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Plantation trilogy volume 3
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In 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her father near a work camp, overseeing the construction of a levee on the Mississippi. In a region shattered by war, levees mean stability and prosperity. While Eleanor is a modern woman--practical, impatient, and ready for the future--she cannot help but fall for a man still steeped in the ways of the Old South. Kester Larne is the heir to Ardeith, a sprawling Louisiana plantation whose glory days are long behind...
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"In the tradition of Jennifer Robson and Hazel Gaynor, this unforgettable debut novel is a sweeping tale of forbidden love, profound loss, and the startling truth of the broken families left behind in the wake of World War I. 1921. Survivors of the Great War are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. While many have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie's husband Francis has not come home. Francis is presumed...
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A struggle. A war. The past. Would you recover?
Nathan Olason picks up the pieces of his life in 1893 and becomes a devoted father and grandfather. Except something from his past is holding him back.
When his grandson, Mike, announces that he is joining the Great War, Nath fears the worst. Armed and deadly, his grandson hones his marksmanship skills to a perfection not seen in any other soldier. But once Mike arrives at Vimy Ridge, France, with...
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"The Return of the Soldier" is British author Rebecca West's remarkable 1918 novel of the struggle of a World War I veteran and the three women who love him as he returns home and tries make sense of the life that he had before he went to war. Told from the perspective of his cousin Jenny, who lives with him and his wife Kitty, it is the story of British soldier Chris Baldry, who has just returned home from fighting in France. Chris has amnesia and...
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Pre-WWI, Elsa came to America with her eyes wide open, realizing it was up to her to make a life for herself. Surviving a sweatshop in lower Manhattan, a chance job with a Long Island elite family opens up her world. Invited in, up to a point, she unwittingly, albeit precariously, crosses the social divide with her now open heart, which puts all she, worked for in jeopardy.
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The Great War (now known to us as World War I) began in August 1914 when the huge Empire of Austria-Hungary invaded the small country of Serbia and Russia jumped in to defend her fellow Slavs. As the result of some alliances, the conflict quickly spread to involve the Germans, the French, the Belgians and the British.
It was clear, however, that Russia was in real trouble from the start. Despite its extensive manpower resources, it was already broke...
9) Cedar
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BORN IN THE OUTBACK,
SCHOOLED ON THE VERANDAH,
INURED BY STATION LIFE...
Matty's life has been shaped by various experiences that have influenced his character and outlook.
Growing up in the rugged outback, he faced the challenges of droughts, fires and navigating a diverse culture.
His cherished bond with his horse, Cedar, epitomizes his existence and brings him true happiness as he rides through the vast bush with his closest friends.
However,...
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Nélida, la joven hija de un rico hacendado argentino, de vacaciones con su familia en la Costa Azul, huye de su familia en compañía de Auguste Lamartine, el músico que ameniza las tardes de lluvia a la selecta clientela del Gran Hotel de Niza, a esa Viena de principios del siglo XX, donde la alta sociedad vive y se divierte en la protocolaria corte del viejo emperador Francisco José y su íntima Katharina Schratt.
El posterior abandono por parte...
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Immerse yourself in a gripping tale of resilience, epic love, friendship, and the indomitable human spirit in the thrilling third installment of the Windswept WWI Saga. Set against the backdrop of the Middle Eastern theater during the Great War, author Annabelle McCormack invites you to join British nurse Ginger Whitman on a breathtaking journey, where adventure knows no bounds, romance ignites the soul, and intrigue lurks at every turn.December,...
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Jewel of Britannia
On the eve of World War I resentment rumbles and anger ignites, setting the stage for the destruction of millions worldwide. But, far away, in Britannia Beach, British Columbia, 17-year old Dorie Sanders innocently prepares for her first prom, where she meets and falls for a local miner, Rob Chase. Fate gives them only a few weeks of carefree summer before the Great War separates them as Rob enlists for what he believes will be...
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TWO LOVERS
A VIOLENT WAR
ONE RAVAGED MIND AND BODY
WILL FATE INTERVENE AND ALLOW THEM TO LIVE AND LOVE AGAIN?
It is the year 1914 in central Norfolk, England, when young farmer Frank Matthews meets his all-time love, Gwen Bell, just before volunteering as a sniper in WWI. This captivating novel follows his journey as a lover, husband, father, killer and identity thief as he seeks to survive the horrors of war and the atrocities he both witnessed and...
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Love, sacrifice and triumph Grace, a nurse in France, finds herself in a forbidden situation.
Tom, an officer in the Hussars, fights valiantly but is captured in the early months of World War I.
Grace returns from France in 1918 to work in a repatriation hospital and tends to a patient with severe physical and mental trauma, with no memory of what has happened to him.
When Grace's brother Percy visits the hospital, he instantly recognises the patient...
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In 1915 seasoned Pinkerton investigator August Lepke is sent to Alaska Territory to "box up" captured serial killer Edward Krause with circumstantial evidence. He assumes it will be routine and clear cut, just like his life. Once in Juneau he encounters confusion in suffragette Florence Malone, her naive sister Fiona, and their shady, politically powerful father, Jack. His work brings him unexpected allies, and enemies. The Tlingit policeman, George...
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2022
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Some Do Not (1924) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford. Set during the First World War, the novel is the story of Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant statistician and wealthy aristocrat known as "the last Tory." As he moves from a faithless marriage into an affair of his own, eventually volunteering to fight under dubious-perhaps suicidal-motives, Tietjens appears both symbolic and tragically human, a casualty of a dying era dedicating its final breaths to...
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"Grand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe. But even as unrest simmers in the capital, Olga is content to live within the confines of the sheltered life her parents have built for her and her three sisters: hiding from the world on account of their mother's ill health, their brother Alexei's secret affliction, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin, the priest on whom the tsarina has...
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A breathtaking tale set of one girl's determination to triumph against the odds. From the bestselling author of Child of the Mersey and Home For Christmas.
Hettie is an orphan, taken in by Ellie Pride and her husband to their Preston home and treated as one of the family. But she has never felt she truly belonged.
Hettie has a special gift - a beautiful singing voice - and on the cusp of womanhood, she makes a choice that will alter the course of...
19) The Heart of War
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At the heart of every devastating war, there are ordinary women and men doing the extraordinary.
Rose Shipley dreams of independence and defies her father by joining the army. She is determined to nurse in the perilous casualty clearing stations on the edge of the Western Front.
Leo Dymond has given little thought to his German heritage until his father is imprisoned in an internment camp. To escape the same fate and prove his loyalty to Australia,...
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'Everything I love about historical fiction and more.' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ March, 1917 Petrograd is on the eve of revolution. For Countess Sophia Orlova, the city of her childhood – the only home she has ever known – has become her deadly enemy. The mob are ready to get rid of anyone connected to the old regime, including Sophia. When rebels threaten to shoot Sophia and her husband, they are saved by Nikolai, a fervent supporter of the...
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