Josephine Bailey

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Private inquiry agent Lavinia Lake and her sometime-partner, Tobias March, investigate the murder of the young wife of an old friend and the theft of a priceless ancient bracelet that supposedly possesses mystical powers.

Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.

This is Mrs. Gaskell's last, and for many, her best novel. The heroine Molly Gibson passes from childhood to maturity in a process that, though often painful for her, is yet sharply and humorously observed. Set in a provincial English town in the early nineteenth century, the novel is a subtle representation of historical change explored in human terms. This edition draws on a full coalition of the manuscript to present the most accurate text so far...

Classic fiction. On the grounds of Misselthwaite, her Uncle Archibald's estate near the Yorkshire moors, nine-year-old Mary Lennox finds a walled-in garden that has been locked securely for years. With the help of Dickon Sowerby, a young local boy who can charm animals, Mary cultivates the garden, an experiences that both improves her health and raises her spirits. Ultimately, the secret garden proves beneficial not only to to Mary, but to her sickly...

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When Mary Lennox's parents die from cholera in India, the spoiled orphan is transplanted to her uncle's 600-year-old gloomy and secretive estate in England. She is certain that she is destined for misery at Misselthwaite Manor. When Mary meets the old groundskeeper, he is the first to tell her what he thinks of her: "We was wove out of th' same cloth. We're neither of us good lookin' an' we're both of us as sour as we look. We've got the same nasty...