Books with author Heather Hill

"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." - The Washington Post A spellbinding story about two gifted orphans - in love with each other since they can remember - whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future. The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. In a landscape like this, it takes great creative gifts to thwart one's origins. It might also take true love. Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1914. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city's underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes - after years of searching and desperate poverty - the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they'll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. Soon, Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls have hit New York, commanding the stage as well as the alleys, and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever look the same. With her musical language and extravagantly realized world, Heather O'Neill enchants us with a novel so magical there is no escaping its spell.

The acclaimed Women’s Hall of Fame series continues with profiles of ten women wordsmiths who made history in their own uniquely creative ways. From L.M. Montgomery and George Eliot to Margaret Atwood and J.K. Rowling, Ball covers a wide range of both time periods and styles. Remarkable Women Writers inspires even reluctant scribes to pick up a pen or sit down at a keyboard and put their experiences into words.

A Girl's Magic is an empowering approach to educating girls about their bodies. It helps open those tough conversations with symbolism, colorful images, and poetry that allow daughters to gain a deeper understanding of what it is to be a girl. This book assists parents to prepare daughters for physical changes, teach about menstruation from an age-appropriate, creative perspective, inspire confidence about natural bodily development and empower girls to feel magical.Embracing and celebrating a girl's physical changes as a rite of passage imparts self-love, self-acceptance, and self-esteem during her formative years. These values build confidence, empowering and preparing girls at a young age to be ready for what's ahead!This book answers many parents' question, "But how do I tell her about the other stuff?" Teaching young girls about reproductive anatomy is far different from teaching them about the many other changes that occur. A Girl's Magic is packed with information that will help parents give a fresh perspective on sex education.

This book features a selection of politically-active, inspiring women who have made important contributions to music history. Their stories begin in the mid-18th Century with Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart, a gifted German composer whose abilities were obscured by the popularity of her younger brother Wolfgang. They end in present with popular female figures like Joni Mitchell, legendary Canadian singer/songwriter, and Vanessa Mae, a non-traditional violinist from Singapore.

A Girl's Magic is an empowering approach to educating girls about their bodies. It helps open those tough conversations with symbolism, colorful images, and poetry that allow daughters to gain a deeper understanding of what it is to be a girl. This book assists parents to prepare daughters for physical changes, teach about menstruation from an age-appropriate, creative perspective, inspire confidence about natural bodily development and empower girls to feel magical.Embracing and celebrating a girl's physical changes as a rite of passage imparts self-love, self-acceptance, and self-esteem during her formative years. These values build confidence, empowering and preparing girls at a young age to be ready for what's ahead!This book answers many parents' question, "But how do I tell her about the other stuff?" Teaching young girls about reproductive anatomy is far different from teaching them about the many other changes that occur. A Girl's Magic is packed with information that will help parents give a fresh perspective on sex education.

An elephant named Morgan and his friend Lenny love to play in the sun and sip ice cold lemonade. One day, a particularly energetic game of badminton gets them a little too sweaty, so they pack in the fun and go home to sip their lemonade and lie in the shade. But suddenly, Morgan realizes he lost his shoes! Morgan and his friend Lenny go on a quest to find the missing runners. Along the way, they gather clues, play games, problem solve and make new friends. In addition to helping Morgan find his shoes, readers can search for objects, bugs, birds and small animals on each page of this book.