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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...
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Back in the deep recesses before the time of natural law, it was established the world needed a disinterested panel to oversee the business of mankind...High above the land was a suspended mist that housed a board of wizards, priests, and seers. Under the direction of the Ancient Ones, they were directed to guide the course of man's affairs.
When corruption was discovered, they selected from the earth a pair of innocents. Upon the intercession of...
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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,...
4) Never Let Go
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A spirited Cornwish widow must solve a spooky mystery in this postwar historical novel from the author of Unforgettable. Having lost her husband during the evacuation at Dunkirk, Dorrie Resterick now lives a quiet life centered around family in the Cornish village of Nanviscoe. But that quiet is about to be disrupted by the arrival of Stella Grey and her family. She's already planning a surprise welcome home party for her honeymooning niece, Verity,...
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From an author praised for her "genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships," a historical saga about an immigrant Irish family in Yorkshire (Irish Independent).
Summer, 1867: a sudden change in fortune promises to save the Feeneys from their life of poverty. But what will save the Feeney family from itself?
Patrick and Thomasin Feeney and their children, Erin, Richard and Sonny, each have different dreams-and as these dreams grow...
6) 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....
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"I couldn't cook but I could sew. It would have been better the other way around." Trapped in Kansas at the turn of the twentieth century, Nell Plat is seventeen, unhappily married, and the mother of two baby girls. No reality could be further from her secret dreams of glamour and excitement, dreams that will tempt her to do the unthinkable and run away to the glittering wonderland of Los Angeles and the burgeoning motion picture industry. Lucky for...
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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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No Life ordinary. There's always mystery... Ophelia Street, 1970. A street like any other, a community that lives and breathes together as people struggle with their commitments and pursue their dreams. It is a world we recognise, a world where class and gender divide, where set roles are, acknowledged. But, what happens when individuals step outside those roles? An observer amid Ophelia Street watches, writes, imagines, remembers, charting the lives...
11) Losing Myself
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An uplifting page-turner about love, loss and hope Since Kat made her decision, everything around her seems to be falling apart. Not only is she dealing with family's secrets, lies and deceit but the salon, which is opening around the corner, threatens her livelihood. To make matters worse her relationship with Max is on the rocks. Although her relationships with Max's mother, her step-mother and her sister have grown stronger, are they strong enough?...
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A moving novel of betrayal and loss. This is the story of Anna. Against the odds, can you learn to trust and love again? The unremarkable rock of her family, Anna is content with her life until she discovers that Matthew, her husband of 22 years, is having an affair. Consumed by hurt and tainted memories, her life is turned upside down by betrayal and then loss. With her confidence destroyed, she is tormented by the shadow of Matthew's unknown lover....
13) Nothing Ventured
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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...
14) Turn of the Tide
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Three women in a Scottish fishing village look toward the future after a devastating tragedy in this life-affirming novel inspired by historical events.
After a catastrophic storm tore through the village of Eyemouth in 1881, the villagers have slowly started to move on. Inconsolable at the loss of her husband, Rosabelle Maltman has left Scotland to start a new life, leaving her son behind. Meanwhile her sister-in-law, Jessie, is finding ways to...
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This book is about his journey as a political refugee from Cuba to the United States. It's about the challenges, disappointments, and victories that destiny threw in his path. To bring in American poet Robert Frost, Jorge had two paths to choose to follow: one leading to an honorable life and the other taking him to a disreputable future. Looking back on the strong Judeo-Christian values that his family had given him, and with no support system to...
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Sometimes we're more like our mothers than we think! Glamorous lone parent, Stella wants nothing more than to impress her teenage daughter. She has spent her life shielding Tara from her religious upbringing and has never told Tara about her father. But when they move back to Belfast, hiding the past becomes tricky. When Stella lands her dream job as fashion editor at a teen magazine, Tara thinks she will die of shame. Soon after, Tara starts a blog...
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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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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...
19) Stolen Moments
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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...
20) 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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