An interweaving of two love stories that span generations begins in the 1940s as Althea Barnes becomes enamored of both India and a Hindu priest, and continues with her granddaughter, who has an...
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Auteur: Wheeler, KateSommaire:Genre: Action and adventure fiction -
Auteur: Steinman, LouiseSommaire:
Among her late parents' belongings, Steinman discovers a rusty ammo box holding almost five hundred letters written by her father during his service in World War II. It also contains a silk...
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Auteur: Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
Midwife-sleuth Sarah Brandt is surprised by her mother's desire to attend séances in an undesirable section of New York City. During one dark session, death strikes a participant while all are...
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Auteur: Waddell, PatriciaSommaire:
Life was quiet for the strong-willed and beautiful Regina until Jonathan came along. Looking for a marriage of convenience, Jonathan, an alluring millionaire, thought Regina would be a good wife...
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Auteur: Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
A lady of means helps midwife Sarah Brandt rescue a young woman and her newborn from a brothel. But when the wealthy benefactor is found murdered, Sarah uncovers some unpleasant truths about the...
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Auteur: Shapiro, Linda ApplemanSommaire:
Psychotherapist Linda Appleman Shapiro tells her story as an immigrant daughter who grew up on the top floor of a small home in 1940s Brooklyn and struggled to understand her mentally ill mother...
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Auteur: Picoult, JodiSommaire:
Eighteen-year-old, unwed Katie Fisher is accused of birthing then smothering her baby at the family dairy farm. But not only does Katie claim her innocence, she also says she didn't even bear the...
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Auteur: Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
Called to Chinatown to deliver a baby, midwife Sarah Brandt soon helps search for a missing girl. But nobody seems to know where she is. Has she been sold to a brothel, or has she run off with a...
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Auteur: Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
Widow and midwife Sarah Brandt helps the less fortunate of the city bring new life into the world. But when a local doctor is found murdered, the shocking motive may destroy Sarah.
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Auteur: Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
After an influential supporter of deaf education is found dead, NYPD Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy quickly determines the slain man--an advocate of eugenics--was bludgeoned with a trophy. But...
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Auteur: Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
High society member Felix Decker, who belongs to one of New York's oldest families, resigns himself to partnering up with Irish Catholic police detective Frank Malloy when a member of his private...
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Auteur: Thompson, VictoriaSommaire:
Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine...
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Auteur: MacMillan, MargaretSommaire:In this work of narrative history, MacMillan brings extraordinary personalities to life. The great-granddaughter of Lloyd George, she makes use of his personal papers and gives a scintillating...
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Auteur: Fluke, JoanneSommaire:
Christmas normally descends on Lake Eden, Minnesota, as gently as reindeer alighting on a rooftop-but this yuletide season the only thing coming down Hannah Swensen's chimney is a case of murder....
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Auteur: Tursten, HeleneSommaire:
With gang violence escalating in Goteborg, Sweden, the Organized Crimes Unit pairs with the Violent Crimes Unit to help defuse the situation. But could there be a mole on the force' In this final...