A Bridge Between ("Woman's Weekly" Fiction S., #3) ("Woman's Weekly" fiction, No 3)
by Mary Williams
The poignant and powerful second novel from the bestselling author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts. London, 1923. Bermondsey is the larder of London with its bustling docks, spice mill, tannery and factories. Milly Colman knows she's lucky. Working at Southwell's jam factory all week means she can have a pay packet and a laugh with her mates come Saturday. It's a welcome escape from home, where Milly must protect her mother and sisters from her father's violent temper. When autumn comes, hop-...
When a series of misfortunes tears apart her family and leaves her reputation in tatters, Abby O'Leary flees Ireland for London. Abby becomes the mistress of Nicholas Darke who gives her a lavish lifestyle, however Abby knows that she can't be happy unless Nick loves her and her family is avenged.
James Lindford, Viscount Farley, is a man with a real reputation - and detested by his neighbour, Phoebe Churchill, a teacher with backbone and integrity, but no money. Butting heads with her, James plays the situation for all it's worth, and finds himself at risk for the worst kind of heartbreak.
The "soft gold" of sea otter pelts lured the Russians across the Bearing Strait in the eighteenth century, and in the wake of the Cossacks came suffering and strife for the native Aluets. One Cossack, gentle and far-seeing, comes to understand the Aluets, and falls in love with one of their young women, the beautiful Tasha Tarakanov. She is forced to choose between her beloved Andrei and the safety of her people-and her decision marks the beginning of a proud and enduring family. Larissa Tara...
Lady at Last (The DeWarenne Dynasty, #4) (de Warenne Dynasty)
by Brenda Joyce
Raised as a pirate's daughter, Amanda Carre has not been tutored in the finer social graces. Alone in the world, she has never depended on anyone, until fate intervenes when Cliff de Warenne rescues her from a mob at her father's hanging. Now she must set sail for England to find the mother she never knew, and her chaperone is an infamous ladies' man.... The greatest gentleman privateer of his era, Cliff knows honor demands that he see this beautiful wild child to London and...
Una mágica novela sobre las trampas del deseo, la tragedia del amor y los lazos indestructibles de la familia. Las mujeres Laguna han cargado con una terrible maldición desde el principio de su linaje: una tras otra sufren mal de amores y sólo dan a luz niñas que perpetúan esta cruel herencia. Pero cuando después de décadas de pasiones prohibidas y amores trágicos nace el primer varón, se abre la puerta de la esperanza. ¿Será este el fin de la maldición?
First published in 1963, James A. Michener’s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears. A timeless tale of love and emotional drama set against...
In a city where old is meeting new, daughters are surprising mothers, and love is breaking all the rules, this heartfelt and wickedly funny cross-cultural debut novel introduces a smart, irreverent young woman searching for independence and matrimony in a culture bound by tradition. Between elegant soirees and the occasional mortifying mishap, Aisha Bhatia’s job as guest relations manager at New Delhi’s five-star Grand Orchid Hotel is intermittently fabulous—she certainly knows her wines and ch...
Maps (Pantheon Modern Writers) (Picador Books)
by Farah Nucuddin, Nuruddin Farah, and Farah Nuruddin
"Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events." Nadine Gordimer Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Nuruddin Farah is one of Africa's most respected contemporary writers. Maps is the first novel in his acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, set in his native land. Askar lost his father in the bloody war between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his mother died giving birth to him. Taken in by Misra, a...
'Respectable people...What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Gover...