Mary Williams

• Apr-1982
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The granite-faced mansion of Trenhawk looms over the young life of Adelaide Hawksley. Cruelly widowed in the Crimean War, she turns her back on London to claim her husband David's ancestral home on the storm-tossed Cornish moors. But Trenhawk has a r...

• Dec-1984
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• Jul-1987
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In this tale set in Cornwall in the early nineteenth century, Elfrida is as wild and beautiful as the moors on which she lives. It was there that she met Ben Curran. Determined to become a sculptor, Ben journeyed one day to a nearby fair with some o...

• Jan-1990
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In 1857 Garth de Verries returned to Cornwall to claim his inheritance, which included part of the Cornish moors dominated bythe Granite King, a landscape that spoke of bygone ages. Caroline Dorric had wandered the moors by her home since her childho...

• Apr-1991
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• Oct-1995
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• Oct-1996
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Joanna Morgan and her new stepfather hate each other on sight. But it is 1919 and the only way Joanna can escape is by marriage -- a marriage that her stepfather is determined to arrange...So Joanna, against her will, is sent to stay with distant rel...

• Jan-2005
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• Feb-2005
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"Spellbound Two", a sequel to Spellbound, the author's first published book is a delightful collection of short stories and poems that offer encouraging messages to help the youth of today deal with adversity. The tenacious characters inhabiting thes...

• May-2005
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Eight-year-old Garang is tending cattle far from his family's home in southern Sudan when war comes to his village. Frightened but unharmed, he returns to find everything has been destroyed.Soon Garang meets other boys whose villages have been att...

• Apr-2010
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"John never finished his book on whales. I never made it to Seattle. While there isn't any limit on the number of dreams you can have, apparently you only get to have so many come true." Berry Hatchett is having an ordinary day until John Blake board...

• Apr-2010
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Hazel was never my favorite dog. She never seemed to notice, though and she was friends with everyone. Her wagging tail and her tongue-lolling smile made it clear she was truly thankful to be near you. And, If she could have talked, I think she would...

• May-2010
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Sometimes change is good. Sometimes it's necessary. And, sometimes it is so frustratingly unpleasant that the only way to survive with a modicum of manners is to replace the horror with humor. In this collection of over fifty of her newspaper columns...

• Jul-2013
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Mary Williams once again presents an inimitable collection of ghost stories to bring a chill to the staunchest spine. Cornwall is again their setting, for Cornwall is as variable in its moods -- from the sinister and macabre to the fey and fanciful -...

• Jul-2013
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An amazing procession of ghosts walk through Mary Williams’s pages. Some of them are young, some old, some are sad, some funny -- some terrify. There is the elderly Cockey, the ex-Variety Queen, and the ghostly people who live upstairs and walk by ...

• Jul-2013
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In this collection of occult stories, the mysterious hinterland bordering life and death provides territory for a diversity of ghostly characters and uncanny experiences. Horror explodes with terrifying results. Sad disembodied spirits wander haunted...

• Jul-2013
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Miss Potts, the librarian, enjoyed her comfortable life in her cozy flat. She enjoyed it, that is, until her slippers developed an independent life of their own... With her usual flair for the extraordinary Mary Williams writes of the redoubtable ...

• Aug-2013
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• Dec-2013
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Valentina Hunter's parents think they've just hit the jackpot; when her mother invents a product that makes her family millionaires overnight, they buy a new house and new cars, and enroll their daughter in the ultra-exclusive Palm Lake private schoo...

• Mar-2014
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The year is 1905. Eighteen year old Kate Barrington is getting ready for a ball. She has fallen deeply in love with Jonathan Wentworth, heir to his uncle’s estate.But when she arrives, Jon’s attention is captivated by her frail but enigmatic cous...

• Jul-2016
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• Jul-2022
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Once upon a time, Santa Claus decided to modernize his old red sleigh. He and his elves had lots of ideas as to what the new sled needed. They added all kinds of things. On Christmas Eve, they had a problem. They figured out how to solve it, and soon...

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Julia Kerr has arrived at Port Todric in Cornwall to start life with her handsome husband, Stephen. The wedding has been a secret, for Julia's wealthy parents had forbidden her to associate with a mere district assistant. The young couple have run aw...

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In this collection of supernatural stories, ghosts and horror roam the realms of the occult, and romance hovers occasionally on the borderline. In some stories the fantastic holds undercurrents of terror, and sheer horror develops unexpectedly from c...

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When Mrs. Bacon moved into Green Chimneys, a cottage near a remote village in Cornwall, she welcomed the lush plants and vegetation that surrounded the house so protectively. But before long her body was found, covered by a confusion of stalks and tw...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

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MysteryLarge Print EditionAnother outstanding collection of ghost stories from Mary Williams, who is becoming a most popular and widely-read author in this genre. The wide variety of themes include the humorous, the mysterious, and the macabre. The t...

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Louise De Vallon was only sixteen when she met Tredeagle, a meeting under bizarre circumstances which was to dramatically change both their lives. With Tredeagle she comes to Caerngaro, the neglected old mansion on the Cornish cliffs, where she hoped...

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A young visitor to a remote Cornish house becomes aware of sinister undercurrents, hooded figures, and a fearsome ceremony as old as time... A young couple find the perfect country pub to run, but in the owners' rooms upstairs the scent of roses mask...

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Wild Heritage tells of one girl's determination to retain her Cornish home and lands which have deteriorated under her improvident father's neglect. Eventually she marries a wealthy American whose philanthropic plans she resents, but ultimately must ...