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1) Ragged Rose
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Pub. Date
2016
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Barbican, London 1875. Rose and her little sister Cora are known in London's East End as The Sunshine Sisters. They're hiding a secret - one that could see them turned out on the streets without a penny to their name. When their brother is sent to prison for a crime that he didn't commit, it signals the start of the family's woes. Cora finds herself caught up in an illicit relationship with a cad and is thrown out by their strict father. As the family...
2) Dishonour
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Laila is beautiful and kind and clever - traits that will get her into trouble. Make people dislike her, and when she starts hanging around with an English boy, Ray Ray, she brings shame on her family and needs to be taught a lesson. But Laila and Ray Ray are in love and don't heed the warnings. There are dangerous men in the world, men who are alw
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Avon
Pub. Date
2017
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Beth is running away. With her young son Leo to protect, Willow Cottage is the lifeline she so desperately needs. Overlooking the village green in a beautiful Cotswolds idyll, Beth sees a warm, caring and safe place for little Leo. When she finally uncovers the cottage from underneath the boughs of a weeping willow tree, Beth realises this is far more of a project than she bargained for and the locals are more than a little eccentric! A chance encounter...
4) Ashley Bell
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Series
Ashley Bell volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
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The girl who said no to death. Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman-whose doctor says she has one year to live. She replies, ?We?ll see.? Her sudden recovery astonishes medical science. An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. But save her from what, from whom? And who is Ashley Bell? Where is she? Bibi?s obsession with finding Ashley sends her on the run...
5) Still me
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Me Before You volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
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THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LOU CLARK IS BACK in the BRAND NEW Jojo Moyes novel Still Me, follow-up to the Number One international bestsellers Me Before You and After You. Lou Clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to meet...
6) Trap door
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
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Unabridged ed.
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100 years ago, young women were killed in this workplace. Is history about to repeat itself? Rachel, a young woman in serious debt, needs to find a job fast before she?s made homeless. She gets a lucky break when she is offered a great position in a successful company. Then she discovers that the building was once a Victorian sweatshop with a tragic history. Is this why Rachel feels something increasingly sinister? Soon her new job becomes a living...
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Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2016
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The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel that?s as big-hearted as it is laugh-out-loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto, amid the culture clash of new money and old (antiestablishment) values, and with the specter of our current wars looming across its pages, The Portable Veblen is an unforgettable look at the way we live now. A young couple on the brink of marriage-the charming Veblen and her fianc� Paul, a brilliant neurologist-find...
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Avon
Pub. Date
2017
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Is holding on harder than letting go?Dan?s life has fallen apart at the seams. He?s lost his house, his job is on the line, and now he?s going to lose his family too. All he?s ever wanted is to keep them together, but is everything beyond repair?Maria is drowning in grief. She spends her days writing letters that will never be answered. Nights are spent trying to hold terrible memories at bay, to escape the pain that threatens to engulf her.Jack wakes...
9) Taken
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All she wanted to do was get out of there. Get on a train and head for London, the place she?d been avoiding for so many years. But it was finally time. Casey Edwards has demons to put to rest. Since she had to give away her baby at 15, she?s been lost in booze and bad company. But now she wants to find her child and put things right. Heading to Soho, Casey meets former gangster Vince Sadler, an old-school hard man who can still handle himself - and...
10) The illusionists
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Pub. Date
2014
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London 1870. A terrifying place for a young, beautiful woman of limited means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling if respectable conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her work as an artist's model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil - a born showman whose dream is to
11) The button box
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Pub. Date
2017
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Clara held onto the precious button, glimmering like a jewel in the dark alleyways of London?s notorious Seven Dials. She needed to save her family? but who was going to save her? There was a time when the Carter sisters? father was their hero. Now he?s a drunk who?s gambled away everything they had and put them all in peril. It's on Clara's shoulders to save the four sisters from destitution. Clutching her precious button box, the only thing of value...
12) Gingerbread
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Pub. Date
2019
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Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there?s the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but it?s very popular in...
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Alex Cross volume 25
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The charges: explosive Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law - until now. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. Cross knows it was self-defence. But will a jury see it that way? The evidence: shocking As Cross fights for his freedom, his former partner John Sampson brings him a gruesome video...
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Shine! volume 3
Pub. Date
2019
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Lily has never felt like she deserves to be at The Shine School for the Performing Arts. She's sure she only got a place because of her famous actress mum. Then she finds out about an exciting new TV adaptation of her favourite book, Little Women, and everything clicks - this is her chance to prove herself! Will she be able to convince everyone else that this is the perfect part for her?.
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Flowers of Scotland volume 1
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Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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When you're chasing a dream, does it matter where you come from? Upper-class Lucy Graham is expected simply to marry well. Poverty-stricken Rosie Nesbitt struggles just to get by. Both girls share the unlikely dream to become a doctor, and each will do anything to succeed. When their paths cross at a party filled with eligible bachelors it soon becomes clear that their chosen career isn't the only desire they share. With society's conventions stacked...
16) Harm's way
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I always think that if you walk around thinking you can have anything you want, you usually can. For confident nineteen-year-old Anna, finding men is easy, holding on to them unnecessary. Moving to Paris brings her a new job, a new life and a new friend in the form of a woman twenty years her senior, Beth. As they fall in love with the city, Anna is irresistibly drawn to Beth's warmth and charm. When Beth falls in love with an attractive Frenchman,...
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East End Ration volume 3
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In the darkest days of the Blitz, family is more important than ever. With her family struggling amidst the nightly bombing raids in London?s East End, Ida Brogan is doing her very best to keep their spirits up. The Blitz has hit the Brogans hard, and rationing is more challenging than ever, but they are doing all they can to help the war effort. When Ida?s oldest friend Ellen returns to town, sick and in dire need of help, it is to Ida that she turns....
18) Picture perfect
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Geek Girl volume 3
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It?s the hilarious third book in the GEEK GIRL series! Harriet Manners knows more facts than most. She knows that New York is the most populous city in the United States. She knows that its official motto is ?Ever Upward?. She knows that one in thirty-eight people living in the US lives there. But she knows nothing whatsoever about modelling in the Big Apple and how her family will cope with life stateside. Or ?becoming a brand? as the models in New...
19) The winter baby
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Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Alone at Christmas, will she find somewhere to call home? No more than 18 years old, alone and heavily pregnant, Kathleen stumbles through the snow, desperate for somewhere to rest her weary head. As the Christmas bells chime around her, she glimpses a man through the haze, before collapsing into his arms. On a farm in the beautiful Kent countryside, Jessie and her family take Kathleen in as their own. But little do they know that there's a baby on...
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Flowers of Scotland volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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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...
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