In 1820 Salem Street is sparkling and new: eight small terraced houses built by a Lancashire mill owner for his best workers. Annie Gibson's family is one of them, but when Annie's mother dies her world changes and not all for...
Historical Fiction
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Author:PIETRONI, Anna LawrenceSummary:This is the tale of three women, one witch, one mermaid and one missing and how Ruby was caught up in between. When Isa Fly appears in the doorway of Captin Len's Fried Fish Shop, fourteen year-old Ruby is entranced. Isa comes from...
- Author:PLAIDY, JeanSummary:
Catharine Howard's dainty charm quickly attracts Henry VIII. Overwhelmed by his attentions she is blind to his true nature, until she discovers that her new husband will not tolerate playful flirtation.
- Author:Robbins, David, Compton, RalphSummary:
In the Sweet Grass Valley, Kent Tovey's Circle T ranch and Dar Pierce's DP ranch sit on either side of the Rio Largo River. Tovey and Pierce have no beef with each other--until a no-good schemer instigates a bloody feud between the old...
- Author:THORNE, NicolaSummary:
Sequel to Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, following the fortunes of Hareton Earnshaw and Cathy Linton, and the passions and torment which resurface at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.
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Author:FURST, AlanSummary:Alan Furst again proves himself the master of his proven terrain - behind the lines of Nazi occupation in France during WWII. Leading on from the successful The world at night, this thrilling tale of espionage sees Jean Casson broke,...
- Author:Leslie, DorisSummary:
Sophia Dorothea is the unhappy young wife of Prince George of Hanover. When she falls in love with a Swedish adventurer, her downfall is inevitable .
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Author:POPE, DudleySummary:Young Capt. Ramage, recently married, hopes to settle down for few quiet months with his new wife but Nelson asks for him by name and soon he is caught up on the great battle of Trafalgar.
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Author:POPE, DudleySummary:Capt. Ramage and the crew of the frigate 'Calypso' engage French battleships and Barbary Coast pirates in this swashbuckling novel of the high seas.
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Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten, with an imcompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food for the younger children. But nothing could have prepared her for the day fate deals her family the...
- Author:RHODES, ElviSummary:
From a very early age Chloe always got what she wanted. At the age of eighteen the northern town of her birth was definitely not what she wanted. So she moved south to Brighton where life was more to her liking but not always as she...
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Author:WHITMEE, JeanneSummary:When Imogen Jameson is injured in a London bomb blast and mistakenly reported as one of the fatalities, she sees this as an opportunity to escape from a violent marriage and assume the identity of one of the victims.
- Author:Humphreys, C. C.Summary:
London, 1665. Five years after his restoration to the throne, Charles II leads his citizens by example, enjoying every excess. Londoners have slipped the shackles of puritanism and now flock to the cockpits, brothels and, especially,...
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Author:THOMPSON, E. VSummary:Cornwall, 1854: Alice Rowe is rescued from the workhouse by the Rev. Arnold Markham to work in his parsonage as a housemaid. When the Reverend dies of a sudden heart attack, she faces an uncertain future.
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Author:Ward, LizaSummary:Liza Ward's spellbinding first novel is told from the very different points of view of three narrators mysteriously linked by a shocking crime and their efforts to heal the past. Based on the Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Life in 1905 is hard for the illegitimate Mary Ann. It rapidly becomes worse when her new stepfather begins to interfere with her. Sent away at fifteen to bear his child, she meets Gabriel Clough, who helps her escape to Blackpool...
- Author:Jacobs, AnnaSummary:
Taking a job in a munitions factory during the first World War, Lizzie Kershaw finds independence from her abusive soldier husband and the promise of a new love, which is compromised by her husband's impending return.
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Eva Kershaw is happy living with her dear friend Alice, who has been like a mother to her. But Alice is dying and Eva is distressed by the unexpected arrival of Gus Blake, Alice's nephew.
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Author:DOUGHTY, AnneSummary:Clare Hamilton is just nine years old when her childhood is abruptly ended with the death of both her parents in the typhoid epidemic of 1946. When her Granny Scott dies, she seizes her chance to return to Salter's Grange to take...
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Author:ANDREWS, VirginiaSummary:Olivia was awakened by an unearthly wail coming from Belinda's bedroom. It was the tragic night that their father would forbid them to speak of ever again. The final, shattering conclusion to the Logan series.
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