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  Condemned by Fate

  VL McBeath

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  Finding the girl of his dreams should have been a blessing. But people were watching . . . prepared to do anything to keep them apart. 
   
   
   
  Farm laborer Charles Jackson doesn't expect much from life. For the price of a few pints of ale and enough food on the table, he's happy to take work where he can get it. Until he finds himself at Chadwick's farm . . . 
   
   
   
  Falling in love with the farmer's daughter wasn't part of his plans. But when they're found in an intimate embrace, his troubles are only just beginning . . . 
   
   
   
  Inspired by real events, Condemned by Fate is a standalone, short story prequel to the Ambition & Destiny series, an epic family saga set in Victorian-era England. 
   
   
   
  If you like love stories that are more than just a romance, then you'll love the prequel to VL McBeath's engaging series.

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  Liverpool Daisy

  Helen Forrester

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  Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction, set in Liverpool during the Depression, continues to move readers. 
  After the death of her mother, Daisy Gallagher supports her struggling family while her best friend Nellie O’Brian is dying for lack of medical attention. 
  Desperate for money, Daisy turns to the darkened streets of pre-war Liverpool, filled with drunken sailors, and makes a terrible sacrifice. Through strength and suffering, she earns enough to support those who need her help. 
  Daisy’s friends and family know nothing of her new occupation. But, as her husband returns from the sea, can it remain hidden much longer? 
  In the historical saga of Liverpool Daisy, the protagonist's strength and sacrifice are vividly portrayed. The top-notch writing of Helen Forrester brings to life the contemporary struggles of a family during the Depression era. 
  For fans of Katie Flynn (First Love, Last Love), Maureen Lee (Flora and Grace), Rosie Goodwin (The Winter Promise), Sheila Newberry (The Canal Boat Girl), and Shirley Dickson (Our Last Goodbye). 
  HarperCollins 2022

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  The One Who Swam with the Fishes

  Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

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  'Retellings of the Mahabharata often succumb to the temptation of reversing the gaze and providing a noble patina to their protagonists. Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, though, bravely reimagines the story and the inner life of the fisher-maiden Satyavati before her arrival into the epic, before she changes the future of the Kuru dynasty. Madhavan humanizes Satyavati, and reminds us that the passage through adolescence is in itself a heroic odyssey.' – Karthika Nair

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  The Confusions of Young Master...

  Robert Musil

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  Robert Musil (1880-1942) is best known for his enduring masterpiece The Man Without Qualities, one of the great European works of the 20th century. It was with The Confusions of Young Master Törless first published in 1906, a challenging but very different work, that he signalled his extraordinary talent. As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left to his own devices, he experiences the joy, pain and self-doubt of adolescence. He is confronted with desire and love, but also his own cruelty, as he finds himself participating in his fellow pupils' bullying campaigns. A dark Bildungsroman which shocked its readership at the time, Robert Musil's first novel is a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.

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  Passage To Moorea

  B.R. O'Hagan

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  1872 
  From the turquoise blue waters of Polynesia to the grimy alleys of New York City, the chase is on. 
  Civil War hero and adventurer Thomas Scoundrel is working as an investigative journalist in San Francisco, where he pens an exposé of a powerful businessman and is marked for death. 
  He stows away on a warship bound for Hawai'i, wins a sugar plantation in a poker hand, and battles missionary bankers, loan-collecting Tahitian warriors, Irish gang leaders, a ruthless assassin and the most powerful figures in the world of fine art. 
  From a starlit swim in a cobalt lagoon with the Princess of the Kingdom of Hawai’i, to hand-to-hand combat with a legendary South Seas fighter, and a race to stay a step ahead of the growing number of killers bent on seeing him dead, Thomas risks everything for his friends and the woman he loves. 
  Along the way he trades stories with Jules Verne and Ulysses S. Grant, plays a leading role in the birth of Impressionistic art, and inspires a young Teddy Roosevelt to break out of his pampered shell and embrace a life of vigorous adventure. 
  Thomas Scoundrel is no stranger to death and danger, but in Passage to Moorea he faces a trial whose devastating consequences will change his life forever

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  Anna Karenina - A Masterpiece of...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." 
  With one of the most famous opening lines in literary history, Leo Tolstoy plunges listeners directly into the domestic crisis of the Oblonsky household. In Anna Karenina Part 1, we are introduced to a glittering, unforgiving 19th-century Russian society where reputation is everything, and passion is a very dangerous game. 
  While the charming but adulterous Stepan Oblonsky attempts to salvage his fractured marriage to the devastated Dolly, a different kind of turmoil brews in the hearts of Moscow's youth. The earnest and awkward landowner Konstantin Levin arrives from the country with a singular, desperate goal: to win the hand of the beautiful young Princess Kitty Shtcherbatskaya. But Kitty's eyes are already captivated by the dazzling military officer, Count Vronsky—a man whose arrival will soon shatter countless lives. 
  Why listen to this masterpiece of Classic Literature?Timeless Themes: Explore the agonizing conflicts between societal duty and authentic desire, agrarian purity and urban corruption.Immersive Narration: Evelia Farias delivers a masterclass in vocal performance, capturing the soul of Russian nobility and the devastating weight of unrequited love.Historical Grandeur: Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. This epochal work perfectly crystallizes the opulence and tragedy of Imperial Russia. 
  Step into the grand ballrooms and snow-swept streets of Moscow. Witness the dawn of an epic romance that will ultimately redefine the boundaries of world literature. Experience the brilliance of Tolstoy as you've never heard it before.

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