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Pages - Book 3, by EA Harwik - A modern family saga. ------ ISBN: 9780980677652Pages - Book 3 is the story of two the younger Page siblings, Peta and Jamie. Unlike their older brother David. Peta and Jamie are the product of a privileged boarding school education.The Pages trilogy will question and define the boundaries of normal in modern society. Where secrets challenge the fabric of friendship and family. --------- Book 1 - ISBN: 9780980677621...
2) Show Boat
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"Here, I thought, was one of the most melodramatic and gorgeous bits of Americana that had ever come my way. It was not only the theater - it was the theater plus the glamour of the wandering drifting life, the drama of the river towns, the mystery and terror of the Mississippi itself... I spent a year hunting down every available scrap of show-boat material; reading, interviewing, taking notes and making outlines."
Inspired by an offhand comment...
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Mark of the FoxCan an enchanted for and a scarred prince follow the predestined course the Druids have set for them? They fight against the constraints of royalty, but in the end, the falconer becomes a willing regent and the fox a more than willing wife.
The Fox and the SwanTo save her family she becomes a swan. The man she loves is enchanted by a witch into a fox. Can the pair unite as humans and save her family? True love triumphs over evil with...
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This book is a really unique look at the greatest war. Find out who the son of Odin was. Discover why the God of heaven favored the people is the land of the golden eagle. Find out where the land of the dragon was, and who the king of the Samurai was. Discover who the great Author was and how he defeated this evil empire. Learn what the amazing weapon was that the devastated their land with! Read the story poem battle epic to discover how ancient...
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Her destiny was certain but her heart had other plans . . . An enthralling saga of love and marriage from the beloved author of Stolen Moments.
Lieutenant Kate Russell's post-war life was all mapped out. According to her upper-class parents' wishes, she planned to marry a man with a pedigree like her own. But fate had other ideas in the form of Robert Campbell, a mere staff driver. Kate is irresistibly drawn to him and they decide to wed. Her...
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In a world destroyed by war, can hope survive?
Summer 1918: Young couple Amy and Edmond Derwent, after their experiences on the front line of battle – Edmond as an officer and Amy as a VAD in France - have now settled back in England and are starting to build a life as a family, with the arrival of baby Beth bringing them much-needed joy. But while she may have married into the wealthy Derwent family, now living with her in-laws in their grand...
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A new start means a new chance at love…
Strong-willed Isla Scott leaves her job as a hospital nurse in Edinburgh to return to her hometown of Edgemuir, where her brother Boyd still lives. Hoping to reconnect with him after years apart, she divides her time between family and her new position at Dr. Lorne's fashionable hydro, a nearby spa that advertises cures through baths and steam.
Her important job and her renewed closeness with Boyd convince...
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A chance meeting will change her life in ways she never could have imagined in this emotional saga set during World War II from the author of Love or Duty.
As the Second World War continues to bring heartache to those left behind in Liverpool, Megan Lloyd is determined to do her bit for the war effort. She is appalled by the plight of young women left pregnant and destitute following ill-fated love affairs with passing sailors or American GIs,...
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In this historical romance, a young nanny falls the wealthy heir to a mining empire and most chose between her desire to help the workers and her heart.
Eighteen-year-old domestic servant Kate Stacey is passionately in love with David Owen, the brother of Lady Helen Sherwood. They both know their romance would be a scandal but seeing a chance for them to spend more time together, David recommends Kate as nanny to his young nieces at Bramwood...
10) Porthellis
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A new wife's life is in danger when a spurned romantic rival returns in this saga set in a small Cornish village on the brink of the second world war.
For Hannah, life has been wonderful over the last few months. She is blissfully happy in her marriage to Matt Penney, and now becoming mother to her young son has given her complete fulfillment. But Hannah's peace is not to last for long.
Convicted and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit,...
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Mabel and her friends are police recruits in Leicester, England, where they are currently receiving their training in this particular area of work. But, on one occasion while on patrol, Mabel happens to come across a stranger, who, after performing introductions, makes one such proposition to her, which she is unable to resist, irrespective of her current commitments.When she begins the new job, she discovers that she is starting to love her new charge....
12) Roscarrock
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Some surprising secrets are about to be uncovered in Roscarrock...
When Hannah Spargo instigates an expedition to spy on Roscarrock, the partially hidden house on a cliff overlooking the fishing village of Porthellis, tragedy strikes. Her brother drowns in a boating accident and she is banished from her home by her father.
Hannah's fortunes seem improved when a chance meeting leads to the proposition that she become the housekeeper at Roscarrock....
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Based on the themes and ideas presented in the excerpts from The Neotelian Chronicles, here are some potential key takeaways a reader may have after reading the full novel:A sense of wonder about the mysteries of life - The story could rekindle that childhood curiosity and openness to possibility that often fades with age. Readers may feel more awe about the world.An appreciation for intellectual humility - Alex and Casey's journey shows the value...
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An Irish immigrant family in nineteenth-century England faces a painful return to the past in this sequel to A Woman Undefeated.
Twenty years have passed since Maggie settled with Jack in northwest England after escaping the Irish Famine. They have overcome hardships to raise a family, but not without heartache along the way. Now Jack wishes to return to Ireland with their daughter Hannah for a nostalgic visit.
Maggie is reluctant to make...
15) Fetzenimperium
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Das Leben treibt manchmal tiefe Furchen in unseren Alltag, die später nicht immer spurlos verschwinden. Die Zeit heilt Wunden, sagt man, dennoch bleiben oft schlimme Narben zurück, die mitunter schicksalhafte Reaktionen auslösen.
Hinter dem Großindustriellen Josef Wegelin, Förderer und Mäzen der Gesellschaft, verbirgt sich ein tyrannischer Gewaltherrscher, um dessen Nachlass sich viele Intrigen und Geheimnisse entwickeln. Sein Testament, in...
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Sarah Johnson was beginning a new life.She arrived in Brookdale, with the promise of marriage to the local Sheriff all the while desperately hoping that no one, especially her fiance, would discover who she truly was. She was born Sarah Clayborn. The daughter of an alcoholic and outlaw who ran a safe house in Oklahoma for the infamousMackenzie gang. When Sarah's father promised her in marriage to the gang's violent leader, Bruce Mackenzie, Sarah knew...
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They survived the Great War, but will life ever be the same?
Spring 1919: WW1 is over and a fragile peace has descended over the country. Now living in Cambridge with husband Edmond, Amy Derwent is settling into her new life as wife and mother to little Beth. But the shadow of the Great War looms large, particularly as the injuries Edmond sustained at Ypres still take their toll on him today.
Edmond's cousin, Vicky, has now grown into a fine young...
18) A Bridge in Time
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Change is coming to the people of the oldest village in Scotland in this dramatic and riveting saga of survival from the author of Wild Heritage.
For generations, Camptounfoot has remained little changed but now it is 1853 and the railway is coming . . .
Shy and beautiful Emma Jane Wylie is determined to fight for the realization of her father's dream-the construction of the railway bridge that will carry the new track southwards. Her...
19) Love Carries On
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The war threatens all she holds dear...
Jessica Raeburn lives with her family in a small flat in Edinburgh and works as a department store cashier. She finds herself bored, distracted and dreaming of a more exciting life. One filled with glamour and glitz and excitement. One like she sees in the movies. So when she is hired to work in the box office at the Princes Street cinema, she is thrilled – to be so close to the films and stars she loves...
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In a small seaside village in Wales everyone has secrets, but how long can they be kept?
After tragedy strikes and Bettrys Hopkyns loses her sister, she is determined to raise Eirlys's daughter Cheryl. She is also duty-bound to uncover the identity of her late sister's lover, so the baby can know her father.
The search takes Bettrys and her young niece to a close-knit village in west Wales; where they find a community seething with love affairs,...
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