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A powerful new novel, heart-breaking but ultimately uplifting, from the author of the classic Twopence to Cross The Mersey. Life in a Liverpool tenement block during the Great Depression is a grim struggle for Martha Connelly and her poverty-stricken family, as every day renews the threat of homelessness, hunger and disease. Family warmth remains constant however, despite the misery and disquiet of the slum surroundings, and the indomitable neighbourhood...

The Tussle is the story of an Indian girl with a potential for excellence and the ensuing social drama that ruin hopes in an attempt to promote welfare. The story pictures a darker undercurrent that still runs in the veins of the Indian society as opposed to the bright and glamorous picture that the more privileged among us are used to.Mohona wanted to get out of the vicious cycle of poverty and ignorance and achieve the educational and social standards...

For young Queenie, life in the backstreets of Whitechapel was a lesson in survival - Hitler's bombs hit those with nothing the hardest. When danger strikes close to home, Queenie finds an ally in Mrs. O'Leary, whose two sons are the kingpins of the East End. But while the O'Leary's are the light in Queenie's life, fate has a different path in store. Now married to the useless Albie Butler, Queenie is raising her children to fight their own battles....

Suivez les reboiseurs dans leurs rêves et leur dur labeur, au coeur des grands espaces de l'Ouest canadien! J'ai appris de la femme que j'aime que ce n'est pas le silence qui neutralise les individus, mais l'absence de repères, ceux qui balisent les échanges, le soutien moral et la reconnaissance. Quotidiennement, nous avons su éclairer et guider nos actions de façon commune et le reboisement, la plantation d'arbres dans l'Ouest canadien, nous...

A rich and dramatic story of a poor young Indian boy who fights like a tiger to achieve fame and fortune. In a village just outside present-day Calcutta, Koonty, a young girl, is squatting in pain beside the river, convinced that her agony is the result of a fish allergy. It's not - she's giving birth and as the realisation dawns on her, she makes the connection with the encounter she had all those months ago with the swimming stranger with the golden...

Prison psychologist Eva Ross has dealt with her share of sinners. The corrupt, the insane; their minds were hers to unlock. But when those around her start to show the same characteristics, she is forced to turn to a stranger for help.Together with the mysterious Madden Scott, Eva enters a new reality. As the world around her shifts, secrets barely hidden under the surface are revealed.In an adventure that takes them through nightmares and across...

Lonely, living in a car she stole, with money running low, still tormented by an affliction she Can't understand and impulses she struggles to control, 25 year old Lisa Hedge continues her descent into the construct of the psychopathic serial killer she believes she is meant to be, determined to document it all. After torturing and killing animals for years at the behest of the despotic voice, Lisa wants to graduate to murder. But she Can't Won't...

Some promises are easy to break and harder to forget. Billy Shaw lives on the edge of nowhere. Half Aleut, half American, he escapes his old life in Alaska for a taste of the real world, the world his father came from, promising his sister and the remaining elders he will return to lead them into a new beginning, a real future. Just like his American father, flying is in his blood. But unlike his father, he wants more from life. He wants somewhere...

Florence parviendra-t-elle à se reconstruire et à s'épanouir à nouveau ? Grâce à son courage, sa patience et la bienveillance de ses deux amies, Florence est ressortie plus forte de son divorce. Bien installée dans sa nouvelle vie, elle jongle entre la reprise de son métier d'enseignante et son projet de chambres d'htes qui l'enthousiasme. Sentimentalement, elle oscille entre son ex-mari, qui semble la découvrir sous un jour nouveau, et...

One suspicious death. One key to what happened. Innocence and malice, hatched in the same nest, ends in tragedy for one family. Father Tonio Rinaldi helps fold back the layers exposing the rotten egg, standing by to pick up the broken pieces. One girl holds the key to the truth. Can Father Rinaldi guide her into revealing it?