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Goodbye Piccadilly: War at Home, 1914 (War At Home Ser. #1)
By Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. 2014
In 1914, Britain faces a new kind of war. For Edward and Beatrice Hunter, their children, servants and neighbours, life…
will never be the same again. For David, the eldest, war means a chance to do something noble; but enlisting will break his mother's heart. His sister Diana, nineteen and beautiful, longs for marriage. She has her heart set on Charles Wroughton, son of Earl Wroughton, but Charles will never be allowed to marry a banker's daughter. Below stairs, Cook and Ada, the head housemaid, grow more terrified of German invasion with every newspaper atrocity story. Ethel, under housemaid, can't help herself when it comes to men and now soldiers add to the temptation; yet there's more to this flighty girl than meets the eye. The once-tranquil village of Northcote reels under an influx of khaki volunteers, wounded soldiers and Belgian refugees. The war is becoming more dangerous and everyone must find a way to adapt to this rapidly changing world. Goodbye Piccadilly is the first book in the War at Home series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, author of the much-loved Morland Dynasty novels. Set against the real events of 1914, Goodbye Piccadilly is extraordinary in scope and imagination and is a compelling introduction to the Hunter family.Her Mother's Secret
By Catherine King. 2014
Desire Lettie Hargreaves wants more than her simple, uncomplicated life with her grandmother can provide. She longs for excitement and…
love and she's determined to make something of herself. Deceit There is something about Lettie's mother that Ivy has kept hidden from her granddaughter, something that would shatter her world. So when Lettie suggests going into service for the ailing Lady Laughton, Ivy knows she must do something to stop it. Determination Feeling stifled and confused, Lettie chooses a different path that offers her the chance at love and of the life she so craves. But she is still the same strong-minded young woman and her ambition may do more harm than good as she is entirely unaware of the secrets her actions will uncover.The Golden Pasture
By Joyce Carol Thomas. 1986
Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice
By Pat Lowery Collins. 2009
While studying under Vivaldi, three girls in a Venice orphanage forge their own notions of love in a sensuous, engrossing…
novel told in three narrative voices. It is a longing search for love that motivates three girls living in the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage renowned for its extraordinary musical program. But for Rosalba, Anetta, and Luisa, the love they seek is not where they expect to find it. Set in the early 1700s in the heart of Venice, this remarkable novel deftly weaves the history of Antonio Vivaldi's early musical career into the lives of three young women who excel in voice and instrument. Under the composer's tutelage and care, the orphans find expression, sustenance, and passion. But can the sheltered life of the orphanage prepare them for the unthinkable dangers outside its walls?Supertwins and Tooth Trouble
By B. J. James. 2003
Someone is stealing the teeth underneath children's pillows! Who could it be? It's the Terrible Tooth Snatcher. He has captured…
the Tooth Fairy and is attempting to take over the world. The Supertwins to the rescue.I Can See You (The Midnight Library #7)
By Damien Graves. 2006
Michael is afraid of the dark. Soon, he'll realize there's nothing to fear except fear itself -- until he meets…
the hideous things that stalk him in the night. This story is joined by two additional tales for this frightening collection.The Mystery of the Bad Luck Curse
By Laura E. Williams. 2001
A terrible crime committed long ago in Mystic, Maine, resulted in a ghost haunting the area. When a team of…
archaeologists arrive, things start to happen. Twins Jen and Zeke must uncover the secrets of the old legend before the curse turns deadly.An Unspoken Suspicion: A Novel
By Françoise Bourdin. 2010
Daphné loves to spend time with her late husband’s family in its sprawling mansion in the South of France. It…
was there that she spent the happiest years of her life married to Ivan before he died tragically in a domestic accident.Eight years on, she still spends time there with Max, her father-in-law, a famous sculptor who’s been a recluse since his son’s death; Nelly, the matriarch; and Ivan’s siblings. Daphné cannot help but feel unsettled as she realizes that her feelings for her husband’s brother Dimitri are more than platonic. Dimitri tries to keep some distance between himself and Daphné and not give in to his feelings.But theirs is not the only secret. It seems everyone is hiding something, and some secrets are darker than others . . .Uncle Eli's Wedding
By Sernur Isik, Tracy Newman. 2015
Uncle Eli's wedding forces Daniel to miss his soccer game so Daniel worries that once Uncle Eli gets married, his…
beloved uncle won't have any time for him. Eli's fiancée Lilah promises Daniel that he and Uncle Eli will do something special together that day, but Daniel has his doubts! This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book.To See My Mother Dance
By Sheila Solomon Klass. 1981
The Dragon Takes a Wife
By Walter Dean Myers. 1972
A lonely dragon named Harry is forced to fight an intimidating knight in order to win his bride. With the…
help of a smooth-talking African-American fairy, Harry learns how self-confidence can help him find his true love.Promises Are for Keeping
By Ann Rinaldi. 1982
The Titan
By Theodore Dreiser.
The second novel in the Trilogy of Desire from the author of The Financier and Sister Carrie. In the Panic…
of 1873, Frank Cowperwood’s fortune was destroyed and his criminal activity on the stock exchange was exposed. Now, with his prison sentence complete, he is ready to begin the next chapter of his life. Following the same creed of selfishness that guided him to his first fortune, Cowperwood leaves Philadelphia for Chicago and gives up financial speculation to pursue a new frontier. Though he soon rediscovers wealth in stock investment, he remains hounded by scandal as he maneuvers to take control of the Chicago railway system. Through double-dealing, divorce, infidelity, and social disgrace, America’s most corrupt man continues his lifelong pursuit of self-satisfaction. In the sequel to The Financier, Theodore Dreiser presents a man of indomitable force and pitiless ambition. Based on railway tycoon Charles Tyson Yerkes, Frank Cowperwood is widely considered one of the greatest characters of twentieth-century literature. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.Twins for the Texan
By Charlene Sands. 2016
Twins...and another baby on the way for this cowboy from USA TODAY bestselling author Charlene Sands! After Wyatt Brandt rescues…
Brooke McKay en route to a Texas wedding, they spend one hot night together before going their separate ways. Now Brooke's back with news she isn't sure the wealthy rancher is ready to hear-especially when she discovers he's already a father...of twins! Being a single dad is a full-time job Wyatt can't do alone. He doesn't expect the ideal nanny to be the beauty who briefly shared his bed. But he accepts her help gladly-not knowing her little secret will change his family forever...The Golden Serpent
By Walter Dean Myers. 1980
Please, Please, Please (The Friendship Ring Series #2)
By Rachel Vail. 1998
Twelve-year-old CJ, an accomplished ballet student, struggles with her conflicting desires to continue her ballet study and please her mother…
or to quit ballet and finally be like all the other kids in school.Fausto
By Baron Alexander Deschauer, Omar. 2017
IMAGINE UNA EXISTENCIA SIN PARAÍSO NI INFIERNO. Sin dioses ni demonios. Sólo nuestros pensamientos y albedrío. En esta existencia toda…
la vida está interconectada y es interactiva dentro de una conciencia superior. En contraste con Marlowe y Goethe, Deschauer presenta una cosmología y existencia que es tanto individual y total, carne y alma. El albedrío se enfrenta con el destino, lo mortal con lo inmortal. Se apunta a justificar los caminos de dios para la humanidad en una existencia carente de dios. Aún las inevitables construcciones de dios, anti-dios y mito son abrazadas por la humanidad en su búsqueda de sentido dentro de nuestra realidad. ¿ES EL AMOR EL SIGNIFICADO DE LA VIDA, EL ALBEDRÍO O LA INMORTALIDAD?Wishes
By Bobbi Lachance. 2009
When Lark Myers, twenty, tells her husband of six weeks, Don, that she is pregnant, he beats her so badly…
that she has a miscarriage. Lark seeks refuge in the home of her older brother, Josh, and his girl friend, Robin. Lark returns to college part-time and accepts a part-time job in her brother's construction company. Lark meets Travis Coleman, Josh's electrician, when he comes to the house to retrieve some contracts. A mutual attraction develops between Lark and Travis. Lark thinks Don is in her past but slowly realizes that he is stalking her, intent on getting her back at any cost. Increasingly irrational and violent, he is a danger not only to Lark but to Robin, Josh and Travis.The Frog Prince, Continued
By Jon Scieszka. 1991
After the frog turns into a prince, he and the princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince…
decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man
By Jean Amery, Adrian Nathan West. 2018
Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary.…
Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love.Jean Améry undertakes one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature: a novel-essay devoted to salvaging the poor bungler Charles Bovary from the depredations of his creator, Gustave Flaubert. As a once-promising novelist reduced to hack journalism for two decades after the Second World War, Améry had a particular sympathy for failure, and Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is his phenomenology of the loser, blending fiction and philosophy to assert the moral claims of the most famous, most risible cuckold in all of Western literature. Charles tells his side, Améry vindicates Flaubert’s hated bourgeoisie, and in the end, the Master himself winds up in the docket, forced to account for the implausibility of his own vaunted realism. At the same time, in Charles’s words, Améry offers a moving paean to the majesty of Emma Bovary herself, and to the supreme value of love.