Story goes back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamour in a vast silk factory from dawn til dusk. Leading the first strike the village has seen the...
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Author:TSUKIYAMA, GailSummary: -
Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:A novel about an easy going farmer in the North of England, his disastrous marriage and his ordeal in World War One.
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A welcome return to Richard Sharpe finds him fighting his old enemies, the French, at the extraordinary battle of Barossa in 1811. Richard Sharpe has been sent by Wellington on a mission to Cadiz, now the capital of Spain, to rescue the...
- Author:Courtenay, BryceSummary:
Based on the real life of a remarkable young woman at the beginning of the last century, this is the gripping, heart-wrenching story of Jessica and her courageous fight for justice and love against enormous odds. Born into a life of...
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Author:LINDSEY, JohannaSummary:Beautiful Angela Sherrington grew up on an Alabama farm, dirt poor but dreaming of handsome Bradford Maitland, the dashing heir to Golden Oaks. But, just as she seems to have found love, her dreams are shattered by a terrible secret....
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Author:COULTER, CatherineSummary:Nineteen-year-old Diana Savarol is nowhere near the traditional ingenue entering her first season. In fact, as distant cousin Lord Lyonel Ashton soon discovers, she has a mind - and a tongue - as distinctly foreign as her tanned face...
