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���������: A weight-losing recipe sends a portly Victorian housemaid literally sky-high. Mrs. Next-Door, the queen of copycats, drives her patient neighbour mad with rage; the tragic tale of the ghost of Fairacre; the touch-and-go romance of Elsie Parker.

���������: Gossip from thrush green returns readers to the delightful English village, neighbor to Fairacre, for a golden summer. But this sleepy, pristine setting conceals a flurry of activity amongst the villagers. Rumor has it that Mr. Venables is considering retirement just as the village's teacher is about to make an important decision. Molly Curdle prepares for a new baby. The kindly vicar, Charles Henstock, works on his sermon -- quite unaware of the disaster that will overtake him. However, there is never any doubt that all will end well in this very English village.

���������: The first day of the summer holidays should be one of unmitigated rapture for school teachers. Unfortunately for Miss Read, the village school had scarcely closed its heavy doors before she plummeted down her own staircase and found herself in Mrs Pringle's embrace with a broken arm and a damaged ankle. Fairacre rallied to her aid, but it wa her old friend Amy who took charge and removed her to her own home at Bent, south of Caxley. Furthermore, she insisted on taking her battered friend on holiday with her to the idyllic island of Crete. For Amy, quite as much as Miss Read, desperately needed a change. Her happiness was seriously threatened, for James, her husband, whose many peccadilloes she had been able to forgive in the past, now seemed set on a course of action which would mean the end of their marriage. The two women, so dissimilar but united in the strong bond of friendship, had time in that fortnight to assess the values of married, and of single, life. What they saw, how it affected them, and how they returned to solve their problems in their own familiar surroundings, and among their old friends, is told in this book.

���������: Miss Quinn liked being left to her own devices - especially at Christmas. So it was with some foreboding that she agreed to look after her brother's three young children while his wife was in hospital. However, Miss Quinn soon finds her stern sense of duty undermined by the preparations for Christmas, the infectious enthusiasm of the children and the unexpected arrival of an old flame. The serenity of "Miss Read's" books, strengthened by a sturdy sense of reality, defies imitation.

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���������: Despairedof by their families, they had survived against all odds a plane crash and ten long weeks of endurance in the icy, desolate wastes of the Andes mountains.

���������: Este es el segundo libro de una serie dirigida principalmente a estudiantes de Econom�a, cuya primera lengua es el castellano, que necesitan manejar bibliograf�a en ingl�s.Los autores, por su dilatada experiencia docente en el �rea, est�n familiarizados con las necesidades de los estudiantes hispano-hablantes de econom�a y pretenden, con el Ingl�s para economistas II, satisfacer dichas necesidades y la iniciaci�n a la comprensi�n de la literatura econ�mica en ingl�s.

���������: The Dictionary of Gemmology rrepresents an attempt to bring together in one volume concise descriptions of the principal gem materials, as well as definitions of associated scientific terms and brief working explanations of the many types of gemmological instrument.

���������: A small English country community made immortal by Miss Read. Humour, charm - and charity - blend in these three novels, Village School, Village Diary and Storm in the Village, to make up a refreshingly acute and astringent view of life in the country.

���������: Miss Read's charming chronicles of small-town life have achieved an almost legendary popularity worldwide by offering a welcome return to a gentler time and "wit, humor, and wisdom in equal measure" (Cleveland Plain Dealer). This volume introduces Thrush Green, the neighboring village to Fairacre: its blackthorn bushes, thatch-roofed cottages, enchanting landscape, and jumble sales. Readers will delight in a new cast of characters and also welcome familiar faces as they become immersed in the village's turn of events on one pivotal day -- May Day. Before the day is over, life and love and perhaps eternity will touch the immemorial peace of the village.

���������: Feelings are running high in the normally sleepy village of Thrush Green. The rector s suggestion for the neglected churchyard; a clash of personalities at the school; and the village eccentric s return to the road after an absence of fifty years, all threaten to disturb the tranquillity of the Cotswold village.

���������: In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of speculation and interest.

���������: The Thrush Green cottage known as Tullivers has remained curiously unoccupied for many years. When Phil, an attractive young woman, and her young son move in after being deserted by husband and father, the village takes them under its collective wing. Harold Shoosmith arrives unannounced at their door with advice and help when Phil starts working in her wild garden. This help includes hooking her up with his best friend, a successful London publisher who prints her stories. When Phil's estranged husband dies in a car accident in France, her new freedom brings more changes to her life as well as a new love to the village.

���������: Miss Read's delightful chronicles of life in Thrush Green continue with RETURN TO THRUSH GREEN. It's spring again in the village, and with the change of the seasons comes change in the lives of many villagers. The Young family's tranquility is disrupted by the sudden arrival of Joan's father, while Molly and Ben Curdle consider putting an end to their wandering days in order to finally settle down. Even the reappearance of Sexton Albert Piggot -- one of Thrush Green's more malevolent sorts -- cannot dim the happiness that inevitably prevails at Thrush Green.

���������: The enchanting follow-up to Village School, Miss Read's beloved first novel, Village Diary once again transports us to the picturesque English village of Fairacre. Each chapter describes a month in the life of the village school's headmistress, Miss Read. As the villagers prepare for their country pageant, Fairacre welcomes many newcomers, such as the headstrong Amy, Mr. Mawne (whom the villagers would like to see the reluctant Miss Read marry), and the earnest new infants' teacher, Miss Jackson.

���������: For her new book, "Miss Read" has returned to Fairacre. In it she tells the story of Miss Clare's long life, most of it spent in teaching at the Fairacre school. Miss Clare looks back across six reigns and two world wars, in one of which she lost her lover. She surveys a quiet life which, for all its outward serenity, has much personal drama. Her rural lifetime spanned a social revolution in the countryside. We meet some old Fairacre friends as well as Dolly Clare's family -- Francis, her sturdy father , Mary, her valiant mother, and Ada, the flighty sister who everyone predicted would come to no good -- as well as the variety of original personalities to be found in a village like Beech Green.