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Pub. Date
2014
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It's 1939, and three ten-year-old girls meet on a station platform. Imogen, Rita and Debby all missed the original evacuation and now the authorities are finding it difficult to place them. When Auntie and her niece, Jill, who run the Canary and Linnet Public House, offer to take them in, the billeting officer is greatly relieved. The countryside i
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Series
Pub. Date
2014
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After the fall of France, Hazel, Irene and Carol are sent from the east end of Newcastle to the safety of a country village. Billeted in a grand house with a spinster and her niece, the three young evacuees' futures will be irrevocably changed by their new lives. When peace is declared, and Hazel and Irene return to the families they were forced to
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Publisher
Paragon
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Large print ed. Pbk.
Description
Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her niece, is in love with a dashing upper-class undergraduate. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves.
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Publisher
Piatkus
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Whitby 1901. Sarah Brook has kept diaries for most of her life. Now 85 and at the end of her own journey, she allows her favourite great-niece Esther to read them. But while full of Sarah's thoughts and dreams, and family stories, the diaries also hold dark family secrets about the past, which are about to be exposed. Originally published: 2011
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1835. Clementine Morris, despite her youth and inexperience, is hired by Zachariah Fleet to care for his recently orphaned niece and nephew. He tells her he wishes the young children to have more than a governess, and her heart goes out to the grieving infants. Clementine, too, is an orphan, and all alone in the world. But little does she know that
10) The still point
Author
Publisher
Clipper Large Print
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Large print ed.
Description
Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North pole and vanishes into the icy landscape. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades. 100 years later Edward's great-grand-niece Julia moves through the family house and makes a discovery that splinters her long-held image of Edward and Emily's romance.
11) The summer guest
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Lexi and her husband Sam have put their heart and soul into renovating No. 3 Cashel Square. Lexi's mother thinks it's high time they had a baby, but Lexi's thriving art gallery keeps her more than busy. Plus her headstrong niece Amelie seems to have practically moved in. And then, just as summer arrives, a mysterious stranger knocks on the door. Kathleen Williams has come from America, longing to see the house in Cashel Square where she was born,...
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Series
The Isabel Dalhousie novels volume 40
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Isabel Dalhousie is one of Edinburgh's most generous (but discreet) philanthropists - but should she be more charitable? She wonders, sometimes, if she is too judgmental about her niece's amorous exploits, too sharp about her housekeeper's spiritual beliefs, too ready to bristle in battle against her enemies. As the editor of the Review of Applied
14) The street
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Alice Keiver is a sensitive girl, growing up in one of the roughest parts of North London. As the daughter of an alcoholic mother, and niece of an abusive uncle, she dreams that one day she and her baby sister will escape their rotten surroundings.
15) Code
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
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Tory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet. Life appears peaceful on Loggerhead Island - rescued from financial disaster, the research institute is flourishing once more. But the tranquility is quickly shattered when Tory Brennan and her technophile gang discover a mysterious
16) The Maidens
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike. Particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated when one of The Maidens, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered. Mariana, who was...
17) Disobey
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Martina Cole watch out! This is a hard-hitting thriller that you won?t forget in a hurry ?Bad things are going down in Soho. Someone?s going to have to pay the price?Alfie Jenkins breaks a lot of rules. When he sets up an illegal casino in Soho there?s bad will all round and soon Alfie and those closest to him become embroiled in an all-out war with a dangerous gang.Unfortunately this gang is a deadly enemy to have. When Alfie?s teenage niece Chloe...
18) Clownfish
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Pub. Date
2018
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?What?s it like, Dad - being a fish?? Grief takes many forms, and manifests itself in strange ways. Sometimes very strange indeed. When, on an ordinary morning, Dak's father suddenly dies of a heart attack, Dak's mother falls apart. Desperate to escape the atmosphere at home, Dak finds himself going to his dad's favourite place - the local aquarium. And there, to his amazement, is Dad, who it seems is alive and well as a clownfish! With his mum so...
19) The bone bed
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Series
Kay Scarpetta volume 20
Description
A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures,...
20) Vagabonds
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Emma Grady Trilogy volume 3
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1885 - ex-convict Emma Grady has returned to her hometown of Blackburn and been reunited with her lover Marlow. Now married, with a beautiful home, loving husband and wonderful son, she is still haunted by the past, unable to forget the cruelty of her uncle Caleb Crowther, who ignored her desperate pleas to save her and her tragic first-born. A feared local justice, Crowther curses his niece?s return and sets out to destroy her anew, whilst also hounding...
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