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61) The time is now
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Soho lies an elegant townhouse that is home to a group of extraordinary people. Over the past century, the inhabitants of Broadwick Street have experienced life to the full - war and peace, austerity and wealth, love and death.
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The sparkling seaside village of Merle Bay, with its beautiful beach scattered with seaglass, is a place where anyone can have a fresh start. For Katie, it is the perfect hideout after a childhood trauma left her feeling exposed. For Robyn, the fresh sea air is helping to heal her scars, but maybe not her marriage. For Grace, a new start could help her move on from a heartbreaking loss. When they meet on Seaglass Beach one day, they form an instant...
63) The affair
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Language
English
Description
Rose McCarthy is the legendary editor in chief at one of New York's top fashion magazines. Following the death of her husband some years ago, she and her four daughters have become even closer. All with successful careers, Athena is a TV chef, Venetia, a fashion designer, and Olivia, a court judge, while Nadia, the youngest, is a talented interior designer living in Paris. Living in their elegant apartment overlooking the Seine, Nadia considered her...
64) Some sunny day
Author
Publisher
Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It was July 1944 when Madge stepped onto a troopship that was to carry her thousands of miles away from home. Only twenty years old and not long qualified as a nurse, she had signed up to serve in the Burma Campaign. She would be based on the Indian border, near the frontline where a fierce battle was raging between Allied forces and the Japanese. As Madge arrived in Chittagong, she wondered how she would adapt to the ever present danger of invasion...
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English
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Sophie is the victim. But is she so innocent? The day Sophie McCarthy met Aidan Ryan changed everything for her. One tragic, violent act left her hospitalised, hanging by a thread. One year on, Aidan is determined to fix the mess he made of Sophie's life. Even if it means rebuilding his own around her. Sophie is trying to start living again. But being a victim doesn't make you a saint. And Aidan soon starts to realise that the woman he is trying to...
66) Where we belong
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Language
English
Description
Cate Morris and her son, Leo, are homeless, adrift. They've packed up the boxes from their London home, said goodbye to friends and colleagues, and now they are on their way to Hatters Museum of the Wide Wide World - to stay just for the summer. Cate doesn't want to be there, in Richard's family home without Richard to guide her any more. And she knows for sure that Araminta, the retainer of the collection of dusty objects and stuffed animals, has...
67) Heart and home
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English
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Cathie Kinrade is all too used to hardship. Growing up in a fishing community on the Isle of Man in the 1930s, she sees her da and brothers set sail daily on dangerous seas while her mam struggles to put food on the table. Cathie has little hope of better for her own future, until a chance encounter gives her the opportunity to change her fortunes forever. Cathie leaves behind home and family for Liverpool, a bustling modern city full of possibility....
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English
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Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water. Suddenly the newlyweds must make a dangerous choice: to speak out or to protect their secret. After...
70) Crushed
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Language
English
Description
Phoebe stands on Pulteney Bridge trying to cover her face with her hair so she won't be recognised. Her tights are gashed from toe to thigh. She has lost a shoe. People keep looking. Was it five, or ten minutes later she heard the commotion? Phoebe ran down the road until she saw. Mangled metal. Blood ran down the walls. Phoebe believes this was of her making. She thought murder, and murder happened. She had told them her thoughts weren't just thoughts...
71) After the peace
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English
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How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbour and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous as it turned out. For donor no. 116349, '6ft 1in, blue eyes, blond hair, BA (Oxon), action man' is the 9th Earl of Dilberne, who gave his seed back in 1979 as a stripling of twenty-two, and...
73) The reef
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Language
English
Description
Edith Wharton's subtle variation on the theme of the eternal triangle features Anna Leath, a rich American widow living in France, her daughter's governess, Sophy Viner, and the first love of Anna's youth who has come back into her life.
74) Born in fire
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
'Born in Fire' is the first book in a trilogy of novels about the Concannon sisters of western Ireland. A wealthy American gallery owner seeks out Irish glass artist Maggie Concannon, hoping to feature her work. But as soon as they meet, the sparks begin to fly.
76) The good life
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Language
English
Description
Cain Moran wanted Jenny Riley more than he had ever wanted anyone or anything before in his life. But loving Jenny Riley was the easy part; it was telling his wife he wanted a divorce that was going to be the killer. Jenny is not just any girl. She cares nothing for Cain's hard-man reputation - she just wants to be with him. But Cain is not a free man. And he's about to find out that when his wife Caroline said 'til death us do part, she meant it....
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The Second World War has finally come to a close. Birmingham is welcoming home its menfolk, and a new chapter is beginning in Rachel Booker's life. Her husband has returned, and the family that struggled for survival throughout the uncertain war years is now together. But family life settles into a routine and Rachel, unsatisfied, starts to yearn for more. Melly, Rachel's eldest daughter, is a child of the war. She grew up in the bombed-out streets...
78) Silver linings
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English
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Set duing the darkest days of the Second World War, in the shipyards of Leith, Scotland, this novel follows the ups and downs of the Anderson family as they struggle to survive through war, hunger and loss.
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English
Description
Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha's mentor, Dr Korczak, care for the 200 children in his orphanage. As Korczak struggles to uphold the rights of even the smallest child in the face of unimaginable conditions, he becomes a beacon of hope for the thousands who live behind the walls. As the noose tightens around...
80) Believe in me
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Leanne and her teenage daughter Abby have recently been forced to move from London back to Kesterley-on-Sea, to Ash Morley Farm where Leanne grew up. Leanne's husband Jack, Abby's father, killed himself over a year ago, and the pair are still reeling from the shock waves caused by the tragedy. Also living at Ash Morley farm is Leanne's mother Wilkie, who is a rock for everyone, and family friend Klaudia and her two children. Klaudia has to face the...
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