Phyllis: 767 books

The wife of a scientist fights for her marriage—and her husband’s sanity—in postwar Japan in this novel by “a superb and gifted story teller” (Mary Higgins Clark).   When Jerome Talbot’s brilliant career as an atomic physicist leads him once again to Japan, his wife, Marcia, knows it...

Autism was not a recognised disorder in Jane Austen's lifetime, nor for well over a century after her death. However there were certainly people who had autism, and Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer proposes that Austen wrote about them, without knowing what it was that she was describing. So Odd a...

A selection of poems and short inspirational messages designed to have the reader slow down and take the time to hear Gods voice in their own busy lives. Phyllis L Wernsing shares thoughts that have come to her mostly during her morning quiet time but can come at any time when you are still and open...

Here are all the embarrassing things that might happen to you in the fourth grade -- and do happen to you, if your name is Alice McKinley: Your next-door neighbor (who happens to be a BOY!) sees you in your underpants. You sneeze beans all over your best friend. Your brother...

This is where it all started! Eight-year-old Alice McKinley wants pierced ears, really long hair, a pet, and, most of all, a mother. Oh, and some friends would be nice. As the new girl in third grade, Alice doesn't know a single person in Takoma Park, Maryland, except for her next-door neighbor...

Due to demand for a companion story to the popular Emily's Fortune, Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written another rootin' tootin' Wild West escapade that once again includes plucky orphans Emily and Jackson, dastardly villains, and comical cliffhangers. Emily Wiggins is thrilled...

From Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes a witty tale of the Wild West filled with comical cliffhangers and featuring a cast of plucky orphans and dastardly villains. Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence. When she is unexpectedly orphaned, she is left all...

"Perfect for reading aloud, this counting book not only contains bright bold illustrations but also has lots of . . . sound effects that children will love to replicate." -- BOOKLIST Down by the marsh, by the sleepy, slimy marsh, one duck gets stuck in the muck . . . Can two...

The Loooong Narrow Pharaoh is Rabbi Phyllis Berman and Rabbi Arthur Waskow's delightful retelling and reinterpretation of the Exodus story, in which two brave and wise midwives resist the murderous and despotic commands of Pharaoh, and help lead the ancient exodus of the Hebrew people from slavery into freedom.

Imagine, a new boy has just moved into your neighborhood and His name is Jesus. In this, her second book in the "Can Jesus Come Out to Play" series, creator Phyllis Archer who is mother of four, step mother of three, grandmother of seven and great grandmother of two, teaches children important...

From the Edgar Award–winning “queen of the American gothics”: A troubled girl in a remote mountain home grapples with a terrifying secret (The New York Times).   New York clinical psychologist Lynn McLeod has never backed away from a child in need. But a plea for her services in Blue Ridge...

A bride is swept up in family secrets and the blood diamond trade when she returns to South Africa in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. When Chicagoan Susan Hohenfield brings her new husband, Dirk, to her childhood home in Cape Town, it’s with the innocence of a young girl....

In the Hawaiian Islands, a divorcée is threatened by a dangerous deception from her past, in this novel from “a superb and gifted storyteller”(Mary Higgins Clark). Hawaiian-born Caroline Kirby was only six years old when her parents died under mysterious circumstances, and she was shuttled...

From an Edgar and Agatha Award winner: A mystery writer must solve the puzzle of her past when she meets the South Carolina family she never knew existed. Popular mystery novelist Molly Hunt knows all about the twists and turns of fiction, but real life has thrown her for a loop. Raised by...