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Sheer bliss ... A superb read in every way, exciting, moving, with a fantastic and unpredictable plot' Lesley Pearse

A sensational, exotic, epic, packed with intrigue and secrets, this is commercial historical fiction at its best.

Sheer bliss ... A superb read in every way, exciting, moving, with a fantastic and unpredictable plot' Lesley Pearse

For you, I will write of it all--part truth, part memory, part nightmare--my life, the one that started so long ago, in a place so far from here . . ." India, 1839: Linny Ingram, the respectable young wife of a British colonial officer, settles down to write her life story. In the claustrophobic, mannered world of British India, Linny seems the perfect society wife: pretty, gracious, subservient. But appearances can be deceptive. Linny Ingram ...

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Moving swiftly between the tents of the Afghan plains to the tropical mansions of India to the dirty streets of London, this is a beautifully written novel about a 19th-century woman who, cursed by a jealous tribeswoman, travels to Victorian England in her desperate quest for survival.

The short stories that make up Flying to Yellow recreate the small, yet huge world of family relationships-- the nuances, the silences, the subtle exchanges between people together for the reasons that make a family- blood ties, love, necessity. They embody the unvoiced emotions that we experience as children, siblings, parents, and lovers-- the thin web of relationships which bind us together.

Poppy is on an odyssey. Her adoptive mother has taken off to find herself, so Poppy decides to live with her adoptive father, his new wife, Calypso, and their toddler, Sandeep, in a ramshackle rasp-berry-colored house. At first Poppy is distressed by the disordered household, which is unlike anything she has ever known, but soon it becomes a jumping-off point for her search for her birth mother.Poppy discovers a great many things in the course...

The year is 1900 and orphaned 14-year-old Rosetta and her beloved younger sister Flora sail from England as "home girls.” They are sent to Canada so that they can have a chance at family life. Their dreams are shattered when Flora is adopted, but Rosetta is deemed to be too old. She is to become a farm worker, far from Flora's new home.Rosetta's only dream is to find her sister. But slowly and against her will, she is drawn into the lives of t...

Linda Holeman's characters are instantly familiar. Or are they? In the nine stories which comprise "Devil's Darning Needle, " we meet people -- seemingly ordinary -- struggling to go forward. The reader is taken from early memories of sex and death through the rise and fall of hope and despair, betrayal and redemption. Meet Willow, who holds a mysterious and suffocating spell over a woman who innocently befriends her, the powerful Birdie, who...

Included in one of the 2004 YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults listsNominated for the White Pine Reading Program of the Durham District School BoardGentle Emmaline loves nothing more than books and flowers and her little brother Tommy. Sadly, her idyllic country life in Victorian England comes to an abrupt end when her father dies of cholera. The family is forced to move to a mill town, where Emmaline's mother is dreadfully injured in a...

Selected by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association as one of the PSLA YA Top Forty Fiction Titles 2003Toxic Love is a distinctive collection of short stories by Linda Holeman, each exploring love in all its touching, tragic, and often funny permutations.In the title story "Toxic Love”, Carla is an intellectual with a stutter, a dweeb. She's also an incurable romantic. Feeling isolated in her country town, she tries to dream up romances...

Learning to accept help can be the hardest lesson of all.Mercy doesn't have your average family, but it's the only one she's ever known. She, her mother Pearl, and her aunt Moo move from one falling-down rental house to another. Somehow they've always managed to get by, but lately things seem to be spinning out of control. Why is Pearl growing smaller, saying less and less as she retreats to the security of her bedroom? Why is her aunt growing...