Jenny Twist

In 1936 six young men left England to fight against the fascists in Spain. Only one came home. He left behind the love of his life and his precious mandolin. Then came the letter . . .the letter that changed everything. This is the story of how Nick returned to Franco's Spain on the brink of the outbreak of WWII on a quest to rescue his lost love.

Lucy likes to stare at the wall. Her mother thinks she is suffering from petit mal but Granny McCurdle says, " Och, she's away wi' the fairies again." Nobody takes this literally until Lucy disappears. Her sister knows where she's gone, but who would believe her? Can she really be away with the fairies? A Lucy le gusta mirar a la pared. Su madre piensa que padece petit mal, pero la abuelita McCurdle suele decir Ay, ya est pensando en las hadas otra vez.Nadie se toma sus palabras en serio hasta que un d a Lucy desaparece. Su hermana sabe donde ha ido, pero qui n va a creerla? Es posible que Lucy se haya ido de verdad con las hadas?

It is 1960s England, when girls who got pregnant out of wedlock were kept in Mother and Baby Homes and their babies taken for adoption at six weeks old. Ginny is desperate to escape and to keep her baby but she's needs outside help. If only her friend Julia would answer her letter. En la d cada de 1960 en Inglaterra, cuando las j venes se quedaban embarazadas fuera del matrimonio se las reclu a en casas de acogida para madres gestantes y a las seis semanas de dar a luz sus beb s eran entregados en adopci n. Ginny est desesperada por escapar y poder quedarse con su beb , pero necesita ayuda del exterior. Ojal su amiga Julia contestara a su carta. The Children of Hope is the first of a series of dual language books from SHP. These books are intended as background reading for students of English and Spanish as a foreign language. We are intending to provide a wide range of genres to provide for all tastes in the interests of making learning languages fun. Hijos de la Esperanza es el primero de una serie de libros en dos idiomas de SHP. Los libros se han pensado para que sirvan de apoyo a estudiantes de ingl s y espa ol como lenguas extranjeras. Nuestro prop sito es proporcionar a los estudiantes una gran variedad de g neros que se adapten a sus gustos e intereses y que conviertan el aprendizaje de un idioma en algo divertido. Readers' Favorite 5 star review: The Children of Hope, written by Jenny Twist and translated by Alicia P rez Alarza, is a short story told in both English and Spanish solely as a dual purpose assignment. The realities told in this moving mini-saga are heart-wrenching. The narrative is tightly woven and easy to read. The Children of Hope is an excellent addition to school, church, and public libraries. Jenny Twist masterfully tells the story with grace and understanding on a subject often considered taboo.

Albert is terrified that his interfering niece will not only ruin his Christmas but take over his life. Luckily help is at hand.Mary and Joe get lost on their way to visit Mary's mum in Cornwall. Then Mary goes into labour earlier than expected, but just in time they find a village inn.Robert is stuck in a nursing home for Christmas and he is not happy. The food is awful and there is nothing for him to do - until he meets an unexpected ally.Jamey only wants one thing for Christmas. He wants his Daddy to come home. But first he has to kill the alien.Jim Durrant, university don at Oxford, is trapped in the memory of his lost, beloved wife. When his family comes to stay with him for Christmas, he and his grandson write their letters to Santa Claus and Jim asks for the impossible - the return of his dead love.Fred Barlow is a happy man. He has everything he wants in life. Well, except for maybe just one thing . . .Six heart-warming Christmas stories with a gift for you at the end. Well, what would Christmas be without a ghost story?

When Richard sleeps he dreams he is living a different life. One in which he is married to a woman with dark blonde hair. Only it doesn't feel like a dream. It is beginning to feel more real than his waking life. Meanwhile, in a hospital on the other side of town, a young woman with dark blonde hair is lying in a coma and the doctors are considering switching off her life support.

A novel based on the von D niken theory that the gods were spacemen. Set in the prehistoric Mesolithic age with the goddess Athena as a young girl and Prometheus, a young cave-dweller, as the main protagonists.The boy watched the star fall. It fell very slowly, and it was not one light but a multitude of lights spinning lazily through the night sky. Then great silver fish flew through the sky and other mysterious lights began to appear on the mountain. At last a great thunderbolt struck the ocean. The sound was flat and hollow and unbelievably loud, as if a giant had stamped on the earth. And the sign of the Goddess appeared in the sky - the sign of the Sacred Mushroom. These are the events that mark the arrival of the Atlantis, the doomed starship, bringing new gods who would change the life of the boy and his people forever.

When Christine wakes up in a sumptuous white room with silken hangings, she assumes she is in heaven. But she soon finds out that this is not heaven but some strange alternative version of her life. Who is the Christine who inhabits this other world? And how is she ever to get home?

Tilly wakes up in the dark, alone and very frightened. She finds she is in a strange room inexplicably furnished in 1940s style. However did she get here? Has she somehow slipped into the past? Has she been kidnapped? Of one thing she is absolutely certain, she has never seen this place in her life before. All in the Mind is a fascinating tale exploring the human capacity to overcome any obstacle, no matter how great, as long as you believe you can.Tilly is part of an experiment working on a cure for Alzheimer's disease. She and most of the other patients taking part in the experiment seem to make a full recovery, but there is a strange side effect. Tilly and her fellow experimental subjects appear to be getting younger.Can the same experiment be repeated for Tilly's beloved husband so that he can recover from a stroke? Tilly thinks it can and she will move heaven and earth to make sure it happens.A charming and thought-provoking story full of reminiscences of a bygone age, All in the Mind also deals with the dilemmas posed by new developments in a society whose culture is geared to the idea that the natural span of a human life is three-score years and ten.

. . .In the south of Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century, village people still believed in this particular fabulous beast. Sometimes they called it a mantequero, and sometimes a sacamantecas; it was a monster which looked like a man, but which lived in wild places and fed on human manteca or fat . . .Some people still do . . .This book is a compilation of the three Mantequero stories: Mantequero, Disappeared and Sins of the Father; with the addition of two new stories: The First Mantequero and The Last Mantequero.

When Angela turns up in a remote Spanish mountain village, she is so tall and so thin and so pale that everyone thinks she is a ghost or a fairy or the dreadful mantequero that comes in the night and sucks the fat from your bones. But Domingo knows better. "Soy Angela," she said to him when they met - "I am an angel." Only later did he realise that she was telling him her name and by then it was too late and everyone knew her as Domingo's Angel. This is the story of their love affair. But it is also the story of the people of the tiny mountain village - the indomitable Rosalba - shopkeeper, doctor, midwife and wise woman, who makes it her business to know everything that goes on in the village; Guillermo, the mayor, whose delusions of grandeur are rooted in his impoverished childhood; and Salva the Baker, who risked his life and liberty to give bread to the starving children.The events in this story are based on the real experiences of the people of the White Villages in Southern Spain and their struggle to keep their communities alive through the years of war and the oppression of Franco's rule.

TAKE ONE AT BEDTIMENobody ever goes upstairs in Margaret's house. So what is making the strange thumping noises up there? And why is there a toy rabbit under the kitchen table?Margaret's Ghost is just one of a collection of short stories consisting mainly of horror and science fiction, ranging from a classic gothic tale - Jack Trevellyn - to the Wyndhamesque Victim of Fortune, and the modern Waiting for Daddy, with its spine-chilling twist. There is also the occasional excursion into romance with A Castle in Spain and Jess's Girl.But most of these tales take you to a place which is not quite as it seems.It's bedtime now. Time to go upstairs. Time to take a look. Just one look. WARNING: Do not exceed the stated dose.