With trembling hands Arabella dons the mask of Miss Noir for her first night at Mrs. Silver's House of Pleasures. Thinking of her young son, she prepares to smile prettily at the next gentleman who enters. Dominic Furneaux, Duke of...
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Author:McPhee, MargaretSummary: -
Author:Harelkin Bishop, MarySummary:Fourteen-year-old Andrea once again travels back in time to uncover the secrets of an unsuspecting theft ring in the mysterious tunnels of Moose Jaw this time with her brother in tow.
Andrea would like to forget all about her...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Andrea travels once again to Moose Jaw, where she and her diabetic younger brother Tony soon get stuck in the perilous past in the now dangerous tunnels with Beanie, Vance and a gang of thieves.
- Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past,...
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Author:O'FARRELL, MaggieSummary:Set between the 1930s and the present, Maggie O'Farrell's novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family's history, and of the secrets that come to light when, 60 years later, she is released from care, and...
- Author:Stachniak, EvaSummary:
During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished teenage girls are sent to a villa to be trained as potential courtesans for the King. Beautiful and canny Veronique arrives at the school of mirrors and quickly becomes a favorite of the King....
- Author:Jackson, LisaSummary:
Was hiding the identity of her child's father worth risking her life? Only Randi McCafferty seemed to believe so, and investigator Kurt Striker was hell-bent on changing her mind. Hired by her well-meaning but overbearing brothers to...
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Author:Holman, SheriSummary:A fifteen-year-old prostitute rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord in order to attract a higher class of clientele. While working to support her fragile only child, she also secures bodies for a local medical doctor's anatomy...
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Author:Howarth, KateSummary:An extraordinary story of courage and survival in the tradition of Angela's Ashes. Ten Hail Marys follows the first seventeen years of Kate Howarth's life in Sydney and country New South Wales. Raised by various Indigenous...
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Author:Coady, Lynn, Endicott, MarinaSummary:Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Thomas Head Raddall Award. Shortlisted, Governor General's Award for Fiction. She's depressed, they say....
- Author:Dessen, SarahSummary:
Scarlett was always the strong one. Halley was always content to follow in her wake. Then Scarlett's boyfriend died, and she learned that she was pregnant. Now Halley has to find the strength to take the lead and help Scarlett get...
- Author:Keegan, ClaireSummary:
The landmark new novel from award-winning author Claire Keegan It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning,...
- Author:Ross, JacquelynSummary:
After a brief affair with rich bachelor Kurt Weston, artist Julia Griffin discovers she is pregnant. She leaves a message for him to call; he never does. So for five years, Julia has raised a son on her own. When Julia meets Kurt again...
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Author:Lee, Min JinSummary:Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Life in 1905 is hard for the illegitimate Mary Ann. It rapidly becomes worse when her new stepfather begins to interfere with her. Sent away at fifteen to bear his child, she meets Gabriel Clough, who helps her escape to Blackpool...
- Author:Cox, JosephineSummary:
Two young lovers are separated by an act of violence, only to find each other again, years later.
- Author:Ryan, JenniferSummary:
Chase Wilde deployed with the Army while Shelby Payne raised their baby alone. Now he's back and Shelby offers him a chance to prove he is the man he says he is.
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Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:Gwynna had fallen from grace once, bearing a stillborn child out of wedlock. Determined to have a respectable future, she finds a position for herself as a nursemaid at Hungerton House. But just as she begins to find her feet, the...
- Author:Baart, NicoleSummary:
Living in a cozy Iowa farmhouse with her kindly grandmother, 24-year-old Julia Desmit struggles to support her five-year-old son and 10-year-old halfbrother. Though her boyfriend is away at medical school, Julia harbors hope for a...
- Author:Redmond, Paul JudeSummary:
Approximately 100,000 single mothers lost their babies to forced separation in Ireland since independence in 1922. 35,000 pregnant, single women were sent to nine Mother and Baby Homes, where thousands of their babies and young children...
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