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Author
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
An enchanting French chateau, a lifelong dream and a handsome town mayor - the perfect recipe for romance... When their grandfather dies, Fliss and her sisters are astonished to inherit a French chateau! Travelling to Normandy to visit the beautiful if faded house, they excitedly make plans over delicious crepes and local cider in the town nearby. They soon discover the chateau needs major work and a huge tax bill is due . . . Unable to sell but strapped...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk are intrigued by the glamorous and mysterious stranger, with her flame-red hair and abrupt manners.Florence doesn?t care about the gossips - she?s drawn to the peaceful seaside town by the pull of her childhood, when she lived for a brief but happy time with her beloved late mother. The riddle of those days remains and now Florence...
Author
Publisher
Black & White Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Sisters Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan live in separate wings of their crumbling Irish mansion. They haven't spoken for decades, torn apart by a dark family secret from their past, and only communicate through the terse and bitter notes they leave for each other in the hallway. Debbie, an American woman, is searching for her birth mother. She has little time left but as she sets out to discover who she really is and what happened to her mother, she...
64) American rust
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty around them who dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes, and the polluted river. Isaac is the smartest kid in town, left behind to care for his sick father after his mothercommitssuicide and his sisterLee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend, Billy Poe, can stand in his way: broad-shouldered Billy, always ready...
65) The travelers
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
When the boy was four, he asked his father why people needed sleep. His father said, ?So God could unfuck all the things people fuck up.? As America recovers from the Second World War, two families? journeys begin. James Vincent, born in 1942 to an Irish-American family, escapes his parents? turbulent marriage and attends law school in New York, where he moves up the social ladder as a prosperous and bright attorney. Meanwhile, Agnes Miller, a beautiful...
Author
Series
Born into Bollywood volume 3
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The stage is set. For a scandalous revelation! Celebrated Bollywood heiress Anya Raawal lives her life in the spotlight-and fiercely protects the secret of an impossible choice she was once forced to make. But when she meets magnate Simon De Acosta, a shocking discovery sets them on a collision course... Simon's adopted daughter is the child Anya had to give up! The connection between them is instant, yet it's clear this guarded widower buried his...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Cherry, Maggie and Rose are mother, daughter and granddaughter. They have always been close; so when, in a moment of impulse, Cherry buys a gorgeous but rundown pub in Rushbrook, the village she grew up in, it soon becomes a family affair. All three women take over The Swan and restore it to its former glory. Cherry is at the helm, Maggie is in charge of the kitchen, and Rose tends the picturesque garden that leads down to the river. Before long,...
68) Apeirogon
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nuneaton, 1935. Kathy has grown up at Treetops home for children, where Sunday and Tom Branning have always cared for her as one of their own. She enjoys her life there, surrounded by her beloved horses, and with a future as a nurse ahead of her. Her foster sister Livvy is not as driven as Kathy. Sunday is keen to see both her girls married, but Livvy has no intention of settling down, and would much rather spend time with her friends. Meanwhile,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
The seat of the Trelawney family for over 800 years, Trelawney Castle was once the jewel of the Cornish coast. Each successive Earl spent with abandon, turning the house and grounds into a sprawling, extravagant palimpsest of wings, turrets and follies. But recent generations have been better at spending than making money. Now living in isolated penury, unable to communicate with each other or the rest of the world, the family are running out of options....
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
'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...
72) Wild
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Language
English
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Description
From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah, comes Wild, a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope, and the promise of new beginnings. In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic National Forest - a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this mysterious land, a six-year-old girl appears....
Author
Series
The Seven Sisters volume 7
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley, The Missing Sister is the seventh instalment in the multimillion-copy epic series The Seven Sisters. They?ll search the world to find her. The six D?Aplis̈e sisters have each been on their own incredible journey to discover their heritage, but they still have one question left unanswered: who and where is the seventh sister? They only have one clue - an image of a star-shaped emerald...
74) The scent of you
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Are you still married if you haven't seen your husband for months? Polly's life is great. Her children are away at uni, her glamorous mother - still modelling at 85 - is happily settled in a retirement village, and her perfume blog is taking off. Then her husband announces he needs some space and promptly vanishes. As Polly grapples with her bewildering situation, she clings to a few new friends to keep her going - Shirlee, the loudmouthed yoga student;...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Isabelle Pool, recently graduated from high school and pregnant with her art teacher's baby, is just about out of options. Her mother is dead, her father's a drunk and the art teacher is too much of a head case to help raise the child. Izzy knows she can be a good mother, but without any money or prospects, she's left searching. So when she's offered a space in The Infinite Family Project - a utopian ideal funded by an eccentric billionaire - she...
Author
Series
Flowers of Scotland volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
To young Victoria Cameron, Angus, Scotland is the most beautiful place on earth and she wishes nothing more than to stay on her little farm forever. But the death of her beloved grandfather leaves her and her mother without a farm and struggling to make ends meet. Never one to give up, Victoria soon finds work in a Dundee mill, while her mother supports them by taking in lodgers. Neither ever expected one of those lodgers would be John Cameron, the...
77) Sunday's child
Author
Series
Rockwood chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Left on the steps of an orphanage when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was brought up in hardship - until the kindly Rosalind Carey took her in. Now eighteen years old, Nancy is an adopted member of the Carey family. But she can't help wondering who her parents really were. When Nancy is sent away to finishing school, she finds herself in the midst of London society. There she meets Freddie Ashton - kind and warm-hearted, he might just be the...
78) Larch Tree Lane
Author
Language
English
Description
In a village in Wiltshire, just off a busy road, Larch Tree Lane winds slowly up a low hill. Among the residents is Maggie Hatherall, full of life despite her advancing years, who worries what she is going to do with her two-hundred-year-old home. Lucia Grey has escaped a bad marriage but her ex is reluctant to let her start a new life free of him. And for architect Corin Drayton, an unexpected inheritance is the start of a complicated family wrangle...
Author
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Magna
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
London, 1914. Sick and injured servicemen are returning home and Lizzie Kellaway and her godmother Margaret Penrose are determined to do their bit to help them. With Lizzie's beautiful singing voice and Margaret's talent for the piano, concerts in hospitals and convalescent homes offer the perfect opportunity to lift the spirits of men who have suffered so much. When Polly Meadows's fiance rejects her and leaves for the war, she doesn't hesitate before...
80) True north
Author
Publisher
BHC Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Life has always been difficult and dangerous for those living on and around the Turtle Mountain Reservation. Everyone has a story. Everyone has a secret. Everyone thinks they're only connected to their neighbors by the isolated, peculiar town they share. Orphaned Sioux Ida Florence Little Shay is determined to escape the life before her, but her course of action only draws her into a world of increasing conflict and deepening poverty. Young Fawn Breen...
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