Rebecca Burns

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England.

Grayson Skovgaard, With God Under The Woodpile, is a modern day story of Job. It is the story of a young man who has everything, is betrayed by his father, and suffers unimaginable hardships. He works his way to a better life, with the help of new friends, family, and a dog named Pickles. Gray is aware that God is the most important player in his life, as life takes a winding road that he fears he will never get to the end of. Laugh, cry, and be gripped,...

That dandelion. A flash of stubborn yellow in a dark box of space. It had promised sunshine but had tasted sour. Artefacts. A dandelion. A mayfly. A family, bereft. Items and mementos of a life, lived hard and with love, or long, empty, bitter. In these sharply drawn and unflinching short stories, Rebecca Burns unpicks the connection between the lives we live and what we leave behind.

"Letters of a Woman Homesteader" is the fascinating true tale of life on the American frontier by Elinore Pruitt Stewart. First published in 1914, Stewart's work is a collection of 26 letters written by Stewart from 1909 to 1914 which follow her adventures in Wyoming. Born Elinore Pruitt in 1876 in Chickasaw Nation territory in modern day Oklahoma, her birth father died when she was very young and her mother and step-father both died when Stewart...

Seven-year old Sarah Crewe does indeed appear to be a princess, with every lovely possession a little girl could want, and dignity and graciousness too. While he travels abroad for his work, her father leaves her at Miss Minchin's Seminary. Suddenly, with the arrival of disastrous news about her father, Sarah's world changes completely. Fortunately, her sweet nature never deserts her and, despite her cruel treatment at the hands of Miss Minchin,...

Only the Wonderful Wizard of Oz can tell Dorothy how to get back to her home in Kansas. Only the Wizard can give the scarcrow the brains he wants so much. Only the Great Oz in the Emerald City can give the Tin Man a real heart and the Cowardly Lion the courage he longs for. So off they go--down the yellow-brick road, through the scary dark forest and the deadly poppy field -- from one magical, marvelous adventure to another. At last they come...

The first novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, America's queen of crime This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. So says Rachel Innes, the spinster in question and one of the most remarkable heroines in American...

Looking for adventure, an erstwhile medical student joins the crew of a yacht and finds himself adrift in a sea of murder Medical school left Leslie with a diploma, a new dress suit, and an incipient case of typhoid fever. While convalescing, he hatches a plan to postpone embarking on a career as a surgeon by launching instead on an epic voyage of adventure, mystery, and romance on the high seas. When Leslie signs up as a steward aboard the private...

Washington, D.C.-based attorney Lawrence Blakely has been asked by his partner to deliver some important documents to a client in Pittsburgh. In the course of his return trip, the occupant of the train berth opposite his - the lower ten, which Blakely was supposed to have taken - is savagely murdered. Was Blakely the intended victim, and did the crime have something to do with his briefcase full of vital evidence? When the murder weapon turns up underneath...

"In my criminal work, everything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise," declares Jack Knox, attorney at law and narrator of this sprightly mystery. Jack's cautiously chivalrous observation is prompted by the beauty and distress of his newest client, Margery Flemming. It seems that Margery's father, a crooked politician, has been missing for over a week. Unwilling to involve the police in her father's corrupt activities,...