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1) Ashton Park
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2013.
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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...
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2013.
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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...
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"An unexpected inheritance offers Libby Pulford the opportunity to escape her abusive marriage and return to her Lancashire roots with her young son Ned. But her domineering husband Steven won't let her go so easily. Just as she's beginning to settle into her new life, Libby's troubled past catches up with her. The one person she can turn to for help is her new neighbour, former police detective Joss Atherton, to whom Libby feels a growing attraction....
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A devastating accident is only the start of Emily Mattinson?s troubles . . . When Emily Mattison falls victim to a near-fatal accident shortly after receiving an unexpected inheritance from a distant cousin, her ruthless nephew George seizes the opportunity to take control of his aunt's assets. It's only when Emily reaches The Drover's Hope, the former pub on the edge of the Lancashire moors, bequeathed to her by her late cousin Penelope, that she...
5) London dawn
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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...
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Will love be enough to protect her children?
After her husband Jack is transported to Australia as a convict, Hannah and her children are sent to the workhouse. Hearing nothing from Jack and believing he's dead, when widower Ellis Duxbury asks her to marry him, Hannah reluctantly agrees.
But now she is free of the workhouse, her children are unsafe — the scrupulous owner has sent them away for apprenticeships, and it's up to Hannah to track them...
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a"Renowned for its authentic characters and settings based partly on the author's own experiences of life in the Lune Valley, E. C. R. Lorac's classic rural mystery returns to print for the first time since 1953. This edition includes an introduction by award-winning author Martin Edwards. "I'm minded of the way a fire spreads in dry bracken when we burn it off the fellside: tongues of flame this way and that-tis human tongues and words that's creeping...
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A family torn apart. A daughter determined to stay together.
When the parish guardians send Lydia, daughter of convict James Knowles, to be an apprentice in the cotton mill at Caton, she is distraught at being parted from her younger siblings and mother, Betty, but she has no choice.
At the mill, Lydia is bullied by some of the other girls and things do not go well when she stands up to the ringleader. Fearing she has killed someone and with the...
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