LIBROS DEL AUTOR: helen parramore

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  • The Butler Did It Every Chance He Got
    Helen Parramore
    In 1906 two carriages arrive at Oddsen End, the estate of Lord and Lady Pilkington, each bearing an orphaned infant girl. In the first, Houndstooth, the butler, arrives with Pandora, daughter of the Pilkington’s oldest son. Her parents died in Africa. In the second is Lady Pilkington with Minnie, from a convent in Bavaria, to be a companion for Pandora. The tiny infants bear st...
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    13,30 €

  • Brian’s Bird Book
    Helen Parramore
    When my children were small we had a bird book to help learn the names of the birds lived around our house. My son Brian was five when he sat down one day with a yellow pad and made his own bird book. He couldn’t write, so he brought it to me and told me exactly what to write on each page of his book. I prized the book, and many years later I used his drawings as a guide fo...
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    14,15 €

  • The Frigments of Fern Valley
    Helen Parramore
    Charles, 7, and Victoria, 9 , are sent to spend the summer with Aunt Emily Amelia on a farm in New England. They spend most days playing in the woods. They build a little village.and Charles adds toy soldiers, Indians and cars. Victoria models little women from clay. One night a terrible thunderstorm rages and the children fear their village will be ruined. However, they discov...
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    8,84 €

  • Maudie’s Promise
    Helen Parramore
    Northwest Florida, the part they call “the panhandle,” was unsettled country in the late 1800s. The government granted forty acres of land to families who were willing to move into the area, clear land and settle there. Maude Basford was a girl who lived on one of these frontier farms around 1910. She and her brothers and sisters had some schooling, but also had to learn to ...
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    22,36 €

  • Skunk Stew
    Helen Parramore
    Sissy, the narrator of this haunting family drama, was eight when her father committed suicide. The family hid its shame and never talked about his death, especially to the children, who were more involved than anyone knew. As Sissy matured, she struggled with phobias, nightmares, and recurring dreams. Slowly she came to realize she had played a part in his death, but could n...
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    12,60 €

  • Maiden Voyage
    Helen Parramore
    Helen Johnson’s life abruptly ends when her youngest son enters college and her husband leaves her for another woman. As her rage and heartbreak diminish, she forms a new vision of life based on her Greek heritage, her artistic skill, and money from the sale of her house. Reclaiming her maiden name, Eleni Pappas, she enrolls in a course for archaeological illustration in Athens...
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    12,62 €