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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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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...
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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 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....
6) 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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One family will do whatever it takes to save all that they hold dear-a World War II saga of survival and hope from "a writer of great skill and vitality" (Sarah Harrison, international bestselling author).
Summer 1936: A sunny day in Kent, a perfect afternoon for a garden party, and everything seems right in the tranquil and ordered world of the Jordan family. But before the day is out that peace is shattered due to a war being fought in a country...
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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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Looking for an emotional and uplifting series? Then you will love Victoria J. Brown's unmissable Chaos Series. There are three stunning books about love, loss and hope in this great value box set: Holding Myself: Kat has a busy life. She runs her own beauty salon and has an alcoholic father to worry about. To make matters worse she has just discovered she is pregnant. Kat and Max have only been together for six months and she has a turbulent relationship...
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Home.
For over three hundred years, that's what the Hamilton family has called a shrinking swath of farmland in the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina.
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That's the failing tobacco farm where Walter and Maggie Hamilton choose to raise their three children. Walter has big plans to make the farm more profitable, but his plans are interrupted by World War II and family heartbreak. Walter returns from the war a changed man and finds Maggie,...
11) 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...
12) Finding Myself
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An emotional and uplifting book, which will have you gripped! Kat's life has become a blur of dirty nappies and sleepless nights. She has moved into the flat above the salon she owns, alone and without Max the father of her children. To make matters worse, Max has revealed he plans to remarry. Constantly on edge, her babies are taking up all of her time and Max is never around to help. Diagnosed with post-natal depression, Kat feels more alone than...
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After the death of his godfather, Mikel, a would-be revolutionary, inherits the Basque signet ring, a priceless family heirloom that has fascinated and eluded him since he was a child. How did his grandfather-an indentured Basque peasant-acquire such a valuable ring? Different answers lurk in this rich tapestry of family memoirs. The truth-or versions of it-will test Mikel's beliefs in his cause, his family, and himself.
Based on people and events...
14) 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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The changing lives of three women as their men are sent away to fight
Everyone remembered the summer of '39 as golden and strange. Golden because it was the driest on record; strange because people were burrowing holes and roofing them with iron. Waiting for the bombs…
In the Hampshire town of Markham, Georgia Kennedy wakes on her husband's last day in Civvy Street and feels elated. Conventionally married to the pompous Hugh, she discovers liberation...
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From an author praised for her "genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships," a historical family saga set during the Great Famine of Ireland (Irish Independent).One fateful morning in August 1846, Patrick Feeney surveys his ruined potato crop and despairs. With a delicate wife and their unborn child, he has no choice but to leave Ireland and set out for England in search of work. But from the moment Patrick and Mary set foot in Liverpool,...
17) Dreams to Sell
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The future she dreamed of is drifting further and further out of reach…
Spirited Roz Rainey lives in post-war Edinburgh with her sister, brother and widowed mother. She spends her days working in a lawyer's property office and dreaming – not of love, but of one day having a beautiful house of her own. After all, why shouldn't she be ambitious?
Then the unexpected happens when she falls in love with her new boss, the charming Jamie Shield. Full...
18) Highland Sisters
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Can they put the past behind them?
Lorne Malcolm's wedding to her handsome suitor Daniel MacNeil is a joyful day much looked forward to by both families. But by the time Lorne's older sister, Rosa, returns from a trip to the flower shop on the morning of the wedding, Lorne has disappeared.
When news arrives that Lorne has run off to Ireland with a wealthy landowner's son, Rory Thain, their families are shocked. None more so than Daniel. Jilted on...
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How do you forgive the people, who lied to you? Anna, the only daughter of Greek immigrants, knows nothing about her father's family until she inherits her grandmother's house in Crete, and uncovers a bitter dispute that has lasted for years. After escaping a lonely marriage, she decides to visit the island and to try to bring her family back together. But, is her aim achievable and will she ever be able to forgive the people, who lied to her? While...
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Saga dei Florio volume 2
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HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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2024.
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From the author of the acclaimed The Florios of Sicily, a magnificent novel that explores the origins of one of Italy's most powerful and notorious families, men and women whose ruthless ambition and caprice would chart the course of modern Italian history--a tale of grand historical dramas, exotic locales, political intrigue, and heartbreaking romance that rivals the bestselling works of Philippa Gregory, Jennifer Chiaverini, and Adriana Trigiani....
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