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  Our Fair Lily - A perfect summer...

  Rosie Goodwin

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  Other books in the Flower Girls Collection: OUR DEAR DAISY OUR SWEET VIOLETLily Moon, the local miner's daughter, spends her days as a parlour maid for Lord and Lady Bellingham at Oakley Manor, on the outskirts of Nuneaton. She's always been happy with her lot in life, and never expected more.But one day, everything changes when she temporarily becomes lady's maid to the Bellingham's daughter, Arabella, who is pregnant with the illegitimate child of her lover, and about to be unhappily married off to a man double her age. When Arabella suddenly disappears and Lily is left holding the baby, the Bellingham's deny any link to the child. But Lily Moon is made of strong stuff, and between her and her sick mother, they know they must give a home to sweet baby Anastasia (Annie) and bring her up despite their own poor means. It is only Arabella's brother, the handsome son and heir of the estate, who shows any interest in the child, and through his kindness a friendship forms between him and Lily. Or, perhaps more than a friendship if the village gossips are to be believed . . . Lily knows she is no match for Louis: this humble pit wench could never steal the heart of the Lord of the manor. They must both deny their feelings and exist as they are: from different worlds. But when Lily is called to Paris to try to bring Arabella home to her family, a new opportunity emerges which could change her life forever. Could she dare to believe that she could be more than just a parlour maid?

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  The Keepers of Memory - A Tale...

  Christopher Allen

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  "The Keepers of Memory" tells the remarkable story of Lady Aelfwyn, an Anglo-Saxon widow whose world is shattered by the Norman Conquest of 1066. When her husband Thegn Aelred dies at the Battle of Hastings, Aelfwyn faces an impossible choice: flee into exile with her three children or submit to Norman rule and marry the foreign knight who has claimed her lands. 
  Choosing survival over pride, Aelfwyn marries Sir Raoul de Montfort, a Norman lord who needs legitimacy through union with Anglo-Saxon nobility. But this marriage of necessity becomes the foundation for something far more significant—a quiet revolution of cultural preservation. While publicly embracing her role as a Norman lady, Aelfwyn secretly begins teaching her children the Anglo-Saxon heritage that the conquest threatens to erase. 
  In hidden evening lessons, she passes down the ancient stories, songs, and customs of her people. Her eldest son Godwin struggles with his dual identity, torn between resentment and pragmatism. Her daughter Eadgyth becomes a natural bridge between cultures, while young Wulfric grows up truly bilingual and bicultural. Through patient persistence, Aelfwyn demonstrates that Anglo-Saxon traditions can coexist with Norman rule, gradually winning over even her initially skeptical husband. 
  The family's greatest test comes when Archbishop Lanfranc arrives to investigate reports of their cultural preservation activities. Rather than deny her actions, Aelfwyn boldly argues that understanding Anglo-Saxon customs makes Norman lords more effective rulers. Her courage and wisdom not only save her family but help convince the Church hierarchy that transformation, rather than destruction, is the wisest approach to conquered peoples. 
  The story culminates thirty-three years later, when Aelfwyn's youngest son Wulfric is commissioned by King Henry I to establish a school teaching both Norman and English customs to royal administrators.

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  Shadows

  Vladimir Korolenko

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  Many have read about the life of Socrates. Many are familiar with Plato's poignant description of his death. But who had ever thought of what took place afterwards? Ukrainian writer and scholar Vladimir Korolenko took upon himself to consider this question.

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  Robert Barr - A Short Story...

  Robert Barr

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  Robert Barr was born in Glasgow, Scotland on the 16th September 1849.  Five years later the family emigrated to a farm near Muirkirk in Upper Canada.  
   
  His early years were uneventful as the family settled into their new lives and Barr began his education. 
   
  A career path as a teacher opened up for him and, by 1874, he had been appointed as headmaster at the Central School at Windsor.  Concurrently he also wrote travel and humourous articles for magazines.  Within two years their success in the regional periodicals encouraged him to change careers to become a reporter and columnist. 
   
  In August 1876, at age 27, he married Eva Bennett and they began a family. 
   
  A half decade later he was the exchange editor of the ‘Free Press’ but decided to relocate to London to establish an English edition and to write fiction, which both met with much success. 
   
  Over the years he was a prolific writer and in 1892, along with Jerome K Jerome, he established ‘The Idler’ magazine and, just after the turn of the century, became its sole proprietor. 
   
  Although a number of his crime novels and short stories are parodies on Sherlock Holmes and other best-selling detectives of the time, he also wrote short stories across a whole range of subjects and genres usually with intriguing ideas and many laced with wit and humour. 
   
  Robert Barr died at his home in Woldingham, Surrey of heart disease on the 21st October 1912.  He was 63. 
   
  1 - Robert Barr- A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - Purification by Robert Barr 
  3 - The Vengeance of the Dead by Robert Barr 
  4 - The Sixth Bench by Robert Barr 
  5 - Within An Ace of the End of the World by Robert Barr 
  6 - An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr

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  The Botanist's Tracks

  Michael Reit

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  Felcia Hodaks's vital botanical skills are the only thing keeping her away from the gas chambers. 
  Against the backdrop of Auschwitz-Birkenau's ever-present brutality, Felcia tends to the plants needed for one of the Reich's most ambitious experiments—one that could tip the war in favor of the Nazis. 
  When Sabina Kupka discovers the horrifying nature of her father's job at a coal mine run by Nazis, she agrees to work with an increasingly defiant resistance. What starts small but significant soon propels her into a frontline role—dangerous enough to cost her her life if caught. 
  Soon, both women are engaged in a daring plan to arm the prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau. 
  The Botanist's Tracks is the third installment in the Beyond the Tracks series and takes readers to the Nazi agricultural camp of Rajsko, a ten-minute ride from Auschwitz-Birkenau. 
  Based on actual events, The Botanist's Tracks is the first-ever book set primarily in Rajsko and shows the incredible ingenuity of prisoners in finding ways to rise against impossible odds.

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  Forgotten Authors The - Volume...

  Josephine Tey, Hesba Stretton,...

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  Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. 
  In literature the ambition is much narrower.  In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published.  And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.  Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. 
  In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution.  Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it.  Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.  
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.   
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.    
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  In this volume we offer up a small selection of those talents whose time has now come again.

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