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Three lonely people come together in this poignant, witty novel of star-crossed romance from the New York Times–bestselling author of Jane and Prudence.
After being jilted by her fiancé, Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ever finding true love. For a distraction, she goes to a publishing conference, where she meets Viola Dace, a dramatic woman who refuses to live without romance, as well as Aylwin Forbes,...
After being jilted by her fiancé, Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ever finding true love. For a distraction, she goes to a publishing conference, where she meets Viola Dace, a dramatic woman who refuses to live without romance, as well as Aylwin Forbes,...
2) Unraveled
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"Smite Turner is renowned for his single-minded devotion to his duty as a magistrate. But behind his relentless focus lies not only a determination to do what is right, but the haunting secrets of his past, secrets that he is determined to hide, even if it means keeping everyone else at arm's length. Until the day an irresistible woman shows up as a witness in his courtroom. Miranda Darling isn't in trouble, yet. But she's close enough that when Turner...
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A tender and witty novel of finding one's way to adulthood A Sensible Life opens in 1926. Ten-year-old Flora Trevelyan is on vacation with her family in Dinard, an exclusive seaside resort in Brittany. Left to her own devices by her self-absorbed parents, Flora embarks on a remarkably independent life. Set against the backdrop of Europe between the two world wars, this acclaimed novel tells a deeply affecting story of friendship, family, and love...
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Viking
Pub. Date
1992
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English
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Couples, both married and unmarried, collide at a country house during a weekend of sex, adventure, and shocking surprises In 1944, with Britain still embroiled in World War II, Henry Tillotson marries a mysterious woman in desperate need of a passport. On their wedding night, she gives her new husband a black eye and falls ill. Is Margaret mad? Or is something else driving her-something from her shadowy past? The arrival of two more couples at the...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Set in a West Country farming village, The House of Broken Bricks lays bare the complexities of day-to-day life for a mixed-race family. Jess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in a city where she easily blends in into a creaking house on a floodplain where predatory birds hover over fields, eels coil in the river mud, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider and no one looks like...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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A captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside. Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats, three dogs, and even a calf, called Gabriella Christmas....
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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1. Holiday: a period in which a break is taken from work or studies for rest, travel, or recreation. [literally: holy day]
Many years ago, Mr. Golightly wrote a work of dramatic fiction that grew to be an astonishing international bestseller. But, his reputation is on the decline and he finds himself badly out of touch with the modern world. He decides to take a holiday and comes to the historic village of Great Calne, hoping to use the opportunity...
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Bantam Press
Pub. Date
1995
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English
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A comedy of manners that begins when a woman in England pulls the emergency cord to stop a train and save an injured sheep. She is Julia Piper, returning from the funeral of her husband and her son. Julia's action attracts the attention of two men on the train and love follows.
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Knights Templar mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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When the devil comes calling, all you can do is pray.
Amidst the myth and folklore of Tavistock, one tale above all others strikes fear into the hearts of the town's inhabitants - that of the murders on the Abbot's Way. A young acolyte paid the price for stealing his abbot's wine when the devil himself led him to his death on the treacherous Devon moors.
Now, in the autumn of 1322, it looks as though history may be repeating itself. Abbot Robert...
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Three years after the events of Sense and sensibility, Willoughby's return throws Marianne into a tizzy of painful memories and feelings of uncertainty. With Brandon away and Willoughby determined to win her back, will she find the strength to save her marriage-- or will the temptation of a previous love be too powerful to resist?
12) Beast: a novel
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The stunning new novel from the prizewinning author of The Wake Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don't yet know. What he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession. This short, shocking, and...
13) Cunning folk
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Ritual Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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After Tom and his family move into a money-pit home in rural southwest England, hostilities break out with the elderly couple next door, and he begins to suspect that the oddballs across the hedgerow command unearthly, malicious powers.
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Charlie Wycliffe mysteries volume 18
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993
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English
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994
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English
Description
In Cornwall, 15 years after some young people held a party on a beach, a storm exhumes human remains from the dunes. Chief superintendent Wycliffe visits six well-established figures in the community, all of whom attended the party. By the author of Wycliffe and the Last Rites.
16) City of fiends
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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It's 1327 and England is in turmoil. King Edward II has been removed from the throne and his son installed in his place. The old man's rule had proved a disaster for the realm and many hope that his removal may mean the return of peace to England's cities. Keeper of the King's Peace, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock had been tasked with guarding Edward II, but they have failed in their task and now ride fast to Exeter...
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Series
Darina Lisle mysteries volume 5
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Author
Series
Charlie Wycliffe mysteries volume 20
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
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In England Roger Kemp, heir to an ancestral mansion almost 500 years old, is desperate for money to repair it. His wealthy second wife, Bridget, is willing to help, but only on her terms. When she disappears, everyone assumes the obvious, but as always Chief Superintendent Wycliffe distrusts the obvious.
19) Hotel Morgue
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Series
Darina Lisle mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
20) Chapel of bones
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Series
Knights Templar mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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