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  While In Darkness There Is Light...

  Louella Bryant

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  Experience the Harrowing Journey of Idealism and Tragedy in "While In Darkness There Is Light" 
  Delve into the profound story of young American expatriates in the 1970s, who leave their privileged lives to seek an ideal society in the remote wilderness of Far North Queensland, Australia. "While In Darkness There Is Light: Idealism and Tragedy on an Australian Commune" by Louella Bryant, narrated by Butch Bryant, captures the intense quest for meaning and belonging that leads to unforeseen and deadly consequences. 
  In 1970, a group of wealthy American college dropouts establishes Rosebud Farm, a commune where they hope to live by their own values and morals. Among them is Charlie Dean, a headstrong young man who has spent a year dedicated to the commune’s vision. Driven by a desire to explore and understand more of the world, Charlie embarks on a journey to Southeast Asia with an Australian companion. Their adventure takes a dark turn when they are captured by Laotian communists and imprisoned in a rainforest camp. 
  As Charlie's family fights desperately for his release, the reality of their idealism collides with the harsh truths of human nature and political turmoil. The gripping narrative unfolds the tragic fate that befalls Charlie and his companion, highlighting the fine line between dreams and nightmares. 
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  A Woman of Courage - A...

  Rita Bradshaw

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  Survival means fighting back. Set across Sunderland and New York in the late 19th century, A Woman of Courage is a heartwarming saga by Rita Bradshaw, author of the bestselling Believing in Tomorrow.It's 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is handsome and charismatic, sweeping Josie off her feet with his beguiling lies and promises. He charms her into marrying him on her sixteenth birthday, but on her wedding night the fairy tale ends.Josie finds herself trapped in a living nightmare and there's no one to help her. Events spiral out of control, and when her life is put in danger she escapes with her baby son. Fleeing to a different country, Josie fights to make a good life for her child and then love beckons again.But the McGuigan family's power is far reaching. When the day of reckoning comes, can Josie survive it?

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  What the Hart Wants

  Emily Royal

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  Five lessons in pleasure. One lesson in love. 
   
   
   
  Fraser MacGregor, thirteenth Duke Molineux, seizes the opportunity to use the title he unexpectedly inherited, to further his whisky business. He leaves his Highland home and heads for London where he's accosted by a feisty lass, who smashes a vase over his head. 
   
   
   
  Delilah Hart should be relishing her first London season. But she'd rather be a writer than a bland society wife. Her secret occupation of writing anonymous, inflammatory articles about the notorious Molineux family, is the first step to realizing her dream. 
   
   
   
  But when the new duke makes her an offer she can't refuse—to learn about her cause for social justice in exchange for five lessons in the art of pleasure—she begins to question her beliefs and desires. Before long, Delilah realizes that her heart, as well as her career, is at stake. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Girl Flees Circus - A Novel

  C. W. Smith

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  When nineteen-year-old aviatrix Katie Burke crash lands her biplane on the only street in No Name, New Mexico, her arrival changes her life and the lives of everyone around her. As Katie and her craft need repair, locals take her in and help her, including a schoolteacher who longs for Katie's friendship, an interracial couple who own the town's diner, a handsome young mechanic who lives in a teepee, and a shell-shocked veteran of World War I. 
   
   
   
  As her story unfolds, Katie's mysteries deepen—revealing shocking secrets, a scandalous past, and a future in true peril. Girl Flees Circus takes flight the moment Katie crashes to earth, promising a journey into the lives of a glamorous, redheaded stranger and the people she will change forever.

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  Love in War

  Michael Farthing

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  A five-year story of love between ordinary people who survived World War II on just 49 days spent together. How did they do it? This true story based on real lives explores the conundrum.

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  Elizabeth and Ruth

  Livi Michael

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  Manchester 1849. Elizabeth Gaskell, newly famous author of Mary Barton, visits a young Irish prostitute in Manchester's New Bailey prison. The girl is about to be discharged onto the Manchester streets, where her old life of poverty and violence await her. Elizabeth is determined to help her, but few people will employ an ex-prostitute from prison. In desperation, Elizabeth writes to Charles Dickens for advice.
  Inspired by the real correspondence between Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens, Elizabeth and Ruth tells the unforgettable story of two very different women whose lives become inextricably intertwined.

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