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Winshaw legacy volume 1
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A social satire on Britain today. The narrator is a writer hired to do the biography of a prominent upper-class family. In the process, he finds the family represents everything that is wrong with the country, from Hilary, the yellow journalist, to Thomas, the inside trader, to Henry, the hypocritical medicare reformer, and so up and down the family tree.
44) The four Graces
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English
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Set during World War II in the country village of Chevris Green, tells the story of the four Grace sisters--Liz, Sal, Tilly, and Addie--and their father, the vicar of the parish, during a summer of unexpected house guests and potential suitors, which may change their quiet lives forever.
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Jess Tennant mysteries volume 3
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Jess Tennant is pleased to see that tiny Port Sentinel, England, goes all out for Christmas, but when Gilly Poynter, one of Jess's classmates, disappears leaving behind only her diary and unanswered questions, Jess joins the investigation to find Gilly before it is too late.
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English
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Darcy and Dr. Maddox go in search of Darcy's missing half-brother and land in a medieval prison cell. Much to his dismay, Charles Bingley is left to hold the fort at Pemberley while his sister Caroline, Elizabeth, and Col. Fitzwilliam traverse Europe on a daring rescue. Meanwhile, Lady Catherine de Bourgh kicks up a truly shocking scandal.
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English
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Beneath the sunny, cloudless skies of Kent, the Larkin household - Pop, Ma, and their brood of six children - enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Pop works as a junk dealer and keeps the farm to feed his brood, while Ma cooks the meals and minds the children. While the family may not have much, they more than make up for it in joyous spirit - and bountiful feasts. All of that could change, however, when a stranger appears on their farm. Cedric Charlton...
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Español
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"A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de época: las peripecias de una dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la región, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un clérigo adulador...--
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English
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Drawn to dangerous world regions and unconventional careers, Alice, the black sheep of her family, rushes to say goodbye to her dying father; while Daniel, an artist suffering from synesthesia, clings to thoughts of the daughter he has never been able tofind.
Alice is the black sheep of her family. She has never enjoyed the closeness with her father that her two older sisters have and is late to hear the news that her father is dying. Daniel hasn't...
52) Saving April
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English
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"A family broken by lies. A woman traumatized by a dark past. A child caught in the crossfire. Who will save April? Hannah Abbott is afraid of the world. Plagued by anxiety, she lives an isolated, uneventful life in suburban Yorkshire. She rarely leaves her house, and her only friend is Edith, her elderly neighbor. But when the Mason family moves in across the street, Hannah's quiet life is changed forever."--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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It's 1935, mystery writer Marjorie McClelland and millionaire Creighton Ashcroft have sailed to a secluded island near Bermuda for a peaceful honeymoon alone. Instead they find the Ashcroft vacation home filled--to Creighton's horror--with family. The reunion turns ugly at dinner when Creighton's brusque, estranged father doles out withering insults along with disinheritance. But the real shock comes the next day when Creighton Senior is found dead....
58) Give us this day
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Swann Family saga volume 3
Language
English
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This concluding volume in the author's saga of the Swann family begins at the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and ends with the guns of August, 1914.
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The Pop Larkin chronicles volume 4
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English
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"In the third sequel to The Darling Buds of May, Charley and Mariette decide to get baby Blenheim christened, leading to a wholesale christening of all seven of the Larkin children. Chaos abounds as the vicar, Mr Candy, is run ragged by the naughty twins, Zinnia and Petunia, and finds himself the object of desire for Pop's second eldest, Primrose. To top it all off, Pop buys a fairground on a whim, and Mlle Dupont arrives to discover that Pop is not...
60) The years
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Language
English
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English upper middle-class life among three inter-related families.
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