CHILDREN · FICTION
Elisabeth Beresford
Also known as: Elizabeth Beresford, Liz Beresford
Elisabeth Beresford, also known as Liza Beresford, was an English author of children's books, best known for creating The Wombles. Born into a literary family, she took work as a journalist, but struggled for success until she created the Wombles in the late 1960s. Their recycling theme was noted especially and the Wombles became popular with children across the world. While Beresford wrote many other works, the Wombles remained her best-known.
Most acclaimed
Escape to happiness
It was just another newspaper story to Rose -- a Society wedding, nothing that would ever touch her life. Certainly, when the wedding was called off, the bride left at the altar, the last thing Rose expected was to find the bridegroom on her doorstep, begging for help that he declared only she could give him!
Doubleday Romance Library
Love in Store by Roberta Leigh Samantha had it all figured out. A year to fulfill the wishes accompanying her godfather's legacy - then she'd happily return to her own life. That was the plan. Farrell's, however, a big London department store, was a fascinating new world. And Samantha's ten voting shares gave her tie-breaking powers between Zachary and Larry Farrell, battling to control the old family business. Samantha was torn between the serious, taciturn Zachary and Larry, the witty ladies' man, but not just for business reasons. For though Larry pursued her, it was Zachary she fell in love with… The Byram Succession by Mira Stables Scarred, disillusioned, cynical, but he must marry to ensure the succession. He neither expected nor desired love; just a well-bred, conformable, wife with a reasonable dowry. All the match-making mamas were on the catch for him. Which aspiring debutante would please his critical taste? To whom would fall the prize? Precious Moments by Suzanne Roberts Pretty young Jamie Eden had always though of the beautiful people in the glittering ski resort of Aspen as a race apart from her. But now, as secretary to best selling novelist David Saunders, Jamie suddenly was in the center of their dazzling social whirl, and able to see behind their glamorous masks. There was David himself, so attractive and charming, reasching out to Jamie to replace his late wife. There was gorgeous Rhonda Miles, who saw Jamie as a rival to be removed from the scene. Above all, there was incredibly handsome Thorne Gundersen, the world-famous skier, who was gentle and passionate, yet seemed determined to destroy himself in acts of reckless daring and riotous living. Jamie knew she loved him, but was love enough to stop him on his race to self-destruction?