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The Seven Sisters
- The Seven Sisters, Book 1
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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The first audiobook in a stunning series from the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley, read by Tuppence Middleton....
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Great story!
- By rejnh on 25-10-2021
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The Storm Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 2
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
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The second audiobook in the Seven Sisters series by number one internationally best-selling author Lucinda Riley....
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Is/ Was Pa Salt a Master Spy?
- By Myles on 19-05-2024
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Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
- The Seven Sisters, Book 8
- By: Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 24 hrs and 59 mins
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From the Sunday Times number-one best-selling author Lucinda Riley, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt draws the multimillion-copy epic series The Seven Sisters to an unforgettable conclusion....
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Loved It
- By ukjenp on 16-05-2023
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The Shadow Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 3
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Fiona Button
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father – the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world....
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How effortlessly the author weaves two stories in two different ages together.
- By Sharon on 26-05-2024
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The Sun Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 6
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Weruche Opia
- Length: 26 hrs and 14 mins
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To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous....
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Absolutely Brilliant!!!!
- By Christine Curtis on 26-07-2020
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The Light Behind the Window
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France....
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Held my all the way to the end
- By Donna Skelton on 21-09-2020
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The Seven Sisters
- The Seven Sisters, Book 1
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
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The first audiobook in a stunning series from the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley, read by Tuppence Middleton....
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Great story!
- By rejnh on 25-10-2021
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The Storm Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 2
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
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The second audiobook in the Seven Sisters series by number one internationally best-selling author Lucinda Riley....
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Is/ Was Pa Salt a Master Spy?
- By Myles on 19-05-2024
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Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
- The Seven Sisters, Book 8
- By: Lucinda Riley, Harry Whittaker
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 24 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Sunday Times number-one best-selling author Lucinda Riley, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt draws the multimillion-copy epic series The Seven Sisters to an unforgettable conclusion....
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Loved It
- By ukjenp on 16-05-2023
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The Shadow Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 3
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Fiona Button
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father – the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world....
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How effortlessly the author weaves two stories in two different ages together.
- By Sharon on 26-05-2024
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The Sun Sister
- The Seven Sisters, Book 6
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Weruche Opia
- Length: 26 hrs and 14 mins
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To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous....
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Absolutely Brilliant!!!!
- By Christine Curtis on 26-07-2020
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The Light Behind the Window
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France....
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Held my all the way to the end
- By Donna Skelton on 21-09-2020
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The Midnight Rose
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Aysha Kala
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
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In the heyday of the British Raj, 11-year-old Anahita, from a noble but impoverished family, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong Princess Indira, the privileged daughter of rich Indian royalty....
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Irresistible suspense!
- By Jacqueline Benz on 22-11-2020
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The Lost Duke of Wyndham
- By: Julia Quinn
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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A soldier. And he has always been a rogue. What he is not, and never wanted to be, is a peer of the realm, responsible for an ancient heritage and the livelihood of hundreds. But when he is recognized as the long-lost son of the House of Wyndham, his carefree life is over....
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Great story
- By Anonymous User on 14-04-2022
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The Love Letter
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Camilla Rockley
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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1995, London. When Sir James Harrison, one the greatest actors of his generation, passes away at the age of 95 he leaves behind not just a heartbroken family but also a secret....
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Not sure what the big secret was
- By Anonymous User on 20-03-2023
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Courtney's War
- By: Wilbur Smith, David Churchill
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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Paris, 1939. Torn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives....
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brilliant as always
- By Teena on 02-10-2018
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Property of a Noblewoman
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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Faded photographs of a glamorous couple in postwar Europe. Old letters hinting of tragic loss. And a breathtaking array of magnificent jewelry, spectacular stones in exquisite settings....
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Tatiana and Alexander
- The Bronze Horseman Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Paullina Simons
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
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Paullina Simons's internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman's transcendent love affair with a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two. The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander....
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Action, Love and War
- By Tilly on 27-04-2024
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A Wartime Family
- Mary Anne Randall, Book 2
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Bristol 1941. Having left her abusive husband for very good reasons, Mary Anne Randall finds herself judged harshly by her friends and neighbours, after courageously risking everything for a second chance at happiness....
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Counting Chimneys
- By: Sandy Taylor
- Narrated by: Rebecca Courtney
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Dottie Perks has forged a new life for herself in London, with a new job and a loving boyfriend. She's safe, happy and loved. What more could she ask for? Find out....
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Great follow up book
- By Anonymous User on 02-10-2023
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A Jewish Girl in Paris
- By: Melanie Levensohn, Jamie Lee Searle - translator
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde, Louiza Patikas
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Inspired by a true story, Melanie Levensohn's A Jewish Girl in Paris is a dual narrative historical novel that will appeal to fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz....
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Wedding Bells at Goodwill House
- Goodwill House, Book 6
- By: Fenella J. Miller
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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January 1941. As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter, land girl Charlie Somiton is still glad of the warm friendships she has made there. Not just her fellow land girls, Daphne and Sal, but also dashing local G.P. Dr James Willoughby....
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The Three Sisters of Victory Walk
- The Three Sisters, Book 1
- By: Annie Groves
- Narrated by: Alex Tregear
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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The three sisters of Victory Walk in East London will face heartache and tears on the home front. As rationing, blackouts and bombs start to bite, life will change forever for the three sisters....
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A good read
- By Psalteryschool on 27-01-2024
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The Royal Librarian
- By: Daisy Wood
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Windsor, 1940: War rages, and as bombs rain down across Britain, nowhere is safe: not even a royal palace. Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor castle, where the princesses reside....
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The Summer Garden
- Bronze Horseman Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Paullina Simons
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 30 hrs and 2 mins
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Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals....
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The end to my favourite love story
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-2024
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The Secrets We Left Behind
- By: Soraya M. Lane
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Occupied France, 1940. When the staff at a field hospital draw straws to find out who will join the evacuation from Dunkirk, Nurse Cate is left behind. But when the Nazis arrive to claim prisoners of war, she takes her chance and flees into the night, taking one patient with her....
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Emotional, Breathtaking, Heartbreaking
- By Anonymous User on 15-08-2023
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The District Nurses of Victory Walk
- By: Annie Groves
- Narrated by: Alex Tregear
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Alice Lake has arrived in London from Liverpool to start her training as a District Nurse, but her journey has been far from easy. Her parents think that she should settle down and get married, but she has already had her heart broken once and isn’t about to make the same mistake again....
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Great until the end
- By Anonymous User on 09-03-2020
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The Seven Streets of Liverpool
- By: Maureen Lee
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Pearl Street, Liverpool, Christmas 1942. Despite the drama and tragedy of the War, the street’s spirit and friendship in adversity binds them together....
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The Parisians
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Paris, 1940. The Nazis have occupied the city - and the Ritz. The opulent old hotel, so loved by Parisians, is now full of swaggering officers, their minions and their mistresses. For American Olivia Olsen, working as a chambermaid at the hotel means denying her nationality....
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The German Daughter
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Hannah Brown
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Norway, 1940. Liv has lived a quiet life on her family farm, dreaming of a happy life after the war is finally over. England, 1968. Agnes, although made orphan from the war, has grown up happy in the quiet wealth of the English countryside.
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The Ocean Liner
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Cousins Masha and Rachel Morgenstern board the luxury liner the SS Manhattan bound for New York, desperate to escape the concentration camps that claimed the rest of their family....
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Clever story connections
- By Anonymous User on 14-05-2024
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The Liverpool Girls
- By: Pam Howes
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Two sisters are heartbroken when they discover they have been dating the same man, and an unexpected pregnancy causes a rift between them....
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Families
- By Samantha Pascoe on 05-12-2023
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The Girls in the Attic
- By: Marius Gabriel
- Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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The bestselling author of The Designer presents a sweeping story of blind faith, family allegiance and how love makes one man question everything he thought he knew....
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sad, brilliant from the first page to the last
- By danielle on 29-11-2021
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Daughters of Cornwall
- By: Fern Britton
- Narrated by: Fern Britton
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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The Great War is over and Clara Carter has boarded a train bound for Cornwall – to meet a family that would once have been hers. But they must never discover her secret....
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The Land Girl's Letters
- By: Catherine Law
- Narrated by: Mia McCallum
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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Rose Pepper has kept her wartime past a secret for decades. Forty years ago, she fled communist Prague and left behind the love of her life.
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The Letter
- By: Kathryn Hughes
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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The Number One Kindle best seller guaranteed to break your heart....
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Such a great story
- By Fiona on 21-03-2017
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Kathy's Courage
- The Kiltie Street Girls, Book 3
- By: Carol MacLean
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Length: 9 hrs
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After becoming pregnant out of wedlock, only to find out her betrothed was already married, Kathy feared for her future. Her mother agreed to pass off baby Dennis as her own, treating Kathy as his older sister instead. Then a chance meeting with Alisdair, a handsome RAF airman, changes everything. They grow close quickly, but when Kathy believes Alisdair has discovered her secret, she runs away from heartbreak by joining the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
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Neighbours at War
- By: Deborah Carr
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- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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When German forces invade the Channel Islands and the citizens of Jersey are cut off from the rest of the UK, the islands’ residents bond together to resist the enemy. East London native Helen Bowman was never meant to be here, but when she found herself alone and pregnant her beloved aunt’s home in Jersey was the only place she could go. But now, as the enemy start rounding up anyone not born on the island to be sent to a camp on the continent, Helen is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers, like her new friend Peggy Hamel, to keep herself and her son hidden.
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Summer 1999: Twentysomething Sawyer is striving to make it in New York. Between her assistant job in publishing, her secret dreams of becoming a writer, and her upcoming wedding to her college boyfriend, her is plate full. Only one problem: She is facing an incredibly lonely summer as her fiancé has been spending longer and longer hours at work...with an all-too-close female colleague, Kendra. When Kendra's boyfriend, Nick, invites Sawyer to meet up and compare notes about their suspicions, the meeting goes awry.
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The Land Girl's Letters
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Rose Pepper has kept her wartime past a secret for decades. Forty years ago, she fled communist Prague and left behind the love of her life. Now in her sixties and with two daughters, Rose discovers a bundle of unopened letters sent to her by her lost love. Confronted with the possibility of facing up to her past, she decides it’s finally time to go back to where her story began and uncover the truth that has been buried for so long…
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Ava
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In this steamy romance novel set just as WWI is ending, Ava, a beautiful young woman, and Irish immigrant, initially explores her irresistible and alluring power over men with Alistar, a handsome sailor. Soon Ava learns she is pregnant, but before she can tell Alistar, his ship sets sail. Ava finds herself desperate growing up poor in America as an Irish immigrant during prohibition with little to no support from her family.
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The Mapmaker's Wife
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Bea Bell has lived in Grenada her whole life... until she meets handsome surveyor Patrick Anderson. The two are quickly swept up in a whirlwind romance that takes them across the crumbling Empire. But not everyone is as accepting of their interracial marriage. And soon they are faced with an impossible decision, one that threatens to tear them apart...
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Kathy's Courage
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After becoming pregnant out of wedlock, only to find out her betrothed was already married, Kathy feared for her future. Her mother agreed to pass off baby Dennis as her own, treating Kathy as his older sister instead. Then a chance meeting with Alisdair, a handsome RAF airman, changes everything. They grow close quickly, but when Kathy believes Alisdair has discovered her secret, she runs away from heartbreak by joining the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
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Neighbours at War
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When German forces invade the Channel Islands and the citizens of Jersey are cut off from the rest of the UK, the islands’ residents bond together to resist the enemy. East London native Helen Bowman was never meant to be here, but when she found herself alone and pregnant her beloved aunt’s home in Jersey was the only place she could go. But now, as the enemy start rounding up anyone not born on the island to be sent to a camp on the continent, Helen is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers, like her new friend Peggy Hamel, to keep herself and her son hidden.
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Summer Fridays
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Summer 1999: Twentysomething Sawyer is striving to make it in New York. Between her assistant job in publishing, her secret dreams of becoming a writer, and her upcoming wedding to her college boyfriend, her is plate full. Only one problem: She is facing an incredibly lonely summer as her fiancé has been spending longer and longer hours at work...with an all-too-close female colleague, Kendra. When Kendra's boyfriend, Nick, invites Sawyer to meet up and compare notes about their suspicions, the meeting goes awry.
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The Land Girl's Letters
- By: Catherine Law
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Rose Pepper has kept her wartime past a secret for decades. Forty years ago, she fled communist Prague and left behind the love of her life. Now in her sixties and with two daughters, Rose discovers a bundle of unopened letters sent to her by her lost love. Confronted with the possibility of facing up to her past, she decides it’s finally time to go back to where her story began and uncover the truth that has been buried for so long…
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Ava
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In this steamy romance novel set just as WWI is ending, Ava, a beautiful young woman, and Irish immigrant, initially explores her irresistible and alluring power over men with Alistar, a handsome sailor. Soon Ava learns she is pregnant, but before she can tell Alistar, his ship sets sail. Ava finds herself desperate growing up poor in America as an Irish immigrant during prohibition with little to no support from her family.
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The Mapmaker's Wife
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With Each Tomorrow
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As the formation of Glacier National Park takes Eleanor Briggs and her conservationist father on a journey west to advocate for public lands, her heart carries the weight of a painful past. Since the death of her mother, she has spent her life traveling the country with her father and helping him with his work, but now he’s considering settling down and writing a book—and she’s not sure what that means for her future.
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The Blackout Girls
- Lily Baker Series, Book 4
- By: Patricia McBride
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence
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England, 1941. Reunited briefly with her husband-to-be before he returns to fighting, Lily Baker now finds her mundane army office work dreary. But when her boss asks her to keep watch on the happenings at the depot, she quickly suspects a new weapons supplier of fraud. As she trains her sharp eye on the potential cheat, she agrees to help an unmarried colleague with an unexpected pregnancy. But when, without evidence, she is accused of being the one with child, she faces hard decisions.
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The Song of Sourwood Mountain
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Though the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean’s hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher—until Gordon Covington shows up. No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in Eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks her to marry him. Just like that.
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A Rose in the Blitz
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Wealthy landowner, Hadan Rose, is dying. His daughter, May, rushes to his country estate, Rose Park, with her daughter, Rachel, to nurse him through his final days. In the afternoons, while Hadan sleeps, May tells Rachel about her wartime experiences.
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Nice Girls Don't
- By: Sue Barnard
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At 25, single, and under threat of redundancy from her job in a local library, Emily feels as though her life is going nowhere—until the day when Carl comes into the library asking for books about tracing family history. Carl is baffled by a mystery about his late grandfather: why is the name by which Carl had always known him different from the name on his old passport?Fascinated as much by Carl himself as by the puzzle he wants to solve, Emily tries to help him find the answers. As their relationship develops, their quest for the truth takes them along a complicated paper-trail.
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Laika...
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This historical fiction follows Ayana Kenes, a peasant girl from Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union, who has unexpectedly risen to the top of the Soviet Space program. It is the dawn of the Space Race in 1957 and the Russians are in a race with the Americans. Ayana is tasked with helping to rush Laika, to become the first dog to orbit the Earth. But Ayana is distracted by a quirky, artistic lab technician, Nikolai Yinski, and his affection for Laika and the other dogs in the program.
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A Mother’s Sorrow
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Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He’s hard on both his wife and his elder daughter, Flora, but he spoils his youngest, Mary Ellen, because she reminds him of his beloved mother. When Mary Ellen, aged seventeen, finds that she is pregnant, Patrick throws her out of the family home and Flora goes with her. After wandering the Derbyshire countryside for miles, they find shelter on a farm, working for their keep. When Flora must return to her job as a buffer girl in Sheffield’s cutlery trade, she is reunited with her friend, Evelyn Bonsor.
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Summer Heat
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- Narrated by: Angela Christofilou
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Melike has it all: a beautiful home in Istanbul, a career as an art historian, an attentive husband. But her yearning for more excitement has led her surreptitiously into the arms of other men. On the cusp of her fortieth birthday, Melike is resolute: the affairs must stop. Then she receives a mysterious email from a man named Petro, requesting a tour of Istanbul’s Byzantine churches. Against her better judgement, she accepts. As soon as she sees Petro, with his endearing smile and impeccable charm, Melike knows she is in trouble. But she is not the only one keeping secrets.
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Behind the Guns
- Army Girls, Book 3
- By: Fenella J Miller
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Having done her duty as an ATS girl, Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new challenges and has signed up to work as a gunner girl, helping to keep the skies clear of enemy planes and safe for our brave boys in blue. But on the way to her new barracks, Ruth meets handsome Sargeant Sam Johnson. Ruth isn’t looking for romance, and she knows she has a dangerous job ahead, but there is a connection between her and Sam that she can’t deny.
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The Last Boat Home
- By: Rachel Sweasey
- Narrated by: Gloria Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations.
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A deeply satisfying story of love, grief and second chances
- By Anonymous User on 28-05-2024
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The Tall Stranger
- By: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Barbie France has known Edward Steyne all her life - indeed they were childhood sweethearts. Charming, spirited, debonair, he is the ideal companion. Everyone, especially Edward, assumes they will marry one day. But Barbie is uneasy. Edward sometimes behaves very oddly. There are his sudden, huge winnings on the racecourse and the strange affair of Aunt Amalie's emerald ring. And last, but not least, Barbie is puzzled by his reaction to the handsome stranger she meets at a wedding; for suddenly easy-going Edward becomes hostile and unfriendly . . . Can Barbie discover the truth?
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Rainbow Days
- By: Josephine Cox
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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'You're everything to me. I'd have to lose my life before I'd lose you.' This is the vow Silas made to Cathleen on the day he asks her to marry him. Throughout their childhood their love has grown stronger and now, in 1900, they start to plan a life together. But a jealous woman is determined to ruin their happiness and uses Silas's father – a good and honest man – to do so, forcing him to make an impossible sacrifice. As a dutiful son, Silas has no choice but to obey his father, and Cathleen must pay the bitter price.