Anne Douglas
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A World War II romance of shattered dreams and the enduring promise of love from the author of Highland Sisters.
1937, Edinburgh. Attractive, dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office of a large bakery—until handsome Viennese cake expert Viktor Linden walks into her life with the promise of an exciting future. Although her father and her kind-hearted boss, Ross MacBain, warn against...
1937, Edinburgh. Attractive, dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office of a large bakery—until handsome Viennese cake expert Viktor Linden walks into her life with the promise of an exciting future. Although her father and her kind-hearted boss, Ross MacBain, warn against...
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Language
English
Description
Will she have the courage to pursue the happiness she desires?
After four years spent in an orphanage, Shona Murray has found her niche in a city florist's. She loves her job, and is content there until she is presented with a proposal that will change everything…
Fraser Kyle, the owner of the shop, asks for her hand in marriage. She is unsure whether to accept, especially when Mark Lindsay, the doctor from the orphanage and Shona's first love,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
1935, Edinburgh: Beautiful Lindsay 'Lindy' Gillian is determined to look on the bright side in spite of the Depression: she has a job working for her stepmother at Murchie's Provisions, and her family reside in one of the nicer flats in a nearby tenement block. But when Roderick Connor strolls into the shop one day, Lindy has to make a choice that will turn her world upside down, while a new arrival, surprise opportunities and war clouds from Spain
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A new start means a new chance at love…
Strong-willed Isla Scott leaves her job as a hospital nurse in Edinburgh to return to her hometown of Edgemuir, where her brother Boyd still lives. Hoping to reconnect with him after years apart, she divides her time between family and her new position at Dr. Lorne's fashionable hydro, a nearby spa that advertises cures through baths and steam.
Her important job and her renewed closeness with Boyd convince...
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Language
English
Description
Choosing the wrong man will leave her heartbroken…
Intelligent, ambitious Elinor Rae, maid at an exclusive ladies' club in the idyllic Primrose Square, dreams of a better future. Encouraged by her kindly manager, Elinor enrols in an evening course, where she soon falls for her handsome tutor, Stephen Muirhead. However it is her attraction to charismatic Barry Howat that turns her life upside down.
Breaking Stephen's heart is bad enough, but...
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Language
English
Description
The war threatens all she holds dear...
Jessica Raeburn lives with her family in a small flat in Edinburgh and works as a department store cashier. She finds herself bored, distracted and dreaming of a more exciting life. One filled with glamour and glitz and excitement. One like she sees in the movies. So when she is hired to work in the box office at the Princes Street cinema, she is thrilled – to be so close to the films and stars she loves...
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English
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The course of true love never did run smooth…
When attractive redhead Lorna Fernie is taken on to play saxophone in a post-war Glasgow dance band, she is over the moon. She finally gets to do what she loves in front of an audience. Even more exciting is the fact that she gets to work alongside the handsome and likeable trumpet player Rod Warren. It doesn't take long for the two to fall in love.
But then disaster strikes – Rod leaves and Lorna...
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Language
English
Description
Should she wait for him?
Jinny Hendrie is content working in the accounts office of a large bakery in Edinburgh, but when she meets handsome Viennese cake expert Viktor Linden, she realises she could be happier. The promise of an exciting future with Viktor beckons, but her father and her kind-hearted boss, Ross MacBain, warn against it.
But then war is declared between Great Britain and Germany and Jinny has little choice but to break things off...
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English
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The future she dreamed of is drifting further and further out of reach…
Spirited Roz Rainey lives in post-war Edinburgh with her sister, brother and widowed mother. She spends her days working in a lawyer's property office and dreaming – not of love, but of one day having a beautiful house of her own. After all, why shouldn't she be ambitious?
Then the unexpected happens when she falls in love with her new boss, the charming Jamie Shield. Full...
10) Highland Sisters
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Language
English
Description
Can they put the past behind them?
Lorne Malcolm's wedding to her handsome suitor Daniel MacNeil is a joyful day much looked forward to by both families. But by the time Lorne's older sister, Rosa, returns from a trip to the flower shop on the morning of the wedding, Lorne has disappeared.
When news arrives that Lorne has run off to Ireland with a wealthy landowner's son, Rory Thain, their families are shocked. None more so than Daniel. Jilted on...
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English
Description
Her world will be turned upside down…
It's 1935 and beautiful Lindy Gillan dreams of getting away from her boring life in Edinburgh's impoverished Old Town. Her one consolation is her dear friend Neil, a young writer from the same tenement block, whom she has known for years. But then handsome Rod Connor walks into the shop where Lindy works one day and her life no longer seems quite so boring.
Rod's arrival brings with it new, unexpected opportunities,...
16) The Dharma bums
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English
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Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State.--From WorldCat.
