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81) The fire child
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
When Rachel marries dark, handsome David, everything seems to fall into place. Swept from single life in London to the beautiful Carnhallow House in Cornwall, she gains wealth, love, and an affectionate stepson, Jamie.But then Jamie?s behaviour changes, and Rachel?s perfect life begins to unravel. He makes disturbing predictions, claiming to be haunted by the spectre of his late mother - David?s previous wife. Is this Jamie?s way of punishing Rachel,...
Author
Publisher
Robinson
Pub. Date
2014
Description
It is also the dramatic illustration of a little understood truth: the Spitfire did more than win the Battle of Britain - it won the war. It was not Stalingrad which turned the corner of the war against Hitler, it was the Spitfire in the summer of 1940 when RAF Fighter Command destroyed the myth of Nazi invincibility.Praise for his previous books:London: The Autobiography:'Fascinating ... brings the story of London to life' Good Book guideThe English...
Author
Publisher
Manilla Press
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The sunniest places hold the darkest secrets . . . A stunning 1950s set debut mystery brimming with atmosphere and perfect for fans of Tangerine, Small Pleasures and Mad Men. Yesterday, I kissed my husband for the last time . . . It's the summer of 1959, and the well-trimmed lawns of Sunnylakes, California, wilt under the sun. At some point during the long, long afternoon, Joyce Haney, wife, mother, vanishes from her home, leaving behind two terrified...
84) Cold as hell
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Series
An �r�ra Investigation volume 1
Publisher
ORENDA BOOKS
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Icelandic sisters �r�ra and �safold live in different countries and aren?t on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with �safold, �r�ra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon realizes that her sister isn?t avoiding her ? she has disappeared, without trace. As she confronts �safold?s abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend Bj�rn, and begins to probe her sister?s reclusive neighbours - who have their own...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Description
During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital, along with the baby. Pea's father has died in an accident and Maman, burdened by her double grief and isolated from the village by her Englishness, has retreated to a place where Pea cannot reach...
Author
Series
Aim�e Leduc Investigation volume 14
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2014
Description
New York Times Bestseller Cara Black?s fashionable Parisian P.I. Aim�e Leduc has a new look for her 14th adventure: five months pregnant. June, 1998: Paris?s sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private investigator Aim�e Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle-she?s five months pregnant and has the baby?s well-being to think about now. But then...
87) Cavendon Hall
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Two entwined families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them. One stately home: Cavendon Hall, a grand imposing house nestled in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Two best friends: DeLacy Ingham, daughter of the earl, and Ceci Swann, daughter of the valet. Inseparable from childhood, but with two very different destinies. But the year
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2020
Description
A single father gets an unexpected second chance at love in the heart-warming new novel from the bestselling author of The Library of Lost and Found. Only his daughter Poppy knows that behind his prickly exterior, Mitchell Fisher is deeply lonely. He may have sworn off romance, relishing his job cutting off the padlocks that couples fasten to his hometown?s famous ?love story? bridge... but underneath it all, he?s still grieving the loss of Poppy?s...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
They keep each other?s secrets. They hide each other?s lies. They were destined to be best friends. The four girls - all born that same hot summer. There was even a newspaper article after they were born. They said there must be something in the water on Larkspur Close. They predicted a safe and happy life for them all? More than thirty years later, it?s more than an unbreakable friendship - it?s more like a sisterhood. It?s the girls who Jess reaches...
90) Autumn
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Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016? Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever. Ali Smith's new novel is a meditation on a world growing ever more bordered...
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Series
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2018
Description
In 1944, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton arrives in London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France. He works closely with Dorothy Fairfax, a "Wren" in the Women's Royal Naval Service. Dorothy pieces together reconnaissance photographs with thousands of holiday snapshots of France--including those of her own family's summer home--in order to create accurate maps of Normandy. Maps that Wyatt will turn into naval bombardment plans. As the...
92) 1914: a novel
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Jean Echenoz, the multi-award-winning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiable-and still unthinkable-carnage of trench warfare. With the delicacy of a miniaturist and with irony both witty and clear-eyed, the author offers us an intimate epic with the atmosphere of a classic movie: in the panorama...
Author
Publisher
Monte Cassino Press
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Childhood memories are priceless. A lot of them were made more endearing by dogs in our lives. In this book, "Puppy Curly's First Four Seasons," the friendship between a boy and his dog, Puppy Curly, is celebrated. They share most memorable bonding moments from winter, spring, summer, and fall. The love between child and pet is forged, and they look forward to many more happy times together. Children readers will get a peek into the valuable times...
94) Best friends
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Sinjin the badly burned black cat. . .who survived to welcome others home Victor the abandoned Australian Shepherd mix. . . the capo among dogs Tyson and Tommy, two tiny black kittens. . .who had something to teach us all Discover Best Friends A Place Where Every Animal Is Safe. . .Loved. . .And Never, Ever Killed In the summer of 1982, a group of young men and women pooled every penny they had and bought 3,000 acres of high desert called Angel Canyon,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Alice Lang was wearing her favourite scarlet dress when she disappeared twenty-five years ago, and her memory still casts a long shadow. In the long, hot summer of 1995, twenty-two-year-old Alice Lang rents a caravan on a holiday park on the outskirts of the lively holiday resort of Severn Sands. She befriends Marnie, a shy, damaged little girl whose father is the park's caretaker and whose mother died a few months earlier. Will, whose mother runs...
96) The ice dragon
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Lavish illustrations by acclaimed artist Luis Royo enrich this captivating and heartwarming story of a young girl and her dragon. From ancient times, the ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember. Adara could not...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
The perfect read for fans of the sweeping historical novels of Santa Montefiore & Victoria Hislop.Constantinople, 1921 Each day Nur gazes across the waters of the Bosphorus to her childhood home, a grand white house, nestled on the opposite bank. Memories float on the breeze - the fragrance of the fig trees, the saffron sunsets of languid summer evenings. But now those days are dead.The house has been transformed into an army hospital, it is a prize...
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Series
Dinner Lady Detectives volume 3
Publisher
Canelo Crime
Pub. Date
2023
Description
The local mayor has a dinner date with death? With school out for the summer, Margery and Clementine Butcher-Baker are taking advantage of the break to go on holiday. They plan to explore the village of St-Martins-on-the-Water and rest before the chaos of Mrs Smith's impending hen do. By the end of their first night, the local mayor lies dead on the floor of the hotel restaurant, having been poisoned by his meal. The villagers are convinced: The Poisoner...
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Series
The Penwith Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Maze
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Christmas will be slightly less turbulent than summer, won?t it? Demi certainly hopes so. She and Cal are keeping their fledgling relationship under wraps for now. But then Kit Bannen, a hunky, blond - and somewhat mysterious - writer arrives at Kilhallon Resort, and not everyone is charmed. Cal is sure that Kit is hiding something. But is he the only one guarding a secret? Demi is busy baking festive treats for the newly opened Demelza?s cafe, but...
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Series
Puffin Island volume 1
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Windswept, isolated and ruggedly beautiful, Puffin Island is a haven for day-trippers and daydreamers alike. But this charming community has a way of bringing people together in the most unexpected ways? It's been a summer of firsts for Emily Donovan. From becoming a stand-in mom to her niece Lizzie to arriving on Puffin Island, her life has become virtually unrecognizable. Between desperately safeguarding Lizzie and her overwhelming fear of the ocean-which...
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