Lawana Blackwell
Author
Series
Gresham chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Description
Book 3 in The Gresham Chronicles. A schoolmistress who may have a handsome dowry is used by an archaeologist to help him win the heart of a local writer. Romance blossoms, but in the most unlikely places.
Author
Series
Gresham chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
Description
Can the young man who once broke her heart be trusted again with her love? Love is in the air. You will sense it as soon as you arrive in Gresham. As the wedding of Julia Hollis and Vicar Andrew Phelps approaches, the quaint English village is caught up in a stir of excitement and the promise of an event to remember. Andrew's daughter Elizabeth is being courted by a handsome young curate. But while she is considering his offer of marriage, the man...
Author
Series
Gresham chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
Description
Book 1 in The Gresham Chronicles. A young widow determines to overcome her great loss, then discovers unforgettable characters and romance in a quaint English village in the late 1860s. Julia Hollis had enjoyed an easy life in her London townhouse, with servants to attend her every need and a nanny to help raise her three children. But when her husband passes away, she is told by his bankers that he gambled away their fortune, and that the only remaining...
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In difficult circumstances, Charlotte Ward, once a famed stage actress, tries to restart her career--only to experience disaster. Her estranged daughter, Rosalind, comes to the rescue and moves her mother to a quiet English coastal village. Charlotte is grateful to get to know Rosalind after years apart. As one who has regrets about her own romantic past, it's a joy for Charlotte to see love blossom for her daughter. For Rosalind, however it's time...
Author
Series
Gresham chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
When Andrew Phelps becomes ill and requires his son's skills as a surgeon, and his daughter Aleda's quest for privacy advances an evil man's schemes, Gresham newcomer Jewel Libby becomes an unexpected source of strength and support for the family.
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 2
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Eighteen-year-old Catherine Rayborn is thrilled with her first taste of independence when she begins Girton College in Cambridge in 1880. Amid all the excitement, however, comes the painful realization of the vast difference between true love and shallow infatuation. Lawana Blackwell skillfully endears a cast of loveable characters to readers in a story that will linger long after the last page is turned.
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 1
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Formats
Description
An orphanage in the slums of London is the only home Sarah Matthews has ever known. When she is suddenly whisked away to a wealthy widow's home in the prestigious Mayfair district, Sarah can't fathom what has happened. Why would this elderly woman, a stranger, want her company? But Dorothea Blake has reasons she isn't revealing. As Sarah blossoms into a young woman, the secret Mrs. Blake harbors threatens to make them both outcasts among London's...
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 1
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 2
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 23
Description
A young Victorian woman seeks to fulfill the yearning in her heart.
Author
Series
Gresham chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
Description
Widow Julia Hollis leaves London with her three children to run the Larkspur Inn in Gresham.
Author
Series
Gresham chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27