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Women and Children First

by Gill Paul

Published: 2012-03-01

Paperback: 480 pages

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Praise for Gill Paul: 'A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story...A triumph.' DINAH JEFFERIES 'Gripping, romantic and evocative of its time.' LULU TAYLOR It is 1912. Against all odds, the Titanic is sinking. As desperate hands emerge from the icy water, a few lucky row boats float in the darkness....

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Murphy

by Samuel Beckett

Published: 2011-01-11

Paperback: 288 pages

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Murphy, Samuel Beckettâ??s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a ?striking case of love requitedâ? but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journ...

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The Girl Who Was Taken

by Charlie Donlea

Published: 2017-04-25

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Charlie Donlea, one of the most original new voices in suspense, returns with a haunting novel, laden with twists and high tension, about two abducted girls—one who returns, one who doesn’t—and the forensics expert searching for answers.Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high s...

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The Sky Detective: A Memoir - How I Fled Iran and Became a NASA Scientist

by Azadeh Tabazadeh

Published: 2015-04-30

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When Azadeh was an eight-year-old girl growing up in Iran in March 1973, her uncle gave her a chemistry kit. That got her hooked on science early and provided an opportunity for her to find herself. In The Sky Detective, Azadeh shares her life story-one that includes an insider's look at life during...

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The Dresden Manuscripts: Unearthing an 18th Century Musical Genius

by David Wilson

Published: 2014-10-01

Paperback: 230 pages

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A fascinating journey to rediscover the music of a composer who was lauded in his day yet forgotten soon after, The Dresden Manuscripts chronicles David Wilson's thirty-year quest to locate, reconstruct, and perform the music of Johann Adolf Hasse, a composer who, along with his equally famous wife,...

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Hummingbird

by David Stearman

Published: 2017-02-24

Paperback: 296 pages

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Who is Lexa? Or is she Alexandra? With so many aliases, she's lost touch with her true identity. Forced to commit a crime, she flees south of the border into Mexico and beyond, but a vindictive bounty hunter follows her. Will she escape? Find redemption? Learn who she really is and wher...

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The Chimes

by Anna Smaill

Published: 2016-05-03

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After the end of a brutal civil war, London is divided, with slums standing next to a walled city of elites. Monk-like masters are selected for special schooling and shut away for decades, learning to write beautiful compositions for the chimes, played citywide morning and night, to mute m...

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Shine Like the Dawn: A Novel

by Carrie Turansky

Published: 2017-02-21

Paperback: 352 pages

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Separated by an inconceivable tragedy, can faith and love reunite childhood friends and light the way to a bright future? In a quiet corner of northern Edwardian England, Margaret Lounsbury diligently works in her grandmother’s millinery shop, making hats and caring for her young sister...

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Colour Bar: A United Kingdom

by Susan Williams

Published: 2017-02-15

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London, 1945: the heir apparent to the kingship of Bechuanaland (later Botswana) arrives in Britain to complete his legal studies. Seretse Khama, an urbane 24-year-old, educated like Mandela at Fore Hare, is welcomed into the elite world of the Inner Temple in London. But then, in 1947, he...

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The Good at Heart: A Novel

by Ursula Werner

Published: 2017-02-21

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Based on the author’s discoveries about her great-grandfather, this stunning debut novel takes place over three days when World War II comes to the doorstep of an ordinary German family living in an idyllic, rural village near the Swiss border.When World War II breaks out, Edith and Oska...