Books with title Dear Rebecca

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again …The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives—presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century.

A voice is telling Sarah to kill her baby.It comes to her in fevered snatches of sleep, between her daughter’s cries. It lingers in her mind when she wakes, alone and sad and scared. She wants to love her baby, but she doesn’t know how. Suffering from her a deadly disconnect with her sexual identity, Sarah doesn’t even know how to love herself. So the voice torments her. She will suffer. She will weep.But she will also endure.Unforgettable and truly unique, Rebecca takes hold of you on the first page and drags you headlong into the hellscape of a tortured young mother’s mind — a journey that will end with unspeakable horror, or the triumph of a mother’s love over darkness.You’ll love Rebecca because it’s unlike anything you’ve read before. Buy it now.

Dear Rebecca, The other day I had a chance to have a lot of fun. I went swimming in the most lovely little river I have ever seen. The water was so clear, you could see right to the bottom. I walked to the river and jumped in. I started floating down the river and looking at the things under the water and on the river bank...Tarpley Smith's Dear Rebecca is a charming tale of one man's journey down a river and all the colourful characters he meets along the way.

This is the chilling classic of a girl haunted by her own imagination and by the ghost of Rebecca de Winter. After honeymooning in Italy the dashing Max de Winter returns with his innocent young bride to Manderley, the beautiful family estate in Cornwall. Yet the former mistress' disturbing presence lingers throughout the house. Du Maurier's shy heroine is tortured by constant comparisons to the glittering socialite who was her precedessor and she is heading towards tragedy and despair when Rebecca herself appears...

<p>Rebecca Eash is just as spirited as her mother Ellie, who readers grew to love in Book 1 of Ellie&rsquo;s People: An Amish Family Saga. Becky works for another Amish family and spends time with her Mennonite friend, Susan Miller. Her gentle days in the 1950s are filled with laundry and canning, barn-raisings, a taffy pull, and quilting bees. But as Susan&rsquo;s brother, James, shows an interest in Becky and their relationship deepens, she becomes embroiled in conflict with her parents, Ellie and David, and the deacon, who don&rsquo;t want to her to marry a Mennonite boy. When James joins the Amish church and they begin planning for their future, everything appears to be working out after all. But then James has a dream from God that he can&rsquo;t ignore, and Becky is faced with the most difficult decision of her life.</p><p>Book 2 of the Ellie&rsquo;s People: An Amish Family Saga series. Ages 10 and up.</p><p>Read the Amish novels that Amish people themselves read. Long before Beverly Lewis wrote <i>The Shunning</i>the Ellie&rsquo;s People series was beloved by young and old readers in Amish and Mennonite communities. Fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's <i>Little House on the Prairie </i>series will love learning to know the spunky heroines and old-fashioned communities of the Ellie&rsquo;s People series.</p>

Rebecca Eash is just as spirited as her mother, who readers grew to love in Book 1 of Ellie’s People: An Amish Family Saga. Becky works as a hired girl for another Amish family and spends time with her Mennonite friend, Susan Miller. Her gentle days in the 1950s are filled with laundry and canning, barn-raisings, a taffy pull, and an old-fashioned box social. But as Susan’s brother, James, shows an interest in Becky and their relationship deepens, she becomes embroiled in conflict with her parents, Ellie and David, and the deacon, who don’t want to her to marry a Mennonite boy. When James joins the Amish church and they begin planning for their future, everything appears to be working out after all. But then James has a dream from God that he can’t ignore, and Becky is faced with the most difficult decision of her life. Book 2 of the Ellie’s People: An Amish Family Saga series. Ages 10 and up. The ten books of the Ellie’s People series, beloved classics among young and old readers in Amish and Mennonite communities, are now available for today’s reader. Author Mary Christner Borntrager grew up Amish and based her novels on events in her Amish childhood. Fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series will love learning to know the spunky heroines and old-fashioned communities of the Ellie’s People series.

NOTE: This is a republication. Original publication 1/21/2018.Meet Rebecca Breese. She’s a 14-year-old middle school student who is not looking forward to the first day of her last year in junior high. At home, she has two loving parents in Robert and Vanessa, but she has to deal with her poetic brother Seymour, whom she thinks is often on another planet, and an agitating, annoying little sister in Carol. Rebecca’s considered by some to be “pushy,” “too smart for her own good,” and “something else.” Today is the first day of her last year at Richmond Jr. High, and she’s so not looking forward to it.She meets Stephanie Curry, a transfer student from another school; later Kayla Thompson, and finally Andrea “Drea” Green. The four of them click almost instantly. A near tragic incident finds a way to bring the four of them closer, creating an even stronger, unbreakable bond. Because of their physically mature figures, they’re known around the school by boys as “Bona-Fine.”With three close-knit friends in Stephanie, Kayla, and Andrea to confide in, laugh with, cry with, to be there for each other through thick and thin, perhaps the year won’t be so bad for Rebecca after all.This Book One of the Rebecca series. Coming soon is the sequel, Rebecca: Becky Regine.