Will friendship overcome the social boundaries of Edwardian London in this bestselling historical tale perfect for fans of Audrey Niffenegger & Sarah Waters. January 1901 the day after Queen Victorias death: two families visit neighbouring graves in a fashionable London cemetery. One is decorated with a sentimental angel the other an elaborate urn. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen & cling to Victorian traditions; the Colemans look forward to a more modern society. To their mutual distaste the families are inextricably linked when their daughters become friends behind the tombstones. & worse befriend the gravediggers son. As the girls grow up & the new century finds its feet as cars replace horses & electricity outshines gas lighting Britain emerges from the shadows of oppressive Victorian values to a golden Edwardian summer. It is then that the beautiful frustrated Mrs Coleman makes a bid for greater personal freedom with disastrous consequences & the lives of the Colemans & the Waterhouses are changed forever. A poignant & historical tale of two families brought reluctantly together Falling Angels is an intimate story of childhood friendships sexual awakening & human frailty. Its epic sweep takes in the changing of a nation the fight for womens suffrage & the questioning of steadfast beliefs. ...

This is life not a rehearsal... When River auditions for a part in an inter-school performance of Romeo & Juliet she finds herself smitten by Flynn the boy playing Romeo. River believes in romantic love & she cant wait to experience it. But Flynn comes from a damaged family
- is he even capable of giving River what she wants? The path of true love never did run smooth...
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Packed with festive romance & fun these two seasonal stories will melt any heart this Christmas. A Cedar Cove Christmas"
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Falling for the Rebel Falcon Journalist Perdita Hanson has a reputation for getting the best scoops & to get inside the infamous Falcon family wedding Perdita goes undercover & accepts the gorgeous Leonid Falcon's spontaneous request of a date. When Leonid discovers that Perdita is really a journalist in disguise their sparks of attraction could turn into fireworks of betrayal! The Man Behind the Pinstripes Becca Taylor has worked hard to overcome her troubled past & start a new life. So when CEO Caleb Fairchild marches into her life the instant attraction to this gorgeous pinstriped man is the last thing Becca needs
- especially when Caleb wants to be closer. But Becca knows that when her secrets are revealed betrayal's inevitable.
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Falling in love can be more disastrous than you'd think...A fabulous romantic comedy from bestselling author Jill Mansell. Maddy Harvey was a bit of an ugly duckling as a teenager what with her NHS specs unfortunate hair & wonky teeth. Thankfully she's blossomed since then. But when she meets Kerr Mc Kinnon one starry summer's night & discovers days later who he actually is...well that's when the problems really start. Because everyone in Ashcombe knows what happened eleven years ago & as far as her mother's concerned Marcella would rather tear that family to pieces with her bare hands than see Maddy associate with a Mc Kinnon. It's Romeo & Juliet all over again. Quick hide those sharp knives & that little bottle of poison... ...

Falling in Love" is the first book to unlock the mysteries of how & why we fall in love. Renowned psychologist Ayala Pines shows us why we fall for the people we do & argues convincingly that we love neither by chance nor by accident. She offers sound advice for making the right choices when it comes to this complicated emotion. Packed with helpful suggestions for those seeking love & those already in it this book is about love's many puzzles. The second edition furthers the work of the popular & successful first edition. With expanded research theory & practice this book once again provides one of a kind understandings of the experience of love. The new edition offers updated references to recent research new chapter exercises & "case examples" of romantic stories to begin each chapter." ...

This is the story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution blamed for her mother's death ignored by her millionaire father & unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed hatred & jealousy; a domestic drama is played against the extraordinary political events in China & Hong Kong. Written with the emotional force of a novel but with a vividness drawn from a personal & political background Falling Leaves" has been an enduring bestseller all over the world." ...

Jeanette is a young solitary post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university department dominated by egos & incompetents & caught in a cycle of brief & unsatisfying affairs she travels to a mountain-top observatory in Chile to focus on her research. There Jeanette stumbles upon evidence that will challenge the fundamentals of the universe drawing her into conflict with her colleagues & the scientific establishment but also casting her back to the tragic loss that defined her childhood. As the implications of her discovery gather momentum & her relationships spiral out of control Jeanette's own grip on reality is threatened finally forcing her to confront the hidden past. Pippa Goldschmidt's bittersweet debut novel blends black comedy heart-breaking tragedy & fascinatingly accessible science in this intricate & beautiful examination of one woman's disintegration & journey to redemption. ...

You can't choose your family.. .living or dead. Trapped between two very different worlds newly made vampire Moth is struggling to find her place in either. Not only does she have to answer to her strict Irish-Catholic Dad but her over-protective maker Theo is intent on making her the star attraction in his powerful Boston vampire clan. Moth will have to pull off the double-act of the century to please both of them... Adding to her problems is the dangerously attractive Jason Murdoch a trainee vampire hunter who loves to play cat & mouse in his spare time (Jace = cat; Moth = mouse). But when the young & gorgeous teenagers of Boston's wealthiest families start to disappear it forces Moth & Jace into an uneasy truce. Will they be able to solve the mystery behind the disappearances
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Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men & women who first risked their lives to take to the air & so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it what their contemporaries thought of them & how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly unexpected ways is its subject. In this heart-lifting book the Romantic biographer Richard Holmes floats across the world following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts from the first heroic experiments of the Montgolfiers in 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s. It is a compelling adventure story of the kind that only Holmes could tell. Dramatic sequences move from the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries the crazy firework flights of beautiful Sophie Blanchard; the revelatory ascents over the great Victorian cities & sprawling industrial towns of Northern Europe; & the astonishing long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise & the French photographer Felix Nadar. Later we find balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the American Civil War (including a memorable flight by General Custer); the legendary tale of sixty balloons that escaped Paris during the Prussian siege of 1870; & the terrifying high-altitude flights of James Glaisher FRS who rose above seven miles without oxygen helping to establish the new science of meteorology as well as the environmental notion
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- of a 'fragile' planet. Besides the aeronauts themselves readers will also discover the many writers & dreamers
- from Mary Shelley to Edgar Alan Poe from Charles Dickens to Jules Verne
- who felt the imaginative impact of flight & allowed it to soar in their work. Through all these adventures the narrative continually lifts off in unexpected literary & scientific directions exploring the interplay between technology & science fiction the understanding of the biosphere & the metaphysics of flight itself. Most of all through the strange allure of the great balloonists Holmes offers another of his subtle portraits of human endeavour recklessness & vision.



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