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Getting Over Mr Right

Details: Have you ever
had your heart broken?
How did you get over it?
Did a tub of ice cream
cheer you up? Did you
delete his number and
start again? Are you now
friends with your ex?
Perhaps you're godmother
to his children? In which
case, you're a weirdo
and this book is not for
you. But if you reacted
with denial, begging or
a spot of casual
witchcraft, then you've
come to the right place.
This is one woman's
journey from love to
lunacy and back again...
Ideal for: Fans of
contemporary fiction
books. A fun holiday
read. This paperback book
has 29 pages and
measures: 20 x 13 x 2cm

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The Lydgate Widow

Adele Ford's clearest
childhood memory is of
her father telling her
about the enigmatic
Lydgate Widow, whose
abandoned house dominates
the village. But the
stories end abruptly on
the day Adele and her
sister are orphaned, and
they grow up with only
each other to rely on.
Adele finds work in an
antiques shop but when a
wrongful accusation robs
her of her reputation,
her future looks bleak.
So it's not hard for Col
Vincent, a successful
businessman, to persuade
Adele to marry him. Adele
grows to love him - until
she realises that her
husband is a violent man.
In the 1930s, a woman
who leaves her husband
faces penury. Somehow
Adele survives, and then
news comes that will
transform her life,
bringing back the
haunting memory of the
Lydgate Widow - and the
man who has loved Adele
for decades...

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The Watchmans Daughter

Growing up in Preston's
poorest area, Kate Shaw
knows just how harsh life
can be. With her father
unable to do his night
watchman rounds, Kate
does all she can to help
her family survive. But
when Andrew Pitt comes
into her life,
everything changes. True
happiness seems to be on
the horizon for Kate as
she and Andrew make plans
to marry. Then tragedy
strikes and Kate takes
the only course she can
to protect the people who
depend on her. With her
future looking hopeless,
Kate must find a way to
escape - and to get back
the man she loves.

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A Certain Freedom

After the death of his
wife, Hamilton Forsyth
scandalises the small
Ayrshire town of
Saltcoats by departing
for pastures unknown. His
three adult children are
left reeling with shock -
and with the family
ironmongery shop to run.
Walter, son and heir,
looks set to manage the
business and marry the
suitable Clarissa
Pinkerton but drops a
bombshell on his sisters
by saying he's going to
marry the housemaid Sarah
who is pregnant. Unable
to tolerate the housemaid
becoming mistress of
their house, the girls
find there are few
choices within their
social structure.
Reluctantly, Belle moves
in with her meddling Aunt
Beatrice. Tarred with the
brush of her brother's
behaviour and thwarted in
love, Morna moves down
the social scale and into
a boarding house.
Gradually, she finds her
feet, a job as a teacher
- and an interest in the
suffragette movement.
Belle's main interest
lies elsewhere - with
Samuel Gilmartin, an
attractive rogue with a
head for business and an
eye for the main change.
She in turn scandalises
society by marrying him.

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The Ribbon Weaver

One Winter's Night,
Molly Ernshaw rescues a
baby from the snow and
changes two families for
ever. The tiny girl grows
into a gifted young
woman. Although devoted
to Molly, Amy has
far-reaching ambitions -
encouraged by her
neighbour's son, Toby,
she longs to move beyond
ribbon-weaving to
designing the hats and
clothes the ribbons
adorn. Her talent is
recognised by Samuel
Forrester, the owner of
famous hat factories and
shops. But Samuel and his
family are haunted by the
past. His son's wife,
Eugenie, is deeply
troubled, and when Amy's
flair leads her to London
and then Paris, Eugenie
is consumed with
jealousy. Amy's dreams
are coming true, but
when secrets are revealed
she is caught between two
worlds, and must choose
where her heart truly
belongs.

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The Tailors Wife

Widowed Jacob Clark has
been training his
daughter Suzannah to take
over his tailoring
business. Suzannah is the
sensible one and she's
happy with the
unconventional role her
father has found for her.
Suzannah's also a beauty,
and she's caught the eye
of the most eligible of
bachelors, Edward Lyle,
the son of a powerful
local politician who is
horrified at the thought
of being connected by
marriage to such a lowly
family. When Suzannah's
brother Girton is taken
in by the charms of
scheming Rina Taylor,
Suzannah is right to fear
that chaos and scandal
will follow, giving Noel
Lyle the ammunition he
needs to prise his son
away from Suzannah.. . or
so Noel thinks. But the
two young people whose
lives he is setting out
to destroy are less
malleable than he
imagines...

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The Sound

When aspiring music
journalist Ren Kingston
takes a job nannying for
a wealthy family on the
exclusive island of
Nantucket, playground
for Boston's elite,
she's hoping for a
low-key summer reading
books and blogging about
bands. Boys are firmly
off the agenda. What she
doesn't count on is
falling in with a bunch
of party-loving private
school kids who are
hiding some dark secrets;
falling (possibly) in
love with the local bad
boy; and falling out with
a dangerous serial
killer...

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The Misfit

An abandoned baby. A
damaged child. Can
Rebecca escape her broken
past? Abandoned outside a
hospital, baby Rebecca
didn't have a good start.
She's adopted, but her
new father can't warm to
her, and her mother
can't succeed in turning
the plain, unresponsive
child into the little
princess she longs for.
When her adoptive mother
dies, her greedy aunt
takes her in, but hers
is not a happy home, and
soon Rebecca's life is
worse than ever. She
longs to escape to the
circus that visits her
town, with its carefree
life and freedom from her
past - but will she ever
find happiness?

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The Manning Brides - The
Manning Trilogy

Rich Manning and Jamie
Warren have always been
friends--and nothing but
friends. However, that
changes when she asks him
to father the child she
so desperately wants.
Rich agrees--if she'll
marry him. Because he
thinks their Marriage of
Inconvenience could
become a real marriage
instead. Paul Manning, a
grieving widower with
three small children,
turns to Leah Baker for
help and comfort. When
that comfort begins to
grow into something else,
Paul discovers that he
wants more than a
Stand-In Wife

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The Fall Of Shane Mackade -
The MacKade Brothers

The last single MacKade
Shane MacKade loved women
and they loved him. The
youngest MacKade was a
man of the land, a
physical man who had
nothing in common with
academic Rebecca
Knight...nothing tangible
anyway. But here in
Antietam not everything
was tangible and that was
why Rebecca was here.
This scientist was
looking into the
unexplainable. Until she
started having very
irrational thoughts
indeed...thoughts
centered on Shane. Fall
under the spell of New
York Times bestselling
author Nora Roberts and
the MacKade brothers.

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The Manning Grooms - Part Of
The Manning Trilogy

Raise a glass and toast
the Manning family
wedding! For a small fee,
fifteen-year-old Carrie
Weston wants Jason
Manning to take her
mother out on a date. A
confirmed bachelor,
Jason's having none of it
and neither it seems is
Charlotte, Carrie's mum,
who's mortified... Her
resistance, however,
suddenly makes it more of
a challenge, one that
Jason can't resist...
With a broken engagement
to one of the Manning
sisters behind him,
James Wilkens heads for
some Vegas sun...there he
meets Summer Lawton.
She's on the rebound from
a painful betrayal and
James bets her that in a
year she'll be over it.
To prove his point, he
makes a date - same time
next year - what will
happen when they meet
again? Make time for
friends. Make time for
Debbie Macomber.

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Tell It To The Skies

The beautiful city of
Venice has been Lydia's
home for many years, a
place where she has found
peace and fulfilment.
Then one day she glimpses
a young man's face in the
crowd that threatens to
change everything. He's a
heart-stopping reminder
of a dreadful secret she
believed she had banished
to the past.. . As a
young child, Lydia and
her sister were sent to
live with grandparents
they'd never even met
before. It was a cruel
and loveless new world
for them and it forced
Lydia to grow up fast.
She learned to keep
secrets and to trust
sparingly, and through
it all she was shadowed
by grief and guilt. Now,
twenty-eight years later,
Lydia is persuaded to
leave behind the safe new
life she has created for
herself and return to
England to face the past.
And maybe her future.

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Dreaming Out Loud

When Kay Lockwood is left
a small inheritance by
her mother's old friend,
actress Lana Fontaine,
she travels to London,
leaving behind her
Northern hometown and the
boyfriend she doesn't
quite trust. She falls in
love with Lana's
ramshackle house, and
the excitement of
post-war London, but
soon discovers a deeper
mystery - who was Lana,
and why was Kay so
important to her? As she
unravels the past, her
handsome new neighbour
Tom seems to offer her a
bright future, but when
his own dark secret is
revealed, Kay feels hurt
and betrayed. Can she
ever forgive him?

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The Manning Sisters - The
Manning Trilogy

You are invited to a
Manning family
wedding...When Taylor
Manning meets Russ Palmer
she can't believe someone
can be so stubborn,
macho and have such
outdated views on
womanhood! She's moved
home and job specifically
to avoid heartbreak, so
staying away from Russ
shouldn't be a problem.
Except she's itching to
teach him just how
powerful a woman can
be... Christy Manning is
on a flying visit to see
her sister, Taylor. She
hasn't banked on her life
changing. But that's
exactly what happens when
she sees Cody Franklin.
She knows the look
between them can't be
real because Christy's
engaged to someone else
back home. But Cody can't
let the love of his life
walk away again.

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Love And Laughter

The War is over at last
and in Plymouth and
Portsmouth, two of
Britain's greatest
seaports, the task of
rebuilding must begin.
But it is not only
streets, businesses and
homes that have been laid
waste. Lives, too, have
been devastated.
Marriages have been
disrupted, family life
shattered, and now the
inhabitants must find
their own way back to
normality - if they can
remember what that is.
Lucy Pengelly is just one
woman whose life has been
torn apart by the War.
What will happen when her
husband returns from the
POW camp in the Far East?
And what of the growing
friendship between Lucy
and her friend David,
who played such an
important part in their
lives during the Blitz?

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The Other Woman

Gwenllyn Lyons has been
raised by her
grandmother, in an
elegant cottage set in
the hills above the Wye
Valley. One afternoon,
as she and her
grandmother return from
town, they come across a
man lying injured and
unconscious by the river
bank. They take him home
and nurse him until he
recovers but nothing
seems to help him regain
his lost memories - he
has no idea who he is,
or where he has come
from. Over the long hot
summer they spend
together, Gwenllyn
realises that she can't
imagine what it would be
like without this
handsome young man in her
life. As her love for the
mysterious stranger
grows, she cannot help
rejoicing when she
realises he feels the
same way about her.
Gwenllyn's only fear is
that some day his past
may come to haunt them -
a different life, where
another woman might be
waiting for him. Will she
ever have the happiness
of being a bride, or
will she always be the
other woman?

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It's Raining Men - Every Cloud
Has A Silver Lining

A summer getaway to
remember. But is a
holiday romance on the
cards?? Best friends from
work May, Lara and Clare
are desperate for some
time away. They have each
had a rough time of it
lately and need some
serious R & R. So they
set off to a luxurious
spa for ten glorious
days, but when they
arrive at their
destination, it seems it
is not the place they
thought it was. In fact,
they appear to have come
to entirely the wrong
village? Here in Ren
Dullem nothing is quite
what it seems; the lovely
cobbled streets and
picturesque cottages hide
a secret that the
villagers have been
keeping hidden for years.
Why is everyone so
unfriendly and
suspicious? Why does the
landlord of their holiday
rental seem so rude? And
why are there so few
women in the village?
Despite the strange
atmosphere, the three
friends are determined to
make the best of it and
have a holiday to
remember. But will this
be the break they all
need? Or will the odd
little village with all
its secrets bring them
all to breaking point??

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A Penny A Day

It is December 1952. A
wedding is being planned
in April Grove,
Portsmouth, and Jess and
Frank Budd want to bring
together all their
friends and neighbours.
They even invite Stella
Simmons and her sister
Maddy, who now live in
the Devonshire village of
Burracombe. Dan and Ruth
Hodges attend, together
with Dan's son Sammy,
who immediately falls in
love with his childhood
playmate Maddy. But
Stephen Napier, son of
the Squire of Burracombe,
proves a strong rival
and Maddy is not yet
ready to make such a
momentous decision about
her life. Meanwhile,
Ruth's niece Lizzie and
her husband Alec seem to
have overcome the
problems they encountered
when Alec returned from
the POW camp which almost
broke him. But their
happiness is threatened
when a face from Lizzie's
past reappears in her
life and turns everything
upside down.

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Fool For Love - (Duchess
Quartet Book 4)

Helen, the Countess
Godwin, knows there is
nothing more unbearably
tedious than a virtuous
woman. After all, she's
been one for ten long
years while her scoundrel
of a husband lives with
strumpets and causes
scandal after scandal. So
she decides it's time for
a change: she styles her
hair in the newest, most
daring mode, puts on a
shockingly transparent
gown and goes to a ball
like Cinderella, hoping
to find a Prince Charming
to sweep her off her
feet... and into his
bed. But instead of a
prince, she finds only
her own volatile,
infuriatingly handsome
husband, Rees, the Earl
Godwin. They'd eloped to
Gretna Green in a fiery
passion, but passions
can sometimes burn too
hot to last. However,
Rees now makes her a
brazen offer, and Helene
decides to become his
wife again... but not in
name only. No, this time
she decides to be very,
very wicked indeed.

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A Song At Twilight

It is 1943 and the quiet
of Harrowbeer, in Devon,
is disrupted by
increased activity at the
nearly airfield, built
at the beginning of the
War. Amongst the
squadrons moving in are
pilots from Britain,
Canada and Poland. The
airfield, with its noise
and its population, has
a massive impact on the
peaceful villages nearby
- an impact that will
affect some inhabitants
for the rest of their
lives. Alison, married
to a pilot and newly
pregnant, soon makes
friends with the locals,
particularly with May,
who finds herself caught
up in the life of the
RAF, watching and
waiting as the pilots and
crew carry out their
dangerous missions. Then,
on the night when
Alison's baby is born,
her husband is reported
missing and Alison and
May find themselves
facing a dilemma all too
familiar to the wives and
sweethearts of those who
flew the Spitfires,
Hurricanes and other
aircraft to protect their
country during this time
of war.

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Hollywood Sinners

From the deepest desires
come the deadliest
deeds...and these four
couples are about to pay
for their sins...
Marriage to Hollywood
heartthrob Cole Steel
secured Lana Falcon a
glittering place on the
red carpet. But has she
trapped herself in a
gilded cage? Kate
diLaurentis' career is
fading as quickly as her
looks... What could be
worse than discovering
her husband's latest
mistress is Hollywood's
hottest starlet? Her only
option is the most
shocking revenge. Chloe
French's innocent beauty
has captured a million
hearts, but no one's
warned her of the
dangerous, dark
temptation of rock star
Nate - will lust destroy
her? Robert St Louis'
fairytale wedding to Sin
City's richest heiress is
tabloid gold... But
scandal circles like a
vulture - dirty secrets
are about to be exposed!

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A Mothers Wish

Finding a soul-mate for a
mother who deserves to be
loved! Meg's teenage
daughter, Lindsey, had
the nerve to place a
personal ad on her behalf
- 'Wanted: Perfect
Partner. I'm dating-shy,
divorced and seeking a
man with marriage in
mind.' Worse, Steve
Conlan, who answered the
ad, was perfect,
according to Lindsey. Did
a teenage matchmaker get
it right? Robin
Masterton's young son,
Jeff, thinks he needs a
dog more than anything in
the world. And there just
happens to be one next
door! But the friendly
black Lab belongs to Cole
Camden, the
unfriendliest man in the
neighbourhood. Still,
Jeff persists - and ropes
his mum in as the
persuader. Perhaps
there's a chance he'll
have a dog, and a dad in
time for Father's
Day...Make time for
friends. Make time for
Debbie Macomber.

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A Familys Duty

North Camp, a growing
Hampshire village, has
been briefly energised by
the cessation of the
Great War and the years
of peace that followed.
Now, however, with the
beginning of the Second
World War, the lives of
the inhabitants are
plunged once more into
chaos. Tom Munday,
carpenter of the village,
is now seventy-two and
grandfather to the
children of his daughters
Grace and Isabel. The
stories of a new
generation unravel as the
girls move into
womanhood, coping with
family expectations and
the budding of first
loves, and as the young
men are called to active
duty, anxious to do
their part in the fight.
Those left behind on the
home front must find ways
to adapt to wartime
challenges: the return of
wounded soldiers, the
loss of loved ones, and
the arrival of newborns,
child evacuees and
prisoners of war. And
meanwhile, amongst all
the horrors and
hardships, love both
illicit and conventional
blossoms. A rich tale of
strength, courage and
romance, A Family's Duty
examines the complex
interweaving of lives
against the backdrop of
World War II.

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Under The Apple Tree

Portsmouth, January
1941. When the Luftwaffe
unleashes its full fury
on the city in the first
of three major blitzes,
the Taylor family are
bombed out. Judy finds
her job relocated from
the gutted Guildhall to a
hotel in Southsea, and
home is now a small
terraced house in April
Grove, with one fewer
bedroom and no bathroom
or inside lavatory. And
then there is the news
she has been dreading:
her sailor fiance has
been killed. Judy and her
young, recently widowed
aunt Polly decide to turn
their grief to good
account, and join the
WVS - running canteens,
accompanying evacuee
children, and helping
the families of
servicemen, often in the
face of danger from air
raids, flying bombs and
V2 rockets. Gradually,
Judy and Polly find their
own grief healing as they
take part not only in
their war work but in the
life of April Grove, and
although both are at
first convinced they will
never know love again,
they both find it in the
least likely manner.

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American Adulterer

Like any womaniser, the
subject of this novel
must go to extraordinary
lengths to hide his
affairs from his wife and
colleagues. But this is
no ordinary adulterer -
he is John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, the 35th
President of the United
States. Yet he is also a
virtuous man ensnared by
an uncontrollable vice.
Startlingly empathetic,
darkly witty and deft,
American Adulterer takes
inspiration from the
tantalising details
surrounding President
Kennedy's sex life and
medical secrets to weave
a provocatively intricate
portrait of the man's
affairs, illness,
courage and idealism -
and in JFK's love for his
wife, recreates one of
history's most
fascinatingly enigmatic
marriages.

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The Jewellers Niece

A compelling and dramatic
new saga of the north
west, set in the austere
1920s Emma Coles' life is
shattered when her
widowed father Frederick
is imprisoned for theft.
She never believes that
he is guilty - but her
intimidating uncle,
David Hawksworth, thinks
otherwise. Reluctantly
giving Emma a home over
his jewellery shop, he
forbids all contact with
the convicted man. But
Emma secretly visits her
father in prison. As time
progresses, Emma's
relationship with friend
Ricky, who works at the
prison, deepens and for
a while it seems that the
future might not be as
difficult as she feared.
Then tragedy strikes.
Caught in a welter of
family politics and
feuds, Emma remains
determined to prove her
father's innocence. Yet
when the identity of the
real culprit is
uncovered, the
revelations are
shattering. Only by
facing the truth about
the past can Emma find
happiness - and see
justice finally done.

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Angel Of The North

Who can she turn to when
life gets tough? April
1941, Hull. Nurse Marie
Larsen has grown used to
the challenges of keeping
Hull Royal Infirmary
running during the
Germans' attacks on her
city. Amidst the sudden
power cuts, blown out
windows and with wounded
civilians pouring into
the hospital at each new
attack, she always
thanks her lucky stars
that the latest bomb
didn't have her name on
it. But when a fresh wave
of bombings tears Hull
apart, this time tragedy
strikes close to home.
With her mother now
critically ill in
hospital, and her father
missing, Marie will have
some tough decisions to
make if she is to keep
her younger brother and
sister, Alfie and Pam,
safe. Amidst the chaos
and uncertainty, it is
Marie's beau, Chas
Elsworth, who alone is
able to keep her spirits
up via letters and
phonecalls from his post.
So when evidence comes to
light that Chas might not
be the dependable rock
that Marie has come to
rely upon - where can
Marie turn for support? A
gripping tale of ordinary
people facing
extraordinary challenges,
Angel of the North, is
perfect for fans of Katie
Flynn and Margaret
Dickinson.

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