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How do you forgive the people, who lied to you? Anna, the only daughter of Greek immigrants, knows nothing about her father's family until she inherits her grandmother's house in Crete, and uncovers a bitter dispute that has lasted for years. After escaping a lonely marriage, she decides to visit the island and to try to bring her family back together. But, is her aim achievable and will she ever be able to forgive the people, who lied to her? While...
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Looking for an emotional and uplifting series? Then you will love Victoria J. Brown's unmissable Chaos Series. There are three stunning books about love, loss and hope in this great value box set: Holding Myself: Kat has a busy life. She runs her own beauty salon and has an alcoholic father to worry about. To make matters worse she has just discovered she is pregnant. Kat and Max have only been together for six months and she has a turbulent relationship...
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A Tear in the Curtain is a historical novel. The story tells of three families, British, Hungarian and Russian, whose lives are linked for fifty years during the Cold War and afterwards. Their experiences reflect the danger, bravery, heartbreak, joy and sorrow of those days when Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. Four eleven year-olds spend an idyllic seaside holiday in England in August 1956, just before the Suez crisis and the Hungarian Uprising...
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The story of the Barrieri family, their four children and all the characters revolving around their lives, for better or for worse, go from the early years of 1900s to the post-second World War period. The first World War, the hard work at the land, the epidemics, the Fascist regime, fleeing abroad in exile, a society that changes violently or harshly at times, provide a frame for a series of events that show the reader an essential part of our history...
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A moving novel of betrayal and loss. This is the story of Anna. Against the odds, can you learn to trust and love again? The unremarkable rock of her family, Anna is content with her life until she discovers that Matthew, her husband of 22 years, is having an affair. Consumed by hurt and tainted memories, her life is turned upside down by betrayal and then loss. With her confidence destroyed, she is tormented by the shadow of Matthew's unknown lover....
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Modern events sometime demand the reissue of a book published several years ago. Hirsh's internationally acclaimed 1986 novel, Kabul, provides an almost miraculous window into a country and its people that now have captured the world's attention.
When the last Afghan king is deposed in the summer of 1973, the family of Omar Anwari, his loyal cabinet minister, is torn apart along with their country. Over seven turbulent years while Catherine, their...
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An emotional and uplifting book, which will have you gripped! Kat's life has become a blur of dirty nappies and sleepless nights. She has moved into the flat above the salon she owns, alone and without Max the father of her children. To make matters worse, Max has revealed he plans to remarry. Constantly on edge, her babies are taking up all of her time and Max is never around to help. Diagnosed with post-natal depression, Kat feels more alone than...
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One family will do whatever it takes to save all that they hold dear-a World War II saga of survival and hope from "a writer of great skill and vitality" (Sarah Harrison, international bestselling author).
Summer 1936: A sunny day in Kent, a perfect afternoon for a garden party, and everything seems right in the tranquil and ordered world of the Jordan family. But before the day is out that peace is shattered due to a war being fought in a country...
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No Life ordinary. There's always mystery... Ophelia Street, 1970. A street like any other, a community that lives and breathes together as people struggle with their commitments and pursue their dreams. It is a world we recognise, a world where class and gender divide, where set roles are, acknowledged. But, what happens when individuals step outside those roles? An observer amid Ophelia Street watches, writes, imagines, remembers, charting the lives...
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From an author praised for her "genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships," a historical family saga set during the Great Famine of Ireland (Irish Independent).One fateful morning in August 1846, Patrick Feeney surveys his ruined potato crop and despairs. With a delicate wife and their unborn child, he has no choice but to leave Ireland and set out for England in search of work. But from the moment Patrick and Mary set foot in Liverpool,...
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When Virginia, a feisty ninety-six-year-old schoolteacher, and her daughter, Anna, travel to Scheggino, Italy, to explore their roots, they uncover a secret about their family's history that connects them to the powerful Urbino Truffle Empire. They share the same last name, but no one in the village is talking...except for a one-eyed man named Enzo who still remembers. He believes some stones are better left unturned, but Virginia can feel the family...
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Our lives could go in many possible directions.What if we had taken that turn? Or this other fork in the road; said that one thing; or learned to hold our tongue and so not have to wish we could un-say it.Meet Anna and Ruth Goldberg, again and again, through many of the possible relationships between these women, mother and daughter.Bracketed by the same story, told once from Anna's perspective and then Ruth's, we see thirty glimpses of how these...
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A nineteenth-century family saga set during the Irish potato famine, in which a young woman must marry and emigrate to England to make a new life.
Maggie is sixteen years old and barely keeping her family alive in the throes of the Irish famine. As her mother is on her deathbed, Maggie is pressed to accept a proposal from their neighbor, Jack. With few options beyond marry or starve, Maggie weds Jack and they travel from their home in County...
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Going from black sheep to king, with the help of one very specialwoman…
Gabriel Montoro's worst nightmares are realized when his olderbrother abdicates the throne of Alma, leaving fun-loving playboy Gabenext in line. Now he needs to shape up-fast. That's where SerafiaEspina fits in.
The exquisite ex-supermodel can school him in thesocial niceties. But as they get into the royal routine, Gabe beginsto see this old family friend in a very different...
16) Flora Brown
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The year is 1880 and cousins John James Mackenzie and Sam Morling set out to make a new life for themselves in Scotland. Having never ventured beyond the shores of New Zealand, they seek adventure and excitement on their journey before settling at the Scottish estate owned by the Mackenzies, where, with John James' farming experience and Sam's desire for landscaping, they hope to restore the house and grounds to their former glory. The estate manager's...
17) Decalog
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You're a hardworking family man in a tight spot. Your side-business is failing, as is your marriage, daughter Nora needs surgery, son Graham has college dreams you can't afford. It chafes because you were raised to be a winner and never shook that expectation. The lengths a father goes to hold family together can make living with yourself a bit crowded. It's not 99% of a man that must be accounted, just the little sliver nobody knows. Can it be undone?...
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Now a young woman of social standing, Fanette still holds out hope of finding her sister. One day, out of the blue, she receives a letter from Amanda and a mysterious request to meet in secret. But Amanda's troubled past catches up with her and ruins their reunion. A matter of revenge to which both sisters are inextricably linked, unbeknownst to them, proves to have unexpected repercussions. Journeying back in time, parallel to Fanette's story, the...
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He's a rich bachelor. She's inherited his fortune. Let the fun begin! Only from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Bevarly!
Meet Gracie Sumner, reluctant Cinderella. When the down-to-earth Midwesterner learns her deceptively humble neighbor left her fourteen billion-with-a-b dollars, she doesn't know what to do. Especially when said neighbor's shunned heir, Harrison Sage III, stakes his claim.
Harrison is not amused, especially when...
20) Stone Sober
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Stone Hawke is precisely the kind of man women are warned about-handsome, intelligent, arrogant, and intricately entangled with some dangerous people. I should stay away, but he manages to strip my soul bare with just a look and dominates my thoughts. Bad decisions are in my past. My life is (mostly) on track, even if it is no longer the one to medical school. I can't allow myself to cave to the fierce pull and ardent attraction I feel toward the...