Books with author Shirley Graves

Christmas is a special time of year for many people around the world. It is a time of good cheer and festive decorations. It is a time for gaily decorated Christmas trees and the smell of pine. It is also a time of hope and sharing with those far and near. Some even describe it as a time of miracles. For Clara, the cookie jar, the Christmas season is her favorite time of year. She looks forward to it every year. However this year, Clara needs to experience something else - her own Christmas miracle.

Friendship is a wonderful thing. Friends can come in all shapes and sizes and colors. Special friendships are really very special friendships. Freddy has many wonderful friends. He enjoys the time that he spends with the talking parrot. Freddy also enjoys his friendship with the ice cream vendor. However, Freddy has a special friendship with Wilbur, the bright red motorcycle. They enjoy the time that they spend with each other. Wilbur shares his special dream with Freddy about traveling to see many different things and places.

Hugs and Kisses is a warm, lighthearted story that appeals to all children. Hugs and kisses can be most welcome any time and in any place. They are great with a cookie and some milk. They are also wonderfully soothing for a bruised knee. Hugs and kisses are also great for scaring away scary nights. They are most welcome in the spring and summer as well as in the fall and winter. Hugs and Kisses is an endearing story that will also appeal to adults.

What Is...? is a story that children will love from start to finish. Children love to play guessing games and they are sure to find this to be great fun. It is a relaxing book that will pique the interest of children and adults as well. This book is great for a rainy day or any other time. What Is...? takes the reader on an interesting journey and it is a great page turner with a warm and amusing ending.

This is an entertaining story about childhood friendships that children will easily understand and enjoy reading. Friends are simply wonderful, whether old or new. All children love to laugh and run and play with friends. However, childhood friendships are special in all areas of life. It can be a special time with old and new friends. Some early friendships can form the basis for lasting friendships later in life. These friendships may endure regardless of separation in time and space. This is a thought provoking story about friendships that young children will easily understand and appreciate. It can be a relaxing bedtime story or for any other time.

Christmas is always an exciting time in Baxterville. A new event takes place, which makes it even more exciting. A special Christmas tree is to be chosen for this special event. Winston, one of the smaller trees, would like to be chosen. He decides to remain positive, in spite of ridicule and discouragement from some of the other trees. Winston believes that everyone and everything is special. This is a timeless and inspiring Christmas story with universal appeal.

This is a beautifully illustrated book that keeps children involved from the beginning until the end. Everyone wants to know the identity of the best SnuggleUpper. However, everyone will be kept in suspense throughout the book. It has a pleasantly surprising ending that will meet with the approval and delight of all children. The readers of the book will be amused and happy when the identity of the best SnuggleUpper is revealed.

The beautiful Marlowe twins, Marion and Dollie are in New York, living in a cheap boarding house and almost penniless. Marion had just found and rescued Dollie from the clutches of Professor Dabroski, the hypnotist, who had abducted her from her home in the country. In rescuing Dollie she had crossed swords with Emile Vorse, a fiend in the attire of a gentleman.Discovering who they are, their landlady tries to throw them out, but assistance arrives from an unexpected ally, who puts the landlady in her place. With her money returned the Marlow sisters and their new ally, Miss Allyn, depart Mrs Garvin’s shabby establishment.Ensconced in new rooms, the next day Dollie responds to an advertisement for a trainee typist and Marion wonders the city looking for work.Silas appears, as if from nowhere, and tells Dollie and Marion that he has bought the mortgage to their parents farm. He assumes that because Dollie’s reputation is somewhat tarnished, she would readily agree to marry him. He was wrong. With three months grace the sisters start laying plans to rescue their parents.But $9.00 is a long way from $500, especially in 1900’s New York. What adventures will the sisters plans lead them on and into in their attempt to earn enough to pay the $500 mortgage hanging over their parents’ lives without breaking the law?YESTERDAY’S BOOKS FOR TODAY’S CHARITIES10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity.=============KEYWORDS-TAGS: Marion Marlowe, Courage, New York, broke, penniless, , Allyn, answer, aunt, Bert, block, boarders, boarding-house, body, breasts, bum, Carlotta, city, companion, concert, country, diamond, dollars, Dollie, Emile, exceptional, father, fellow, fiend, fireman, flush, forgive, furious, garments, Garvin, gentleman, German, girl, Haley, handsome, happily, heroine, home, hope, house, hundred, indignation, jacket, Jackson, Jenkins, Johnson, kindness, kiss, landlady, laugh, little, loan, love, luscious, man, Marcus, Marion Marlowe, marry, Matt, Miss, money, Moore, mortgage, New York, office, officer, Olio, orchestra, Otto, paper, passion, pleasant, pleasure, pocket, policeman, Poor, preacher, Professor, pussy, Dabroski, prompt, pussy, Ralph, Ray, room, Rosen, rush, sad, Samantha, Silas, sing, sister, sisters, sneer, song, started, starve, store, streets, thief, tremble, trouble, twins, typewriter, unconscious, vigorous, Vondergrift, Vorse, whisper, young, accost, kidnap

Farm girl Marion Marlowe is on her way home when she stops to take in the surrounding countryside. “Same farms, same hills, same animals! Oh, I’m just sick of country life and a farm life!” Little does she know that her circumstances are about to change! A magnificent singer, she breaks into song and might readily be forgiven for glorying in her superb natural talent.On arrival at home, she finds Dolores, or Dollie as she was called, weeping in the yard. She tells Marion that her father, not for the first time, wants her to enter a loveless marriage with the detestable Silas Johnson, which she has refused to do.Time passes and a mysterious Mr Carlos Lawson appears at the farm, which causes unease with Marion. She also overhears a conversation between Silas and her father and realises that Silas has a hold on her father and is wanting Dollie in exchange. Despite her misgivings she confides in Carlos Lawson and instantly regrets what she has done.While helping the orphan Bert Jackson escape from the orphanage after one beating too many, she discovers that Dollie, too, has runaway. Only she hasn’t runaway but been abducted by the black-hearted Carlos Lawson and the two have gone to New York.Marion sees the rescue of her sister as a valid excuse to escape the confines of the farm and plans to go to New York in search of her sister. She then packs and leaves for the city on a quest to find her sister.What adventures will her quest lead this inexperienced farm girl on, alone and almost penniless in New York city. To whom will she turn? Will they listen or simply dismiss her as a naïve farm girl? And what will happen if the money runs out before she has found her sister?Join Marion Marlowe on this, the first of her many adventures in 1900’s New York city.YESTERDAY’S BOOKS FOR TODAY’S CHARITIES.10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity.=============KEYWORDS-TAGS: Marion Marlowe, Dollie, From Farm to Fortune, , abducted, Adele, arm, Aunt, Bert, bitter, blushing, Body, brain, Breasts, cabman, chief, clutches, companion, control, courage, crowd, daisy, daughter, detective, Dollie, Emile, Emile Vorse, exhibition, Farm, farmer, father, features, figure, flashed, flush, garments, gentleman, God, Gray, handsome, headquarters, homespun, hotel, housekeeper, hypnotised, hypnotized, innocent, instinctively, Jackson, Jenkins, jewels, kin, lashes, Lawson, lodging-house, Marion, Marlowe, married, Matt, Miss, monster, New, City, noble, Norwood, officer, officers, parlor, passengers, Passion, pity, pleasure, Police, Poor, power, prison, Professor Dabroski, pussy, queen, question, Ray, Ray, scream, sharp, Silas Johnson, Sile, sister, society, Stanton, station, station-house, straight, sunbonnet, superintendent, Susan, topazes, train, uncle, villain, whip, whisper, window, seduction, seduce, kidnap, capture, hostage, snatch