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Theirs had never been the best of marriages. and had become a marriage in name only. Yet, in 1960 they presented a highly acceptable family facade to the outside world. Before the year was over they would plunge into a excoriating sequence of physical and emotional crises.
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Annabella Lagrange has lived a life of wealth and privilege, the only child of an aristocratic couple, and plans to marry her cousin and live happily ever after, until her eighteenth birthday, when she learns the truth about her birth and finds that all she holds dear is merely
8) The moth
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"Talented carpenter Robert Bradley leaves the Jarrow shipyards in 1913 for a better life in the country and a job in his uncle's furniture business. But he soon finds himself at odds with his God-fearing uncle, and his cousin Carrie is a teenage time bomb waiting to explode. For solace, he escapes to the grounds of a dilapidated country estate, where he meets the ethereal Millie Thorman, known locally as "The Moth""
11) The girl
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Hannah Thornton overcomes adversity and tragedy to achieve independence and happiness.
12) The rag nymph
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The story of growing up in the changing times of the Industrial Revolution of 1854. A young girl is abandoned to be raised by "Raggie Aggie" amidst the factories and slums of north England.
15) The obsession
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Beatrice Steel, the oldest of four daughters, has become increasingly domineering in the years since her mother's death, maintaining a tight hold over her role as mistress of the family home, but everything changes when her father is killed, and Beatrice plots to protect what she believes to be her rightful heritage.
16) The upstart
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When businessman Samuel Fairbrother decides that his new status in life demands a home more in keeping with his recent wealth, he sets out to fine the perfect house. But the thirty-four room mansion he buys comes complete with a headstrong staff and a set of problems he never anticipated. Butler Roger Maitland has no respect for his new boss, considering him nothing more than an upstart. Soon Samuel and Roger are locked in a battle for supremacy of...
18) A house divided
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Matthew Wallingham, a blind English veteran, tries to rebuild his life with the help of a loving nurse.
19) The desert crop
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Money was tight in the farming communities around Felburn, England, in the 1880's, so when Hector Stewart, only two years after the death of his long-suffering wife, announces to his children, Daniel and Pattie, that is is to marry Moira Conelly, a "wealthy" distnat relative who lives in "a castle" in Ireland, it is easy to descern his motive.
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