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  Persuasion - Jane Austen’s...

  Jane Austen

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  "Persuasion" by Jane Austen is a novel set in the early 19th century. The story centers around Anne Elliot, the quiet yet perceptive daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, a vain baronet struggling with financial difficulties and the threat to his social status. The novel delves into themes of love, regret, and societal pressures, particularly through Anne's past romance with Captain Frederick Wentworth, a man without fortune or title whom her family disapproved of. 
  At the beginning of the book, we meet Sir Walter Elliot, who is completely absorbed in his vanity and status as a baronet, while ignoring the significant financial problems threatening their estate, Kellynch Hall. The narrative unfolds the dynamics within the Elliot family, especially highlighting Anne's delicate position, which is overshadowed by her more socially ambitious sisters and overlooked by her father.  
  The opening establishes Anne's sense of duty as well as her longing for a life that truly recognizes her character and feelings, setting the stage for the complex emotional struggles she faces as the story progresses and explores her potential reconnection with Wentworth, who is now a successful naval captain. This sets the foundation for Anne's journey of self-discovery amid the entanglements of family, friendship, and social standings.

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  Surgeons' Hall - Jem Flockhart...

  E S Thomson

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  What secret grips Corvus Hall? 
  Visiting the Great Exhibition to view the wax anatomical models of the famous but reclusive Dr Silas Strangeway, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find a severed hand, perfectly dissected and laid out amongst the exhibits. Assuming it to be a prank by medical students they return it to Dr Strangeway, who works at Corvus Hall, a private anatomy school run by Dr Alexander Crowe - once one of Edinburgh's most revered anatomists. Jem's persistence reveals that a body does indeed lie in the school's mortuary, minus its right hand. The body has no provenance. More macabre still, its face has been dissected making identification impossible. 
  All is not as it should be at Corvus Hall. Dr Crowe's daughter, Lilith, visits the mortuary in the dead of night. Her twin sisters, Sorrow and Silence - one blind and one deaf - exert a malign influence over the students. Organs, freshly dissected, appear in the anatomical museum. Fear grips lecturers and students, even as something unseen binds them in a bloody pact of silence. 
  'Gothic. Gory. Glorious . . . E. S. Thompson's Jem Flockhart books are the best I've read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred, smart, complex, and unapologetically queer'. - Kirsty Logan, author of The Gloaming

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  Under the Lilacs

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Under the Lilacs is a tale of friendship and adventure from celebrated author Louisa May Alcott.When sisters Bab and Betty Moss decide to have a tea party one spring morning, little did they know a strange and talented dog and a bedraggled circus run-away would come into their lives. Ben Brown is believed to be orphaned. With no family to return to, the girl's kind neighbour, Miss Celia, takes Ben under her care, where he learns the true meaning of friendship, home and family.

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  Pursuit of Paradise

  Thomas N. Smith

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  This is the story of an East Texas farm boy, the war in the Pacific, and love. Based on true events, Red Smith leaves his farm, experiences the horrors of war, and returns a man, wanting only to go back to work on the farm.

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  The Unexpected Encounter - N A

  Peter A. Moscovita

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  A gripping cold war thriller follows an American submariner on a mission to infiltrate the inner circle of the Russian Intelligence Service. Lieutenant Robert McMann, an atomic submarine weapons officer is asked to volunteer to take on an extremely dangerous mission allowing himself to be abducted by agents of the Russian KGB and military. 
  The objective is to find out how American military personnel are being turned or blackmailed to provide information on highly classified American weaponry and top-secret equipment. 
  Before entering that Saturday meeting, Rob shares an elevator with a striking woman accompanied by her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. On that ride to the fourth floor, Rob is more than taken back by Gwen and her daughter. As the doors of the elevator opened, Gwen steps forward into the hall, Rob makes a split-second decision to meet Gwen later so that they could get to know each better over coffee. Gwen, widowed after her husband, a naval aviator, was killed in a fiery aircraft accident, accepts an invitation from a stranger who is paying attention to her daughter, Daphne. She is struck by how Daphne has never taken to a strange man like this before and wonders what it is about him that affects her so deeply. Similarly, Gwen finds herself intrigued and wondering the same thing. This fascinating tale will keep you guessing where it's going and will be very hard to put down.

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  Far from Home

  Sheila Newberry

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  For fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries, Far From Home Home is a heart-warming winter listen from the Queen of family saga, and author of The Nursemaid's Secret, Sheila Newberry. Ipswich, 1923After  an unlucky start in her first role as a nursemaid, sixteen-year-old  Elin Odell looks forward to seeing in the New Year at home. Little does  she know, her family is changing and she has no idea what lies ahead . .  .Having been offered the role as governess for the Lamberts in  Middlesex, Elin quickly accepts, leaving her own family behind in  Ipswich. But when tragedy strikes at her new home, Elin steps up to hold  everyone together at the expense of her own happiness. As the  Lambert's troubles grow, so do her family's back home and she finds  herself struggling to support them both. But with the help of her  employer's charming brother, Mark, might she find her own happiness  after all?Previously published in print and ebook as The Little Train Home.

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