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  • Tomato products
    A. E. Stevenson / W. D. Bigelow
    Tomato products: pulp, ketchup, and chili sauce, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books ...
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    15,98 €

  • Anna and Her Daughters
    D.E. Stevenson
    One day we had been well-off and secure; the old grey London house had been ’home’ and we imagined that our lives . . . would continue to run smoothly forever. The next day it was all gone.For Anna Harcourt and her three daughters-lovely Helen, who always gets what she wants, young Jane, who makes the best of what she has, and Rosalie, the middle daughter who wavers somewhere i...
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    14,33 €

  • The Musgraves
    D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    How old you can grow in three years! It is only a fraction of time but to Esther Musgrave it seemed longer than all the rest of her life put together. In three years she had become an entirely different person-or so she felt.Following the death of her beloved husband, Esther believes she will never be happy again. But soon, her 'natural buoyancy' and the problems and adventures...
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  • The Blue Sapphire
    D.E. Stevenson
    ’Surely you can sit on a seat for a few minutes without getting into conversation with a perfectly strange young man!’Julia smiled. ’It isn’t as easy as you seem to think.’While waiting in Kensington Gardens for her stuffy fiancé, Julia Harburn, at a loose end following the remarriage of her father, encounters Stephen Brett, a young mining engineer just back from Africa on exci...
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    14,18 €

  • Charlotte Fairlie
    D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    Yes, her job was the loneliest in the world. No king, no dictator set high upon a pinnacle, was as friendless as the headmistress of a girls’ school.Charlotte Fairlie loves her position at the illustrious St. Elizabeth’s, but it’s not without its challenges-first among them her trouble-making maths mistress Miss Pinkerton, who yearns for Charlotte’s job and spares no effort to ...
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    14,23 €

  • The Tall Stranger
    D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    Spring came slowly to Underwoods. It was the most beautiful spring Barbie had ever seen, for after lingering in the shadows so long she was in love with life . . .Barbie France has come home to Underwoods, the lovely Cotswolds house where she grew up, following a breakdown and a dreadful time in hospital. Barbie’s kind Aunt Amalie, her indomitable companion Miss Penney, and the...
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    14,34 €

  • Green Money
    D.E. Stevenson
    'Now, listen to me,' said Mr. Green earnestly. 'I’ve brought up my little girl as a girl should be brought up. I’ve sheltered her from the world. She’s uncontaminated by the modern ideas-uncontaminated. What d’you think of that?'Young George Ferrier’s frivolous jaunt in London ends with an unexpected encounter with wealthy Mr. Green, old friend of his father, who spontaneously ...
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    14,19 €

  • Kate Hardy
    D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    'Do you know anything about her, Richard?''Nothing except that she lives in London, is obviously well off and very impulsive. . . . She bought the house as if it were-a bun. She bought it straight off without seeing it.''She must be mad!'The arrival of novelist Kate Hardy at the lovely Dower House in Old Quinings, with her staunch ally and housekeeper Martha, has the whole vill...
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    14,38 €

  • The Fair Miss Fortune
    D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    'There’s something . . . I mean we simply must see Miss Fortune now. She isn’t in bed, is she?''No, she ain’t,' said Nannie grimly. 'She ought to be, but she ain’t, an’ you shall see ’er. Ho, yes you shall! Both of you shall see ’er before you’re any older.'The village of Dingleford is all aquiver with the arrival of lovely young Miss Fortune with plans to open a tea house. Cap...
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    14,35 €

  • Young Mrs. Savage
    D.E. Stevenson
    Sometimes she wished she could stick up a large notice saying: 'FOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT TOO MANY' . . .Raising four young children on her own in the years of postwar rationing, widowed Dinah tends to be the subject of sympathetic murmurs. But though she has little money, is perpetually tired, and remains haunted by unresolved issues from her troubled marriage, Dinah rejects all o...
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  • Five Windows
    D.E. Stevenson
    'Life is like looking out of a lot of different windows.'So says Malcolm, shepherd and boyhood friend of David Kirk, and the words linger in David’s mind as he reflects on his life so far. He recalls the window of his parents’ home in rural Scotland, where he acquires the moral code which will guide him and begins to realise his flair for writing. There’s the window of his uncl...
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    14,11 €

  • The English Air
    D.E. Stevenson
    'We must be very nice to him,' said Mrs. Braithwaite, looking up at her daughter with large blue eyes.'Nice to him!' echoed Miss Braithwaite in some surprise. 'Well, of course we’ll be nice to him. I mean, why shouldn’t we?'It’s the spring of 1938, the threat of war looms across England, and widowed, slightly dizzy Sophie Braithwaite and her daughter Wynne await the arrival of ...
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  • Vittoria Cottage
    Alexander McCall Smith / D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    Caroline opened the door and saw Mr. Shepperton standing on the step. “Oh, it’s you!” she exclaimed in surprise.“Did you—were you expecting someone else?” he asked.“Only the Queen,” replied Caroline, chuckling. “Don’t mind me,” she added. “I often go slightly mad.”Caroline Dering, a widow with three grown children, lives a cheerful, quiet life near the idyllic English village o...
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    13,51 €

  • Music in the Hills
    Alexander McCall Smith / D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    “I like Mureth,” declared Lady Shaw. “There’s something about Mureth.”“It does things to people,” Mamie agreed.Lady Shaw considered this. It sounded silly, but was it really silly. People said that Mamie Johnstone was a fool, and it was true that sometimes she said things that sounded foolish … but the things she did were wise.Mamie Johnstone, sister of Caroline Dering whom we ...
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    13,46 €

  • Winter and Rough Weather
    D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    “I’m not really worrying, but it’s very isolated. Boscath is like an island in some ways.”“I see what you mean,” nodded Jock.“And Rhoda isn’t used to islands.”James Dering and his new wife Rhoda are returning from their honeymoon, and Jock and Mamie Johnstone are delighted to welcome them to their new home on a neighbouring farm. But Mamie’s concern proves justified, and Rhoda,...
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    13,40 €

  • Smouldering Fire
    D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    Iain stood for a few minutes on the little bridge that crossed the burn and looked at the house—he felt that he had betrayed it. No people save his own had ever lived in the house, and now he had sold it into slavery. For three months it would shelter strangers beneath its roof, for three months it would not belong to him.Despite his passionate love for Ardfalloch, Iain has bee...
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    12,21 €

  • Mrs. Tim Gets a Job
    D.E. Stevenson
    Miss Clutterbuck would like me to run the bar—no, it can’t be that—run the car, which has seen its best days but is still useful for shopping. Grace has told her I am patient and tactful, so (as she herself is neither the one nor the other) she thinks I am the right person to look after the social side.With husband Tim stationed in Egypt and her children at boarding-school, Hes...
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    12,51 €

  • Spring Magic
    D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    Frances was free. She had enough money for her holiday, and when it was over she would find useful work. Her plans were vague, but she would have plenty of time to think things out when she got to Cairn. One thing only was certain—she was never going back to prison again.Young Frances Field arrives in a scenic coastal village in Scotland, having escaped her dreary life as an or...
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    12,24 €

  • Mrs. Tim Carries On
    D.E. Stevenson / D.EStevenson
    There is so much War News in News Bulletins, in Newspapers, and so much talk about the war that I do not intend to write about it in my diary. Indeed my diary is a sort of escape from the war . . . though it is almost impossible to escape from the anxieties which it brings.Bestselling author D.E. Stevenson’s charming fictional alter-ego, Hester Christie—or “Mrs. Tim” as she is ...
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    12,34 €

  • Mrs. Tim Flies Home
    Alexander McCall Smith / D.E. Stevenson
    Sometimes it is difficult to see clearly in what direction one’s duty lies (and especially difficult for people like myself with a husband in one part of the world and children in another) but Tim and I, talking it over together in cold blood, decided that I ought to go home.Hester Christie, the delightful heroine last met in Mrs. Tim Gets a Job, has spent a blissful 18 months ...
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    11,44 €

  • Moral Training In The Public Schools
    Charles E. Rugh / Charles ERugh / Edwin D. Starbuck / Edwin DStarbuck / Thomas P. Stevenson / Thomas PStevenson
    ''Moral Training In The Public Schools: The California Prize Essays'' is a book that features a collection of essays written by various authors on the topic of moral education in public schools. The essays were submitted as entries for a prize competition held in California in the early 20th century, and were judged based on their relevance, practicality, and effectiveness in p...
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    30,24 €