L. M Montgomery

Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live. Oppressed by family and small-town prejudice, her apparently imminent death gives her the courage to assert herself and seek love.

The Sequel to the Classic Emily of New Moon Emily Byrd Starr must write-burns to write. She writes out her problems and pours out her dreams, spins stories and poems from flashes of insight. Writing sustained her through the loss of her father and sustains her now despite family disapproval. Though she's found a home at New Moon Farm with her aunts and cousin, and dear friends in quiet Blair Water, she knows she needs more if she's ever going to make...

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

The third and final book in Lucy M. Montgomery's "Emily" series of books, "Emily's Quest" was first published in 1927. At the outset of the novel we find a seventeen year old Emily having just graduated from high school as she faces the departure of one of her dearest childhood friends, Teddy Kent, who is preparing to leave for two years to study art. Emily aspires to be a writer but difficulties in getting her writing career going give her apprehension...

Follow the tangled web of relationships and emotions of the Dark and Penhallow families in this endearing classic, from the author of Anne of Green GablesAunt Becky's will is proving problematic. She has left the most precious of her possessions, an antique jug, to one of her beneficiaries-but has stipulated that the person may only be identified after a year has elapsed, once all of the family members have striven to live up to Aunt Becky's ideals....

Anne Shirley has enough to worry about, what with five children, another on the way, and a prolongued visit from insufferable Aunt Mary Maria, without the additional worry that her husband Gilbert does not love her any longer.

"Anne is marrying Gilbert Blythe! While she's deliriously happy to finally be with her version of Prince Charming, they'll be making a new home miles away, and she'll have to leave her beloved Avonlea. But Anne is always up for adventure, especially when she has Gilbert by her side"--Inside jacket.

Beth and Jean and three other girls at No. 16 Chestnut Terrace are spending a cheery Christmas together opening presents that came in the mail, since none could go home this year. Beth remarks that Miss Allen, an older woman resident of the boarding house, is apparently alone this year. Though Miss Allen is not widely liked by the girls, they agree that no one should have to spend Christmas alone. Thus, a Christmas Inspiration is born.

There's no place like home Do fairies really come for the dish of milk we leave them? Is Mrs. McClenahan really a witch? How is it possible to find a new baby in a bed of parsley? These are all questions Pat Gardiner wants to know. And it seems her Irish housekeeper, the incomparable Judy Plum, always has an answer... For Pat, there is no place more magical on earth than her home of Silver Bush, with its majestic birch trees and enchanting gardens....

Home is where the heart is At twenty years old, Pat Gardiner has never regretted staying at her beloved home of Silver Bush. She has the wild stories of housekeeper Judy Plum to amuse her, a countess to entertain, a cat named Bold-and-Bad to keep out of trouble, and her younger sister Rae to care for. But she does miss her friend "Jingle" Gordon, who's away at college. He's the only boy who ever truly understood her, and their little spot called "Happiness"...