps; a naughtily inclined one to point a moral, you had better lay down the book immediately and betake yourself to 'Sandford and Merton' or similar standard...

Anna, a young Englishwoman, is drawn to visit Russia partly out of interest, to see for herself the 'proletarian experiment', and partly by Otto, a glamorous but faithless newspaper editor. With nothing left now to keep her in Russia, she prepares to leave and return to England. But she has...

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The two hundred years which cover, roughly speaking, the actual period of the Holy War, are crammed with an interest that never grows dim. Gallant figures, noble knights, generous foes, valiant women, eager children, follow one another through these centuries, and form a pageant the colour and romance...