Lottie has loved her cousin Dickon since childhood. When he marries a rich heiress she is forced to begin a new life in France with her father's family. Tragedy strikes and Lottie is cast adrift in Paris as the stormclouds of the...
Historical Fiction
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Auteur:CARR, PhilippaSommaire: - Auteur:NUNN, JudySommaire:
In this novel, Kalgoorlie is brought to life through the lives and times of two families, one Australian and one Italian. From the heady early days to the gold rush, to the horrors of the First World War, to the shame and confrontation...
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Auteur:DU MAURIER, DaphneSommaire:Julius Levy grows up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape to Algeria.
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Auteur:Tripp, ValerieSommaire:Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since Mamá died a year ago. When Mamá's sister, Tía Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are...
- Auteur:Clarke, SusannaSommaire:
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England until...
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Auteur:COX, JosephineSommaire:Jinnie is the child from a one-night liaison between Louise Hunter's husband, Ben, and Louise's sister, Susan. When Ben takes his own life, and Susan deserts the newborn child, Louise adopts little Jinnie.
- Auteur:GRAHAM, WinstonSommaire:
In the September of 1790, Ross Poldark was charged with having plundered two ships. If proven, the sentence would be death. Other things also had not gone well but there was hope of a new beginning.
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Auteur:JACOBS, AnnaSommaire:When a new feature on Pete Newbury's popular TV programme shows his adult image digitally transformed to that of a young child, Beth is shocked to realise he's her 'baby' brother, who vanished without trace. Her...
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Auteur:CHIDGEY, CatherineSommaire:Clifford Stilton taught his son Gene about fishing, hunting and other outdoor activities. After Clifford's death the family packs away his meticulous diaries but their contents still affect the lives of Gene and Gene's...
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Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:Although unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1966, this novel delivers a full measure of action at sea. On the threshold of securing his first post as Captain, Hornblower finds himself forced to fight alongside a man...
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Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession... After near disaster on board a canal barge, Horatio Hornblower is given his first assignment as Captain, taking charge of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop that will act...
- Auteur:LIPPI, RosinaSommaire:
In 1909, in the remote Alpine village of Rosenau, the postmistress has gathered a group of village women to solve a problem. A postcard has arrived addressed to "Anna Fink", who, because of the naming conventions of this close...
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Auteur:JACOBS, AnnaSommaire:In 1845 Annie Gibson can finally leave Salem Street. Her dreams of an elegant dressmaking salon in Bilsden, have come true. She is taking her father and the family away from poverty and the Rows. Trouble follows with several men trying...
- Auteur:Wilson, John W.Sommaire:
The Great Depression continues to sweep across the land where the Brazos and Navasota rivers meet, taking with it the hope of many poor black farmers. One of these farmers, young Cleveland Webster, labors on property belonging to rich...
- Auteur:SPRING, HowardSommaire:
Romance and family saga set in a 19th Century newspaper empire.
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Auteur:JACOBS, AnnaSommaire:Lancashire, 1858. Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy children and adores her husband Frederick. After years of struggling to make a living in Blisden, Annie knows she deserves to enjoy her life. But...
- Auteur:HEARN, LianSommaire:
The sequel to "Across the Nightingale Floor" follows the separate fates of young lovers Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, as they fight for survival in a violent time of war, famine and treacherous alliances.
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Auteur:Mitchell, MargaretSommaire:Gone with the Wind, published on June 30, 1936, is a romantic novel and the only novel written by Margaret Mitchell. The story is set in Jonesboro and Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and follows the...
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Auteur:Laurens, StephanieSommaire:After roguish Max Rotherbridge is saddled with four young wards, he must figure out a way to protect the Twinning sisters from his equally disreputable friends while winning the heart of the captivating Caroline Twinning.
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Auteur:C. S. ForesterSommaire:Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad. But the Terror of the Mediterranean becomes Europe's most wanted man, forced to fight alone for England - and liberty.
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