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Francesca Bowen was naturally optimistic - she needed to be. She'd cut her nursing training to look after her elderly aunt Emma. She didn't begrudge this, but money was tight! But when Professor Marc van der Kettener found her a position as a girl Friday and then proposed...

Liverpool, May 1941. The worst week of the Blitz. Helen Forrester produces another moving novel set on Merseyside. An extraordinary story of three brave women, each trying in her own way to deal with the brutal tide of destruction brought on by the air raids of the Second World War. There is Ellen - whose home is destroyed by bombs; Gwen, whose family absorbs all her time and energy; and Emmie, whose only fears are for the safety of her merchant seaman fiance, far away in the South Atl...

It is early summer in 1953, and the friends and neighbours of Magnolia Square are looking forward to celebrating the Coronation. The war has become a memory; the future seems rosy. Kate Emmerson looks on with pride at her growing family, including Matthew, whose father was killed during the war. But Matthew's wealthy relations have never really forgiven Kate for marrying Leon, a West Indian who works as a Thames lighterman, and when Matthew runs away from his smart boarding school in Somerset th...

Suspected by his friends of killing an elderly lady, Councillor Amos Cotswold is targeted by a greedy developer who, seeking to discredit him, reports Amos for pressurizing old folk. This accusation threatens Amos' position and hence the villagers who depend on his protection.His plight is exacerbated by the painfully resurrected memory of a young woman who disappeared forty years ago, three attempts on his life, a run-in with organised car crime and an ambivalent relationship with the local gyp...

Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature. Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewa...

Felicia returns to her family's home on Nantucket to marry her adventurous, rugged boyfriend, Archie. Wondering if her handsome neighbor Steven Hardy might be a more suitable son-in-law, Jilly's mother embarks on a secret matchmaking campaign for Felicia and the dashing stockbroker. As the big day approaches and Jilly's older daughter, Lauren, appears with rambunctious kids in tow, tensions in the household are high. Enter a charming but mischievous cat named Jock.

EN EL ANO 2005, especialistas en Genetica descubrieron el gen humano que controla el temor innato y adquirido. Se denomino Estatmina u Oncoproteina 18. En 15 anos se identificaron de forma similar todos los genes que influyen en las principales emociones. Cerca de una decada despues, tras una guerra catastrofica que destruyo gran parte de la civilizacion, la humanidad prometio renunciar a todo lo que habia conspirado para su destruccion. De las cenizas surgio un nuevo mundo del que fueron elim...

To the warm, tight-knit community of Rhanna, the little island in the peaceful Hebrides seemed remote from the horrors of war. For Shona McKenzie, coming home on leave would give her the chance to recover from the nightmare of the bombing, and from her broken heart. Then the German bomber crashed - and the islanders realized that Rhanna's lonely beauty gave no protection against the chill reality of battle. They were indeed an island at war. And Shona discovered that not all battles are betwe...