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  A Christmas Legacy

  Anne Perry

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  Thomas and Charlotte Pitt’s former maid takes a new job as Christmas approaches—but not everyone in the household may survive the holidays in this tension-filled novel from bestselling author Anne Perry.After leaving her position with Charlotte and Thomas Pitt to get married, Gracie thought her days as a maid were behind her. But when Millie, the daughter of a long-gone friend, turns up on Gracie’s doorstep just before the holidays, frantic because things are going missing from the kitchen in the household she serves, Gracie knows that she must find out what’s happening. Millie can’t risk being accused of theft and getting thrown out on the street without character references.So Gracie takes on Millie’s job herself, claiming that Millie is sick and needs a few days to recuperate. At first, it seems that all is normal in the household, even if her temporary employer’s elderly grandmother keeps entirely to her bedroom upstairs. But Gracie soon realizes that Granny is suffering from neglect—and rather than helping her, the husband and wife have decided she isn’t dying fast enough. Can Gracie thwart their plans in time to save the old woman’s life?

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  Three Men on the Bummel

  Jerome K. Jerome

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  Three Men on the Bummel (1900) is a comical travelogue by Jerome K. Jerome. The three companions are on a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest. What does Bummel mean? D. C. Browning writes "The title must be puzzling to many readers, for 'bummel' will not be found in English dictionaries." You can learn it's meaning at the last chapter of the book, which is a series of humorous vignettes, each of which builds slowly, through accumulation of layer on layer of detail, through several pages. Most of them concern bicycling, genial commentary on German culture from the point of view of a British tourist, or situation-comedy-like depictions of interpersonal interactions between the characters.

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  Hood: Warriors' Harvest

  Iain Meadows

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  England 1201 in the reign of King John. Nottingham and the shire are caught in the grip of famine - the rains have come and the crops have failed. Starvation and death have taken hold.Worse still, war with France looms and Phillips attempts to save the people have attracted the attention of old enemies - enemies who are intent on exacting a high price for previous losses.Forced to confront the truth of the situation, Phillip ventures into the one place where he may find the help he needs - Sherwood Forest.Phillip will face his enemies in a fight that will cost him that which is closest to his heart.

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  The Good Dream - A Novel

  Donna VanLiere

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  From the New York Times best-selling author comes a poignant, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel about an unlikely path to motherhood, and of two lost souls healing each other.Tennessee, 1950: a time and place that straddles the past and present. Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid by the town (though she’s only in her early 30s), and she takes that label with good humor and a grain of salt. Ever since her parents passed away, she has hidden her loneliness behind a fierce independence and a claim of not needing anyone. But her mother’s death hit her harder than anyone suspects, and Ivorie wonders if she will be alone forever.When she realizes that someone has been stealing vegetables from her garden — a feral, dirty-faced boy who disappears into the hills — something about him haunts Ivorie. She can’t imagine what would make him desperate enough to steal and eat from her garden. But what she truly can’t imagine is what the boy faces, each day and night, in a filthy lean-to hut miles up in the hills.Who is he? How did he come to live in the hills? Where did he come from? And, more importantly, can she save him? As Ivorie steps out of her comfort zone to uncover the answers, she unleashes a firestorm in the town — a community that would rather let secrets stay secret.The Good Dream is Donna VanLiere is at her absolute best.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  A Time for Silence

  Philippa Carr

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  While the world teeters on the brink of World War I, a young woman’s indiscretion leads to a seething viper’s nest of blackmail and murder In 1912, with war looming on the horizon, thirteen-year-old Lucinda Greenham is sent to an exclusive boarding school in Belgium. Her joy in sharing this adventure with her best friend, Annabelinda, is cut short when Annabelinda has a clandestine affair leading to pregnancy. Annabelinda’s family arranges a “rest cure” and when the girl returns to school, she seems to have forgotten the incident. Then, in the wake of Germany’s invasion of Belgium, Lucinda and Annabelinda are forced to flee across Europe and find a welcome savior in the dashing Major Marcus Merrivale. Safely back in England, Lucinda vows to keep her friend’s secret. But someone in the household has uncovered the truth about Annabelinda and the lively baby called Edward. Now Lucinda, who has lost her heart to a decorated soldier, is faced with keeping another secret. As a blackmail plot erupts in murder, and war eradicates a way of life forever, Lucinda discovers that there is a time for love . . . and a time for silence.

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  My Own Dear Brother

  Holly Müller

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  Nineteen forty-four, Nazi-controlled Austria: For 13-year-old Ursula, life in her village remains almost as it was. But when Russian prisoners escape from the local concentration camp, her friend goes missing and her brother's allegiance to the Hitler Youth emerges in shocking ways, Ursula finds herself alone and surrounded by threat. 
  Ursula is forced to recognise that danger comes not only from the enemy at the door but from the enemy within....

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