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Gretchen, who is learning to be a witch, leaves home to study with Grizelda. There is trouble brewing - well, not so much brewing as quietly simmering on a low heat, looking innocent! Grizelda's crystal ball will only show a vague shape behind a thick red fog. Is it smoke from dragon fire? Could the shape be Wil, the stranger from a different world, who blunders in where others don't dare to? Whatever it is, Gretchen hopes she will be in the middle of any adventure that crops up, even though she hasn't passed Stage One of Witchery yet. But dark magic should never be stirred up- it gets indigestion and comes back with enough force to knock you off your feet!
The virus in Pete's computer hasn't been sent to crash it but to prepare it. His eighteenth birthday looms and he is about to discover that his genes are special - to the power of seven. The effect is magical, the stuff of myth and legend, but difficult to control and not welcome.
For fans of Jessica Day George and E. D. Baker comes a charming young fantasy about a girl, her grandmother, and an animal hospital devoted to fantastical creatures. Ivy's grandmother is a healer--to mostly four-legged patients of the forest. Although the woodland creatures love her, the residents of Broomsweep grumble about Grandmother's unkempt garden. When a kingdom-wide contest is announced to proclaim the tidiest town in the land, the people of Broomsweep are determined to win. That is, if they can get Ivy's grandmother to clean up her ways. Ivy is determined to lend a hand, but the task proves more challenging when a series of unexpected refugees descends on Grandmother's cottage. Before the week is over, an injured griffin, a dragon with a cold, and a tiny flock of temperamental pixies will cause a most untidy uproar in Broomsweep . . . and brighten Ivy's days in ways she never could have dreamed. Praise for The Cottage in the Woods "Charming and engaging. . . . Beautifully written." --School Library Journal, starred review "As rich with characters from folklore as it is full of heart." --The Wall Street Journal
'It is a real cause for celebration when the best and most subtle literary biography of our time comes back into print, and in a single volume instead of the original two. What Hilary Spurling does, in a beautifully-written book, is to relate the life [of Ivy Compton-Burnett] intimately to the work and show in fascinating details, and with wonderful perception, how her subject's characters mirror aspects of her own nature. The book sends one back to read or re-read the novels - unfashionable, toweringly original tragic-comedies - the most individual novels, it may be, of our time.' The Good Book Guide'Atrue classic of the genre.' The Times'A biographical triumph ... Hilary Spurling's portrait - elegant, stylist, witty, tender, immensely acute -dazzles and exhilarates.' Literary Review
Ivy Henderson moves to the small Montana town of Dewberry after the sudden death of her beloved aunt. She takes over the running of the Buttons and Bows store, her aunt's pride and joy.In her time of grief, all Ivy wants is to keep running the store the way her aunt would expect of her. Little did she know she would be required to participate in the upcoming annual Christmas Extravaganza, where she would have close contact with popular local solicitor, Jeremy Hycroft.He is the most sought after bachelor in town, but until now, no one has caught his eye. What starts out as friendship with Ivy doesn't quickly turn to much more, and Jeremy can't figure out why. After all, women usually flock to go out with him, don't they?Author's Promise: This is a heartwarming historical Christmas novella with a happily ever after ending and no cliffhangers. It is a clean and wholesome story with nothing more than hugs, kisses, and holding hands.
Ivy hat nach dem tragischen Tod ihres Mannes die Orientierung verloren. Der Vampir lteste Magnus bietet ihr eine neue Richtung - Arbeit als seine neue Assistentin. Ivy entscheidet sich spontan daf r, ohne zu wissen, worauf sie sich eigentlich eingelassen hat. Denn sein Leben, und das der anderen Vampir ltesten, wird von unbekannter Seite her bedroht.
Annesa, one of Grazia Deledda's most enigmatic and dramatic characters, battles with a guilt she suffers when her own strength tempts her to a crime that will save others who won't save themselves. Annesa has tragically attached herself to the tree of the Decherchi family, once noble but now dry-rotting on hard times. Her lover, Paulu Decherchi, compares her to a suffocating ivy clinging to the dead trunk.Distraught almost to the point of madness, Annesa finally cuts herself free from her adopted family. Escaping arrest for a wealthy relative's death -- and fleeing the men who dictate the laws that control the lives of women and the poor -- she imposes her own punishment of exile. But she will return to the impoverished Decherchis to complete her penance after she has purified her soul and found her own peace.Annesa's fate and destiny are co-joined to the wild Sardinian landscape, described in Ivy with a passion only hinted at in Deledda's other works. Its brooding and wild mountains scarred with haunted caves create an atmosphere weighed down by poverty, prejudice, and ill omen. Many consider Ivy to be Deledda's best work, surpassing even Elias Portolu and Reeds in the Wind (Canne al vento). Here she deeply probes the misguided but altruistic motivation of a woman totally dependent on others who lack her own moral fortitude. Deledda won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1926, writing fiction set in Sardinia, mining it deeply and evoking its people and their character. Ivy, Deledda's third novel, was originally published in 1908 in Italian as L'Edera and has never been previously published in English.First English translation. Introduction, notes, bibliography. 198 pages.
Ivy is a dark-haired beauty gifted with strength and kindness. Raised in the hills of Virginia, she's ushered farther south to the mountains of North Carolina to escape the ravages of war-leaving behind Seth, her fianc who is willing to give his life's blood for the Union cause. This sets up a series of life-impacting decisions when she meets Joseph, a strong-spirited farm boy, who joins the Southern cause, earning the name "Blue-Eyed Demon" for his courage in the Confederate Cavalry. Three lives are brought together in a war that is tearing the nation apart.
About a month ago, Ivy's twin sister, Kayla, and their best friends, Marie and Zack (Ivy's longtime secret love interest, had sent nasty texts to her phone, and had started a club on Facebook called "Ivy Sucks". Even though everyone had seen it, nobody had joined. Instead, the page received messages about how Ivy was awesome and that those three should be ashamed of themselves for starting a nasty page such as that. Even though Ivy had not known why her sister and best friends had done these awful things, she had a feeling that it was due out of jealousy.Even though her sister and best friends had come to their senses, taken the page down, and tried to get in touch with Ivy to apologize for everything, Ivy ignored them and wouldn't hear of it. That is how angry and hurt she was. Eventually, they had stopped trying to get in contact with her.Fast forward to today, Ivy is ready to forgive them, start over, but is appre-hensive about it. After all, the last thing she wants is to get hurt again.
Ivy, a teenager from a small town, longs to leave and pursue her dream of becoming a painter. But life isn't easy when you never know the right thing to say. After beginning a long-distance relationship with a kindred spirit, Ivy gets a glimpse of freedom too good to pass up. Only while trying to escape her troubles does she start to understand that while she can leave home, she can't run away from herself.
