L. M Montgomery
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The youngest daughter of Anne and Gilbert meets the trials of World War I with irrepressible spirit in this artfully packaged edition of the sixth book in the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne's children are almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one can resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, nearly fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting...
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A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables ... before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak, and unimaginable greatness. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. Her beloved...
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On Prince Edward Island, an elderly bachelor and his spinster sister Marilla adopt an orphan and are mistakenly sent a girl instead of a boy. The orphan, Anne, remains with the couple, moves from one mishap to another, succeeds academically, and finds love.
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...
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On Prince Edward Island, where Anne Shirley grew up in the sea-sprayed town of Avonlea, there was no shortage of wonderful stories. There was the case of Ludovic Speed, who wouldn't propose to the woman he had courted for fifteen years until Anne devised a plan to "speed" him up ... if it didn't backfire and break his heart. But no one could blame mischievous Anne for the hilarious battle of the sexes that erupted when a man-hating woman and her cat...
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When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan who can help manage their family farm, they have no idea what delightful trouble awaits them. With flame-red hair and an unstoppable imagination, 11-year-old Anne Shirley takes Green Gables by storm.
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Fleeing from the orphanage where she lives, Grace makes a deal with the witch in the nearby woods--if Grace can learn all the witch's spells, she must make Grace her apprentice--an agreement that leads to an unexpected bond, and an unimaginable sacrifice.
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In this modern retelling, Anne is fostered into the West Philly home of siblings Marilla and Matthew, and while she initially has a hard time at school, she ends up joining the robotics team and competes for a spot in an elite STEM program.
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In this contemporary retelling of Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, a queer, half-Japanese disco superfan, moves to a town that seems too small for her big personality and where she becomes embroiled in a series of dramatic and unfortunate events.
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"L. M. Montgomery' classic tale, Anne of Green Gables, gets a romantic, charming, and hilarious modern adaptation, set in New York City. After an idyllic girlhood in Avonlea, Long Island, Anne has packed up her trunk, said goodbye to her foster parents, Marilla and Matthew, and moved to the isle of Manhattan for grad school. Together with her best friend, Diana Barry, she' ready to take on the world and find her voice as a writer. When her long-time...
12) A tangled web
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"It all begins with Great Aunt Becky and her infamous prized possession: a legendary heirloom jug. After her death, everyone wants it. But the name of the new owner won't be revealed for one year. In the next twelve months, scandals, quarrels and love affairs abound--with the jug at the center of it all"--
14) Mistress Pat
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On Canada's Prince Edward Island in the 1930s, twenty-year-old Pat must choose between the possibility of a lonely life at Silver Bush and leaving her home for romance.
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Matthew y Marilla llevan una vida tranquila y rutinaria en el pequeño pueblo de Avonlea. Ya ancianos, deciden adoptar un huérfano para que los ayude con las tareas de la granja. Pero en vez del nįo prometido por el orfanato, a casa de los Cuthbert...
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"Gdy Maryla i Mateusz Cuthbertowie decydują się przygarnąć chłopca z sierocińca, nie maja pojęcia, że od tej pory ich życie wypełnią niespodzianki. Zaczyna się od tego, że na Zielone Wzgórze w Avonleaprzybywa nie chłopiec, lecz jedenastoletnia rudowłosa dziewczynka. Ania to osóbka o nieprzeciętnym temperamencie i wybujałej fantazji. Jej obecność wywróci życie mieszkańców Avonlea do góry nogami, a Zielone Wzgórze nigdy nie...
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Anne returns to Prince Edward Island for the first time since Marilla Cuthbert's death. She agrees to accompany Gilbert to New York as he undertakes a hospital residency there. Gil arranges for her to work in a publishing house. Anne meets Jack Garrison, a charming yet unscrupulous author, who steals her manuscript. The two will meet again on the battlefields of World War I France, where Anne is serving in the Red Cross so that she may find out...