We are Family by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees
In affairs of the heart, how far can family loyalties be stretched before they snap?1953, and although the coastal village of Stepmouth appears as idyllic as ever, a passionate feud threatens to shatter the small, tight community. Sixteen-year-old Rachel Vale, wilful and unconventional, has fallen in love with the man her brother hates. When the town is devastated by a vast, unstoppable flood, the Vale family is left broken and irreconcilably divided. Or so it seems.2003, and Laurie Vale, an only child and aspiring artist, takes a phone call from an aunt she never knew existed, only to discover that everything she ever believed about her family is a lie.
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As the truth unfolds, the hopes and passions buried in the Vale family’s past surface once more. Unknowingly, Laurie has also taken the first step towards becoming ensnared in a complex love affair of her own. Divided between Fifties Stepmouth and the searing heat of a present day Mallorcan summer, We Are Family is a modern family saga which explores the conflicting relationships of two very different generations.
ISBN: 0099457822
This book is in great condition.
The Greenstone Grail by Amanda Hemingway
Bartlemy Goodman is approximately 1500 years old. An albino of Greek parentage he was born in Byzantium amidst the decline of the Roman Empire and now resides in the village of Thornyhill, England with his dog, Hoover. Bartlemy is one of the Gifted. But long experience has taught him the perils of the power of the witch-kind and so throughout the ages has channelled his considerable talents into cooking, his culinary prowess becoming the stuff of legend: he worked for the Borgias, was among the first to discover chocolate and even taught the likes of Escoffier.
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On a warm evening in 1991 a young homeless woman holding a baby turns up on Bartlemy’s doorstep and he senses destiny at work. The woman’s name is Annie Ward and her son, Nathan, is an exceptional child as Annie cannot account for his conception. Her husband Daniel died in a car accident so Nathan cannot be his. Soon Bartlemy comes to believe that the boy was created beyond the Gate of Death by a superior being for a special purpose, one that may threaten all of witch-kind and that it is his job to protect him.
ISBN: 0007153872
This book is in great condition.
Flight Lessons by Patricia Gaffney
From the author of the hugely successful THE SAVING GRACES and CIRCLE OF THREE comes another beautiful tale of life and love Growing up, Anne admired and emulated her unmarried Aunt Rose, who led a much more exotic and glamorous life than her mother. But as her mother lies dying, Anna finds out that the woman she looked to more than her own mother betrayed them both in the worst way. Now an acutely mistrustful adult, Anna suffers yet another betrayal, at the hands of her lover.
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Looking for an escape, Anna returns home, though it means helping her aunt run the family restaurant. Rose, who for 20 years has struggled to regain Anna’s trust, realizes that although her niece has come home, it’s clear she doesn’t plan to stay. Feelings are frosty as ever, and Anna is so deadset on leaving, that she fails to recognize true love, even as it reaches up to grab her by the heart. Moving, funny, and ultimately reassuring about life and love, Gaffney’s new novel is just the thing her readers have been waiting for.
ISBN: 0743450566
This book is in a good condition.
Daughter of the River by Irene Northan
Pretty Maddy Shillabeer has long resigned herself to the fact that, as the only girl in a family of men, her lot in life is to care for hare brothers and widowed father. And, in any case, were she free to marry, she’d have precious few possibilities from which to choose, since the number of eligible local men is limited.
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Then a new arrival comes to Duncannon, Patrick Howard, a shabby young man with a beguiling tongue who manages to find employment as a pot boy in the local inn.
ISBN: 1840672013
This book is typical second hand, but in a fair condition.
Rosie of the River by Catherine Cookson
When Fred Carpenter suggests to his wife, Sally, that they take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. Nevertheless she summons her courage and they and their bull-terrier Bill set off, with Fred at the helm of Dogfish Three.
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Sally’s misgivings are soon justified, as a series of disasters, human, nautical and canine, threaten to ruin their holiday. Then everything changes as they make friends with the boating fraternity and encounter the remarkable fifteen-year-old Rosie, whose family history stirs their curiosity and sympathy. As a result, Fred and Sally decide to support Rosie’s efforts to better herself – and are rewarded when she finds love and happiness.
ISBN: 0552147125
This book is in a good condition.
The Iron Chain by Steve Cockayne
When Leonardo built his Multiple Empathy Engine, he also unwittingly conjured something else: a malevolent spirit of science and shadow that danced in the depths of the engine. When there was but one machine the creature was contained. Now there’s a network – and the spirit is loose in the land.
Kiss River by Diane Chamberlain
Kiss River — where secrets give way to the amazing power of love.
Gina Higgins has come to the Outer Banks of North Carolina — a stranger with a secret. But secrets are a fact of life in the close-knit community of Kiss River . . .
Kiss River’s historic nineteenth-century lighthouse has all but fallen into the sea, taking with it the huge Fresnel lens that once served as its beacon. Gina is desperate to find a way to raise the lens from the sea: the glass holds the key to her future, her fortune and her only chance to save the one person who matters to her.
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Lacy O’Neill lives in the old lightkeeper’s house, a home she shares with her bother, Clay. When Lacey meets Gina, she invites her to stay with them. Eagerly accepting the offer, Gina begins her quest to raise the lens as Clay finds himself drawn to her struggle, and to Gina herself.
As Gina’s story unfolds, so does the shocking legacy left buried in the light, revealing more than Gina expected . . . much more. And with it comes new hope for the future . . . and for love.
ISBN: 0778320022
This book is in perfect condition.
Kitty Little by Freda Lightfoot
Katherine, Charlotte and Esme – three girls seeking escape. Each of them is captivated by the idea of a travelling theatre; each is pretending to be someone she is not; all are in love with the same man.
Midnight is a Lonely Place/House of Echoes by Barbara Erskine
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE – After a broken love affair, biographer Kate Kennedy retires to a remote cottage on the wild Essex coast to work on her niew book until her landlord’s daughter uncovers a Roman site nearby and long-buried passions are unleashed.
HOUSE OF ECHOES – When Joss Grant, adopted at birth, inherits a beautiful old house on the East Anglian coast, it is a dream come true. Eager to begin a new life there with her husband and son, she is also impatient to find out abour her newly discovered family who lived there for generations.
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ISBN: 0007639325
This book is in a good condition, with a little edge-wear and spine creasing.
Forbidden Fruit by Julia Hamilton
Glamorous, rich and rife with scandal, the clannish Macarthur family, rarely out of the glossy pages of every high-society magazine, reigns over Edinburgh’s wealthy New Town. But as the formidable family patriarch Jack Macarthur lies on his deathbed, it emerges that one of the clas has broken the strict code of silence…
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And while family secrets break in the press, the beautiful Marianne Maclean – broken down by a destructive affair with Luke Macarthur – and his handsome cousin Ben, the only man Marianne had ever loved, find themselves swept up in the tide together.
ISBN: 0007724632
This book shows general wear and tear.
