Agnes Grey Format:Hardcover The tranquility of a luxury

The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head

except one--hold back nothing

The ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death

he can’t always remember just where he put his teeth

or conjured as much personal possibility as Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft

Agnes Grey Format:Hardcover The tranquility of a luxuryDrawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bront wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and suffered daily abuse as a result of their position. Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression. Feeling helpless and frustrated, his youngest daughter, Agnes, applies for a job as a governess to the children of a