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Pages - Book 3, by EA Harwik - A modern family saga. ------ ISBN: 9780980677652Pages - Book 3 is the story of two the younger Page siblings, Peta and Jamie. Unlike their older brother David. Peta and Jamie are the product of a privileged boarding school education.The Pages trilogy will question and define the boundaries of normal in modern society. Where secrets challenge the fabric of friendship and family. --------- Book 1 - ISBN: 9780980677621...
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The future of the Seabreeze Inn hinges on one gala event, but will the history of the beachside inn threaten its survival?
When Ivy Bay's historic Seabreeze Inn requires critical repairs, a benefactor offers help, and the announcement ripples through the art world and beyond.
However, the auction of an incomparable Victorian necklace attracts people Ivy never expected. Soon, a host of characters descend on quiet
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Torn apart by war – a promise will hold them together… As the shadows of the Blitz hang over London, young Davey finds himself the man of the house when his father leaves to fight in the war. Trying his best to support his mum and to protect his sister, Davey's good intentions find him mixed up with the wrong crowd. To keep him safe, and out of trouble, Davey is sent away from everything he has ever known, to a new life far away in Canada. He...
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Back in the deep recesses before the time of natural law, it was established the world needed a disinterested panel to oversee the business of mankind...High above the land was a suspended mist that housed a board of wizards, priests, and seers. Under the direction of the Ancient Ones, they were directed to guide the course of man's affairs.
When corruption was discovered, they selected from the earth a pair of innocents. Upon the intercession of...
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This book is a really unique look at the greatest war. Find out who the son of Odin was. Discover why the God of heaven favored the people is the land of the golden eagle. Find out where the land of the dragon was, and who the king of the Samurai was. Discover who the great Author was and how he defeated this evil empire. Learn what the amazing weapon was that the devastated their land with! Read the story poem battle epic to discover how ancient...
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From an author praised for her "genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships," a historical saga about an immigrant Irish family in Yorkshire (Irish Independent).
Summer, 1867: a sudden change in fortune promises to save the Feeneys from their life of poverty. But what will save the Feeney family from itself?
Patrick and Thomasin Feeney and their children, Erin, Richard and Sonny, each have different dreams-and as these dreams grow...
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An uplifting page-turner about love, loss and hope Since Kat made her decision, everything around her seems to be falling apart. Not only is she dealing with family's secrets, lies and deceit but the salon, which is opening around the corner, threatens her livelihood. To make matters worse her relationship with Max is on the rocks. Although her relationships with Max's mother, her step-mother and her sister have grown stronger, are they strong enough?...
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Die Liebesgeschichte von Susan und Mike geht in die dritte Runde und obwohl Susan mittlerweile in London bei Mike lebt, befinden sie sich Lichtjahre von einer normalen Partnerschaft oder gar Alltag entfernt. Sie erleben die Tournee durch Skandinavien, Susan eröffnet ihr Geschäft. Ein Anruf verändert alles.
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Are you looking for the perfect summer holiday read of 2018? Then you'll love the emotional and heart-warming Posy of Promises What happens when the relationship you have taken for granted suddenly ends? Ava Connors is comfortable with her life just as it is, still living in the tiny terrace house where she was, brought up by her grandmother, Maggie, seeing her long-term boyfriend, Finlay, and working in a florist. But, Maggie's health is declining...
10) Erin's Child
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A struggling Irish family in nineteenth century England sets its hopes on a new generation in the third volume of this dramatic historical saga.
England, 1875. The Feeney family has finally escaped the squalid slums of York. Though they have worked hard to rise up from poverty, they have not left hardship behind. The father Patrick remains a man of simple tastes, increasingly out of touch with his wife Thomasin's ambition to expand her business empire...
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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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For over three hundred years, that's what the Hamilton family has called a shrinking swath of farmland in the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina.
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That's the failing tobacco farm where Walter and Maggie Hamilton choose to raise their three children. Walter has big plans to make the farm more profitable, but his plans are interrupted by World War II and family heartbreak. Walter returns from the war a changed man and finds Maggie,...
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1929. Upon receipt of an unexpected inheritance, small-time crook Horace Butterfield purchases Crossway Lodge, a large house in rural Essex, and sets about turning it into his dream home. Buying an enormous antique chandelier in order to enhance his brand-new ballroom, he is intrigued by the dealer's story behind its provenance: A young woman who lost all her money in the Wall Street Crash and was forsaken by her lover is said to have hanged herself...
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Based on the themes and ideas presented in the excerpts from The Neotelian Chronicles, here are some potential key takeaways a reader may have after reading the full novel:A sense of wonder about the mysteries of life - The story could rekindle that childhood curiosity and openness to possibility that often fades with age. Readers may feel more awe about the world.An appreciation for intellectual humility - Alex and Casey's journey shows the value...
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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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A dream wedding in French wine country becomes the perfect venue for family drama in this heartwarming novel of love, family, and happily ever after.
Matilda Parker is flying to France for what should be the wedding of her dreams. But she soon discovers that her dreams are beside the point. Her mother Freda has spent a year planning the perfect wedding, and nothing-not even a house full of relatives, the imminent arrival of her feckless son-in-law-to-be,...
18) A Parallel Life
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Eccentricity is the family byword for the Compton-Milnes-The Compton-Milnes are eccentric, to say the least. A marriage between Gus, a reclusive but brilliant professor, and Lisa, a promiscuous cosmetic surgery addict, has produced Ben, an OCD-riddled genius, and his self-sacrificing sister Harriet, while Gus's acerbic invalid mother rules over them all from her attic throne room. But when Lisa's lover turns on her, the family must pull together to...
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Sarah Johnson was beginning a new life.She arrived in Brookdale, with the promise of marriage to the local Sheriff all the while desperately hoping that no one, especially her fiance, would discover who she truly was. She was born Sarah Clayborn. The daughter of an alcoholic and outlaw who ran a safe house in Oklahoma for the infamousMackenzie gang. When Sarah's father promised her in marriage to the gang's violent leader, Bruce Mackenzie, Sarah knew...
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At sixteen Verity Barforth becomes sole heiress to a fortune founded on the wool mills of Yorkshire. But women - whether heiress or mill hand in the Barforth weaving sheds - do not control their own destinies. Obedient to the conventions of the Victorian age, she accepts a marriage of convenience and cloaks her proud spirit in the silks and satins of a society hostess.
But for Verity, convention is not enough. When at last she falls in love it is...