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The story of Holly & Ivy
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43 editions published between 1958 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 2,777 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Orphaned Ivy finds her Christmas wish fulfilled with the help of a lonely couple and a doll named Holly
An episode of sparrows, a novel
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62 editions published between 1955 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,614 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The story of how two London slum children made a garden from a packet of cornflower seeds and how it changed the lives of rich and poor
In this house of Brede
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35 editions published between 1969 and 2013 in English and held by 2,510 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Set in England, this is a novel about a successful career woman in her forties who renounces the world to enter Brede monastery, a cloistered order of English Benedictine nuns and what happens to her thereafter
Two under the Indian sun
by Jon Godden
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37 editions published between 1966 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,226 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The Godden sisters "have written of five years in their early lives when they were sent back to India to escape the bombs of W.W.I. They recall their lives in the village and its environs in what is now East Pakistan." Library J
The dolls' house
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54 editions published between 1947 and 2013 in English and held by 2,057 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The activities, sorrows, and joys of a family of dolls living in an old doll house are related from the dolls' point of view
The greengage summer, a novel
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61 editions published between 1958 and 2013 in English and Italian and held by 2,040 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Five naive English children, thrown on their own in a French inn, find themselves surrounded by mysterious and violent activities
The battle of the Villa Fiorita
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38 editions published between 1963 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,006 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When their mother runs off with another man, young Caddie and Hugh journey from London to Italy to bring their mother home
The peacock spring
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38 editions published between 1975 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,977 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A novel about two English school girls, who are summoned from England to New Delhi by their diplomat father. Una, the older sister, meets a young man, and a secret love develops
China Court: the hours of a country house; a novel
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28 editions published between 1960 and 2013 in English and held by 1,964 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Modern love story, set in Cornwall and interwoven with the living past of five generations of the Quin family, and illustrative of life - as Chaucer says - as a "thinne subtil knittinge of thinges". A medieval book of hours plays a part in the plot
The river
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63 editions published between 1946 and 2014 in English and held by 1,731 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A girl in India growing into womanhood experiences the changes which the passage of time brings--birth and death, blindness and cruelty, love, retribution
Kingfishers catch fire : a novel
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58 editions published between 1953 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An English widow gets into trouble when she attempts to westernize natives in the vale of Kashmir
Five for sorrow, ten for joy
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18 editions published between 1979 and 2013 in English and held by 1,714 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In this new novel, the author returns to the theme of the religious life, and now moves to the world of the French Dominican Sisters of Béthanie, who work among the whores, drug addicts, and vagrants of the great cities. The heroine is Lise, an English girl who, after the liberation of Paris, falls into bad company and, after a period in one of Paris's smartest brothels, becomes a successful madam -- La Balafrée, the Scarred One
Prayers from the ark
by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
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14 editions published between 1962 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,698 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An illustrated collection of poems, each a prayer by one of the animals in Noah's ark
The diddakoi
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32 editions published between 1972 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,666 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Kizzy Lovell, a 7-year old gypsy, wanted no part of school because of the derisive cries of her schoolmates. When her Great-Great-Gran died, Kizzy would have been wholly alone except for Admiral Twist and Miss Brooke. Learning how to accept their kindness proves as great a trial as the persistent cruelties of her schoolgirl peers, and the learning is not all on Kizzy's side
Black narcissus
by Rumer Godden
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68 editions published between 1939 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,627 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Anglican Sisters are sent to a remote community in the Himalayas to establish a convent
Thursday's children
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16 editions published between 1984 and 2013 in English and held by 1,614 WorldCat member libraries worldwide As he tags along to his spoiled sister's ballet classes, Doone discovers and develops his own rare and special talents
Coromandel sea change
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25 editions published between 1991 and 2013 in English and held by 1,452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The Coromandel coast of southern India seems the ideal place for Mary and Blaise's honeymoon, but before long Mary begins to feel detached from her new husband and powerfully attracted to Krishnan, a local politician now in mortal danger
The mousewife
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25 editions published between 1951 and 2009 in English and Japanese and held by 1,393 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A house mouse who thinks there must be more to life than looking for food and caring for her family befriends a lonely, caged dove
The dark horse
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17 editions published between 1981 and 2014 in English and held by 1,315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The kitchen Madonna
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17 editions published between 1967 and 2004 in English and Swedish and held by 1,296 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A boy's efforts to create an icon to please the family's new maid helps him to make new friends and discover an artistic talent more
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Animals Authors, English Ballet dancing Bottome, Phyllis, British Catholics Catholic women Children Christmas stories Colonies in literature Country homes Country life Decolonization in literature Dollhouses Dolls England England--London English fiction English fiction--Women authors Families Fathers and daughters France Godden, Jon, Godden, Rumer, Great Britain Himalaya Mountains Homes Hotels Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin Grant, Imperialism in literature India India--Kolkata Intellectual life Italy Manners and customs Manning, Olivia Man-woman relationships Monastic and religious life of women Mother and child Noah's ark Novelists, English Nuns Orphans Religious fiction Romanies Sex role in literature Street children Villages Women Women and literature
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Alternative Names
Dixon, Margaret 1907-1998
Dixon, Margaret Rumer 1907-1998
Dixon, Margaret Rumer Haynes, 1907-1998
Dixon, Rumer Godden Haynes-.
Dixon, Rumer Godden Haynes-, 1907-1998
Foster, Margaret Rumer 1907-1998 Frueherer Name
Foster, Margaret Rumer Godden.
Foster, Margaret Rumer Godden, 1907-1998
Foster, Rumer Godden.
Foster, Rumer Godden, 1907-1998
Godden, Margaret R. 1907-1998
Godden, Margaret Rumer
Godden, Margaret Rumer, 1907-1998
Haynes Dixon, Margaret Rumer 1907-1998 Wirklicher Name
Haynes-Dixon, Rumer Godden.
Haynes-Dixon, Rumer Godden, 1907-1998
Rumer Godden, Margret 1907-1998
Rumer, Margaret 1907-1998 Frueherer Name
ゴッデン, R
ゴッデン, ルーマー
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German (14) Italian (4) Spanish (3) French (2) Swedish (2) Urdu (1) Japanese (1) Dutch (1) Covers
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