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21) The Tangled Web
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Unraveling the past comes at a price…
Supporting her brother between his spells in prison costs Amanda Clifford more than money. She loses friends and always has to move. But he's the only family she's ever known.
Until, that is, she's told that a great aunt has left her a cottage. The only catch: her brother isn't allowed to live there with her. Can she really leave him?
When she befriends the cottage's current occupier, her hopes grow. This...
22) Wait Till Summer
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When war threatens, hope will keep them alive
In 1939, with the war having been declared, evacuees arrive in the small Welsh seaside town of St David's Wells. When Eirlys Price convinces her parents to take in three young children, she never imagined it could lead to shocking family revelations which threaten all her future plans. Amidst homesickness, local gossip and the challenges of wartime, the community must pull together and wait until summer,...
23) A Stranger Light
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A saga "centered on the effects of war on families, revealing the . . . range of human emotions, from courage and compassion to lust, vengeance, and greed"(Booklist).
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Faye Harvey struggles against the stigma of being a single mother. Then Mark Fuller, badly ravaged by his POW experiences in Japan, arrives in Cornwall. Faye is drawn to him but then the father of her son, a Scottish laird, turns up, offering...
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Meet Dolly Devoy, the brash new girl at Dublin's Jacob's Biscuit Factory…
An unforgettable Irish saga set over the Easter Uprising and the First World War
Dolly Devoy, a bold young Dubliner, has become very sure of herself since being promoted to work in the office of the local biscuit factory. Too sure of herself.
She should be a lord's daughter, like Alice Delahunt, to be that confident.
For Alice the path looks smooth, with a glittering...
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This WWII historical saga "brings to life an all-too-human family as it changes during war, making this a must-read for all fans of this fine series" (Booklist).
Tragedy and passion threaten to overwhelm the Harvey Family once again
1944: War lashes the Harvey family. Emilia, now happily married to Perry Bosweld and expecting his child, worries about her son Will in the RAF, while Ben Harvey is horrified when he's suddenly faced with the...
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Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's ninth novel, and considered to be one of the first examples of the existential novel. In this radically inventive work, an alienated former minor administrator in nineteenth-century Russia has broken away from society and withdrawn into an underground identity. With its piercing insight into political, social, and moral issues, this classic is one of the most provocative work of literature ever written.
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27) Dombey and Son
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Charles Dickens was an English short story writer, dramatist, essayist, and the most popular novelist to come out of the Victorian era. Many of his novels, with their frequent concern for social reform, were first published in magazines in serial form under the pseudonym, Boz. Unlike authors who completed entire novels before serialization, Dickens often created the episodes as they were being serialized. The continuing popularity of his novels and...
28) Beowulf
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Beowulf is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical,...
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Hard times ahead for the Harpers girls...
It is two years since Harpers opened in Oxford Street and Ben is planning to expand the premises.
Life is good for Sally and Ben as they look forward to their first child and hope for a prosperous future. Beth is settling into married life with Jack, gradually recovering from her aunt's tragic death, though still unable to conceive a child.
New girls have joined Harpers and Marion, Janice and Becky all...
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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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1911 - The beginning of a brand new series for No1 bestselling author Rosie Clarke, Welcome to Harpers of Oxford Street.
When Sally, Beth, Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford Street they have no idea they will become lifelong friends.
When all four girls are lucky enough to be selected as sales staff their exciting new adventure begins.
Join them as they overcome heartbreak and grief, find love and...
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From the bestselling author of The Shop Girls of Harpers and The Mulberry Lane Series.
London, 1913.
The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street are happy in their work and their lives are moving on at quite a pace.
United by the suffragette cause and now living under one roof, some will find love and marriage whilst others experience heartache and
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Harpers is the bond that holds them together, bringing strength through hardship...
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The BRAND NEW instalment in the bestselling Mulberry Lane series!
With Mulberry Lane's favourite pub, The Pig & Whistle undergoing renovation, proprietors Peggy and Able Ronoscki leave the chaos behind and head off on a trip of a lifetime to America. But disaster hits and Peggy finds herself in a critical condition in hospital.
Meanwhile, business is booming for young entrepreneurs Fay Ronoscki and Maggie Rowan with their new restaurant and catering...
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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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May 1940
There are new residents at Goodwill House — WAAF drivers Camilla 'Millie' Cunningham and Diane Forsyth, both eager to do their bit for the war effort and excited to be helping the brave boys who fly.
And when Millie meets dashing and heroic Spitfire pilot Ted Thorrington, they strike up an instant connection. But with Hitler gaining more ground in Europe, there is danger brewing across the Channel in Dunkirk and Ted is required to fly...
36) Aaron's Rod
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Aaron Sisson lives a humble life in the English Midlands. He works as a union official for the coalmines, but his real passion is music. As an amateur, but very talented flautist, Aaron dreams of a big career as a beloved musician. Though, with his small community and unglamorous job at the coal mine, this dream seems unattainable. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, and unsatisfied at work, Aaron becomes more and more frustrated with his life. Finally,...
37) Show boat
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"Here, I thought, was one of the most melodramatic and gorgeous bits of Americana that had ever come my way. It was not only the theater - it was the theater plus the glamour of the wandering drifting life, the drama of the river towns, the mystery and terror of the Mississippi itself... I spent a year hunting down every available scrap of show-boat material; reading, interviewing, taking notes and making outlines."
Inspired by an offhand comment...
38) Tom Jones
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Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
39) The Rainbow
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Spanning over a period of sixty-five years, from the 1840s to 1905, The Rainbow by D.H Lawrence follows three generations of the Brangwen family, mapping the change in their romantic relationships amid the industrialization of Great Britain. Their story begins when Tom Brangwen meets a Polish widow named Lydia. The two soon fall in love and get married, though they find that their cultural differences cause more issues than they imagined. Due to a...
40) Émilie
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Une nouvelle édition de la série qui a valu à Louise Tremblay d'Essiambre le titre de «reine de la saga familiale québécoise» avec un demi-million d'exemplaires vendus au Québec et en France!
Déjà quatorze années se sont écoulées depuis l'époque o Charlotte découvrait que sa famille était pour le moins inhabituelle. Charlotte a vieilli, elle a connu l'amour, puis la déception de voir partir celui qu'elle aimait. Elle s'est aussi...
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