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When We Were Young & Brave

Hazel Gaynor
When We Were Young Brave Book PDF

Author : Hazel Gaynor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062995278

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"Gaynor's story of courage and strength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us." —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her unforgettable new novel in China during WWII, inspired by true events surrounding the Japanese Army’s internment of teachers and children from a British-run missionary school. Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those in her charge. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain and America, Japanese forces take control of the school and the security and comforts Nancy and her friends are used to are replaced by privation, uncertainty and fear. Now the enemy, and separated from their parents, the children look to their teachers – to Miss Kent and her new Girl Guide patrol especially – to provide a sense of unity and safety. Faced with the relentless challenges of oppression, the school community must rely on their courage, faith and friendships as they pray for liberation – but worse is to come when they are sent to a distant internment camp where even greater uncertainty and danger await . . . Inspired by true events, When We Were Young and Brave is an unforgettable novel about impossible choices and unimaginable hardship, and the life-changing bonds formed between a young girl and her teacher in a remote corner of a terrible war.

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

Hazel Gaynor
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Author : Hazel Gaynor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062698636

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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor Pdf

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.” 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda’s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.

The Girl Who Came Home

Hazel Gaynor
The Girl Who Came Home Book PDF

Author : Hazel Gaynor
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062316875

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The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor Pdf

Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic—a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants. Ireland, 1912. Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in an unknown new place, her heart remains in Ireland with Séamus, the sweetheart she left behind. When disaster strikes, Maggie is one of the lucky few passengers in steerage who survives. Waking up alone in a New York hospital, she vows never to speak of the terror and panic of that terrible night ever again. Chicago, 1982. Adrift after the death of her father, Grace Butler struggles to decide what comes next. When her Great Nana Maggie shares the painful secret she harbored for almost a lifetime about the Titanic, the revelation gives Grace new direction—and leads her and Maggie to unexpected reunions with those they thought lost long ago.

The Messenger Bird

Ruth Eastham
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Author : Ruth Eastham
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781911342601

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The Messenger Bird by Ruth Eastham Pdf

'Absolutely fascinating ... completely thought provoking.' – Books for Teens Enemies on all sides. Nathan doesn't know who he can trust. It's a race against time. Get Dad out of prison. Mend a broken family. And solve the mystery of the messenger bird. Set around the top-secret Second World War codebreaking site Bletchley Park, The Messenger Bird is the gripping children's thriller from Ruth Eastham, award-winning author of The Memory Cage .

Make Yourself at Home

Ciara Geraghty
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Author : Ciara Geraghty
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008320720

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Make Yourself at Home by Ciara Geraghty Pdf

It’s the last place she wants to be. It’s the only place left to go . . . ‘Hugely entertaining...an instantly engaging read, what you might get if you mixed Jojo Moyes with Marian Keyes’ Sunday Independent

Last Christmas in Paris

Hazel Gaynor,Heather Webb
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Author : Hazel Gaynor,Heather Webb
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062562692

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Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor,Heather Webb Pdf

An unforgettably romantic novel that spans four Christmases (1914-1918), Last Christmas in Paris explores the ruins of war, the strength of love, and the enduring hope of the Christmas season. New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris. But as history tells us, it all happened so differently… Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict—but how?—and as Thomas struggles with the unimaginable realities of war he also faces personal battles back home where War Office regulations on press reporting cause trouble at his father’s newspaper business. Through their letters, Evie and Thomas share their greatest hopes and fears—and grow ever fonder from afar. Can love flourish amid the horror of the First World War, or will fate intervene? Christmas 1968. With failing health, Thomas returns to Paris—a cherished packet of letters in hand—determined to lay to rest the ghosts of his past. But one final letter is waiting for him…

Daughters of War (The Daughters of War, Book 1)

Dinah Jefferies
Daughters of War The Daughters of War Book 1 Book PDF

Author : Dinah Jefferies
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008427030

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Daughters of War (The Daughters of War, Book 1) by Dinah Jefferies Pdf

The first book in the new sweeping historical series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author.

The Newspaper That Lines the Bottom of a Bird Cage and Other Stories from the Emergency Department

Eillyne Seow
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Author : Eillyne Seow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1483435075

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The Newspaper That Lines the Bottom of a Bird Cage and Other Stories from the Emergency Department by Eillyne Seow Pdf

The author has spent more than a quarter of a century in one of the busiest emergency departments in Singapore. She recounts happenings that may make some think twice before visiting an emergency department; meet the gentleman drunk, the quirky patient, difficult relatives, the frustrated 'big brother', souls from another world amongst others. Her book offers the reader a collection of entertaining anecdotes, each conveying an insight into the delights and difficulties of being human. Read this book and experience the tears, laughter, frustrations and jubilations of the people who work in emergency departments. You will then understand why the author and her fellow warriors are proud to have worked in a place that was dubbed by a guru emergency physician as "the newspaper that lines the bottom of a bird cage."

The Birds of Paradise

Paul Scott
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Author : Paul Scott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226088099

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The Birds of Paradise by Paul Scott Pdf

From the author of The Raj Quartet, a coming-of-age tale about a boy and his childhood friendships with a British diplomat’s daughter and the son of a Raj. The Birds of Paradise is set in India when the British Raj still seemed a paradise, but a paradise that boy comes to recognize as already lost. As Scott weaves together themes of political and personal history, he makes us feel how the protagonist identifies with the beautiful, mysterious India of the Raj. With a keen eye for character and graceful prose, Scott captures the reverie of a youth complete with parades of elephants, garden parties, and the titular birds of paradise, who are stuffed trophies of an Indian prince, kept as decoration in a gilded cage. When the boy is sent away to England, he experiences his exile as both the personal wound of abandonment and the foreshadowing of the Partition. Winner of the Booker Prize Praise for The Birds of Paradise “A rare literary bird, a novel that in a short space recreates a man’s lifetime. Using exotic backgrounds, it manages to say something useful about growing up—a process that only children believe takes place mainly in childhood.” —Time “Scott’s vision is both precise and painterly. Like an engraver crosshatching the illusion of fullness, he selects nuances that will make his characters take on depth and poignancy.” —Jean G. Zorn, New York Times Book Review “One of the best novelists to emerge from Britain’s silver age.” —Robert Towers, Newsweek “Far more even than E. M. Forester, in whose long literary shadow he has to work, Paull Scott is successful in exploring the provinces of the human heart.” —Life

The Girl From The Savoy

Hazel Gaynor
The Girl From The Savoy Book PDF

Author : Hazel Gaynor
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008162306

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The Girl From The Savoy by Hazel Gaynor Pdf

‘Addictive, charming and gleaming with Jazz Age glitz’ The Lady The fabulous new novel from the author of The Girl Who Came Home

Homeless Bird

Gloria Whelan
Homeless Bird Book PDF

Author : Gloria Whelan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061975820

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Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan Pdf

The National Book Award-winning novel about one remarkable young woman who dares to defy fate, perfect for readers who enjoyed A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park or Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly faces her arranged marriage with hope and courage. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled—her life has been sold for a dowry. Can she forge her own future, even in the face of time-worn tradition? Perfect for schools and classrooms, this universally acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning novel by master of historical fiction Gloria Whelan is a gripping tale of hope that will transport readers of all ages.

The Midnight House

Amanda Geard
The Midnight House Book PDF

Author : Amanda Geard
Publisher : Review
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472283726

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The spellbinding RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK about a mysterious house and an old family secret . . . 'Wonderful storytelling. I loved it' RACHEL HORE 'A wonderful tale of family secrets, brimming with lush historical detail' HAZEL GAYNOR 'A mesmerising debut novel, lush and gorgeous, with a rich family tale to tell' RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB _______ People disappear. Secrets remain . . . 1940: In south-west Ireland, the young and beautiful Lady Charlotte Rathmore is pronounced dead after she mysteriously disappears by the lake of Blackwater Hall. In London, on the brink of the Blitz, Nancy Rathmore is grieving Charlotte's death when a letter arrives containing a secret that she is sworn to keep - one that will change her life for ever. 2019: Disgraced young journalist Ellie Fitzgerald flees Dublin for the safety of rural Kerry. When she discovers a faded letter, tucked inside the pages of an old book from Blackwater Hall, she finds herself drawn in by the mystery of Lady Charlotte's disappearance, and uncovers a long-buried secret... Sweeping from the wilds of beautiful Ireland to wartime London, this is perfect for fans of Kate Morton, Eve Chase and Lucinda Riley. ** DON'T MISS THE NEW NOVEL FROM AMANDA GEARD, THE MOON GATE, AVAILABLE NOW ** _______ 'I was pulled in from page one. It's beautiful' LIZ FENWICK 'A mystery spanning generations, evocative and beautifully written' TRACEY REES 'I really loved it. A wonderful mystery. Atmospheric and wonderfully escapist' LORNA COOK 'A gorgeous setting, wonderful characters and secrets that kept me glued to the pages' JENNY ASHCROFT 'Intriguing, moving and I loved the way the stories moved back and forth in time' SINÉAD MORIARTY Real readers adore this book... '⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐Love love love this book! Fabulous female characters. I was totally invested in the story. I couldn't wait to get back to it' '⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐I was absolutely captivated. Wonderful and rich. I couldn't put it down' '⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'A wonderful read and a spellbinding mystery with wonderful characters that leap off the page. This was beautifully written with the story spanning generations' '⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'I have been completely immersed and unwilling to put this one down. This is an absolute gem and a must. A beautiful story' '⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'I've been reading a lot of dual time books, and this one has to be up there with the best . . . a brilliant read'

Three Words for Goodbye

Hazel Gaynor,Heather Webb
Three Words for Goodbye Book PDF

Author : Hazel Gaynor,Heather Webb
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062965257

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Three Words for Goodbye by Hazel Gaynor,Heather Webb Pdf

From Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, the bestselling authors of Meet Me in Monaco, comes a coming-of-age novel set in pre-WWII Europe, perfect for fans of Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, and Kate Quinn. Three cities, two sisters, one chance to correct the past . . . New York, 1937: When estranged sisters Clara and Madeleine Sommers learn their grandmother is dying, they agree to fulfill her last wish: to travel across Europe—together. They are to deliver three letters, in which Violet will say goodbye to those she hasn’t seen since traveling to Europe forty years earlier; a journey inspired by famed reporter, Nellie Bly. Clara, ever-dutiful, sees the trip as an inconvenient detour before her wedding to millionaire Charles Hancock, but it’s also a chance to embrace her love of art. Budding journalist Madeleine relishes the opportunity to develop her ambitions to report on the growing threat of Hitler’s Nazi party and Mussolini’s control in Italy. Constantly at odds with each other as they explore the luxurious Queen Mary, the Orient Express, and the sights of Paris and Venice,, Clara and Madeleine wonder if they can fulfil Violet’s wish, until a shocking truth about their family brings them closer together. But as they reach Vienna to deliver the final letter, old grudges threaten their reconciliation again. As political tensions rise, and Europe feels increasingly volatile, the pair are glad to head home on the Hindenburg, where fate will play its hand in the final stage of their journey.

The Birds of Opulence

Crystal Wilkinson
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Author : Crystal Wilkinson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813166933

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The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson Pdf

A lyrical exploration of love and loss, this book centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern Black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona. The residents of Opulence struggle with vexing relationships to the land, to one another, and to their own sexuality. As the members of the youngest generation watch their mothers and grandmothers pass away, they live with the fear of going mad themselves and must fight to survive. The author offers up Opulence and its people in lush, poetic detail. It is a world of magic, conjuring, signs, and spells, but also of harsh realities that only love - and love that's handed down - can conquer.

Meet Me in Monaco

Hazel Gaynor,Heather Webb
Meet Me in Monaco Book PDF

Author : Hazel Gaynor,Heather Webb
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062885371

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Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor,Heather Webb Pdf

"A fragrant French bonbon of a book: love, glamour, perfume, and paparazzi all circling around the wedding of the century..."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALICE NETWORK and THE HUNTRESS. Named one of InStyle's best books to put in your totebag for the summer! Named one of Popsugar’s best books to put in your beachbag this summer and one of the best books of July! Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and unforgettable wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate and second chances... Movie stars and paparazzi flock to Cannes for the glamorous film festival, but Grace Kelly, the biggest star of all, wants only to escape from the flash-bulbs. When struggling perfumer Sophie Duval shelters Miss Kelly in her boutique to fend off a persistent British press photographer, James Henderson, a bond is forged between the two women and sets in motion a chain of events that stretches across thirty years of friendship, love, and tragedy. James Henderson cannot forget his brief encounter with Sophie Duval. Despite his guilt at being away from his daughter, he takes an assignment to cover the wedding of the century, sailing with Grace Kelly’s wedding party on the SS Constitution from New York. In Monaco, as wedding fever soars and passions and tempers escalate, James and Sophie—like Princess Grace—must ultimately decide what they are prepared to give up for love.