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Winter Rose (Paperback)
Jennifer Donnelly
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The Winter Rose begins in London in the summer of 1900. It has been
twelve years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and
courts of Whitechapel. Time has passed, places and people have
changed. And yet, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a
shadow city to its western twin. & nbsp; Reformers, moved by
the plight of the poor, work to better their conditions. Among them
is an idealistic young woman named India Selwyn-Jones. Newly
graduated from medical school, India joins a practice in
Whitechapel and tends to its people. With the help of her
influential fianc?????Freddie Lytton, an up-and-coming Liberal
MP???she works to shut down the area??'s opium dens that destroy
both body and soul. Her selfless activities better her patients???
lives and bring her immense gratification, but unfortunately, they
also bring her into direct conflict with East London??'s ruling
crime lord???Sid Malone. Some of the characters from Donnelly's
Booksense pick, & nbsp; The Tea Rose, including Fiona and Joe,
appear as minor characters in The Winter Rose, and Malone, as
readers of The Tea Rose will remember, is Fiona Finnegan??'s lost
brother. Born Charlie Finnegan, he was separated from his family
after his mother was murdered and survived the hard streets of East
London by becoming a criminal. India is not good for business and
at first, Malone wants her out. But against all odds, India and Sid
fall in love. Different in nearly every way, they share one thing
in common???they???re both wounded souls.Their love is impossible
and they know it, yet they cling to it desperately. Lytton,
India??'s fianc??, will stop at nothing to marry India and gain her
family??'s fortune. Fractious criminal underlings and rivals
conspire against Sid. When Sid is finally betrayed by one of his
own, he must flee London to save his life. Mistakenly thinking him
dead, India, pregnant and desperate, marries Freddie to provide a
father for hers and Sid??'s child. India and Sid must each make a
terrible sacrifice???a sacrifice that will change them both
forever. One that will lead them to other lives, and other
places???and perhaps???one distant, bittersweet day???back to each
other.
When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the
morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be about
reuniting with handsome Prince Mahdi, her childhood crush. Instead
she finds herself haunted by strange dreams foretelling the return
of an ancient evil, and dealing with the deaths of her parents as
assassins storm the betrothal ceremony, plunging the city into
chaos. Led only by her shadowy dreams and pursued by the invading
army, Serafina and her best friend Neela embark on a quest to
avenge her parents' death and prevent a war between the mer
nations. In the process they discover a plot that threatens their -
and our - world's very existence.
Six mermaids battle to save their hidden world. Leaders of a
resistance to the barbaric new regime, Serafina and Neela, are
working hard to destabilise Vallerio, the new ruler of Cerulea.
Becca, Ava and Ling are still hunting for their ancestors'
talismans; the keys to keeping an ancient evil locked in its icy
prison. Astrid finally returns home to Ondalina to find that all is
not as she left it, and a sinister human with empty, black eyes
offers her power she never dreamed of ... The third book in the
Waterfire Saga.
When mattie Gokey is given a bundle of letters to burn she fully
intends to execute the wishes of the giver, Grace Brown. When Grace
Brown is found drowned the next day in Big Moose Lake, Mattie finds
that it is not as easy to burn those letters as she had thought.
And, as she reads, a riveting story emerges - not only Grace
Brown's story but also Mattie's hopes and ambitions for the future
and her relationships with her friends and family. Published to
widespread acclaim this wonderful novel, part murder mystery and
part coming-of-age story, is an astounding and accomplished piece
of literature. The reviews say it all...
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Stepsister (Paperback)
Jennifer Donnelly
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Stepsister (Hardcover)
Jennifer Donnelly
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Six mermaids battle to save their hidden world. Serafina, Neela and
four others have successfully escaped Captain Traho and his men
after their hideout with the river witches was stormed. They must
stop an ancient evil from escaping its icy prison by finding six
talismans hidden by Serafina's ancestor hundreds of years before.
With all the Mer nations looking for them and no clue where to
start, will the mermaids find the talismans before the monster is
released? The second book in the Waterfire Saga.
Beautiful Sophie, with lips as red as blood, skin as pale as snow, and hair as dark as night, is about to come of age and inherit her father's throne. But Sophie's stepmother wants rid of her - beautiful she may be, but too weak and foolish to reign. And Sophie believes her, as she believes all the things that have been said about her - all the poisonous words people use to keep girls like her from becoming too powerful, too strong.
When the huntsman carries out his orders of killing Sophie, she finds a fire burning inside her that will not be extinguished, and sets off to reclaim what was taken from her.
Jennifer Donnelly turns her feminist eye to this most delicious of fairy tales and shows Snow White as she's never been seen before.
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Stepsister (Paperback)
Jennifer Donnelly
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'In an ancient city by the sea, three sisters - a maiden, a mother, and a crone - are drawing maps by candlelight. Sombre, with piercing grey eyes, they are the three Fates, and every map is a human life . . .'
Stepsister takes up where Cinderella's tale ends. We meet Isabelle, the younger of Cinderella's two stepsisters. Ella is considered beautiful; stepsister Isabelle is not. Isabelle is fearless, brave, and strong-willed. She fences better than any boy, and takes her stallion over jumps that grown men fear to attempt. It doesn't matter, though; these qualities are not valued in a girl. Others have determined what is beautiful, and Isabelle does not fit their definition. Isabelle must face down the demons that drove her cruel treatment of Ella, challenge her own fate and maybe even redefine the very notion of beauty . . .
Cinderella is about a girl who was bullied; Stepsister is about the bully. We all root for the victims, we want to see them triumph. But what about the bullies? Is there hope for them? Can a mean girl change? Can she find her own happily ever after?
It is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are
fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the
limits of endurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth.
Into this volatile time, Jennifer Donnelly places her vivid and
memorable characters, continuing the story of the Finnegan family.
With fabulous period detail, myriad twists and turns, and thrilling
cliff-hangers, The Wild Rose is the highly satisfying conclusion to
an unforgettable trilogy that began with The Tea Rose and continued
with The Winter Rose-and an utterly captivating read in its own
right.
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Poisoned (Hardcover)
Jennifer Donnelly
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R432
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A wealthy family. A deadly secret. A young woman with more to lose
than she knows. Josephine Montfort is from one of New York's
oldest, most respected, and wealthiest families. Like most well-off
girls of the Gilded Age, her future looks set - after a finishing
school education, she will be favourably married off to a handsome
gentleman, after which she'll want for nothing. But Jo has other
dreams and desires that make her long for a very different kind of
future. She wants a more meaningful and exciting life: she wants to
be an investigative journalist like her heroine Nellie Bly. But
when Jo's father is found dead in his study after an alleged
accident, her life becomes far more exciting than even Jo would
wish. Unable to accept that her father could have been so careless,
she begins to investigate his death with the help of a young
reporter, Eddie Gallagher. It quickly becomes clear he was
murdered, and in their race against time to discover the culprit
and his motive, Jo and Eddie find themselves not only battling dark
characters on the violent and gritty streets of New York, but also
their growing feelings for each other.
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The Tea Rose (Paperback)
Jennifer Donnelly
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Following in the footsteps of such beloved epics as "A Woman of
Substance," "The Thornbirds," and "The Shell Seekers" comes this
towering story of murder and revenge, of love lost and won again,
and of one determined woman's quest to survive and triumph...
The Tea Rose
East London, 1888-a city apart. A place of shadow and light where
thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the
cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright
hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of
the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own
a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a
costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to
spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to
achieve their dreams.
But Fiona's life is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal
man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear.
Fearing her own death, she is forced to flee London for New York.
There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West
Side shop-front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. But Fiona's
old ghosts do not rest quietly, and to silence them, she must
venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly
confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future.
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"Full of warmth and rich period detail, "The Tea Rose" begs for a
comfy, overstuffed chair and plenty of time to keep turning those
pages." "-Dallas Morning News"
"Steeped in melodrama, revenge, and a maddeningly star-crossed
romance...a fine yarn." -"People"
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The Wild Rose (Hardcover)
Jennifer Donnelly
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The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga
that began with The Tea Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It
is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are
fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the
limits ofendurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth.
Into this volatile time, Jennifer Donnelly places her vivid and
memorable characters: Willa Alden, a passionate mountain climber
who lost her leg while summiting Kilimanjaro with Seamus Finnegan,
and who will never forgive him for saving her life; Seamus
Finnegan, a polar explorer who tries to forget Willa as he marries
a beautiful young schoolteacher back home in England; Max von
Brandt, a handsome German sophisticate who courts high society
women, but has a secret agenda in wartime London. Many other
beloved characters from The Winter Rose continue their adventures
in The Wild Rose as well. With myriad twists and turns, thrilling
cliffhangers, and fabulous period detail and atmosphere, The Wild
Rose provides a highly satisfying conclusion to an unforgettable
trilogy.
Enjoy the ride: 600-plus pages of romance, harrowing exploits,
cinematic backdrops, cliff-hangers, and plot twists - Publishers
Weekly It is 1914 and World War I looms over Europe. In London
Seamus Finnegan - a famous polar explorer - considers settling down
and taking up a prestigious position with the Royal Geographical
Society. Unfortunately, despite many eager women around him, no one
is able to soothe the pain left in his heart by Willa Alden, a
childhood sweetheart and fellow traveller, who after an accident on
mount Kilimanjaro, disappeared into the Himalayan wilderness,
refusing to see Seamus ever again. Seamus' family and friends doubt
that he will be able to restrain his hunger for adventure and
settle into the society life again, but just as he is to sign up
for another mission in Antarctica he meets Jennie Wilcott, a
beautiful and spirited young teacher. The passion that sparks
between them is more than a mere fling and Seamus begins to believe
that he could be happy in this new life with a steady job and a
cosy home to come back to. But is this newly found happiness just a
trick of his heart? Will his feelings for Jennie survive Willa's
unexpected return to London to attend her father's funeral? Just as
the moral and emotional dilemmas caused by Willa's reappearance
begin to devour Seamus' short-lived bliss, war erupts, allowing him
to escape the torments of his soul in the name of fighting for his
country. But in a world ploughed by war, the past keeps resurfacing
in the least expected places ... The Wild Rose, first published in
2011, is the last part of the acclaimed multi-generational saga by
Jennifer Donnelly that began with The Tea Rose. Set against the
turmoil of World War I and filled with thrilling twists and
cliff-hangers The Wild Rose is a satisfying conclusion to an
unforgettable trilogy.
The best history/social studies classes are those in which students
act as historians, political scientists, and economists. The best
teachers are those who model "discipline-specific expertise." There
is an effective formula for achieving the Common Core State
Standards' goal of college and career readiness in history/social
studies: *Establish the foundation for future academic work,
subject area knowledge and skill development *Take deliberate
advantage of students prior knowledge of those topics taught
multiple times from elementary school through high school *Increase
the complexity of reading materials in these subjects as they are
covered in subsequent courses *Develop a multi-year plan to
vertically spiral writing and speaking skills towards producing
work that demonstrates thinking commensurate with college and
career readiness This resource book is intended for both new and
experienced teachers. School-site departments and district
curriculum specialists will find this book useful. In addition,
this book will be an excellent supplement for university methods
instructors interested in helping their student teachers meet the
goals of the Common Core State Standards.
The best history/social studies classes are those in which students
act as historians, political scientists, and economists. The best
teachers are those who model "discipline-specific expertise." There
is an effective formula for achieving the Common Core State
Standards' goal of college and career readiness in history/social
studies: *Establish the foundation for future academic work,
subject area knowledge and skill development *Take deliberate
advantage of students prior knowledge of those topics taught
multiple times from elementary school through high school *Increase
the complexity of reading materials in these subjects as they are
covered in subsequent courses *Develop a multi-year plan to
vertically spiral writing and speaking skills towards producing
work that demonstrates thinking commensurate with college and
career readiness This resource book is intended for both new and
experienced teachers. School-site departments and district
curriculum specialists will find this book useful. In addition,
this book will be an excellent supplement for university methods
instructors interested in helping their student teachers meet the
goals of the Common Core State Standards.
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