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  The Tumbling Turner Sisters

  Juliette Fay

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  Set against the turbulent backdrop of American Vaudeville, four sisters embark on an unexpected adventure—and a last-ditch effort to save their family. 
  In 1919, the Turner sisters and their parents are barely scraping by. Their father is a low-paid boot stitcher in Johnson City, New York, and the family is always one paycheck away from eviction. When their father’s hand is crushed and he can no longer work, their irrepressible mother decides that the vaudeville stage is their best—and only—chance for survival. 
  Traveling by train from town to town, teenagers Gert, Winnie, and Kit, and recent widow Nell soon find a new kind of freedom in the company of performers who are as diverse as their acts. There is a seamier side to the business, however, and the young women face dangers and turns of fate they never could have anticipated. 
  Heartwarming and surprising, The Tumbling Turner Sisters is ultimately a story of awakening—to unexpected possibilities, to love and heartbreak, and to the dawn of a new American era.

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  The Stewardess's Journey

  VL McBeath

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  Liverpool 1882 
  In a man's world, can a woman survive? 
  Nell's dream of traveling on a transatlantic steamship is about to come true. Although not in the way she expected. 
  Life is hard, and with only three women working amongst a crew of eighty, there are challenges Nell had not foreseen. 
  While she struggles to cope with the constant attention of her colleagues, not to mention their criticisms, there are some who will do whatever they can to support her. 
  Will their efforts be enough to settle her into life on board? Or will her first trip be her last?

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  Hell Ship - The Flying Dutchman...

  Ben Hammott

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  When an ancient document, written by Tom Hardy, the cabin boy aboard the Fortuyn, surfaces, it reveals he was the sole survivor of the stricken Dutch East India vessel and the gruesome events he witnessed that claimed both vessel and crew. 
  Because the terrible events he witnessed onboard were too fantastical to be believed, Tom kept the truth a secret. However, in an attempt to quell his reoccurring nightmares, he wrote down the events leading to the demise of the crew and the Fortuyn. 
  It is believed by some that the Fortuyn is the lost ship that haunts the seas and has become known as The Flying Dutchman. 
  Centuries after Tom's death, and keeping his original title The true catastrophic events of the Fortuyn as witnessed by Tom Hardy, the sole survivor from the aforementioned vessel, the truth can, at last, be revealed. 
  A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a vessel with no living crew aboard. These encompass ghostly vessels from folklore and fiction, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a derelict found adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste. 
  In maritime folklore, the ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, has had an impact like no other lost vessel. It has inspired numerous paintings, films, books, opera, etc. The alleged captain, Van der Decken, was on a heading for the East Indies when a ferocious storm overwhelmed them. With sheer determination, he tried to steer his ship through the hostile weather conditions the Cape of Good Hope was famous for but failed miserably even after he vowed to drift until doomsday. Legend declares that since then, ship and crew have been cursed to sail the oceans for eternity. 
  To this day, hundreds of sailors are credited to having witnessed the Flying Dutchman continuing its never-ending voyage across the waters. 
  Tom's story of the Flying Dutchman, however, is considerably more chilling…

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  East Wind West Wind

  Pearl S. Buck

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  East Wind: West Wind is told from the eyes of a traditional Chinese girl, Kwei-lan, married to a Chinese medical doctor, educated abroad. The story follows Kwei-lan as she begins to accept different points of view from the western world and re-discovers her sense of self through this coming-of-age narrative. 
  This was Pearl S. Buck’s first novel, written years before she went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. 
  What people had to say about the story: 
  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What I love about this book and all of Pearl S Buck's book she really understand the lives of Chinese women and tells their stories, rich or poor, beautiful or not, as they must have been. Not romanticised and really with lots of understanding, empathy and knowledge. 
  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Wonderfully written book. The emotion with which the narrator tells her story seeps through the pages. I felt her pain, her joys, her fear and her love. 
  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love this book! The story is one of two women one from China and one from the United States and their marraiges. 
  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the sixth time I've read this novel, the first in its original language. It's one of my 10 best-beloved books of all time.

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  Fire in the Mountains

  Rachel Wesson

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  When the railroad comes to town, some fights are worth everything. 
   
  Thomas Hayes has spent four years building a life in Shamrock Ridge—a successful blacksmith shop, a respected place in the community, and a promising marriage to mail-order bride Fiona Long. But when railroad developers arrive with generous buyout offers and veiled threats, Thomas's carefully constructed world begins to crumble. 
   
  As neighbors turn away and the community fractures under pressure, Thomas considers the one thing he swore he'd never do again: run. But Fiona didn't abandon everything in New York to watch her husband surrender to shame. She's learned what it means to fight for what matters, and she won't let fear win—not in their marriage, and not in their town. 
   
  With friends rallying and enemies closing in, Thomas must choose between the safety of surrender and the courage to stand for what's right. Because sometimes the only way to prove you're not a coward is to face the fight that terrifies you most. 
   
  A story of love, loyalty, and the price of doing what's right when everything is at stake.

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  Sherlock Holmes and the...

  Linda Stratmann

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  Holmes is faced with an unidentified body, a coded message, and multiple murders . . .  
   
   
   
  London, 1876 
   
   
   
  When the preserved foot of a dead man with extra toes arrives at St. Bartholomew's Medical College, the students are fascinated. However, despite this unusual feature being reported in the press, the man's identity remains a mystery. 
   
   
   
  Intrigued by the puzzle, medical student Mr. Stamford calls on his acquaintance Sherlock Holmes to help him learn more about the deceased. 
   
   
   
  With only the man's boots and a few possessions to examine, Holmes relishes the challenge. He soon finds a coded message hidden inside the man's purse, which suggests a possible connection to criminals or spies. 
   
   
   
  Over the course of their investigations, Holmes' and Stamford's suspicions are strengthened when they learn of further shocking deaths. It soon becomes apparent that the men who died all belonged to the mysterious Explorers Club. 
   
   
   
  Although the deaths look like accidents, Holmes is convinced that the men were murdered. And with conspiracy and intrigue lurking at every turn, he must now expose the secrets of the Explorers Club before the next member meets a grisly end . . .

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