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![A Kingdom by the Sea by Anna Green]()
A Kingdom by the Sea by Anna Green
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe final volume of The Heart Rate of a Mouse trilogy.In November 1978, over a year has passed since music icon Ryan Ross announced his retirement from the public eye. He is far from being forgotten, however, as his musical influence can be heard whenever Brendon Roscoe starts singing on the radio. As the frontman of the upcoming band His Side, Brendon was famously discovered by Ross... -
![Tiger Ragtime by Catrin Collier]()
Tiger Ragtime by Catrin Collier
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA tale of love and hardship set in wild and beautiful 19th century Cornwall. Born into a once-respectable family, circumstances have reduced Roz Trevaskis to working at the local inn. In order to pay the fines incurred through her alcoholic mother's drunken behaviour, Roz has put herself in debt to some unpleasant people, and has reluctantly turned to smuggling... -
![One Perfect Family by Anna Jacobs]()
One Perfect Family by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLancashire, 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money, he can finally realise his dream of settling down in the beautiful village of Ellindale. Tam knows he can be impulsive - his nickname isn't Crazy Tam for nothing! - but this time he is determined not to be ruled by his big heart and hot head... -
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![One Child in Berlin by A.W. Hartoin]()
One Child in Berlin by A.W. Hartoin
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service. She has the languages and the tradecraft down pat, but she still has a way to go when the Earl of Bickford pulls her from her training early... -
![Forsaken by Rosie Goodwin]()
Forsaken by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBorn on a Friday, Sophie Winters has always been a loving and giving child, who'd do anything for her family. Yet her father, Bill, has always seemed to resent her. For her mother's sake, Sophie learns to live with Bill's animosity - until the night he drunkenly forces himself upon her.Left pregnant and ashamed at seventeen, Sophie doesn't know where to turn... -
![The Trader's Reward by Anna Jacobs]()
The Trader's Reward by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1871. When Fergus Deagan's wife dies in childbirth, she makes him promise to take their family from Ireland to Western Australia to join his brother Bram, and also to marry again to make sure their children don't miss out on a mother's love. Disowned by her father for becoming pregnant, Cara Payton bears a stillborn baby... -
![A Silent Understanding: The Kilteegan Bridge Story - Book 5 by Jean Grainger]()
A Silent Understanding: The Kilteegan Bridge Story - Book 5 by Jean Grainger
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKilteegan Bridge, Co Cork, Ireland. 1975Lena Kogan is thrilled when her son Emmet invites her to the opening of his first building in San Francisco. It’s awkward that she will be staying with Emmet’s father Malachy Berger, but he’s in a serious relationship now, and anyway, he knows how Lena feels about Eli, so surely they can just be friends.Her sister Emily, is less adventurous... -
![The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan]()
The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Feels revolutionary in its freshness." --Entertainment Weekly"The Arsonists' City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan's hands, one family's tale becomes the story of a nation--Lebanon and Syria, yes, but also the United States. It's the kind of book we are lucky to have... -
![Green City in the Sun by Barbara Wood]()
Green City in the Sun by Barbara Wood
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA magnificent saga of two proud and powerful families—one British, one African—and their battle over Kenya’s destiny in the twentieth century.In 1917, Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya, determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England... -
![Swansea Summer by Catrin Collier]()
Swansea Summer by Catrin Collier
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNewly promoted DI Matt Pryor is disappointed when his first case seems to be a simple death from natural causes - that is, until the post-mortem shows something quite unexpected ... The elderly man who died on a Cardiff train was murdered - poisoned - by one of the other passengers... -
![The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins]()
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIreland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth. The peripatetic life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes... -
![The Trader's Sister: The Traders, Book 2 by Anna Jacobs]()
The Trader's Sister: The Traders, Book 2 by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIsmay Deagan has one wish in the world - to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. However, her father has other ideas and orders her to marry their vicious neighbour Rory Flynn, even though she loathes him. But after Rory brutally attacks her Ismay realises she has to escape... -
![The Durham Trilogy by Janet MacLeod Trotter]()
The Durham Trilogy by Janet MacLeod Trotter
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEmotional tales of love, war and survival against the odds; The Durham Trilogy follows the lives of 3 remarkable heroines and their families in Durham mining villages, through the heart-breaking and momentous times of strikes, poverty and world war. Stirring, passionate and uplifting. The Hungry Hills : The Great War is over but life in Whitton Grange mining village is hard and dangerous... -
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![The Trader's Dream by Anna Jacobs]()
The Trader's Dream by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBram Deagan dreams of bringing his family from Ireland to join him in Australia, where he now runs a successful trading business. But when a typhus epidemic strikes Ireland, it leaves the Deagan family decimated. And, with other family members scattered round the world, it is left to Maura Deagan to look after her orphaned nieces and nephew... -
![The Trader's Gift by Anna Jacobs]()
The Trader's Gift by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBram Deagan has a thriving trading business, a beautiful wife and a growing family. Since he has a gift for matchmaking and wishes to see his friends Dougal and Mitchell happily married too, he doesn't hesitate to suggest they find wives. In England, Eleanor Prescott has not forgotten the ship's captain who was a true friend to her. Dougal McBride told her to come to him if she was free... -
![THE TYNESIDE SAGAS: Box set of three dramatic and emotional stories: A Handful of Stars, Chasing the Dream and For Love & Glory by Janet MacLeod Trotter]()
THE TYNESIDE SAGAS: Box set of three dramatic and emotional stories: A Handful of Stars, Chasing the Dream and For Love & Glory by Janet MacLeod Trotter
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings3 dramatic tales of passionate women: pretty Clara fighting her way out of '30s poverty falls for bad boy Vinnie; Millie escaping a shameful past, dreams of riches; fun loving Joe uncovers dark family secrets and makes sacrifices for love. Set in momentous mid 20th century Britain with heartwarming heroines, the stories stir all the emotions... -
![The Trader's Wife by Anna Jacobs]()
The Trader's Wife by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSingapore in the 1860s is exotic and yet terrifying for a penniless Englishwoman, alone and vulnerable after her mother's death. Too pretty to obtain a governess's job, Isabella Saunders accepts an offer from a Singapore merchant to teach him English and live with his family... -
![The Last Checkmate by Gabriella Saab]()
The Last Checkmate by Gabriella Saab
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsReaders of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The Queen’s Gambit won’t want to miss this amazing debut set during World War II. A young Polish resistance worker, imprisoned in Auschwitz as a political prisoner, plays chess in exchange for her life, and in doing so fights to bring the man who destroyed her family to justice... -
![Secrets of Worry Dolls by Amy Impellizzeri]()
Secrets of Worry Dolls by Amy Impellizzeri
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAccording to Mayan tradition, if you whisper your troubles to the Worry Dolls, they will do the worrying instead of you--therefore, it follows that Worry Dolls are the keepers of a great many secrets . . .On the eve of the end of the world--according to the Mayan calendar--Mari Guarez Roselli's secrets are being unraveled by her daughter, Lu... -
![A Wartime Family by Jeannie Johnson, Lizzie Lane]()
A Wartime Family by Jeannie Johnson, Lizzie Lane
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA scandalous woman? Having left her abusive husband for very good reasons, Mary Anne Randall finds herself judged harshly by her neighbours, especially after she has the courage to risk a second chance at happiness... -
![Saddle The Wind by Jess Foley]()
Saddle The Wind by Jess Foley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLet much loved author Jess Foley sweep you away with this beautifully breathtaking saga of one woman's search for love and fulfilment. Fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Katie Flynn will absolutely love this... -
![Lily My Lovely by Lena Kennedy]()
Lily My Lovely by Lena Kennedy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBorn in Canning Town, in the heart of London's teeming dockland, red-headed Lily is a true Cockney in her zest for life, her natural humor, and her instinct for survival. With the outbreak of World War II, husband George goes off to fight for King and Country and into the close-knit East End community bursts Kasie, a Dutch seaman who quickly falls for Lily's bright curls and ready smile... -
![Iris by Leigh Greenwood]()
Iris by Leigh Greenwood
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonty Randolph plans to take a herd to Wyoming. He means to start a ranch for the family and one for himself so he can get out from under the irritating and watchful eye of his older brother, George. He's determined that nothing will stop him from succeeding, especially his neighbor, Iris Richmond, who wants him to take her herd to Wyoming along with his... -
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![The Duke of Hearts by Jess Michaels]()
The Duke of Hearts by Jess Michaels
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe 7th highly anticipated book in the 1797 Club series from USA Today Bestselling Author Jess Michaels Matthew Cornwallis, Duke of Tyndale, once loved a woman, but she died in a tragic accident he felt responsible for. Since then, he’s been playing pretend that he isn’t broken inside, even as he’s seen as London’s most sought after bachelor... -
![The Blue Mountain by Meir Shalev]()
The Blue Mountain by Meir Shalev
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe absorbing first novel by one of Israel's most important and acclaimed contemporary writers focuses on four idealistic early settlers of the modern state of Israel... -
![The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop]()
The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA breakout novel by “a bitingly intelligent writer” (New York Times Book Review) set during the hours leading up to the scheduled execution of a young black man for the alleged rape of a white woman in a small Louisiana town in 1943.“One of the finest writers of her generation” (Brad Watson), and author of three previously acclaimed novels, Elizabeth H... -
![The Storyteller's Daughter by Victoria Scott]()
The Storyteller's Daughter by Victoria Scott
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA secret buried for decades… A story that will change everything.1940: When twenty-one-year-old Nita Bineham is offered the chance of independence, away from the high walls of her family’s Surrey estate, she grasps it with both hands. But her new role at a local newspaper coincides with the emergence of a sinister rumour in their quiet village: that there is a traitor in their midst... -
![The Edge of Nowhere by C.H. Armstrong]()
The Edge of Nowhere by C.H. Armstrong
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe year is 1992 and Victoria Hastings Harrison Greene—reviled matriarch of a sprawling family—is dying. After surviving the Oklahoma Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Victoria refuses to leave this earth before revealing the secrets she’s carried for decades.Once the child of a loving family during peaceful times, a shocking death shattered her life... -
![Deceptions by Jeanne Hardt]()
Deceptions by Jeanne Hardt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA little more than six years have passed since the end of the War Between the States, and life in Mobile, Alabama isn’t easy. Claire Montgomery is twenty-five and unmarried. After years of listening to her mama’s caution regarding men, she’s determined to stay single. Until Dr. Andrew Fletcher arrives in her little town on the bay and she’s irresistibly smitten... -
![Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz]()
Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinally in English, Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests...Categorized as:
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![Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko]()
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny...Categorized as:
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![Maggie's Market by Dee Williams]()
Maggie's Market by Dee Williams
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's 1935 and Maggie Ross loves her life amongst the stallholders in Kelvin Market where her husband Tony has a bric-a-brac stall and where she lives, with her young family, above Mr Goldman's bespoke tailors. But when one fine Spring day her husband disappears into thin air her world collapses... -
![The Camerons by Robert Crichton]()
The Camerons by Robert Crichton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Scottish girl living in the coal-mining town of Pitmungo, sets out on her sixteenth birthday to find a husband who will help her achieve social... -
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![The Shiralee by D'Arcy Niland]()
The Shiralee by D'Arcy Niland
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA shiralee is a swag, a burden, a bloody millstone - and that's what four-year-old Buster is to her father, Macauley. He takes the child on the road with him to spite his wife, but months pass and still no word comes to ask for the little girl back... -
![How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman, Allen Say]()
How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman, Allen Say
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn American sailor courts a young Japanese woman and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating... -
![The Gingerbread Girl by Sheila Newberry]()
The Gingerbread Girl by Sheila Newberry
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsALL SHE WANTED WAS A HOME FOR CHRISTMASLondon, 1936Ill and stuck in hospital at Christmas, seven year old Cora Kelly is excited to receive a visit from her mother, who brings her the gift of a gingerbread man. But little does Cora know that this will be the last time she sees her . . -
![Rough Justice by Gilda O'Neill]()
Rough Justice by Gilda O'Neill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Flanagans, Tanners and Lovells all live on the top floor of a crumbling Victorian tenement in the heart of London’s East End. It’s 1936 and Britain is in the grip of the Depression.Nell Flanagan is a decent, hardworking woman, married to Stephen, a tough, heavy-drinking brute of a man, who works as a casual in the docks — when there’s work available... -
![Forgotten Women by Freda Lightfoot]()
Forgotten Women by Freda Lightfoot
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt is 1936 and Spain is on the brink of civil war. Across Europe, young men are enlisting in the International Brigade to free their Spanish brethren from the grip of fascism, leaving sisters and lovers at home.But not all women are content to be left behind... -
![Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay]()
Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBrother Fish is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents.Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life.Jack McKenzie is a harmonica player, soldier, dreamer and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait... -
![The Golden Tulip by Rosalind Laker]()
The Golden Tulip by Rosalind Laker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrancesca's father is a well-known painter in the bustling port city of Amsterdam; he is also a gambler. Though their household is in economic chaos, thankfully the lessons she learned in his studio have prepared her to study with Johannes Vermeer, the master of Delft... -
![Kal by Judy Nunn]()
Kal by Judy Nunn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKalgoorlie. It grew out of the red dust of the desert over the world's richest vein of gold. Like the gold it guarded, Kalgoorlie was a magnet to anyone with a sense of adventure, anyone who could dream. People were drawn there from all over the world, settling to start afresh or to seek their fortunes. They called it Kal; it was a place where dreams came true or were lost forever in the dust... -
![Mama, Let's Dance by Patricia Hermes]()
Mama, Let's Dance by Patricia Hermes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbandoned by their mother after the death of their father, three youngsters are determined to keep their situation a secret so that the authorities will not split them up and send them to foster homes... -
![The Mallen Trilogy: Three Magnificent Novels in One Volume by Catherine Cookson]()
The Mallen Trilogy: Three Magnificent Novels in One Volume by Catherine Cookson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis volume contains all three novels of the Mallen trilogy. Starting in 1851, the book follows the stormy lives of the Mallens through succeeding generations, linking the England of Queen Victoria with the dark days of World War I... -
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![The Dressmaker's Daughter by Nancy Carson]()
The Dressmaker's Daughter by Nancy Carson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLizzie Bishop’s humble beginnings as a dressmaker’s daughter see her hope for nothing more than a simple offer of marriage. Love, passion and romance are reserved for daydreams. But then into Lizzie’s quiet world comes two men – one reliable and kind-hearted, the other heartbreakingly handsome. Just as Lizzie’s made her choice, the ominous call of war sounds, and her life changes again... -
![नरेन्द्र दाइ [Narendra Dai] by Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, विश्वेश्वरप्रसाद कोइराला]()
नरेन्द्र दाइ [Narendra Dai] by Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala, विश्वेश्वरप्रसाद कोइराला
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsनरेन्द्रदाई एक मनोवैज्ञानिक उपन्यास हो । एउटा पुरुषका पत्नि र प्रेमिका दुई छुट्टा छुट्टै सम्बन्धका दुई स्त्रीहरु बीचको कथा हो । नायक नरेन्द्रलाई पत्नि गौरी र प्रेमिका मुनरियाले समान अधिकारसाथ सेवा गरेको र दुवैको आ आफ्ना ठाउँमा स्वतन्त्र अस्तित्व स्विकारिएको छ । पतिको प्रेम नपाए पनि पतिसेवामा अटल रहने आदर्श पत्नि र सामाजिक ग्रार्हस्थ सम्बन्धमा नअटाएर पनि प्रेम र सद्भावले गर्दा प्रेममा लीन रहने... -
![The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles]()
The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs seamstresses, the young sisters Emília and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, how to mend, and how to conceal. These are useful skills in the lawless backcountry of Brazil, where ruthless land barons called "colonels" feud with bands of outlaw cangaceiros, trapping innocent residents in the cross fire... -
![The Red Coat: A Novel of Boston by Dolley Carlson]()
The Red Coat: A Novel of Boston by Dolley Carlson
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThink Downton Abbey, but set in the heart of Boston . . . Irish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed... -
![Quail Crossings by Jennifer McMurrain]()
Quail Crossings by Jennifer McMurrain
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTragedy has struck the small town of Knollwood, Texas and Dovie Grant finds herself dealing with the loss of her husband and daughter in the already trying times of The Great Depression. She knows her father needs help on their struggling farm, Quail Crossings, but isn’t thrilled that he’s hired a young 18 year old boy who’s caring for his three younger siblings... -
![Imaginings of Sand by André P. Brink]()
Imaginings of Sand by André P. Brink
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen expatriate Afrikaner Kristien Müller hears of her grandmother's impending death, she ends her self-imposed exile in London and returns to the South Africa she thought she'd escaped. But irrevocable change is sweeping the land, and reality itself seems to be in flux as the country stages its first democratic elections...
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