Books published by publisher Isis

Heidi is only five when she is taken to live with her grandfather, known as Uncle Alp, in the Swiss Mountains. Notorious in the village for his gloomy outlook and reclusive nature, Uncle Alp nevertheless comes to love little Heidi, and she him. Just as Heidi begins to grow fond of her new mountain family and friends, she is suddenly taken to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara, an invalid. Although she brings great joy into Clara's life, Heidi pines for her home in the mountains.

"Lady Susan," with its wicked, beautiful, intelligent and energetic heroine, is a sparkling melodrama in letters. "The Watsons" is a highly delightful story whose vitality and optimism centers on the material prospects of the Watson sisters in a small provincial town. "Sanditon," her last work, left unfinished at her death, is set in a seaside town.

Nicky Wells, television war correspondence of a media superstar. Courageous, beautiful, renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the world's most dangerous trouble spots, her life is shattered when she loses the only man she truly ever loved, dashing English aristocrat Charles Devereaux. Nicky seeks solace in her work and friendship with the photographer Cleeland Donovan, beginning to think she may fall in love again. But she if forced to remember Charles when confronted with evidence that he led a secret double life...

Cross and lonely, Mary explores the gardens of Misselthwaite Manor, where she is led by a robin to discover the door to the lost "Secret Garden." Inside, she thinks all is dead, but with Dickon, she begins to work in the garden, nursing it back to health. And when she comes across her cousin Colin, a tyrannical invalid since infancy, she believes that he too can be helped by the garden.