Jonathan Yardley called A Family Trust "his longest, his most ambitious and his best a book with serious purposes that manages to entertain at the same time rich in carefully observed details, in quick, sharp perceptions that reveal more than one at first understands a fine, satisfying, rewarding book, the work of a mature and accomplished novelist," upon the book's initial publication in 1978. The passing of Amos Rising, town elder and editor of The Dement Intelligencer, leaves the Rising fami...
“A grand, sweeping panorama . . . richly written, finely detailed . . . vivid and memorable.”—Daily News (New York) Yearning for a better life, Anna Friedman fled Poland for New York at the turn of the century. Finding work as a maid for the Werner family, Anna discovers an elegance beyond her dreams—and the passion of Paul Werner, a man beyond her reach, even when she is in his arms. But it is Joseph Friedman whom she marries. And through an act of illicit passion that will haunt her though al...
A Happy Meeting (Betty Neels Collection, #94) (Best of Betty Neels)
by Betty Neels
Mills & Boon presents the complete Betty Neels collection. Timeless tales of heart-warming romance by one of the world’s best-loved romance authors. Would he ever notice her? All alone in the world, Cressida had little choice but to accept Aldrik van der Linus’s help. But while he seemed happy to fix her up with a job, and even to try to help with her other problems, she couldn’t help but wonder what...
First the hit movie. Then the groundbreaking television show. Now the smart and sassy book series. SOUL FOOD Sisters at heart. Sisters through it all.... Baby sister Bird and her husband, Lem, are having a rough time. Lem has a secure job with his brother-in-law Kenny, but he still feels like the charity case of the family -- and he wants to make it on his own with his own business. But with his checkered past, Lem knows it will be tough to find anyone to front him the cash -- legally, at lea...
Shortly before daybreak in War, West Virginia, a passing train derails and spills an avalanche of coal over sixteen-year-old Emma Palmisano’s house, trapping her sleeping family inside. The year is 1924, and the remote mines of Appalachia have filled with families like Emma’s—poor, immigrant laborers building new lives half a world away from the island of Sicily. Emma awakes in total darkness, to the voice of a railroad man, Caleb Sypher, who is digging her out from the suffocating coal. From hi...
Timeless romance from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s heart-warming and gripping fiction, set in post-war Liverpool and France, continues to move readers. Set in the aftermath of war, this is a tale of courage and endurance of ordinary people. A young Liverpool woman is widowed in the Second World War before she can know the happiness of having a family. On a trip to Normand...
This is a new series from the well-loved storyteller. London, 1920s. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Bailey lives in terror of her father's drunken rages. In a moment of fury, as she tries to defend her mother from another vicious beating, Maggie throws boiling water at her father. Though her mother cannot forgive her sin, Maggie determines she will do everything she can to protect herself and her sickly little brother, and a job in a cafe proves the first step to a better life. But what happens when he...
A Silver Lining: A Classic Romance Set in Edinburgh During the Second World War
by Anne Douglas
When Jinny Hendrie's love leaves Edinburgh to fight in the Second World War, she faces an uncertain future. Do even the darkest clouds have silver linings? 1937, Edinburgh. Attractive, dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office of a large bakery - until handsome Viennese cake expert Viktor Linden walks into her life with the promise of an exciting future. Although her father and her kind-hearted boss, Ross MacBain, warn against it, Jinny is determined to marry Vikt...
When Saint Morris first met Juliana DuPres, he was a young doctor, just landed on the island of Maui; and she the fourteen-year-old daughter of a puritanical minister. When he left, he took Juliana's young heart with him. But, four years later, when they meet again in San Francisco, their innocence is the most distant part of a fading memory. Now a beautiful woman, Juliana has been kidnapped by a crew of whalers, drugged, humiliated and beaten, and paraded as the perfect product at the Barbary...
When Emma Robinson falls in love with a man far above her own station in life, there are harsh consequences - she discovers that she is carrying Paul Greenslade's child, and he has disappeared rather than marry a common shop-girl.