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41) Osprey Reef
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[2021]
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English
Description
Love. Greed. Revenge. And a desperate search for answers ... Against the stunning backdrop of the Great Barrier Reef, two women in different eras discover how their hearts and fortunes are swayed by the secrets of the sea.
2019: Bethany Kristensen faces her toughest challenge to date, skippering the family charter business. With rivals doing their utmost to undercut her prices and reputation, the Kristensens' operation
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[2020]
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English
Description
Only she can save herself ... Maggie is sixteen years old and barely keeping her family alive in the throes of the Irish famine. As her mother is on her deathbed, Maggie is pressed to accept a proposal from their neighbour, Jack. With few options beyond marry or starve, Maggie weds Jack and they travel from their home in County Mayo across the sea to seek a better life in north west England. In their new village, food is plentiful and work is available,...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Events of the past can undo a lifetime of hopes and dreams ... Twenty years have passed since Maggie settled with Jack in north west 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 but Maggie is reluctant to make the trip, not wishing to invoke painful memories and concerned about...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
Leeds, 1918. When Amy visits her husband Hugh at Beckett's Park Hospital, he doesn't recognise her. Broken after serving four devastating years in the First World War, Hugh is a shadow of the man he once was. Can he ever again be the man Amy knew and loved? Barnsborough, 1912. The first time Hugh and Amy meet, the connection between them is instant and electric. While a librarian's assistant and a collier might not be the most conventional pair, the...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
A family's survival depends on their unbreakable bond ... The Sandberg family arrive in England having fled Russia to avoid persecution. It is 1905, and in their new home of Manchester they soon discover that hardships can come in many forms. It's a friendship with their neighbours, the Moritz family, that finally makes them feel at ease. As the two families' become increasingly intertwined, it is eldest son David who finds the culture of his new...
46) The Orphan Twins
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
They only had each other . . until they were torn apart. London, 1910. Lily is ten years old when she realises her grandmother, a washerwoman in the backstreets of London's Bermondsey, is seriously ill. She's determined to do what can she can to help and keep her grandmother's illness a secret - even from her beloved twin, Artie. But Gran isn't getting any better, and there's only so much Lily can do ... When tragedy strikes and the twins are faced...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
Can she have a second chance at happiness?
Mary Lett has been struggling since the death of her baby daughter. Her husband Geoffrey cannot understand why she finds it so difficult to let go of the memory of their child and seeks solace elsewhere.
In an effort to forget his own feelings for Mary, Geoffrey's brother, Henry, marries another woman. Meanwhile, Will considers marriage to be out of the question.
When it becomes clear that Mary and Geoffrey...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
When beautiful Cassandra Trent is told that she must join her aunt and have a London Season, the twenty-year-old is full of rage. Brought up in the Northern town of Bardsley and still getting over the loss of her beloved mother, she is convinced that she will never fit in to polite society - and neither does she want to. But in Town Cassandra forms a close relationship with her gentle cousin Susannah , who is a victim of her mother's pushy, social-climbing...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
"Old secrets will threaten everything they hold dear... When Henry Lett dies, he leaves a restaurant that is far from thriving. His nephew, Edwin , is loath to see the once-famous Letts pass out of the family's hands, and he persuades his aunt to sell her shares and give him a chance to get the restaurant back on its feet. As Edwin prepares to marry Helen , the lovely young daughter of restaurant manager, William Goodridge , it seems everything has...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
When a daughter has no home can she ever hope to find happiness?
Despite being part of the large O'Donnell family Milly has felt alone in the world since her father went missing in the Irish Civil War. Now, ten years later she is forced to flee her home and journey to Liverpool seeking a better future for herself. There she is taken in by distant relatives and eventually reunited with her paternal grandmother.
As Milly tries to build a new life she...
51) Portraits
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English
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From New York's Lower East Side to San Francisco, four generations of an immigrant family in America come to vivid life in this timeless saga by bestselling author Cynthia Freeman In an act of great courage and will, Esther Sandsonitsky leaves her abusive new husband and tiny village on the border between Poland and Germany for the more welcoming shores of the United States. When she makes her way through the throng at Ellis Island, the world is on...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
Badgers Brook: more than a home, a way of life. A timeless, emotional journey from a beloved writer, perfect for fans of Anna Jacobs and Freda Lightfoot. Marie Masters has been happily married for nine years, but she can't help but feel her once-loving husband Ivor is no longer the man she married. He's increasingly prone to drink and gambling, and has become strangely secretive. Worried that Ivor's behaviour is putting their growing family at risk,...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
The captivating first instalment of the Hillsbridge Sagas, perfect for fans of Val Wood and Maggie Hope
The Hall family live under the brooding shadow of the Black Mountains, in the mining town of Hillsbridge. Charlotte, James and their seven children are independent spirits, united by strong family values.
Living in a mining community is never easy, and when the shadow of impending war threatens, they must pull together to face the hardship to...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
As the end of the war nears, change arrives at Woodicombe House…
Kate Channer is settled in London helping half-sister, Naomi, as her lady's maid while the Great War rages on. When Naomi's brother, Ned, is sent home seriously injured it's up to Kate to manage the household as well as Ned's rehabilitation.
But with the growing workload, Kate struggles to keep everything running smoothly and yearns to return to Woodicombe House. And with no word from...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
A tragic death brings good fortune to an orphaned child - but at what cost?
Liverpool, 1928. Fifteen-year-old Annie Anderson was adopted by Sylvia and Hugh after the death of their own daughter. Annie is told that her own mother in childbirth and her father died before she was born.
A chance encounter introduces Annie to local lad Andrew Fraser. Their friendship blossoms, but once Annie's adoptive parents learn of it they forbid her from seeing...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
She has the chance for a new life, but will she take it?
When their mother dies of pneumonia, Ellie and her younger sister Dora are left alone in the world. Their hard-drinking, womanizing father has abandoned them, and they cannot afford the rent on their East End tenement alone. Ellie is proud but she cannot turn down an offer of help from Doctor Lowe, a kindly man who sees Ellie as the replacement for his own recently deceased daughter.
Though...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
"In the heart of the rainforest, Katharine will fight for her life and for love 1890: When Katharine and her husband, Anselmo , set sail to Brazil to reap the spoils of the rubber boom, it seems as if they cannot fail. But when Anselmo dies suddenly on the treacherous waters of the Amazon, a pregnant Katharine must decide whether or not to continue her husband's dream, alone. And when new love appears on the horizon, she must determine if she's brave...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
Where there's muck, there's mettle ... Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of the Great Depression, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman. Though Nifty Jack has a money bag where his heart should be, Dolly's mam is in hock up to her ears and in dire need of assistance. But when Jack offers to wipe the slate clean, Dolly just can't bring herself...
59) Post of Honour
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2014.
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English
Description
The second book in R. F. Delderfield's acclaimed A Horseman Riding By saga of twentieth-century England is a memorable slice of rural life, as one war gives way to the gathering storm clouds of the next Through hard work and love of the land, Boer War vet Paul Craddock has transformed the sprawling West Country estate of Shallowford. With his wife and three children he enjoys a peaceful country life. But war has begun its inevitable march across England,...
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Holidays at home volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A loving family proves to be the greatest gift in this delightful British wartime saga following Wait Till Summer, the Holidays at Home series debut.
In 1940, foreign travel is no longer feasible due to the War, so "holidays at home" enjoy a new lease of life, meaning business is booming for Piper's Café at St. David's Wells. However, not everyone in the family-run business is as happy as they seem.
Beth Castle has known Freddy Clements...
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