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1) Sarah's gift
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Waterfront volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
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Sarah has been married and widowed three times and seen great success in her business life. Now at the age of ninety-four, she signs her final will and testament pleased with how it will throw the cat among the family pigeons. She has left her luxurious home in a waterside development in Mandurah, Western Australia, to two female relatives in the UK, on the condition that they live in the house together for a year after that which they can sell it...
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Comfort Food Cafe volume 4
Pub. Date
2018
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As cosy as a buttered crumpet? Sunday Times bestseller Milly JohnsonPerched on a windswept cliff on the stunning Dorset coast at what feels like the edge of the world, the caf� and its warm-hearted community are a haven for lost souls who happen to wander by with a heavy heart and a story to tell.Serving up the most delicious cream teas; beautifully baked breads, and carefully crafted cupcakes, there?s nothing a cup of tea and a delicious treat...
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Cedar Cove volume 10
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Dear Reader, Guess what? I'm falling in love! With Mack McAfee. My baby daughter, Noelle, and I have been living next door to Mack since the spring. I'm still a little wary about our relationship, because I haven't always made good decisions when it comes to men. My baby's father, David Rhodes, is testament to that. I'm so worried he might sue for custody. In the meantime, the World War II letters I found are a wonderful distraction. Both Mack and...
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A epic, escapist novel that will transport you away to an extraordinary time in history. Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Victoria Hislop.?Fabulously engrossing? Woman & HomeRome, 1950s. One fateful night, Hal Jacobs meets Stella, a beautiful society darling from New York. To Hal, flailing in the post-war darkness, she?s a point of light. They?re from different worlds, but both trying and failing to carve out a new life.Stella vanishes all too...
5) Milkman
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In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous....
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Chesapeake Shores volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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When her last two plays are dismal failures, and her relationship with her tempramental mentor falls apart, writer Bree O'Brien abandons Chicago to return to Chesapeake Shores. Opening Flowers on the Main promises to bring a new type of challenge, but Bree's homecoming proves to be anything but peaceful and serene.
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Pub. Date
2018
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Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at ?normality? for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for the new friends she never expected to make - who each have their own reasons for being there. Luckily Olive has a plan to solve all their problems. But how do you fix the world when you can?t fix yourself?.
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Avon
Pub. Date
2017
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Prepare to fall in love with beautiful village of Burley Bridge. Growing up in a quiet Yorkshire village, Roxanne couldn?t wait to escape and find her place in the world in London. As a high-powered fashion editor she lives a glamorous life of perennial singlehood - or so it seems to her sister Della. But when Roxanne gets her heart broken by a fashion photographer, she runs away, back to Della?s welcoming home above her bookshop in Burley Bridge....
10) Dear Evelyn
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Pub. Date
2018
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Since the American debut of her novel Alphabet, a Kirkus Best Book of 2014 and an Indie Next Pick of 2014, and the 2016 Giller Longlisting of her collection The Two of Us, Page has developed an enthusiastic and loyal readership among booksellers and critics across the U.S. (see Market below for more info).
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Harper
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Janet is determined to make something of herself, instead of being chained to a sink with a baby a year like most women of her generation. She passes her eleven-plus and wins a scholarship to go to a good grammar school, but her father refuses to believe that girls have the right to do anything other than look after their husbands and raise children.Struggling to fit in at her new school and picked on by the other girls, Janet befriends, Ruth, another...
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The Little Cornish Isles volume 2
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Avon
Pub. Date
2018
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The Little Cornish Isles is the heartwarming new series from the bestselling author of Summer at the Cornish Cafe. Authors love Phillipa Ashley?s books:?Warm and funny and feel-good. The best sort of holiday read.? Katie Fforde?Filled with warm and likeable characters. Great fun!? Jill Mansell?A glorious, tantalising taste of Cornwall, I could almost taste the salt of the sea air as I read it.? Jules Wake?The perfect read for wherever you take your...
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE coming in September 2018 starring GLENN CLOSE A husband. A wife. A secret. Behind any great man, there?s always a greater woman. Joe and Joan Castleman are on an aeroplane, 35,000 feet above the ocean. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he is about to receive and Joan is plotting how to leave him. For too long Joan has played the role of supportive wife, turning a blind eye to his misdemeanours,...
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HarperImpulse
Pub. Date
2017
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Emma is the proud owner of The Chocolate Shop by the Sea, nestled in the heart of the cosy seaside village that?s become her home. With Christmas right around the corner, she and her assistant Holly are busy cooking up the locals? festive favourites.From cinnamon hot chocolates to reindeer lollipops, Christmas wouldn?t taste the same without a little cocoa magic. And for Emma it?s the perfect distraction from her romantic pains of the past. So when...
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McCluskey Saga volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
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Angela McClusky is haunted by the young baby that she left on the steps of the workhouse. Born out of wedlock and the result of a traumatic assault, the child has grown up away from the loving arms of her mother and only has a locket to remind her of the family she never knew.Angela, meanwhile, has carried the guilt of her actions with her for almost a decade, now widowed and alone, she is courted by a new suitor, Eddie, who seems to offer her the...
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When orphaned Posy Morland inherits a crumbling bookshop from her late benefactor, Lavinia, what at first seems a dream come true quickly starts to look like a disaster waiting to happen. Posy has spent her life living and working at Bookends, but after years under Lavinia?s refusal to modernise, the bookshop is now in very real danger of going under. Determined to reinvent, Posy has a plan to turn the premises into a bookshop that specialises in...
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Empire Street volume 4
Pub. Date
2017
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Kitty has seen her fair share of tragedy and instead of thinking about romance, is determined to do her bit for King and country. Her life as a WREN means she is kept busy much of the time, but when Kitty finds herself stationed back home on Merseyside, she meets up again with Frank Feeny, the brave young officer who has always held a place in her heart. Britain is on the verge of victory, but will Kitty embrace the future and learn to love again?....
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Pub. Date
2018
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The compelling new bestseller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey. Alice Lake has arrived in London from Liverpool to start her training as a District Nurse, but her journey has been far from easy. Her parents think that she should settle down and get married, but she has already had her heart broken once and isn?t about to make the same mistake again. Alice and her best friend Edith are based in the East End but before...
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Coronation Street volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
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Elsie Grimshaw lives in one of the worst streets in Weatherfield and is desperate to escape from life at home with a brutal father and the drudgery of working at the local mill. Grabbing at the slim chances that come her way, Elsie emerges from the heartbreak of first love and her marriage to bad boy, Arnold Tanner at only sixteen years old, if not much older, then certainly wiser.Going under her married name of Elsie Tanner, she and Arnold move in...
20) Indecent
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HQ
Pub. Date
2018
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She?s a teacher. She knows the rules. When recent college graduate Imogene Abney takes a job as a teacher at pricey and exclusive The Vandenberg School, an institution populated by the most privileged boys in America, she is plunged into an unfamiliar world. Struggling to adjust, Imogene welcomes the friendship of student Adam Kipling. But when Adam starts taking things too far, she crosses a line that could result in disaster -losing her job, jail,...
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