Books Modern Romance Books A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children’s team in this small-town love story. Adalyn Reyes has something to prove. After years of working at her father’s football club she wants to make a name for herself. But not for the wrong reasons. When an embarrassing video of Adalyn goes viral, her father sends her to a small town to turn around their struggling soccer team. She arrives armed with plans to kick them into shape only to find a group of nine-year-old girls. One person is there to help: Cameron Caldani, a goalkeeping legend who is also inexplicably in town. After an unfortunate incident involving a rooster, the two find themselves on opposing sides. Adalyn thinks Cameron is a surly, scowling brute. Cameron thinks Adalyn needs to take life less seriously. Despite their differences, the two need to play nice & remember they’re on the same team. After all, it’s a long game…    Produ... ...

After her mother died of cancer when she was five years of age, Meghan O' Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for her sorrow, with unswerving honesty & emotional tales about life without a mother, this book is a brilliant read about how a young girl is missing her mom but continuing life in a positive way, 19.5cm x 12.6cm x 2cm, pages 306 ...

It's 1941 & Kate is living in Rangoon, Burma, a world away from her traditional English upbringing. When she meets Edwin, a

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A novel of courage, hope & love... From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, seven-year-old Gabriella watches the guests arrive at her parents' lavish Manhattan home. The click, click click of her mother's high heels strikes terror into her heart, as she has been told that she is to blame for her mother's rage
- & her father's failure to protect her. Her world is a confusing blend of terror, betrayal & pain, & Gabriella knows that there is no safe place for her to hide. When her parents' marriage collapses, her father disappears & her mother abandons her to a convent, where Gabriella's battered body & soul begin to mend amid the quiet safety & hushed rituals of the nuns. & when she grows into womanhood, young Father Joe Connors comes into her life. Like Gabriella, Joe is haunted by the pain of his childhood, & with her he takes the first steps towards healing. But their relationship leads to disaster as Joe must choose between the priesthood & Gabriella. She struggles to survive on her own in New York, where she seeks escape through her writing, until eventually she is able to find forgiveness, freedom from guilt, & healing from abuse. In this work of daring & compassion, Danielle Steel has created a vivid portrait of an abused child's broken world which will shock & move you to your very soul.
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The best-selling first edition of The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland included essays from Senator George J. Mitchell, Sir David Goodall, Sir George Quigley, Lord Owen & Niall ODowd among others, & demonstrated the evolution of peace in Irel&, culminating in the Good Friday Agreement. Now Marianne Elliott, one of the worlds leading historians of Irel&, has updated the book & commissioned new essays to ensure that this vital resource for students, scholars, politicians & the interested general reader continues to illuminate the peace process through the words of some of its pivotal figures. The essays all relate to the nature of peacemaking as a process rather than an event signalled by the signing of an agreement. The significant role of third party diplomacy is touched on by many contributors, as is the need for pragmatism, compromise, & a recognition that it is those people at the polar extremes of any dispute that have to be drawn in if a lasting agreement is to be achieved. 22.9 x 15.5 x 2 cm, pages 317 ...

Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians &, after brutal interrogation & a farce of a trial, he was sentenced to 25 years’ hard labour in the Gulags. After a three-month journey to Siberia in the depths of winter he escaped with six companions, realizing that to stay in the camp meant almost certain death. In June 1941 they crossed the trans-Siberian railway & headed south, climbing into Tibet &, finally, freedom nine months later in March 1942 after travelling on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert. This is one of the world’s greatest true stories of adventure, survival & escape. ...

Details: Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor
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Lydia Middleton faces a bright future, secure in the knowledge that her childhood sweetheart, David Drayton, will one day be her husb&. Their parents heartily approve of a match between Whitby's foremost ship-owning families. But then Mr Middleton loses his fortune & later his life, & the Draytons reconsider. Lydia's uncle repossesses the family home & she is forced to leave Whitby. Her brother Luke finds a job in the new town of Middlesbrough & Lydia decides to accompany him & make her own way in life. But she vows that when her fortunes have changed she will return to her beloved home & exact a fitting revenge on her uncle. Driven by this desire, Lydia prospers but risks losing the most precious thing of all: the love of David, who has stayed faithful to her throughout their enforced separation. Vengeance or the path of true love
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Clara Morrows husband is missing. When he fails to come home on the first anniversary of their separation, as promised, Clara asks the only person she trusts to try & find him: former Chief Inspector of Homicide, Armand Gamache.

As Gamache journeys further into the case, he is drawn deeper into the tortured mind of Peter Morrow, a man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist that he would sell his soul. As Gamache gets closer to the truth, he uncovers a deadly trail of jealousy & deceit.

Can Gamache bring Peter, & himself, home safely? Or in searching for answers, has he placed himself, & those closest to him, in terrible danger?

From number one New York Times bestselling author, Louise Penny, comes an evocative, immersive novel brimming with atmosphere & heart-stopping suspense
- her most ingenious novel to date.

This paperback book has 440 pages & measures: 19.7 x 12.6 x 3cm.








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Sometimes going home is the only way to go forward... As the only child of a wealthy investment manager, Ellie Chapman has never known anything besides a life of perfect privilege. But her years of good fortune come to an abrupt end when her father is exposed for swindling billions of dollars from innocent investors. Just like that, Ellie loses everything: money, job, home-even her fianc?, who's jailed as her father's partner in crime. With her family name in tatters, Ellie has only one place to go... Sleepy St. Dennis, Maryl&, is hardly where Ellie intends to stay, however. Keeping her identity a secret, she plans to sell the house her late mother left her in the small town & use the proceeds to move on with her life. Unfortunately, her ticket to a new beginning is in dire need of pricey improvements, most of which she'll have to do herself. Until the house on Bay View Road is fit to be sold, the sole place Ellie will be traveling is the hardware store. But as the many charms of St. Dennis-not to mention Cameron O' Connor, the handsome local contractor who has secrets of his own-begin to work their magic, what begins as a lesson in do-it-yourself renovations might just end up as Ellie's very own rejuvenation. ...