In Florence Nightingale’s day, if a person was sick – and lucky – he or she was nursed at home with caring family members tending the bedside. Hospitals were horrible places from which few emerged alive...
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- Auteur:French, NicciSommaire:
A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed. On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday...
- Auteur:Rowling, J.K.Sommaire:
Fantasy fiction. Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But...
- Auteur:Lee, Rebecca HaganSommaire:
Obstinate Marquess Jarrod Shepherdston is not about to take the plunge without protest. He has taken great pains to avoid romance his entire life. But when beautiful Sarah Eckersley shows up on his doorstep with a proposal he can't seem...
- Auteur:Dickens, CharlesSommaire:
Presents the story of two children whose lives become bitter products of their father's educational philosophy.
- Auteur:Thompson, DaveSommaire:
By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low. His most recent album was dismissed by the music press, his latest tour written off as a disaster. Fifteen years after becoming the most colourfully controversial...
- Auteur:Swift, JonathanSommaire:
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters with the crude...
- Auteur:Alexander, KristineSommaire:
Across the British Empire and the world, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of unprecedented social and cultural change. Girls and young women were at the heart of many of these shifts. Out of this milieu, the Girl Guide movement emerged...
- Auteur:Brooks, BenSommaire:
YouTube suicides, possible pregnancies, drug comedowns, and getting straight A's -- meet Jasper: a seventeen-year-old with his hands full. Weekdays are packed with visits to the psychologist, mounting parental pressure to achieve in...
- Auteur:Manzoor, SarfrazSommaire:
Sarfraz Manzoor spent his teenage years trying to reconcile being both British and Muslim, trying to fit in at school and at home. But it was when his best friend introduced him to the music of Bruce Springsteen that his life changed...
- Auteur:Dickens, CharlesSommaire:
When the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful niece Estella draw orphan Pip into the decayed luxury of their world, he begins to form desires above his station. An unexpected fortune from a mysterious donor grants Pip a chance at...
- Auteur:Ellis, Joy.Sommaire:
From two-million-selling author Joy Ellis comes one of the most keenly anticipated mysteries this year. It arrives in the morning. An old-fashioned airmail envelope addressed to Detective Nikki Galena. Inside, on a single sheet of blue...
- Auteur:Beresford, J.D.Sommaire:
A global plague has decimated England's male population and the once-predictable Gosling family is now free to fulfill its long-frustrated desires. When Mr. Gosling leaves his family to peruse his sexual vices, the Gosling daughters,...
- Auteur:Evaristo, BernardineSommaire:
The novel's twelve central characters lead vastly different lives. Amma is an acclaimed playwright whose work explores her Black lesbian identity; her friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's underfunded...
- Auteur:Carneson, RuthSommaire:
Ruth was four years old when her father was arrested for high treason and her world was turned upside-down. She grew up in constant fear of Special Branch policemen knocking on the door to arrest her mother or father, prominent South...
- Auteur:Norman, PhilipSommaire:
From the premiere Beatles biographer-author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation -a rare and "absorbing biography" (Wall Street Journal) of George Harrison, the...
- Auteur:Sayers, Dorothy L.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Crombie, DeborahSommaire:
Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing--and deadly--complications.
- Auteur:Young, ArleneSommaire:
The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young...
- Auteur:Allady, MeredithSommaire:
From the era of Jane Austen – A Comedy of Manners with a large vocabulary and a hint of romance.
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