She came with courage and determination. This is the story of a young girl who came to the Avon Valley in Western Australia to be married at the end of the nineteenth century. Life was not easy...
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Author: Price, ColinSummary:Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Roberts, NoraSummary:
Mia Devlin knows what it's like to love with your whole heart - and then watch your love walk away. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared an incredible bond, then he fled the Island, leaving...
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Author: Roberts, NoraSummary:Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them - which lately,...
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Author: Perry, AnneSummary:It is mid-December and Henry Rathbone travels to the Dreghorn family manor house near Ullswater. But despite the festive season and the beautiful surroundings, this is not a happy occasion; he is...
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Author: Picoult, JodiSummary:In the aftermath of her mother's divorce, seven-year-old Faith begins to confide in an imaginary friend. Her mother Mariah puts it down to Faith's imagination, but when Faith develops...
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Author: Montgomery, L.mSummary:Collection of 19 funny and romantic short stories from the author of "Anne of Green Gables" novels.
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Author: Morrison, ToniSummary:In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and...
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Author: Nelson, AliceSummary:Adrift in a failing marriage, Maya Wise is alone in a strange world far from home. Until, intrigued by an elderly Chinese man carrying a caged nightingale she begins to follow him through the...
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Author: Nicholson, VirginiaSummary:Vivid with historical detail, and heart-breakingly honest about a generation of women's real human fortitude.
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Author: Muhsen, ZanaSummary:
Autobiographical account of a woman sold as a child bride. Documents her struggle for freedom.
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Author: McCullough, ColleenSummary:For twenty-one-year-old Harriet Purcell life irrevocably changes the moment she steps out the door of her respectable suburban home for the very last time. Ignoring her father's protests that '...
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Author: McKinley, TamaraSummary:
Miriam Strong had been looking forward to her family arriving at Bellbird Station to help her celebrate her seventy-fifth birthday. Yet with the discovery of the first tangible clue to her stolen...
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Author: McKinley, TamaraSummary:Catriona Summers' debut in show business came early. Her father, the leader of a travelling music hall troupe that toured small regional towns introduced her to her first audience when only a baby...
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Author: Burgh, AnitaSummary:
It is 1859. At age three, Eliza Forester is left motherless when her father orders his wife from the house. He keeps the child not out of love, but to spite his wife. Here is a woman who loses...
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A 6th bowl of Chicken soup for the soul : 101 more stories to open the heart and rekindle the spirit
Author: Canfield, JackSummary:Another inspiring collection of new stories, anecdotes and tales. In the tradition of all the books in the original Chicken Soup series, this volume focuses on love; parents and parenting;...
Genre: Anecdotes