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Former doctor Tucia Hatherley, when her livelihood is threatened, joins a traveling medicine show, and loathing the duplicity, tries to break free only to be pulled in even deeper until something happens that challenges her to recover her belief in medicine and the good in others--and herself.
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Blackpool was a Royal Army Medical Corps centre during WW1, with 10,000 RAMC personnel in the town. When war broke out on August 4th 1914 the holiday season in the popular holiday resort was in full swing…and then the soldiers began arriving. First the regional regiments to train on the wide beaches and stay in the plentiful accommodation available. Then the munition workers and then the medics and along with the growing numbers of injured soldiers...
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In 1900, Hephzibah Wildman loses her parents in a tragic accident. Alone, penniless and only eighteen, she must leave the security of the Oxford college where her stepfather was Dean, to earn her living as a governess. Her new employer, Sir Richard Egdon, a country squire, has designs upon Hephzibah but she is drawn to his son, the handsome Thomas Egdon. Within months of arriving at Ingleton Hall, a desperate Hephzibah is forced to make a fateful...
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Hitler charged his most trusted comrades with a mission: educate your progeny, elevate them to power-rule the world. This is the story of just one of these children. Murder, deceit, intrigue, love and enlightenment occur as the plot to take over the U.S. government is revealed.
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Description of daily Jewish life during the interwar years in Poland, the Poland that was under Nazi's murderess grip and the faith of Jews surviving throughout Russia and Uzbekistan during WWII. Surviving against all ads, throughout the Russian territories and in the midst of all this tragedy experiencing love. 70 Years later and we are still trying to give names to those who died in the Holocaust. More than 1 million victims are still unaccounted...
6) JFK FYI
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The assassination of president John F. Kennedy is the most controversial, unsolved criminal case in history. JFK FYI compiles a long-overdue list of suspects while explaining why so many people despised Kennedy. Several common misconceptions are cleared up and the "lone nut" vs. conspiracy debate is irrefutably put to rest.
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A relaxing hammock read for those dreaming of warm weather, cold drinks, and sunny gardens!For ten years, Georgiana has been a perfect wife, perfect mother, and a perfect duchess--but now she's bored. She has never seen a film, flown in an aeroplane, or experienced the London Underground.For ten years, the Duke of Hereford has prided himself on his stable, predictable, perfect life. He is content to ride his horses, raise his children, and quietly...
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What's one more deadline? Ulysses Lenkov is on the verge of finishing his PhD when his ex-girlfriend shows up with a problem. It's been six months since the murder of her husband, Hugh, and Livia is plagued by strange noises in the night, poor sleep, and a magic book that may be cursed. The more Ulysses delves into the events that led her back to Madison, the more concerned he becomes. Ulysses's boyfriend Sam Sterling, jealous and unhappy about Livia's...
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"Full of true-to-life conflict, passion and guilt – highly recommended." – Readers' Favorite. In a world at war, can one woman find the courage to break with the past and follow her heart? She was in love with the wrong man. When Rachel's husband returns from the war broken and angry, Rachel soon begins to lose all hope for their future together despite all her efforts to revive a love she once thought would never die. Then she meets an officer...
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The spectre of 'The Disappeared', those abducted by the IRA, secretly executed and their bodies buried in bogs, lakes and woodlands, has overshadowed the debate around the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland for the last two decades.
This book, the first of its kind, uncovers the extent to which 'forced disappearances' were part of the violent political conflicts that blighted Ireland for 200 years. Succeeding where attempts by the PSNI, journalists,...
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In October 1921, Linley and Patrick set out for a long overdue holiday. But when their train is mysteriously halted in Vienna, the couple must abandon their plans for sunshine and gin fizzes to save a nation in need. The glittering cafes of Jazz Age Paris, rolling hills of rural Hungary, and the trip of a lifetime aboard the Orient Express lead Linley and Patrick on an adventure that just might go down in history.
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While other ladies turn their country homes into hospitals and host charity bazaars to fund the war effort, Linley struggles just to keep Wolford Abbey afloat. Driving tractors and managing servants is not the life she dreamed of in those magical days before the war. She yearns to put down the teacups, pick up a trowel, and follow in her father's footsteps as an archaeologist-and never is this more apparent than with her husband away at the Front.Patrick...
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Recipe for Love: Take one chance encounter between two strangers, add a near-perfect first kiss…and temper it with a long-simmering grudge.
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Talented baker Max Mitchell has never quite gotten over the woman he met, kissed, and promptly repelled, all in the space of one momentous V-J Day celebration. So he should be thrilled when fate brings her back into his life-the only problem? She can't stand him, and now that she's moved...
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A truth buried for over forty years.
A love that lasted a lifetime.
Rose Pepper has kept her wartime past a secret for decades. Forty years ago, she fled communist Prague and left behind the love of her life.
Now in her sixties and with two daughters, Rose discovers a bundle of unopened letters sent to her by her lost love. Confronted with the possibility of facing up to her past, she decides it's finally time to go back to where her story began...
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Linley Talbot-Martin is a girl who likes to get her hands dirty. As the daughter of a famous archaeologist, she's been everywhere and seen everything-except London. But when the time comes to trade her jodhpurs and work boots for silk gowns and kid gloves, she may be in over her head.Even though she can out-ride, out-shoot, and outsmart any girl in London society, Linley is destined to be the failure of the season. No one she meets cares about ancient...
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Abigail Johnson hadn't expected that a lawman of the Wild West would ignite something in her she'd thought died along with her first husband. Now that they are married, he wants to take her into the Indian Territory.Gabe Hawkins aims to find what lies further beneath Abby's matronly facade. When an order from the territory judge reassigns Gabe to Fred, Indian Territory, he and Abby are forced to start a new life away from civilization.When a gang...
17) Lucky Charm
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In the silent film era, deaf actor Gilbert Wilton's handsome and expressive face is all he needs to be a star. As talkies start taking over the film industry, though, Gilbert's long-time partner and director leaves him. At the apex of heartbreak and a career going up in flames, Gilbert returns home one night to find his house being burgled--by his childhood best friend.Even after decades apart, Quill Phillips is as untrustworthy (and attractive) as...
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Why did people believe all gangster bosses had to be male?In 1925, Sydney, Australia was a beautiful, young, thriving city.By night, the seedy underbelly came to life.The lady in charge of part of that underbelly, known as the Queen of King's Cross, was Angeline Dumont.No one threatened the lady and lived.No one dared to harm those she considered family...Not if they valued their life.Sam was the King of Woolloomooloo, a position he inherited, and...
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A country at war. Friends in trouble. Lily may be off the bomb-blasted streets, but the danger's not over…
England, 1941. Reunited briefly with her husband-to-be before he returns to fighting, Lily Baker now finds her mundane army office work dreary. But when her boss asks her to keep watch on the happenings at the depot, she quickly suspects a new weapons supplier of fraud.
As she trains her sharp eye on the potential cheat, she agrees to help...
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Plongez dans l'histoire de Jean, un adolescent tourmenté par la haine, vivant dans un pensionnat austère. Marine de son cté, une adolescente joyeuse, s'épanouit au sein d'une famille aimante, nourrissant l'aspiration de construire un foyer similaire à l'avenir. Au fil des événements, leurs destins s'entremêlent par une rencontre inattendue dont on ne sait si elle sera constructive ou destructrice. Le récit débute en 1962, imprégné de l'ambiance...
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