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  The Cornish Rebel - Cornish...

  Nicola Pryce

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  Cornwall, 1801. 
   
  In the wake of her mother's death, Pandora Woodville is desperate to escape her domineering father and finally return to Cornwall. Posing as a widow, she safely makes it across the Atlantic, bright with the dream of working at her Aunt Harriet's school for young women. But as Pandora is soon to learn, the school is facing imminent closure after a series of sinister events threatened its reputation. 
   
  Acclaimed chemist Benedict Aubyn has also recently returned to Cornwall, to take up a new role as Turnpike Trust Surveyor. Pandora's arrival has been a strange one, so she is grateful when he shows her kindness. As news of the school's ruin spreads around town, everyone seems to be after her aunt's estate. Now, Pandora and Aunt Harriet must do everything in their power to save the school, or risk losing everything. 
   
  However, Pandora has another problem. She's falling for Benedict. But can she trust him, or is he simply looking after his own interests?

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  Homestead - A Novel

  Sara Donati

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  High in the Austrian alps, surrounded by a perfect ring of mountains, the village of Rosenau is made up of a scattering of dairy farms. This is a place so isolated that the arrival of a postcard from the outside world is an event that triggers everyone’s imaginations. The novel opens in 1909 with Anna of Bengat homestead and her love for rough, beautiful Peter, her husband, and for their children, and for her dead sister’s twin boys, Stante and Michel, one intellectually and the other physically disabled. As the years pass, the story unfolds through the eyes of the women of Anna’s family and the interconnected families of Bent Elbow homestead and the Wainwright’s clan: Bent Elbow’s Johanna, finding sudden, late love in the summer of 1916 in the most unexpected place; Isabella, Peter’s mother, who cannot bring herself to look at his ravaged face when he comes home from the Great War; Wainwright’s Katharina, half-sister to Stante and Michel, careless and self-centered, who unwittingly betrays them in return for a ride in a Nazi’s beautiful automobile; Anna’s Olga, who grows up to marry someone she loves, only to lose him and her four brothers in the maw of the Second World War. 
  As we listen, each chapter adds layers of meaning from a different character’s point of view, and the life of Rosenau gathers force and complexity, like a living thing. We don’t notice while we’re watching, but when the tale is done we’re stunned by the fullness and beauty of a world as remote as another planet, as near as our own longings and loves.

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  Goldenseal

  Maria Hummel

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  Downtown Los Angeles, 1990. Alone in her luxury hotel suite, the reclusive Lacey Crane receives a message: Edith is waiting for her in the lobby. Former best friends, Lacey and Edith haven't spoken to one another in over four decades. 
   
   
   
  As young adults meeting at summer camp in Maine, and later making their way in the glitzy spotlight of postwar Hollywood, Edith and Lacey share a deep-rooted bond that once saved them from isolation and despair, providing comfort from the public and private traumas that they had each endured and which a newly optimistic world was eager to forget. Told through a continuous, twisting conversation that unfolds over the course of a single evening, in which each woman tells her story and reveals long-hidden secrets, the narratives of Edith and Lacey burn with atmosphere, mystery, resentment, and regret. 
   
   
   
  Set against the vivid landscapes of Los Angeles and unfolding with the evanescence of a dream or a memory, Goldenseal peels away the layers of an intimate female friendship to reveal a stirring and haunting story about the search for connection and the lingering echoes of lost love.

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  Prayer Box

  Lisa Wingate

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  ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist, Christy Award Finalist, Christianity Today Book Award Finalist!When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls, but everything changes with the discovery of eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year, spanning from Iola's youth to her last days.Hidden in the boxes is the story of a lifetime, written on random bits of paper--the hopes and wishes, fears and thoughts of an unassuming but complex woman passing through the seasons of an extraordinary, unsung life filled with journeys of faith, observations on love, and one final lesson that could change everything.This masterfully woven tale includes:A lush, southern settingThemes of past mistakes, faith, and redemptionA touch of romancePerfect for fans of Christian women’s fiction, this novel now includes discussion questions for book clubs.

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  Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A...

  Thomas Hardy

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  A tragic twist of fate. A predatory aristocrat. And one woman's desperate fight for purity in a corrupt world.
   
  When an impoverished peddler discovers he is the lineal descendant of the ancient and noble d'Urberville family, he sends his beautiful, innocent daughter, Tess, to claim kinship with their wealthy namesakes. Driven by guilt over a tragic accident that cost her family their livelihood, Tess reluctantly journeys to the sprawling Stoke-d'Urberville estate. But the people she meets there are not true family. Waiting in the shadows is the charming, manipulative, and relentless Alec d'Urberville, whose dark obsession with Tess will shatter her innocence and alter the course of her life forever.
   
  As she navigates the lush, atmospheric landscapes of rural England, Tess is torn between her profound sense of duty, the harsh judgments of Victorian society, and her own yearning for true love. Will her innate goodness and quiet resilience be enough to survive the cruel machinations of a world that refuses to forgive?
  
   
  Why you will love this: A towering achievement in Classic Literary Fiction, Thomas Hardy's magnum opus perfectly weaves pastoral beauty with a gripping, heartbreaking critique of social hypocrisy. Listeners who crave immersive historical sagas, intense emotional stakes, and complex, defiant heroines will find themselves utterly transfixed by this unforgettable tragedy. Narrator Evelia Farias captures every nuance of the rural dialects and the novel's devastating romantic tension.
  
   
  About the Author: Thomas Hardy was a legendary English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. Known for his deeply evocative portrayals of the fictional rural region of Wessex, Hardy's masterful storytelling challenged the rigid social constraints of his time.

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  Sweet Darusya - A Tale Of Two...

  Maria Matios

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  'To my mind Maria Matios's Sweet Darusya is the best contemporary Ukrainian novel written since Ukrainian Independence in 1991. It reveals a family saga that is much more dynamic than classical sagas and at the same time is much more touching and engaging. It is an emotional history of Ukraine with a very well researched and vivid historical background that gives the reader the opportunity to understand not only the characters and their drama, but the entire drama of the country/countries in which they lived without leaving their village.' –Andrei Kurkov 
   
   
   
  'Maria Matios with her novel Sweet Darusya has boldly and strongly tossed political caution and public taboos to the wind—and at her own risk has taken us on a cruel journey into our bloody, and no less cruel, historical hell, into the abyss, where it is terrifying to peer.' –Pavlo Zahrebelny 
   
   
   
  'Ecstatic reactions, many awards, and the large number of readers are tied to its vivid, rich, but almost never sweet language, thanks to which the old world of a Ukrainian village blooms and begins a new life.' –Uli Hufen, Westdeutscher Rundfunk / Germany

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