Books with author Elisa Peters

Readers are introduced to the wonders of the universe with this basic astronomy series. They will learn how long it takes for Earth to travel around the Sun and what the Moon is really made of. Each book includes stunning photos and features text written specifically for beginning readers. Photo glossaries, tables of contents, indexes, and websites that link to more information about the universe make these books a perfect introduction to the conventions of the nonfiction book.

Seventeen year old Hannah Brown has a mundane life. She is fed up ofplaying gooseberry to her best friend, Stephanie and her boyfriend.She has an annoying little sister who won’t stop reading her preciousdiary and an overbearing mother. Walking home alone one night after anargument with Stephanie, Hannah is involved in an accident that willchange her life forever. With an angel as her guide she finds truelove in an unlikely place and discovers the shocking identity of theperson who left her to die. But will she get the happy ending she isso scared of jeopardising?The Hannah Brown Diaries - Ghost is a teen romance with a paranormaltwist. It is the first book of three in this young adult series and isthe debut novel of Eliza Peters.

'Shed here no tears. No Saint could die more blessed and comforted than I' read the epitaph composed by Jan and Morwenna Treverra before their quiet deaths centuries ago. But the pious portrait of content they conjured fragments when permission is granted for their tombs to be opened - and an all too twentieth century corpse is found within. A Detective Inspector George Felse mystery.

1988 Futura MASS MARKET PAPERBACK, British import, Ellis Peters (The Devil's Novice: The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael). While on a seaside vacation in Cornwall with his son, Dominic, Detective Inspector George Felse can't help but investigate a dark mystery of smuggling, missing bodies, and murder. Jan Treverra was a legendary Cornish poet and smuggler who died two centuries ago. But when local scholar Simon Towne arranges to open Treverra's grave in search of his long-lost literary legacy, the tomb yields two dead bodies . . . and neither one is the body of Jan Treverra. In this derelict seashore graveyard, Felse uncovers a trail of violence in Maymouth's history that casts shadows centuries long. - Amazon

In a derelict seashore graveyard a mystery unfolds, a trail of violence in Maymouth's history which casts long shadows. Permission is granted to open the tombs of a loving couple, Jan and Morwenna Treverra, buried centuries ago and given touching epitaphs. But there are recent remains in there - buried long after the couple died - and the whole community, young and old, is involved in this case.

Presenting concise overviews of artists and movements that are uniquely American, these volumes distill the essence of their subjects with authoritative texts and lavish illustrations.James McNeill Whistler was a rebel, dandy, wit, eccentric, and above all, an extraordinary artist. Here is a stunning visual portrait that traces the artist's career from early works to late, minimalist paintings.