Barbara Taylor Bradford
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Seeking some much-needed rest and relaxation after a long stint as a TV-news war correspondent in Bosnia, 33-year-old Bill Fitzgerald travels to Venice. There he is struck by the dark beauty of a young American woman, Vanessa Stewart, a 27-year-old glass designer from New York. Unhappily married, she welcomes a no-strings friendship with Bill. Soon they embark on an illicit affair and find themselves desperately in love. They vow to see each other...
2) Act of will
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English
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Audra Kenton's story begins in 1926 England. As a hospital nurse and then a children's nanny, the years hold tormenting poverty and pain. Yet throughout them she will fight relentlessly to give her child the chance for success she never had. Then there is Christina, Audra's brilliantly gifted daughter, who dreams of becoming an artist. Determined to repay her mother's sacrifice, she will make a commitment that forever alters her fate, bringing her...
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Harte Family volume 2
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Doubleday
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1985
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English
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Traces the struggle of Paula McGill Fairley, Emma Harte's granddaughter and heir, to hold on the the empire.
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House of Falconer volume 1
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English
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Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. Even as a boy working in his father's market stall in Camden, he was determined to become a merchant prince. Through hard work and a single-minded determination, James rises quickly through the ranks, with a loving wife, devoted children, and a lofty...