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182) A tapestry of dreams
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The year is 1850, and Susannah Charlesworth loves the estate and open air life of the North Lincolnshire Wolds. She stands to become a very rich woman too - inheriting the estate, as well as her father's and uncle's wealth, one day. She meets the dashing Daniel Bullen and her life is about to change forever.
184) The great Gatsby
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A masterpiece, a dazzling social satire, and a milestone in twentieth century literature, The Great Gatsby peels away the layers of the glamorous twenties in the U.S. to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart.
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It began with four words. 'I love your laugh x'. But that was twelve years ago. It really began the day Georgina was fired from The Worst Restaurant in Sheffield (Tripadvisor) and found The Worst Boyfriend in the World (Georgina's best friends) in bed with someone else. So when her new boss, Lucas McCarthy, turns out to be the boy who wrote those words to her all that time ago, it feels like the start of something. The only problem? He doesn't seem...
186) Someone to love
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Humphrey Wescott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune that will forever alter the lives of everyone in his family - including the daughter no one knew he had. Anna Snow grew up in an orphanage in Bath knowing nothing of the family she came from. Now she discovers that the late Earl of Riverdale was her father and that she has inherited his fortune. She is also overjoyed to learn she has siblings. However, they want nothing to do...
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2018.
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Southampton, 1912. Jessie is made from tough stuff. At just 19, after the death of her father, she opted not to follow her mother back to Ireland, preferring instead to take charge of her own destiny. When Jessie marries an Irishman and takes over the running of the cafe she works in, it seems as though all the pieces are coming together. But when destiny and a pushy local businessman have other ideas, everything she has worked for is taken away,...
190) The Affair
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2010
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English
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Would you risk everything for love? Bestselling children's book writer Angelica is flattered at the attention of Jack, the owner of a vineyard in South Africa, whom she meets at a party. With his easy charm, Jack makes her feel good about herself - surely it can't do any harm to indulge in a mild email flirtation?
191) Cry to dream again
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2018.
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In 1930s Greater London, Shirley is a talented ballerina who dreams of becoming a principal dancer at the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company. Yet one summer, on the way back from staying with her grandparents in France, she meets a handsome young man, Alan, for a fleeting moment and her life changes for ever. Finding him becomes an obsession for Shirley, who now longs to fulfil her dreams in the ballet simply so that he might see her name in lights and...
192) The snow globe
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Lamplight Audiobooks
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2019.
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English
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As Christmas 1926 approaches, the Forbes family are preparing to host a celebration at Eden Hall. 18-year-old Daisy is preoccupied by a sense of change in the air. Overnight, her relationship with Stephen Jessop, the housekeeper's son, has shifted and every encounter seems fraught with tension. Before the festivities are over, Daisy has received a declaration of love, a proposal and a kiss - from three different men. Unable to bear the confusion she...
193) Someone to hold
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Humphrey Wescott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune and a scandalous secret that will forever alter the lives of his family-sending one daughter on a journey of self-discovery. With her parents' marriage declared bigamous, Camille Westcott is now illegitimate and without a title. Looking to eschew the trappings of her old life, she leaves London to teach at the Bath orphanage where her newly discovered half-sister lived. But even...
195) Only beloved
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2018.
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English
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For the first time since the death of his wife, the Duke of Stanbrook is considering re-marrying and finally embracing happiness for himself. With that thought comes the treasured image of a woman he met briefly a year ago and never saw again. Dora Debbins relinquished all hope to marry when a family scandal left her in charge of her younger sister. Earning a modest living as a music teacher, she's left with only an unfulfilled dream. Then one afternoon,...
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Exile volume 2
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Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Kevin Emerson's Exile trilogy combines the swoon-worthy romance of a Susane Colasanti novel with the rock 'n' roll of Eleanor & Park. Filled with infectious music, mystery, and romance, the electrifying Encore to an Empty Room, the second book in the Exile series, doesn't miss a beat. Summer always wanted Dangerheart-the band of talented exiles she manages-to find success. Now that they've become an overnight sensation, they are on the verge of a...
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Clipper Large Print Books
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2019.
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English
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Constantinople, 1921. Each day Nur gazes across the waters of the Bosphorus to her childhood home, a grand white house, nestled on the opposite bank. Memories float on the breeze - the fragrance of the fig trees, the saffron sunsets of languid summer evenings. But now those days are dead. The house has been transformed into an army hospital, it is a prize of war in the hands of the British. And as Nur weaves through the streets carrying the embroideries...
198) Someone to care
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Lamplight Large Print Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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When adventure calls in the form of a handsome aristocrat, will Viola Kingsley throw all caution to the wind? No one has felt the death of the Earl of Riverdale more keenly than his wife, the now dispossessed countess Viola Kingsley. On her way home alone from Bath, Viola meets an adventurous aristocrat at a country inn. Since she is being forced to stay for a day and night, she goes to the village fair with him and impulsively gives in to his suggestion...
199) I'll get by
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2013
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English
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Meggie Elliot is a young woman of above average intelligence. Living with her aunt and uncle in London at the outbreak of WWII, she's intent on going to university to pursue a career in law. In a burst of patriotism she joins the WRNS. She then meets young aristocrat Nicholas Cowan, who sweeps her off her feet. But is all as it seems?
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Atlantic Books
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English
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Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents were born into the same world: children of German-Jewish emigre stockbrokers living in London. But at the demand of his parents, Ian's grandfather, the dutiful son, broke up with his fiancee by letter just before leaving for the Western Front during World War I, where he served as a stretcher bearer in the Battle on the Somme. It was the first great shock their romance would suffer, but their love would survive it....
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