‘Having adventures comes natural to some people,’ said Anne serenely. ‘You just have a gift for them or you haven’t.’ Five years ago, a skinny, unwanted orphan arrived at Avonlea without a friend in the world; now it would be impossible to imagine Green Gables without Anne. Her high spirits and warm heart have won her a family and friends who love her. But when Anne starts a new j…
‘All life lessons are not learned at college. Life teaches them everywhere.’ At eighteen years old, Anne is leaving Green Gables for university – her life’s dream. But her feeling are bittersweet: although excited to see the world, she is heartbroken to leave her home and everyone she loves. Before long she has made new friends – including handsome Roy Gardner, who seems to have…
‘Gilbert, I’m afraid I’m scandalously in love with you.’ Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe are at last engage, but still they are apart: for three years Gilbert will be away at medical school, while Anne has a new job as principal of Summerside High School. Absence couldn’t make their hearts any fonder, though, and they share all their love and news in letters. At Summerside, Anne…
‘They belonged to each other; and, no matter what life might hold for them, it could never alter that. Their happiness was in each other’s keeping and both were unafraid.’ There has never been a wedding at Green Gables – that is, until now. In the old orchard on a perfect sunny day, surrounded by their dearest friends, Anne Shirley and Gilbert Bythe are married last. The couple be…
‘It’s been lovely to be Anne of Green Gables again, but it’s a hundred times lovelier to come back and be Anne of Ingleside.’ There’s never a dull moment at Ingleside, Anne’s lively home: Anne is now the mother of five children – with a sixth baby on the way. But even with endless demands on her time, she couldn’t be happier and there’s nowhere in the world she’d rather b…
‘there was a little unfailing spring, always icy cold and crystal pure, in a certain birch-screened hollow of Rainbow Valley. Not a great many people knew of its existence. The manse and Ingleside children knew, of course …’ When the new minister, Reverend John Meredith, arrives at the manse, the village is scandalised by his children’s behaviour. He is the best preacher they’ve ev…
A sprawling look back at two centuries of motive power! Profilic rail historian and photographer Brian Solomon explores the stories behind two hundred years of world locomotive technology. From the first tentative steps into steam propulsion to today’s high-speed electric passenger trains, readers will witness dosens of railroading marvels hard at work in scenic setting around the world. Fro…
My name is a Apollo. I used to be a God. But that was before I was cast down from Olympus (a terrible misunderstanding) and woke up in a New York dumpster. I persuade Percy Jackson to give me a lift to Camp Half-Blood. But the place is in chaos. Demigods are going missing and the all-seeing Oracles have fallen to a mysterious enemy known only as ‘the Beast’. I figured that regainin…
A perilous quest to complete I must become a God again. I, the god Apollo – cast down to earth in the body of a gawky mortal teen – bravely endured a series of dangerous trials at Camp Half-Blood. Now, accompanied by Leo Valdez and the sorceress Calypso (also mortal, ha!), I must find the most dangerous Oracle from ancient times, who may hold the answers I need to return to Mount Olmp…