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Eleanor H. Porter / Eleanor Hodgman Porter
Book List in Order: 17 titles
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Pollyanna Grows Up
- 1916
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Oringinally published in 1915, this book contains the classic novel 'Pollyanna Grows Up', the sequel to the 1912 novel 'Pollyanna', and will prove a itself a delightful read for any romantic. Many of the earliest books, particularly t...
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Cross Currents
- Oct-2011
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A delightful story about a little girl’s resilience and a mother’s unwavering love, from the beloved author of Pollyanna. Precocious Margaret Kendall has known nothing but love, wealth and privilege for the first five years of her life. A tragic ...
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The Road to Understanding
- Apr-2012
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How does being a lavishly spoiled child impact one's ability to function as an adult? It's an always-timely topic that Pollyanna author Eleanor H. Porter explores with insight and wit in the charming novel The Road to Understanding. As a boy, Burke D...
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The Turn of the Tide
- Apr-2012
- / General Fiction
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Like many impoverished children living in the slums of New York around the turn of the twentieth century, Margaret Kendall has faced more than her fair share of adversity in life. When a series of remarkable coincidences and events serve to reunite h...
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The Good Wife
- Feb-2021
- / Historical
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'Eleanor Porter is a major new voice in historical fiction.' Tim ClaytonWhere will her loyalty lead her?Once accused of witchcraft Martha Spicer is now free from the shadow of the gallows and lives a safe and happy life with her husband, Jacob. But w...
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Across the Years
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Dawn
A boy is sustained through the horror of coming blindness largely by the cheerfulness and self-composed poetry of Susan Betts, the neighbor's "hired girl." After he is totally blind and grown up, of course he falls hopelessly in love but wouldn't be ...
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Mary Marie
Though it was originally published almost a century ago, Eleanor H. Porter's novel Mary Marie tackles an issue that is as relevant as ever: divorce and its impact on the children in the family that has been torn asunder. Groundbreaking at the time of...
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Miss Billy
There is trouble in heaven as the healthy relationship between the protagonists face the tyranny of Kate, the elder sister. Dwelling on many hurdles of love-life, the work elucidates on how a bond grows stronger in the face of adversity. An engrossin...
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Miss Billy -- Married
The final entry in Eleanor H. Porter's charming Billy series about a young orphan who finds love and acceptance in the family of her late father's college friend, Miss Billy Married concludes the trilogy with an account of the heroine's first few yea...
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Miss Billy's Decision
The Second in Miss Billy Series, “Miss Billy’s Decision” is a heart warming tale of love and misunderstandings in love. Billy all grown up in this sequel, has to face adversaries in order to win the love of the man she desires. Written in brigh...
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Oh, Money! Money!
Stanley Fulton has neither wife nor child, and is concerned about the inheritance of his wealth on his death. He decides to test his closest relatives, his cousins, to see how they would handle a relatively small inheritance, with the hope that one o...
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The Tangled Threads
Readers young and old alike will delight in this collection of classic short stories from author Eleanor H. Porter, best known for her beloved novel Pollyanna. Each tale is simple enough for younger readers to understand, but laden with rich meaning ...
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The Briggs Sisters
When unexpected fame brings irritation and rebellion between The Briggs Siters, only the most unexpected of solutions can happily resolve their discord and restore peace. Here's a delightful short story from Eleanor H. Porter, best-selling author of ...
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Just David
If you have a soft spot for Eleanor H. Porter's beloved novel Pollyanna, you should definitely add Just David to your reading list. Written just a few years after Porter penned her best-known work, this emotionally resonant and uplifting tale mines m...
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The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch
The Reverend Thomas Wilson's sister, Miss Sophronia, had come to Sunbridge on a Tuesday evening late in June to make her brother's family a long-promised visit. But it was not until the next morning that she heard something that sent her to her siste...