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"Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra Winslow took solace in the mystery stories she read with her devoted father--and soon she was writing them herself, slowly graduating to dark, violent, complex crime stories that reflected skill and imagination far beyond her years. After her father's early death when Alex is 14, she is taken in by the nuns of a local convent, where she finds twenty-six mothers to take the place of the one she lost,...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2023.
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A family torn apart. A daughter determined to stay together. When the parish guardians send Lydia , daughter of convict James Knowles, to be an apprentice in the cotton mill at Caton, she is distraught at being parted from her younger siblings and mother, Betty , but she has no choice. At the mill, Lydia is bullied by some of the other girls and things do not go well when she stands up to the ringleader. Fearing she has killed someone and with the...
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How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2022.
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English
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Lose yourself in these charming tales of sisterhood and sweeping romance. Includes all three books in the heartwarming Ops Room Girls series; The Ops Room Girls , Christmas with the Ops Room Girls and Victory for the Ops Room Girls . The Ops Room Girls : It is 1939 and working class Evie Bishop has received a scholarship to study mathematics at Oxford when war turns her life upside down. Evie must seek a new future for herself and joins the Women's...
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Black Death volume 1
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Mira
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English
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When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable....
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