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1) Ashton Park
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Among the green hills and trees of Lancashire, only a few miles from the sea, lies the beautiful and ancient estate of Ashton Park. The year is 1916. The First World War has engulfed Europe and Sir William and Lady Elizabeth's three sons are all in uniform, and their four daughters are involved in various pursuits. During Sir William's long absences at Parliament, Lady Elizabeth spends time with the manor's head cook, including visits to a small Baptist...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Sir William--recently named Lord Preston--is celebrating his sixtieth birthday at the Danforth summer home in Dover. The ravages of World War I are in the past, yet new threats loom. A man named Adolph Hitler has published a book called Mein Kampf. Is he a danger to Europe? And what of Lord Preston's growing friendship with up-and-coming political leader Winston Churchill? The Danforth family faces challenges, illness, and tragedy while placing...
3) London dawn
Author
Language
English
Description
Readers everywhere are clamoring for books like Downton Abbey, the hit PBS Masterpiece Theater series that's taken America by storm. Those readers have become enthusiastic about The Danforths of Lancashire by award-winning author Murray Pura. In this stunning conclusion to the saga, we find Lord Preston and his family are gathered in London in the late 1930s for what turns out to be a homecoming. The family is finally all together again, gathering...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When war reaches Clarissa's back door, the trustworthy become even fewer. Journey into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of 1863 where Clarissa Avery Ross lives a full life. By day she is the daughter of a respectable shoemaker being courted by seminary student Kyle Forrester. But by night she is a conductor on the Underground Railroad, working with a mysterious man called Liberty. She would like to share her work with Kyle, but he refuses to enlist when...
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