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"Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where...
4) Orchid Child
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In this enchanted family saga, Kate is a neuroscientist who reveres logic and order, unless she's sleeping with her married lab director and then logic goes out the window. So does Kate's orderly life in Manhattan after she takes the fall for their affair and Kate's mother presses her to accept responsibility for her nephew, Teague, an orchid child who hears voices and talks to trees but rarely people. To salvage her career, Kate agrees to conduct...
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Pages - Book 3, by EA Harwik - A modern family saga. ------ ISBN: 9780980677652Pages - Book 3 is the story of two the younger Page siblings, Peta and Jamie. Unlike their older brother David. Peta and Jamie are the product of a privileged boarding school education.The Pages trilogy will question and define the boundaries of normal in modern society. Where secrets challenge the fabric of friendship and family. --------- Book 1 - ISBN: 9780980677621...
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Pre-order the BRAND NEW instalment in the bestselling Harpers Emporium series!
London Spring 1920
Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sally Harper the problems continue.
Husband Ben is moody, sometimes distant, and she feels he is shutting her out at home and at work, but why?
It takes a terrible tragedy to make them realise their love and respect is still true.
The ladies and girls who work at Harpers...
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When the Great Depression hits Liverpool hard, can Weaver Street's close knit community keep each other safe?
As Liverpool and its residents begin to heal from the wounds and memories of World War I, life on Weaver Street in 1924 is blessedly peaceful.
At number eleven, widow Kitty Conlon is dreaming about her upcoming wedding to John, while at number nine her best friend Maggie is cursing her bad luck as she juggles the demands of her cantankerous...
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"A USA TODAY Best seller! Four hundred years before Oskar Schindler there was Suleiman the Magnificent, an Ottoman sultan who rescued thousands of Jews from the fires of the Inquisition. Inspired by this amazing and little-known moment in history, Nicole Dweck has imagined an enchanting family saga where the kindness of one man is repaid generations later. It's 1544, and young José Mendez and his family escape the Inquisition in Portugal with the...
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In this sweeping historical novel, a Scottish lady will do anything to protect her aristocratic life from the guilty secrets of her humble origins.
Young and ambitious, Marion Cheyne feels trapped by her poor village roots and her lowly job as a domestic servant. So when she's suddenly faced with an opportunity to escape her dead-end life, she doesn't think twice. Absconding from her employer's home with more money than she'd ever seen in her life,...
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Mark of the FoxCan an enchanted for and a scarred prince follow the predestined course the Druids have set for them? They fight against the constraints of royalty, but in the end, the falconer becomes a willing regent and the fox a more than willing wife.
The Fox and the SwanTo save her family she becomes a swan. The man she loves is enchanted by a witch into a fox. Can the pair unite as humans and save her family? True love triumphs over evil with...
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Pre-order the brand-new instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling Goodwill House series!
January 1941
As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter, land girl Charlie Somiton is still glad of the warm friendships she has made there. Not just her fellow land girls, Daphne and Sal, but also dashing local G.P. Dr James Willoughby who looked after Charlie when she was injured at work.
Charlie likes Dr Willoughby, but she fears...
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This book is a really unique look at the greatest war. Find out who the son of Odin was. Discover why the God of heaven favored the people is the land of the golden eagle. Find out where the land of the dragon was, and who the king of the Samurai was. Discover who the great Author was and how he defeated this evil empire. Learn what the amazing weapon was that the devastated their land with! Read the story poem battle epic to discover how ancient...
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This book is about his journey as a political refugee from Cuba to the United States. It's about the challenges, disappointments, and victories that destiny threw in his path. To bring in American poet Robert Frost, Jorge had two paths to choose to follow: one leading to an honorable life and the other taking him to a disreputable future. Looking back on the strong Judeo-Christian values that his family had given him, and with no support system to...
14) Nothing Ventured
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A new start means a new chance at love…
Strong-willed Isla Scott leaves her job as a hospital nurse in Edinburgh to return to her hometown of Edgemuir, where her brother Boyd still lives. Hoping to reconnect with him after years apart, she divides her time between family and her new position at Dr. Lorne's fashionable hydro, a nearby spa that advertises cures through baths and steam.
Her important job and her renewed closeness with Boyd convince...
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Mabel and her friends are police recruits in Leicester, England, where they are currently receiving their training in this particular area of work. But, on one occasion while on patrol, Mabel happens to come across a stranger, who, after performing introductions, makes one such proposition to her, which she is unable to resist, irrespective of her current commitments.When she begins the new job, she discovers that she is starting to love her new charge....
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Genau a so is` gwen!-"De Gschicht is wirkle woah!"
So oder ähnlich enden die meisten der Geschichten, welche den Gewährsleuten entweder durch Erzählungen bekannt sind oder die sie vielleicht sogar selbst erlebt haben. Nur-und das ist das Rätselhafte an diesen "Weihrazgeschichten", eine schlüssige Erklärung hat noch keiner gefunden. Seit der Kindheit oder Jugendzeit tragen sie ihre Erlebnisse mit sich, Jahrzehnte lang, ein Leben lang. Manche...
17) Sugar and Spice
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An absorbing tale of the strength and heartbreak of family ties-Winter, 1940. Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth and she is left with twin baby sisters. Anna is a gifted child, with a warm personality to match, but not so her sisters-and as, through the years, their pranks turn to stealing, bullying and worse, Anna must learn to cope with them if she is ever to find happiness of her own.
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Sarah Johnson was beginning a new life.She arrived in Brookdale, with the promise of marriage to the local Sheriff all the while desperately hoping that no one, especially her fiance, would discover who she truly was. She was born Sarah Clayborn. The daughter of an alcoholic and outlaw who ran a safe house in Oklahoma for the infamousMackenzie gang. When Sarah's father promised her in marriage to the gang's violent leader, Bruce Mackenzie, Sarah knew...
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In this moving first novel, a Korean-American family faces not only intergenerational cultural conflicts between immigrant parents and their Americanized daughters, but also the results of a terrible prophecy, made by a fortune-teller 20 years earlier to Chinhominey, the long-estranged grandmother.
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After the death of his godfather, Mikel, a would-be revolutionary, inherits the Basque signet ring, a priceless family heirloom that has fascinated and eluded him since he was a child. How did his grandfather-an indentured Basque peasant-acquire such a valuable ring? Different answers lurk in this rich tapestry of family memoirs. The truth-or versions of it-will test Mikel's beliefs in his cause, his family, and himself.
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