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: MORRISON, ToniSummary:
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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;...
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Author: SILVER, Lynette RamsaySummary:
Story of WWII Sandakan Prisoner of war camp from which only 6 Australians survived. Also details a bungled rescue attempt, where almost all the men died because of mistakes made within the senior...
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Author: ALLBEURY, TedSummary:
John Rennie is an uncomprimising, principled man. When his Intelligence superiors order him to lie, to pervert, to execute he does it because his country's security demands it. That is,...
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Author: Clarke, BrendaSummary:
The Reads are respectable Nonconformist shopkeepers; the Hunnicutts dark and stormy High Church landowners. But love and greed constantly cross the battle lines, adding new disputes to the old...
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Author: Thomas, RosieSummary:
They were three modern women. They came to Oxford University full of hopes and dreams and would leave forever changed.
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Author: Pratchett, TerrySummary:
Discworld's greatest witches, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, visit Ankh Morpork's Opera House where dying the death on stage is more than just a metaphor and where an evil mastermind lures...
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Author: WIGNALL, OlgaSummary:
The author, a child emigrant to Western Australia in 1926, relates in this her autobiography the many adventures she has had as an itinerant jill of all trades - nurse, secretary, driving and...
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Author: GREGORY, PhilippaSummary:
Lily Valance has had enough of war; her father has been killed in France and several of her friends are dead or maimed beyond recognition. Even the dashing hero Steven Winters, whom she marries,...
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Author: MANDELA, NelsonSummary:
Memoirs of the President of the African National Congress and leader of the anti-Apartheid movement.
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Author: NYLUND, RomaSummary:
Alana Cook is born in the early hours of Christmas morning in 1922 as a furious cyclone batters the town of Port Hedland in Australia's North-West. On the same wild night the town loses its...
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Author: COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only...
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Author: THORNE, NicolaSummary:
In 1856, Martha Brown was publicly hanged for the brutal murder of her husband. Among those who witnessed her death was a sixteen-year-old local lad, and the memory of her execution haunted Thomas...
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Author: JONKER, JoanSummary:
It's 1941, Liverpool is taking a hammering from the German bombers. During the worst air raid, fate deals Mary the first of many blows where dreams are broken and life becomes a nightmare....
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Author: MAYNE, HenrieSummary:
A study of a man in glorious retreat from the absurdities of life, set against a background of social manners and international upheaval, from the colonial heyday of the Raj in the 1890s to the...