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Pub. Date
2017
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Suffolk, 1925. At only 16 years old, May Moon travels to West Wick, Suffolk to become the local Punch and Judy girl. Determined to fulfil her dead father's wishes, and to continue his business, May has her work cut out for her during her summer on the beach. Staying with a local family, she not only enjoys the silvery sand and sunshine, she also experiences first love, partings and reunions. And, before long, realises that performing might be in her...
2) The bees
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Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2014
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Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. And while mutant bees are usually instantly destroyed, Flora is reassigned to feed the newborns, before becoming a forager, collecting pollen on the wing. Then she finds her...
3) The scoop
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Kensington
Pub. Date
2009
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#1�New York Times�bestselling author Fern Michaels?s popular The Godmothers series follows the exploits of four unforgettable women who are about to get a whole new lease on life? Teresa ?Toots? Amelia Loudenberry has crammed a great deal of living-not to mention eight much-loved husbands-into her varied and rewarding life. Once again single, Toots is ready to taste life again, and fate has just handed her the perfect opportunity? The owner of...
4) The mother
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Avon
Pub. Date
2017
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Prepare to be gripped by the heart-stopping new thriller from the author of The Madam.South London detective Sarah Mason is a single mother. It?s a tough life, but Sarah gets by. She and her ex-husband, fellow detective Graham Boyd, adore their 15-month-old daughter Molly.Until Sarah?s world falls apart when she receives a devastating threat: Her daughter has been taken, and the abductor plans to raise Molly as their own, as punishment for something...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static. Francesca is Caro?s stepmother and Pauly?s mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen. The high house was once her holiday home, now looked after by locals Grandy and Sally, she has turned it into an ark, for when the time comes. The mill powers the generator, the orchard is carefully pruned, the greenhouse has all its glass intact. Almost a family,...
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This title is also published as Helena's Secret. A magical house. A momentous summer. It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, 'Pandora', is left to her by her godfather, she returns to spend the summer there with her family. Yet Helena knows that the idyllic beauty of Pandora masks a web of secrets she has kept from William, her husband,...
7) The daughter
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Pub. Date
2018
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You lost your daughter. You will never forgive yourself. And now someone is determined to make you pay ? Seventeen years ago, something happened to Jess?s daughter Beth. The memory of it still makes her blood run cold. Jess has tried everything to make peace with that day, and the part she played in what happened. It was only a brief moment of desire ? but she?ll pay for it with a lifetime of guilt. To distance herself from the mistakes of the past,...
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Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters are a handful and Clara, a senior cardiac specialist, has a new job to cope with ... For Ania, meeting Clara Casey is a miracle: she had never intended to leave her beloved Poland, but after the love of her life has turned sour, her world seems rather empty. Perhaps a new job in a new country will mend her broken heart? Declan is looking forward to joining the clinic - but what should have...
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Pub. Date
2012
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Ferrante?s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else. As they grow, as their paths repeatedly diverge and converge,...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017
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An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Man Booker long-listed author of My Name is Lucy Barton Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after seventeen years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind.
11) Last summer
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Series
Yorktide Maine Novel volume 7
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2011
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The town of Yorktide, close to Maine's beautiful beaches and the city of Portland, seems like the perfect place to raise a family. For Jane Patterson, there's another advantage: her best friend, Frannie Giroux, lives next door, and their teenaged daughters, Rosie and Meg, are inseparable. But in the girls' freshman year of high school, everything changes. Jane always felt lucky that she was able to work from home, to be there to nurture and protect...
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Flowers of Scotland volume 2
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Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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...
13) The ice twins
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A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives. But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity - that she, in fact, is Lydia
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Chocolat volume 2
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'Who died?' I said. 'Or is it a secret?' 'My mother, Vianne Rocher.' Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop.Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door.The wind has stopped - at least for a while.Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, the lady with the lollipop shoes, and everything begins...
16) The horsewoman
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
The residents of Atwood Farm - Caroline Atwood, her daughter, Maggie, and granddaughter Becky McCabe - proudly uphold the tradition of Olympic equestrian competition, which pits all competitors against each other regardless of gender or age. Their barn in Wellington, Florida, has trained champion horses and riders alike, but the US Olympic trials season is unpredictable. Becky, riding the fearless Dutch warmblood Sky, thrives on adrenaline in the...
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018
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Running away for the second time in her life, twenty-seven-year old Ava believes the cook's job at a country B&B is perfect, until she meets the owner's son, John Tate. The young fifth-generation grazier is a beguiling blend of both man, boy and a terrible flirt. With their connection immediate and intense, they begin a clandestine affair right under the noses of John's formidable parents. Thirty years later, Ava returns to Candlebark Creek with her...
18) Breaking News
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Series
The Godmothers volume 5
Publisher
Kensington
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Teresa 'Toots' Amelia Loudenberry is extending her stay in Charleston to help care for her ailing housekeeper, Bernice. Here in her beloved hometown, the air is rich with the scent of azaleas and honeysuckle and there's always a pitcher of sweet tea close to hand. Not that the ladies have much time for relaxing!
19) The graduate
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RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2021
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Published in 1963, Charles Webb?s The Graduate was a sly and provocative first novel that is often overshadowed by the success of Mike Nichol?s sensational 1967 film. The Graduate is a novel that speaks to its time: a time when young Americans were beginning to question, for perhaps the first time, the materialistic values that the postwar culture had taught them. Its hero is at once worldly and naive, a dichotomy that won?t last for very long as...
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William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014
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Mary Hogan?s powerful and poignant debut novel about two sisters-opposites in every way-plus their mother and the secrets and lies that define them all. One family, two sisters, a lifetime of secrets . . . The third child in a family that wanted only two, Muriel Sullivant has always been an outsider. Short, dark-haired and round, she worships her beautiful blonde sister, Pia, and envies the close bond she shares with their mother, Lidia. Growing up...
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