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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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Pre-order the BRAND NEW instalment in the bestselling Harpers Emporium series!
London Spring 1920
Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sally Harper the problems continue.
Husband Ben is moody, sometimes distant, and she feels he is shutting her out at home and at work, but why?
It takes a terrible tragedy to make them realise their love and respect is still true.
The ladies and girls who work at Harpers...
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When the Great Depression hits Liverpool hard, can Weaver Street's close knit community keep each other safe?
As Liverpool and its residents begin to heal from the wounds and memories of World War I, life on Weaver Street in 1924 is blessedly peaceful.
At number eleven, widow Kitty Conlon is dreaming about her upcoming wedding to John, while at number nine her best friend Maggie is cursing her bad luck as she juggles the demands of her cantankerous...
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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 saga of power, greed, and illicit love set in the Gilded Age of upstate New York. Jerome Lindsey and his foster brother, Alfred, couldn't be more different. The son of a wealthy banker in upstate New York, Jerome leaves home for a life of extravagance and adventure, seducing countless women along the way. Meanwhile, Alfred becomes an executive at the family bank and his adoptive father's heir apparent. After his wife dies, Alfred shows little interest...
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Pre-order the brand-new instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling Goodwill House series!
January 1941
As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter, land girl Charlie Somiton is still glad of the warm friendships she has made there. Not just her fellow land girls, Daphne and Sal, but also dashing local G.P. Dr James Willoughby who looked after Charlie when she was injured at work.
Charlie likes Dr Willoughby, but she fears...
7) The Storm
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When Scottish village is struck by grief those left behind must help one another find hope.
It is 1881, and when a violent storm devastates the Scottish fishing village of Eyemouth few families escape unscathed. Newly wed Rosabelle Maltman loses her husband, and her mother-in-law Effie lost her husband and three sons. For these women and their neighbours in the close-knit community life will never be the same again.
Yet as the months pass, the...
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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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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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In this historical saga, a young woman must navigate family expectations as she chooses between the man she loves and a more marriageable suitor.
When new passions rise to the surface, old secrets threaten to ruin everything . . .
Jo Venner returns to the Cornish tin-mining village to where she grew up to take up the post of schoolmistress filled with memories of the happy days she spent there as a child. Despite being rejected by her...
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At sixteen Verity Barforth becomes sole heiress to a fortune founded on the wool mills of Yorkshire. But women - whether heiress or mill hand in the Barforth weaving sheds - do not control their own destinies. Obedient to the conventions of the Victorian age, she accepts a marriage of convenience and cloaks her proud spirit in the silks and satins of a society hostess.
But for Verity, convention is not enough. When at last she falls in love it is...
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Discover an emotional and heartwarming series about love, loss and friendship. "A story of life, of love, of troubles, and overcoming them. One to remember and make you smile. Love life." "(A) beautiful, interesting, heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking story." There are Three unmissable novels in this great value boxset: Rosie & Ruby: Ruby lives one-step away from poverty on a rundown, crime-infested estate in Manchester, with Stella, her feckless,...
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Genau a so is` gwen!-"De Gschicht is wirkle woah!"
So oder ähnlich enden die meisten der Geschichten, welche den Gewährsleuten entweder durch Erzählungen bekannt sind oder die sie vielleicht sogar selbst erlebt haben. Nur-und das ist das Rätselhafte an diesen "Weihrazgeschichten", eine schlüssige Erklärung hat noch keiner gefunden. Seit der Kindheit oder Jugendzeit tragen sie ihre Erlebnisse mit sich, Jahrzehnte lang, ein Leben lang. Manche...
14) Sugar and Spice
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An absorbing tale of the strength and heartbreak of family ties-Winter, 1940. Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth and she is left with twin baby sisters. Anna is a gifted child, with a warm personality to match, but not so her sisters-and as, through the years, their pranks turn to stealing, bullying and worse, Anna must learn to cope with them if she is ever to find happiness of her own.
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When struggle comes, she must learn to start anew.
When Brabazon Nairn's family make their home in one of the tiny flats of Perseverance Place it is because her husband has been forced into bankruptcy. They must relinquish their fine brewer's mansion, although they vow to recover it.
Brabazon and Duncan find, to their relief, that the Place soon numbers them amongst their own. Apart from their former employee, Tom Lambert, a man who will stop at...
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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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A scandal will change the lives of two women forever...
Veronica Hay is an acclaimed beauty but her downward spiral begins the moment she enters into a loveless marriage that removes her from her home in Edinburgh to Berwickshire. From there, she begins a luckless affair with Sire Alexander Renton which helps her to forget her longing for the fashions and energy of Edinburgh.
Her husband seeks revenge, driving Veronica's story to a tragic end. Veronica's...
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One of America's most beloved storytellers, Father Andrew Greeley returns with an explosive novel about the corrosive political culture tearing apart America-and one man's family.
Tommy Moran, an Irish Catholic kid from the West Side of Chicago, fights for the underprivileged on the floor of the United States Senate. Swearing off negative attack ads, Moran is determined to restore civility and compassion to American politics. But, his opponents don't...
19) 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...
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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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