Clarie loved Paul. But when she left the mainland after her father’s dead, Paul dropped her -- for another girl. Clarie won’t go back to him now. She just wants to live with her mother and brother, on the island where she grew up, and leave...
Rosa Fleming flees to Bennett’s Island to escape her messy divorce. The island becomes much more than a refuge as she discovers community, love, and an inner strength upon its rocky shores. Will her newfound confidence come at the expense of her fl...
Completing Elisabeth Ogilvie’s Tide Trilogy, The Ebbing Tide follows Joanna Bennett as she works to keep the home fires of Bennett’s Island burning while the men of the island are off fighting in World War II. A handsome stranger shows up on the ...
The struggles, hardship, and joy of one woman's life on a Maine island are brought to life in this haunting and enduringly popular trilogy, the first three books of the Bennett's Island series. Elisabeth Ogilvie tells the story of Joanna Bennett and ...
"Are you a real live person or a doll? Do you have any insides or are you just beautiful outside?" April's problem has always been her beauty. Of course people find that hard to believe, but April says: "When I'm quiet, they say I think I'm too good...
Scotland isn’t quite what Mary Kate expected when she first heard she’d be spending the summer there with her father. Her new friends are so different especially Robin. Mary Kate doesn’t know whether to feel bewildered by him or tender toward h...
A dream come true! Val and Alix learn their family is heir to an unusual fortune -- half an island off the coast of Maine! The girls are enchanted by the island, but frightening things happen there. They hear the eerie howls of dogs…but there ar...
Diana may have flunked all her classes but she had fun doing it. And now she’s got an exciting summer planned. But Diana’s mother has plans of her own. She ships Diana off to a broken-down farm to be tutored by an old friend. Diana is prepared fo...
The long-awaited new volume in Elisabeth Ogilvie's series of Bennett's Island novels rejoins Joanna Sorensen's family during the Vietnam era.It is a time when Joanna, her husband, Nils, and several of her brothers have settled and raised their famili...
A Dream and An Awakening Joanna Bennett had come home again. Proud and strong-willed, she had returned to deserted, sun-bleached Bennett Island with her husband, Nils, determined to restore the island community she had known as a child. It looked ...
Jennie and Alick Glenroy arrived in Maine with nothing, not even their names, starting anew in a different land, leaving the turmoil and violence of Scotland behind them. Almost twenty years later, the "Godless Glenroys" are a prosperous, though some...
Vanessa Barton feels caged in her marriage and trapped by life in the small community of Bennett’s Island. She blindly yearns for something, but doesn’t know what, until Owen Bennett walks into her life. He inspires her passion, self-discovery an...
No modern author can surpass Elisabeth Ogilvie in bringing a Maine island fishing community vividly to life. In the Bennett's Island series she brings us into the lives of the island families: clannish, resourceful, independent, and no better than th...
Bellwood seemed too good to be true when lovely Caroline Brewster took up her post as governess at the isolated mansion on the great cliff overlooking the sea. Caroline was sure she could help the proud and lonely master, Rees Morgan, forget the horr...
Although she realizes that some terrible problem is bothering her husband, Astrid Prince is sure their loving and stable marriage can weather any storm--until Graham announces he is running away with the babysitter...
The first book in the Lover’s Trilogy, The Dawning of the Day follows war widow Philippa Marshall as she carves a life out for herself as a school teacher on rugged Bennett’s island. Underneath the sleepy exterior of the island, Philippa discover...
In Brierbrae, Nova Scotia, while an attractive young woman works on the genealogy of a Scottish clan descended from the first Earl of Strathcorran, a series of near-fatal attacks are made against various male members of the clan...
This monograph details the background, genesis, impact and abrogation of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution which, in November 1975, had equated Zionism with racism. Chapters two to eight focus on the United Nations General Assembly's res...
Jennie Hawthorne, a young, orphaned bride, is whisked off to Scotland by her bridegroom, and soon sees cracks forming in their fairytale marriage. Her husband's actions put him at odds with her moral code, and when she acts according to her convictio...
Two girls, brought up as sisters on the Maine coast by a cruel stepmother and dominating father, are drawn into violence and mayhem as they try to establish their parentage and claim a substantial inheritance...
When a stranger buys property on Bennett's Island and drops anchor there in an expensive lobster boat, the locals are suspicious, in this eighth volume of the series. Day-to-day life goes on, but dark undercurrents begin to bubble in these chilly Mai...
For nine years Shane Mannering had been the center of her existence - all the lover, all the friend Alix had ever dreamed of. In a way she and Shane lived for their summers - the summers they spent on Tiree, their island home off the Maine coast, whe...
When Thora and Lyle Ritchie married - at sixteen and seventeen - they knew just what they were doing. They were very much in love and wanted to shelter each other from a nasty world. They married and grew up; but in growing up they grew apart. As ...
From the Springs of Sorrow At least at the Shallows -- the beloved family home on Maine’s rugged, windswept Cap Silver -- Mirabell could begin to forget that in just a few short weeks she had been cheated of both her job and her beau. Besides, B...
At 27, Miriam Gould leads a life a good many people would envy. She is a successful editor of books for young people at a New York publishing house. She has her own apartment with a wood-burning fireplace. She has the delightful Mike Andric eager to ...
A sleepy summer island off the Maine coast - "Elisabeth Ogilvie country" to an ever wider reading public - becomes the scene of baffling and terrifying events when Craig Atwood, after a mysterious eight-year absence, suddenly returns to his w...
When Jennie Gilchrist fled from the Scottish Estate of Linnmore during the fiery violence of the infamous Highland Clearances, she planned to make her way to her sisters in England, but instead she found herself sailing on the brig Paul Revere, bound...