Kit Mc Mahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up & become sweethearts & marry people gossip & grumble & dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day beautiful mysterious Helen Mc Mahon disappears presumed drowned in the lake & then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen's husband her son but above all for her daughter Kit are unimaginable & will leave not one of their lives unchanged. ...

Abandoned by her husband Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by gentleman callers. Her son Tom a poet with a job in a warehouse longs for adventure & escape from his mothers suffocating embrace while Laura her shy crippled daughter has her glass menagerie & her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive Lauras romantic illusions are crushed. ...

In a tiny stained-glass shop hidden in the backstreets of Westminster lies the cracked sparkling image of an angel. The owners of Minster Glass have also been broken: Fran Morrisons mother died when she was a baby; a painful event never mentioned by her difficult secretive father Edward. Fran left home to pursue a career in foreign cities as a classical musician. But now Edward is dangerously ill & its time to return. Taking her fathers place in the shop she & his craftsman Zac accept a beguiling commission
- to restore a shattered glass picture of an exquisite angel belonging to a local church. As they reassemble the dazzling shards of coloured glass they uncover an extraordinary love story from the Victorian past sparked by the windows creation. Slowly Fran begins to see her own reflection in its themes of passion tragedy & redemption. Frans journey will lead her on a search for the truth about her mother through mysteries of past times & the anguish of unrequited love to reconciliation & renewal.
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In a tiny stained-glass shop hidden in the backstreets of Westminster lies the cracked sparkling image of an angel. The owners of Minster Glass have also been broken: Fran Morrison's mother died when she was a baby; a painful event never mentioned by her difficult secretive father Edward. Fran left home to pursue a career in foreign cities as a classical musician. But now Edward is dangerously ill & it's time to return. Taking her father's place in the shop she & his craftsman Zac accept a beguiling commission
- to restore a shattered glass picture of an exquisite angel belonging to a local church. As they reassemble the dazzling shards of coloured glass they uncover an extraordinary love story from the Victorian past sparked by the window's creation. Slowly Fran begins to see her own reflection in its themes of passion tragedy & redemption. Fran's journey will lead her on a search for the truth about her mother through mysteries of past times & the anguish of unrequited love to reconciliation & renewal.
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The Dark Wizard Troubler has tightened his grip on the snow-bound Kingdom of Gems & is close to possessing the powerful Candara Gems. The kingdom seems lost to the rule of his evil spell as his dominance grows. Amalek & Seph have survived their long & perilous journey to the great Wizard Elzaphans castle to seek his magical help. However their rest is short-lived as a terrifying task lies ahead. Along with the group of courageous animals including Joog the owl they have to complete the return journey which is filled with unforeseen dangers. They must face the evil wizard to save their kingdom... ...

Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science the wild variance of lust the catharsis of confession & the fear of failure
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The Glass Room is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves Vera Stanhope series -- which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn VERA. DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew & conversation. But when one of them goes missing her path leads her to more than a missing friend.. . Vera tracks the young woman down to the Writers House a country retreat where aspiring authors work on their stories. Things get complicated when a body is discovered & Veras neighbour is found with a knife in her h&. Calling in the team Vera knows that she should hand the case over. Shes too close to the main suspect. But the investigation is too tempting & shes never been one to follow the rules. There seems to be no motive. When another body is found Vera suspects that someone is playing games with her. Somewhere there is a killer who has taken murder off the page & is making it real.. . Also available in the Vera Stanhope series are The Crow Trap Telling Tales Hidden Depths & Silent Voices. Ann Cleeves Shetland series (BBC television drama SHETLAND) contains five titles of which Dead Water is the most recent. ...

Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science the wild variance of lust the catharsis of confession & the fear of failure
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Cayden Silversun is part Elven part Fae part human Wizard
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Touchstone the magical theatre troupe continues to build audiences. But Cayden is increasingly troubled by his elsewhens " the uncontrolled moments when he is plunged into visions of the possible futures. He fears that his Fae gift will forever taint his friendships; his friends fear that his increasing distance will destroy him." ...