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From the pen of legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes an unforgettable true story ofroyalty, passion, and innocence lost.Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, young Katherine is plucked from her home to live with her grandmother, the...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-08-16
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The life of Jane Shore in Plaidy's thrilling Queen of England Series.Eighteen year old Jane Shore’s beauty is known around London. She is well-educated and intelligent, and when she catches the eye of a wealthy goldsmith her father sees in her an opportunity for an...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-08-16
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London, 1501. Henry VII’s heir is dead...Elizabeth, his queen, fears foul play, but who can she trust with her suspicions that their son has been murdered?In her darkest hour she turns to Varina Wescott, a lowly candle maker and widow. Despite the difference in their...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-08-02
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The Empress Helena made the historic pilgrimage to Palestine, found pieces of wood from the true Cross, and built churches at Bethlehem and Olivet. Her life coincided with one of the great turning-points of history: the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the...
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Penguin
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2012-08-02
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To Penelope Butler the family was all, the sole ambition of her adult life. Three of her four daughters, however, had different ideas. Rosemary rejected it; Jess was destroyed by it; Celia found it eluded her. Only Emily pursued her mother's ideal, with disastrous...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-07-31
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A tale of courage, warmth and grit, continuing the South London saga begun in old Father Thames.In turn of the century Southwark, times are changing. Traffic on the river is waning, replaced by the railways, and the mass of new inventions - the telephone, moving...
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Orion
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2012-07-26
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1164. The young warrior Saladin joins a Saracen army headed for Egypt. He finds there a land of wonders - from the ancient pyramids and the towering lighthouse of Alexandria, to the caliph's luxurious palace - but also a land of unparalleled danger. In Egypt, no one can...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-07-19
Collection :
Saladin trilogy
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May 1194. Finally released from captivity, Richard the Lionheart is in Normandy engaged in a bloody war to drive the French out of his continental patrimony. Using the brutal tactics of medieval warfare - siege, savagery and scorched earth - ...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2012-07-19
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Outlaw Chronicles
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When beautiful Tessa Harrison and her twin cousins take over their parents' Lancashire cotton mill, their luxurious upbringing has left them unprepared for their new responsibilities.For Tessa, there is an added but forbidden attraction at the mill. Foreman Will...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-07-19
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Each Devlin novel is a standalone adventure. In BLOOD DIAMOND the fearles pirate captain Devlin is invited to London by the Prince of Wales, no less, and offered an amnesty if he will carry out a daring crime. Devlin is tasked with going to Paris to steal the biggest,...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-07-19
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Alison Grant is just five when her father is sent to prison for murder. Taunted at school for being a jailbird's daughter, then abandoned by her mother, she goes to live with her grandmother. She tells her only new friend that her mother is dead and her father is a...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-07-19
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When mill worker Molly O'Dowd falls in love with factory owner Tim Broadbent, all her dreams seem to come true. Their passionate marriage catapults Molly into a luxurious new world, but tragedy awaits. It's only when she seems to have lost everything that Molly at lasts...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-07-19
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A moving saga of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances... From the medieval spires of Coventry to the clustered pit villages of the north, Wendy Robertson's powerful saga, Land of Your Possession, traces lives changed irrevocably by war. Perfect for fans of...
Editeur :
Headline
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2012-07-19
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An uplifting, unforgettable story of two women in two different times from the Sunday Times bestselling author of After the Party, The Making of Us and The Family Upstairs._____________London, 1920. Arlette works in Liberty by day, and by night is caught up in a...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2012-07-19
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Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer, then coal miner, and his wife Emily. John's struggle to break free from the humiliating status of a 'hired man' is the theme of a...
Editeur :
Sceptre
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2012-07-18
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Orphaned at a young age, Rachel is left penniless and alone in the streets of turn-of-the-century Newcastle. In the depths of despair she is delighted to learn that her eccentric Uncle Joshua has left her his house in Sunderland. But it comes with a strict proviso:...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-07-05
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When Dewi Morgan arrives at Polrudden Manor, it is to find a disappointing welcome. She had expected to take up the position of governess to Nathan Jago's son, Beville but Nathan is determined to have a local girl for the post. It takes a dramatic rescue for Nathan to...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2012-07-05
Collection :
Jagos of Cornwall
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Cornish farmer Joseph Moyle's loyalty to the crown goes well rewarded - his stepson Ralf is appointed page to the future Charles II. And when Ralf takes up his post, Britain is in the midst of its most tumultuous period ever - the war between the Royalists and the...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2012-07-05
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A beautiful, atmospheric novel set in the heat of Crete from the author of the highly acclaimed THE HOUSE OF DUST AND DREAMS.It is the late 1960s and after her strict English boarding school, Angel is delighted to be back on Crete, the island she loves. She and her...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2012-07-05
ePub
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The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner is a prize-winning novel that tells an astonishing true story of injustice, survival, reinvention and fame against all the odds.'Panoramic, arresting, breathtaking' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland'Bold and wondrous' A D Miller, author...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-07-05
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