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The third volume in the best-selling Wideacre trilogy. Set in the 18th century, they launched the career of Philippa Gregory, the best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Three Sisters, Three Queens. Meridon, a desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show while her sister, Dandy, risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want.

When Sassi Stapleton receives a middle-of-the-night phone call to tell her that her beloved grandmother is unwell, she quickly puts her job on hold, packs her ute and sets off on the long drive home, knowing her grandfather will need her. Less than an hour away from Sassi's hometown, Barker, she swerves to miss a roo and her car rolls down an embankment. By the time Sassi is found, her grandmother has already passed away.

In the small town of Matfield in outback Queensland, Elsie embarks on a fresh chapter of her life, leaving behind the shadows of a tough upbringing and a challenging neighbourhood. As she steps into her role as a teacher, the complexities of her past give way to the promise of exciting new beginnings. When she meets Matt, a rugged fencing contractor, a connection forms and a tentative friendship unfolds. Both carry responsibilities towards their families, and soon find they share similar interests.

Welcome to The Leap, an outback town fuelled by fear, churning with corruption, prejudice and misogyny–and blighted by its inescapable history of frontier violence. Into this nightmarish morass falters traumatised British diplomat, Benedict Fotheringham-Gaskill. He’s on his first Australian mission, one seemingly straightforward enough–until he arrives in The Leap to battle a town conspiring against him.

When Caitlin inherits a significant sum of money on her fortieth birthday, she decides to break the habits of a lifetime and throw caution to the winds. She's about to tell her husband Paul that they're leaving London on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to Eat Pray Love their way around the world, only ... she doesn't tell Paul that, because before the candles are lit, he tells her that he's very much in love with someone else. After a drunken night trying to console herself, Caitlin books tickets to Australia - anything to get as far away as possible.

When Detective Morgan Brookes is urgently called to her Aunt Ettie’s cottage, hidden in Covel Woods, she rushes to the scene. Panicked Ettie is shaken having discovered the chilling remains of a woman in the river, one skeletal hand reaching out from the deep water. The unknown woman was dressed to walk the rugged trails of the Lake District, so Morgan’s team assume she fell in the water and was taken by the current. But thin diagonal bruises on her neck suggest something far more sinister.

Athena and Rosemary must embark on a perilous journey to the Underworld. Along the way, they uncover clues about a prophecy and encounter allies and adversaries in the dream realm. As they get closer to their goal, they face unexpected challenges, and true motives are revealed. Can they unravel the mysteries of the past before it's too late? The fate of the future hangs in the balance in this magical tale of fae, gods, and ancient prophecies.

After losing her job in New York, Amber Green isn’t looking forward to visiting her godmother in the sleepy village of Cranbridge. With its empty lanes and rundown shops, it’s hardly a place to mend her lonely heart. But when Amber discovers that Cranbridge Stores, owned by her godmother, Cathy, and son, Josh, is under threat of financial ruin, she realises that her skills as a window dresser might just be able to help save the struggling shop.

It’s an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is deep in the forest near Battle Mountain: shotgun in his left hand, his truck’s steering wheel handcuffed to his right – and Lamar Gardiner’s arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him. Joe knows that Lamar’s murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm mean he should get off the mountain. But he also knows this episode is far from over.

Fairacre is a village of cottages, a church and the school - and, at the heart of the school, its head mistress Miss Read. Through her discerning eye, we meet the villagers of Fairacre and see their trials and tribulations, from the irascible school cleaner Mrs Pringle, to the young school children, with their scraped knees, hopeful faces and inevitable mischief.

As a recently divorced single mom, I have zero interest in flirting with guys while on a rare girls' weekend away with my sisters. I just want to have fun, celebrate my new job, and listen to live music at a honky tonk. But when I literally stumble into the most gorgeous guy ever on the dance floor, those plans go up in smoke. Growing up on the barrel racing circuit, I've seen my fair share of sexy cowboys. But this particular one is hot as hell: Sawyer's got a mustache, tattoos, and a very filthy mouth.

Windows is a celebration of the High Street, small-town life and the hard-working and dedicated shopkeepers, public servants and other people who strive to keep that life going. It’s a funny and poignant portrayal of human nature and its many frailties and strengths, including love, hate, loyalty, ambition, determination, error and redemption. A key theme is the human tendency to rush to conclusions about others which can later prove to be wrong.

Lindy has the summer of a lifetime planned at her family’s beloved cottage in Summerland Cove, Maine, where she’s spent summers all her life and where she and her husband David met as teenagers. She’s slated big events three weekends in a row: David’s fiftieth birthday party, her parents’ fiftieth anniversary party, and her oldest daughter Hailey’s wedding. But when David doesn’t show up for his own party, everything about the life they’ve created together is thrown into question, as the shattered family sets out looking for him. Has he been in an accident?

Full Summary "The Beach House" is a sweeping contemporary romance and family saga set in the tranquil yet vibrant community of Crystal Cove, California. The novel follows Jessica "Jess" Morgan, a talented and ambitious interior designer who returns from Los Angeles to her childhood home in Orange County after the loss of her parents. Her goal: to restore the weathered Morgan family beach house perched above the Pacific—a home overflowing with memories, secrets, and the promise of new beginnings. Upon arrival, Jess is met with both nostalgia and trepidation.

Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler's days to the far-flung future. Since 2017, the U.P. Reader has offered a rich collection of their voices that embraces the U.P.'s natural beauty and way of life, along with a few surprises. The seventy plus short works in this 9th annual volume take listeners around the U.P. from the Keweenaw to the Soo and from Menominee to Ironwood.

Historien begynder for godt 150 år siden på en herregård i Østjylland, hvor hovedpersonen, herremandsdatteren Ane Kathrine Brun, vokser op. I København lærer hun den unge gårdejersøn Thybo, der er soldat, at kende, og hun meddeler hjemmet, at hun vil gifte sig med ham, på trods af moderens og stedfaderens misbilligelse. Imidlertid udvikler hun sig til at blive en betydelig personlighed og vinder efterhånden terræn over hele linjen ved sin levende, rige menneskelighed, sin medicin, som hun selv tilbereder, og sin opofrende pleje af de syge på egnen.

Ein tödliches Unglück beim Skiweltcup im Grödental. Der junge Lokalmatador stürzt. Schnell stellt sich heraus: Er wurde von einer Gewehrkugel getroffen. Commissario Grauner, Saltapepe und Co. tauchen ein in die Welt des Wintertourismus und Alpinsports. Es ist ein Milliardengeschäft, bei dem skrupellose Hoteliers, Liftbetreiber, Geschäftsleute, Sponsoren und Sportfunktionäre mitmischen.

Pearl O'Reilly woont al haar hele leven in het slaperige Ierse dorpje Drangan. Ze geniet van haar dagelijkse rituelen: lunchen met haar beste vriendin Una, praten met haar therapeut Mairead en werken in het winkeltje van de O'Callaghans. Haar andere gewoontes – tot tien tellen voor ze de trap op of af gaat en obsessief haar handen wassen – zijn iets minder leuk. Dan ontmoet Pearl Jack, een Nieuw-Zeelander die op rondreis is door Ierland. Zijn bezoek is kort, maar als hij een liefdesbriefje voor haar achterlaat, begint ze na te denken over een ander leven.

Weil ihr Vater Unterstützung braucht, kehrt Imke zurück an die nordfriesische Küste. Hier kann sie die Erinnerungen an ihre ehemals beste Freundin und an ihre große Liebe Simo nicht mehr verdrängen; beide hat sie hier zurückgelassen und seitdem nicht mehr gesehen. Hin und her gerissen zwischen Gewissensbissen und dem Wunsch, zumindest die Freundschaft zurückzugewinnen, bereitet Imke den Weihnachtsbasar und die Christandacht in St. Peter-Ording vor und spürt, wie ihre Hoffnung auf ein Winterwunder wächst und sie allmählich Heilung findet.

In den Highlands beginnt das Glück – mit Wolle, Mut und einem großen Wunsch Der Winter hat Callwell Castle fest im Griff. Bei einem Besuch in Glasgow sieht Maighread frierende Menschen ohne Zuhause. Spontan schenkt sie einer jungen Frau ihr warmes Tuch. Die Begegnung lässt Maighread nicht los, sie möchte helfen. Schnell reift ein Plan. Zusammen mit Chloe und Amely organisiert sie ein regelmäßiges Benefiz-Stricktreffen – das Ziel: die längste gestrickte Sockenleine der Welt. Der Rekordversuch sorgt für große Aufmerksamkeit. Doch dann trifft ein Schicksalsschlag Maighread hart.