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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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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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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.
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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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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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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...
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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,...
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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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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,...
10) 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...
11) 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...
12) 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...
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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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They survived the Great War, but will life ever be the same?
Spring 1919: WW1 is over and a fragile peace has descended over the country. Now living in Cambridge with husband Edmond, Amy Derwent is settling into her new life as wife and mother to little Beth. But the shadow of the Great War looms large, particularly as the injuries Edmond sustained at Ypres still take their toll on him today.
Edmond's cousin, Vicky, has now grown into a fine young...
15) 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...
16) Love or Duty
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An accident will open her eyes to a world she never knew existed in this uplifting tale of love and family from the popular author of Chance Encounters.
Penny Forshaw is racing through the streets of Liverpool in her father's new motor car, rushing to meet her fiancé, and is horrified when she knocks over a little girl. Penny feels it is her duty to take in six-year-old Kelly while she recovers, much to her fiancé's disapproval.
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A futurist philosophy in the guise of a story, Principles of Time Travel follows the adventures of Spacetime lab as they experiment with quasi-time travel projection technology, setting in motion a chain of events whose effects will extend hundreds of years into in the future.
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"We'll be working very closely together."
Investigative reporter Laurel Dixon wants to save the world. And she'll do it by exposing fraud at LeBlanc Charities, by playing the man in charge. Yet smart, sexy, caring Xavier LeBlanc is unexpected. Going undercover allows her to be the bold woman she's always wanted to be. But when she ends up under his covers, will she choose the story of a lifetime…or a life with Mr....
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One of Russia's most renowned literary figures and a Man Booker International Prize nominee, Ludmila Ulitskaya presents what may be her final novel. Jacob's Ladder is a family saga spanning a century of recent Russian history-and represents the summation of the author's career, devoted to sharing the absurd and tragic tales of twentieth-century life in her nation.
Jumping between the diaries and letters of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s...
20) Uptown Conquest
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The Great Famine of 1845 in Ireland forced thousands of people to leave their beloved country. Many Irish immigrants chose Canada as their new home. Fanette-Uptown Conquest (volume 1) relates the story of Fionnuala, a seven year old girl, who travels in a "coffin ship" carrying her family from Ireland to Quebec City after the outbreak of the famine.
Through courage and resilience, Fionnuala survives the ordeal of the voyage but loses both her parents...
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