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One of the world's most original works of fiction from one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. • "No one ever wrote better about the power struggles of sex and love." —Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-winning Author of The Golden Notebook
Gertrude Morel is a refined woman who married beneath her and has come to loathe her brutal, working-class husband. She focuses her passion instead...
Gertrude Morel is a refined woman who married beneath her and has come to loathe her brutal, working-class husband. She focuses her passion instead...
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Few understand Elliot's anguish at losing Nadine. He came back from the war a shattered and lonely man. But his return to the Eliot family refuge on England's Hampshire coast is gradually pushing back the dark waters of soul and spirit.
Nadine and her husband have settled with their children in a wonderful old inn not far away. Surrounded by a wild and mysterious wood, the guesthouse seems to be able to mendminds and bodies. Pilgrims from the past
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As the entire Malory family gathers at Haverston to celebrate the season, a mysterious present arrives anonymously. The gift is an old journal — a tender and tempestuous account of the love affair between the second Marquis, Christopher Malory, and a dark gypsy beauty named Anastasia, who seeks a love match with a non-gypsy in order to save herself from a prearranged marriage to a brute. Though the dashing English lord Anastasia sets her sight...
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1817 Kent, England. Imogene Chively's father has chosen Ernest Steeple as her future husband. But his younger brother, Benjamin, wins her heart while she is giving him drawing lessons. When a series of accidents threaten the pair, it becomes evident that someone seeks to do Ben harm.
5) Penhallow
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The murder of tyrannical family patriarch Adam Penhallow leads to suspicion, accusations, and backstabbing among his family.
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Tea rose trilogy volume 3
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2011.
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The third book in the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea Rose, The Wild Rose is a "lush story of epic proportions" (Romantic Times Book Review).
The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote,...
The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote,...
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Poldark family novels volume 3
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Ross Poldark stands accused of wrecking two ships. Despite their stormy marriage, Demelza has tried to rally support for her husband. But there are enemies who would be happy to see Ross convicted, not least George Warleggan, the powerful banker, whose personal rivalry grows ever more intense.
8) Breathless
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Ruined beyond repair and shunned by London society, lovely Miranda Rohan rebelliously embraces the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose. However, this dangerous course throws her under the power of the darkly enigmatic Lucien de Malheur--known to many as the Scorpion.
Seeking to destroy the Rohans, Lucien traps Miranda in a marriage she thinks is based on friendship but instead is rooted in vengeance. Yet even when she...
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There's something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. At forty she spends days unable to get out of bed, and often alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks. When her husband Patrick-- who has only ever wanted her to be happy-- moves out, she returns to her childhood home: a dilapidated townhouse in a rundown part of London,...
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Poldark family novels volume 6
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Although Ross Poldark - now something of a war hero - seems secure in his hard won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wife Demelza. All four women - the four swans - whose lives touch Ross' face a crisis in these years. For his wife Demelza, his old love Elizabeth, for his friend's new wife Caroline and for the unhappy Morwenna Chynoweth, these are times of stress and conflict.
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Daughters of Bainbridge House volume 2
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When an accident brings an end to her betrothal, Cassandra Bainbridge heads for the English countryside to recover, but when her former fiancé slips back into her life, she must choose between tradition and her dreams.
14) A passionate man
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Berkley Books
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2000.
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Berkley trade paperback edition.
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295 pages ; 21 cm
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16) Northrop Hall
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Severn House
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2003.
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278 pages ; 23 cm
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17) The Radleys
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The Radleys are vampires, but they confront many of the same challenges any human family faces--a husband pining for his youthful exploits, a wife dwelling on her first "love, " and children grasping for their place in the family and the world. But when one child makes a mistake that can't be undone, family life is thrown into chaos as everyone tries to help with damage control.
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