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  Wedding in October - A Novel

  Geoffrey Clark

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  “A novel about loss and learning and love that is hard to put down and not to be forgotten” from the author of Necessary Deaths (Carl Dawson, author of Living Backwards). 
   
  An off-season wedding at a local resort is an exciting event for nineteen-year-old Miller and the residents of the small town where he lives in 1950s Michigan. After all, the owners of the resort are local royalty—and it is their daughter who is getting married. Miller and his brother will be working behind the scenes at the wedding fattening their wallets in the process. It’s a win-win situation. But it’s the bride’s sister who steals the scene for Miller. And though she’s ten years his senior—and married—they embark on an unforgettable love affair that will change the trajectory of both of their lives. 
   
  “A rich and gorgeous novel, deeply rooted in memory, delicately constructed, filled with subtle and compelling characters. While grappling with universal themes and events, Geoffrey Clark creates a world that is unmistakably Midwestern: fertile and expansive, plain-spoken and harshly beautiful. Wedding in October will lay claim to readers’ minds and hearts, its hold both gentle and utterly tenacious.” —Susan Dodd, author of The Silent Woman 
   
  “Geoffrey Clark formulated into words those sublime experiences that habitually leave no trace in the compartments of our consciousness save a film whose images have silvered.” —Dennis Must, author of Banjo Grease

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  Miss Murray on the Cattle Trail

  Lynna Banning

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  A cattle drive is no place for a greenhorn, but this city miss is here for the ride in a captivating historical romance of determination and desire. 
   
  Cowboy Zachariah Strickland should put Alexandra Murray on the first eastbound train home. But he has no choice except to take her on his cattle trail. She hasn’t ridden a horse to death, or shot anybody, but she does drive him furious with longing . . . Is it possible Alex belongs right here in the Wild West—with Zach?

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  In the Season of the Sun

  Kerry Newcomb

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  Torn apart by betrayal, two brothers search for each other on the Western plainsWhile their family’s wagon train stops for a rest, Jacob Milam goes hunting with his younger brother, Tom. They are hoping for a rabbit, a deer, or even a buffalo, but they haven’t managed to catch anything bigger than a rattlesnake when they see the Indian raiding party galloping over the plains. Jacob races back to camp, desperate to warn his parents, but it is already too late. Betrayed by their Indian guide, the settlers have been slaughtered. Jacob and Tom are the only survivors.When the Indian guide kidnaps Tom to raise him as a warrior, Jacob is left to wander the plains. Rescued by a shaman, he is initiated into the mystical rites of the Blackfeet people. As they come of age in an unfamiliar land, Jacob and Tom are finally reunited in an unlikely place: the killing fields of the Old West.

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  The Philistine - A touching...

  E M Delafield

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  Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture, and more commonly known as E M Delafield, was born in Steyning, Sussex on 9th June 1890.   
   
  Raised in the fading years of the Victorian era with its Empire and strict moral codes Delafield, not yet married at twenty-one, joined a French religious order, in Belgium, but soon decided that this was a totally wrong choice for her.   
   
  Her next challenge was her work during the horror of the First World War.  Delafield decided to take up a position as a nurse in a Voluntary Aid Detachment in Exeter.  It was whilst here that she managed to write her first novel, ‘Zella Sees Herself’.   
   
  With the end of the war new opportunities were sought and she now took up a position for the South-West Region of the Ministry of National Service in Bristol.  With it came enough time to write two more novels: ‘The War Workers’ (1918) and ‘The Pelicans’ (1918).   
   
  On 17th July 1919, she married Colonel Arthur Paul Dashwood, OBE, an engineer responsible for building the massive docks at Hong Kong Harbour.  The marriage produced two children; Lionel and Rosamund.  That same year her fourth novel, ‘Consequences’, was published.   
   
  The couple spent their early years in Malaya but returned to England to live in Croyle, an old house in Kentisbeare, Devon.  Delafield continued to collect responsibilities and organise whatever she could.  At the initial meeting of the Kentisbeare Women's Institute, Delafield was unanimously elected president, and also became a Justice of the Peace, raised the children and, of course, continued to write her best-selling novels.   
   
  Her greatest work is undoubtedly the largely autobiographical ‘Diary of a Provincial Lady’, which is a simply structured journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman, living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s.  It spawned several best-selling sequels.  Her works also includes stage and radio plays, film scripts and short stories.  
   
  After the death of her son in 1940, her health began to markedly decline.    
   
  E M Delafield died on 2nd December 1943 after collapsing whilst giving a lecture in Oxford.  She was 53.

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  Kipling - Collection

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Kipling - Grand Collection: 
      Novels:
      The Light That Failed
      Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks
      Kim
      The Naulahka: A Story of West and East
      Stalky and Co.
      Short Story Collections:
      The City of Dreadful Night
      Plain Tales from the Hills
      Soldier's Three (The Story of the Gadsbys)
      Soldier's Three - Part II
      The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
      Under the Deodars
      Wee Willie Winkie
      Life's Handicap
      Many Inventions
      The Jungle Book
      The Second Jungle Book
      The Day's Work
      Just So Stories
      Traffics and Discoveries
      Puck of Pook s Hill
      Actions and Reactions
      Abaft the Funnel
      Rewards and Fairies
      The Eyes of Asia
      A Diversity of Creatures
      Poetry Collections:
      Departmental Ditties
      Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads
      The Seven Seas
      An Almanac of Twelve Sports
      The Five Nations
      Songs from Books
      The Years Between
      How Shakespeare Came to Write the Tempest
      Military Collections:
      A Fleet in Being
      France at War
      The New Army in Training
      Sea Warfare
      The War in the Mountains
      The Graves of the Fallen
      Travel Collections
      American Notes
      From Sea to Sea
      Letters of Travel: 1892-1913

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  Artemis - Thomas Kydd Book 2

  Julian Stockwin

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  It's the great age of fighting sail, when the seven seas are stalking grounds for prey and prize money... Aboard the crack frigate HMS Artemis, life can be invigorating-and short. Now a fully-fledged Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero's welcome after a ferocious battle against the French. However his jubilation is cut short when a family matter threatens to take him from the life he has grown to love. But the sea beckons and Kydd manages to ship out again in his beloved Artemis - a voyage that will take him to the East.A W. F. Howes audio production.

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