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Prue Weston runs her family farm on the edge of the Pennines, throwing herself into her work after becoming a widow. As the war comes to an end, romance blossoms between Prue and a German POW, Nikolaus. But falling in love with a German means she must fight for her love, not only against the concerns of her family but of the nation. Brenda Stuart's life is in ruins. Illegitimately pregnant, jobless and alone, Brenda is forced to sleep rough - until...
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Merky Books Digital
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Anansi, your four gifts raised to nyame granted you no power over the stories I tell... This is the story of K. K is sent into care before a year marks his birth. He grows up in fields and woods, and he is happy, he thinks. When K is eleven, the city reclaims him. He returns to an unknown mother and a part-time father, trading the fields for flats and a community that is alien to him. Slowly, he finds friends. Eventually, he finds love. He learns...
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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The Numbers Game is a thoughtful story about three generations of women, by the world's favorite storyteller, Danielle Steel. Eileen Jackson is forty. Her marriage is on the rocks, and her self-esteem is at an all-time low. Her children are struggling to come to terms with their parents' divorce and she knows she has to get her life back on track - fast. The realization of her talent and the opportunity to pursue a long-held ambition gives her the...
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Although she's surrounded by a loving family, Marie is lonely. The secret she has been carrying for many years is a burden - it's telling could ruin the lives of those she loves most. Marie's granddaughter, Cathy, is a cheerful young woman and in the first flush of love. Her grandmother's secret will not only change Cathy's future but rewrite her past. Sister-in-law Beth seems to have a happy life and a goodmarriage but behind closed doors she's heartbreakingly...
5) Fever dream
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Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She?s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins and the power and desperation of family. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality...
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MIRA
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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When Molly receives a call telling her that her grandfather is ill, she hurries home to Sweetgrass, Montana. She doesn?t give the stranger on the phone a second thought?until she arrives at her grandfather?s ranch to find that Sam Dakota is virtually impossible to avoid.Molly isn?t the only one with questions about Sam?s presence in Sweetgrass, where strangers are few and far between. Yet, despite the warning signs, Molly can?t deny her attraction...
7) Child's play
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You think you know what?s best for your grown-up children. But you?ll find they have lessons they can now teach you. Kate Morgan is an esteemed Manhattan lawyer. After losing her beloved husband in a tragic accident, she?s successfully raised their three children single-handedly. Now in their twenties, she slightly smugly feels that they are well set up to travel the path she planned. Except why is her eldest daughter, Tamara, a high-flying marketing...
8) Bewilderment
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Pub. Date
2021
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Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny, loving and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from school for smashing his friend's face with a thermos. What can a father...
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ABC Books
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Parenting expert Dr Justin Coulson shares the ten thngs every parent needs to know to raise their children in positive ways. They are also ways to make parenting easier for you - so you don't have to keep 'making it up as you go along'. Drawing on positive psychology, the book gives simple and effective strategies for the main issues parents of 2-12 year olds confront in everyday family life. Justin shares his secrets of effective attention, communication...
10) Home fire
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Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome...
11) Actress
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2020
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This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O?Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London?s West End. Katherine?s life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine?s past, or the world?s damage. As Norah uncovers her mother?s secrets, she acquires a few of her own....
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2020
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English
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It's 2008, and the Celtic Tiger has left devastation in its wake. Brothers Hart and Cormac Black are waking up to a very different Ireland - one that widens the chasm between them and brings their beloved father to his knees. Facing a devastating choice that risks their livelihood, if not their lives, their biggest danger comes when there is nothing to lose. A sharp snapshot of a family and a nation suddenly unmoored, this epic-in-miniature explores...
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Moares 'Moor' Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinise spice merchants and crime lords. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As he travels a route that takes him from India to Spain, he leaves behind a labyrinthine tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the grave. The Moor's...
14) Apeirogon
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin live near one another - yet they exist worlds apart. Rami is Israeli. Bassam is Palestinian. Rami's license plate is yellow. Bassam's license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same journey for Bassam takes an hour and a half. Both men have lost their daughters. Rami's thirteen-year-old girl Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber while out shopping with her friends. Bassam's ten-year-old...
16) The escape
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When a stranger asks Jo Blackmore for a lift she says yes, then swiftly wishes she hadn't. The stranger knows Jo's name, she knows her husband Max and she's got a glove belonging to Jo's two year old daughter Elise. What begins with a subtle threat swiftly turns into a nightmare as the police, social services and even Jo's own husband turn against her. No one believes that Elise is in danger. But Jo knows there's only one way to keep her child safe...
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Pavilion
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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During this time Lord Mountbattens daughter and Indias mother, Pamela, was with her parents and kept a diary recounting this extraordinary tale of history. The diaries include their trips to stay in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Orissa and Assam, and the exotic palaces of Indian rulers. 'India Remembered' is a scrapbook of private family photographs taken during this historical period (Edwina Mountbatten walking arm in arm with Nehru through a courtyard,...
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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'One of our most original writers. Sarah has almost created an entirely new form of writing in her novels that is hers and hers alone' John Boyne it happened, again and again and again and again and again. Together apart. In love in aching. Tangled unravelling. Ana and Connor have been having an affair for three years. In hotel rooms and coffee shops, swiftly deleted texts and briefly snatched weekends, they have built a world with none but the two...
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2020
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English
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One of the Guardian's Top Ten Best New Books in Translation The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a Dutch farming family distorted by grief, translated by Michele Hutchison. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Jas lives with her devout farming family in the rural Netherlands. One winter's day, her older brother joins an ice skating trip; resentful...
20) Burnt sugar
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Pub. Date
2020
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A searing, compulsively readable story of mothers and daughters, memory and madness, love and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a hapless artist for a lover, rebelled against every social expectation of a good Indian woman - all with her young child in tow. Years on, she is an old woman with a fading memory, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up...
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