The third book in the gripping wartime drama series set around a town's department store. It's 1943 and young Lily Collins is throwing herself into a welcome home party for her friend Beryl's husband. Shyly starting to be more than just...
Great Britain
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Author:Newman, SydneySummary:The memoir of the creator of Doctor Who and a legend in British and Canadian TV and film A major influence on the BBC and independent television in Britain in the 1960s, as well as on CBC and the National Film Board in Canada,...
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Author:Moore, AlisonSummary:Caught within the eddy of a drab retirement, Lewis Sullivan lives less than a mile from his childhood home. He spends his days anticipating visits from his grown daughter. Evenings are spent at his second favourite pub. But when an old...
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Author:Harding, ThomasSummary:Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award. Part history, part biography, part true crime, Hanns and Rudolf chronicles the untold story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war...
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Author:Thompson, DaveSummary: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...
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Author:Davies, NickSummary:Since 2006, award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies has worked tirelessly — determined, driven, brilliant — to uncover the truth about the goings on behind the scenes at the News of the World and News International. This book...
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Author:Haltom, E. A.Summary:Cornwall, England, 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine, the indomitable dowager queen, has ordered all of England onto a war footing while her son King Richard languishes in a German dungeon. Gwendolyn de Cardinham, the defiant wife of an absent...
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Greatness and Declinesheds new light on Britain's interactions with the rest of the world while demonstrating new possibilities for constructivist foreign policy analysis. Arguing that Britain's search for greatness in world affairs was...
- Author:Lacey, RobertSummary:
From the ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion--a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and...
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"Buttery passages are slathered with food imagery, and Scott conjures markets, pantries, and laden tables you won't want to leave. A sweet treat of a book." - Kirkus Reviews. With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead...
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Author:JONES, Nerys AnneSummary:Britain, 1045: The Normans are circling, waiting their turn to pounce on the English throne and wrest it away from the Anglo-Saxon barons. Godiva is the powerful wife of Earl Lovric of Mercia. Intrigue and powerplay undermine her trust...
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Author:Evaristo, BernardineSummary: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...
- Author:Hibbert, ChristopherSummary:
George III is portrayed as not only a competent ruler during most of his reign, but also as a patron of the arts and sciences, a man of wit and intelligence. Indeed, he was a man who greatly enhanced the reputation of the British...
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Author:Cannings, Richard, Cannings, Sydney, Nelson, JoAnneSummary:This book tells the story of the province’s geology and the history of its living creatures. The first edition of Geology of British Columbia,, with its accessible but rigorous science, struck a chord with readers. Since it was first...
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Author:Beattie, Owen, Geiger, John, Davis, Wade, Atwood, MargaretSummary:The revised text of "Frozen in Time" expands on the history of nineteenth century British Arctic exploration and specifically the Franklin expedition, placing it in the context of other expeditions of the era, including those commanded...
- Author:Fleming, IanSummary:
James Bond has been targeted for elimination by SMERSH, and the malevolent Colonel Rosa Klebb has set a trap in Istanbul. The bait is the Spektor decoding machine, to be delivered by the irresistible Tatiana Romanova. This exhilarating...
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Author:Morris, RosemarySummary:Since the day her oldest sister entered society, Lady Elizabeth, the Earl of Saunton's sister, imagined the pleasures of her first London Season, during which she expected to meet her future husband. Unfortunately, when she is old...
- Author:Pym, KatherineSummary:
London 1661, the new king is on the throne, but old religious beliefs and Medieval superstition still prevail. Catholics are not tolerated in this new era. Edgar and Emmatha Torbet are papists and fraternal twins, which means their...
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Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:007 floats in the waters of Marseilles, killed by an unknown hand. It's time for a new agent to step up. This is the story of James Bond, the birth of a legend, in the underworld of the French Riviera.
- Author:Lukacs, JohnSummary:
The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five...
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