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In the mysteriously abandoned manor house Pembrooke Park, practical new resident Abigail searches for the treasure that it is rumored to contain.
Facing financial ruin, Abigail Foster and her father receive an astounding offer: the use of a distant manor house abandoned for eighteen years. They journey to Pembrooke Park and are startled to find it entombed as it was abruptly left: tea cups encrusted with dry tea, a doll's house left mid-play. The...
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Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda years later against the backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.
1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Osla puts her fluent German to use as a translator...
3) Venetia
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Beautiful, capable, and independent minded, Venetia Lanyon's life on her family's estate in the country side is somewhat restricted. But her neighbor, the infamous Lord Damerel, a charming rake shunned by polite society, is about to shake things up.
Lord Damerel has built his life on his dangerous reputation, and when he meets Venetia, he has nothing to offer and everything to regret. Though his scandalous past and deepest secrets give Venetia reason...
5) After You
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Me before you volume 2
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English
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"How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started...
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With Mr. Dashwood's death, his wife and two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, must accustom themselves to genteel poverty. When Marianne meets the man of her dreams, everyone expects a marriage; unaccountably, he rejects her, with devastating effect. It falls to Elinor, the sensible elder sister, to pick up the pieces, while harboring a secret longing of her own. In Sense and Sensibility, the warmth between two very different sisters contrasts with...
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""One of her greatest achievements, a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers." - The Guardian. This modernist masterpiece, originally published in 1925, chronicles a day in the life of an upper-class Englishwoman. Revolutionary in its psychological realism, the third-person narrative switches between Mrs. Dalloway and her counterpart, Septimus Smith, a shell-shocked World War I veteran. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness...
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"Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother's scrutiny....
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London, 1880. Left destitute after her father's death, Frances Irvine is forced to abandon her life of privilege and emigrate to South Africa. In a remote and inhospitable land, she becomes entangled with two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by his ideals. Only when the rumor of a smallpox epidemic takes her into the dark heart of the diamond mines does she see her path to happiness. But this is a ruthless world . . .
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Ulverscroft, Linford Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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As a child, Charlotte Jackson arrived in Australia on the convict ship where her mother died. Now a young woman, she is thriving, a successful dressmaker and a junior partner at Hippesley's Emporium. But she yearns to belong, and dreams of returning to England to discover more about her family. Travelling over the sea to London, she wonders what kind of life she will find there. And what part might the handsome Alexander Melford play in it? Can they...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A heart-warming novel inspired by real life events, about the brave women during WWI who worked in the historic grounds of London's Kew Gardens"--
London, 1916. England is at war. Desperate to help in whatever way they can, Ivy and Louisa enlist as gardeners at Kew, the Royal Botanic Gardens, taking on the jobs of the men who have gone to fight. Under their care, the gardens begin to flourish and become a safe haven for those seeking solace--but...
12) Despu�es de ti
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Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2016.
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Español
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Emoci�onate de nuevo con la esperada segunda parte de Yo antes de ti. �C�omo sigues adelante despu�es de perder a la persona a la que amas? Lou Clark tiene muchas preguntas: �Por qu�e ha terminado trabajando en el pub irland�es de un aeropuerto donde cada d�ia tiene que ver c�omo otras personas se van de viaje a conocer sitios nuevos? �Por qu�e a pesar de que ya lleva meses viviendo en su apartamento a�un no se siente en casa?...