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Every morning, Sybil Van Antwerp sits down to write letters – to her
brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who
will not allow her to attend a class she desperately wants to take, to
her favourite authors to tell them what she thinks of their latest
books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the
letter.
Because at seventy-three, Sybil has used her correspondence – witty and
wise – to make sense of the world. But beyond the page, she has spent
the last thirty years keeping the people who love her at arms’
length... Until letters from someone in her past force her to examine
one of the most painful periods of her life.
Now, Sybil must send the letter she has been writing for all these
years - and find forgiveness within herself in order to move on.
Isandro has left his Spanish Andalucian village to search for his
sister in Paris. There he meets members of the International
Brigade and moves to Madrid to form a protest group against
Franco's tyranny. The road ahead is long and hard and fraught with
danger ... not least the rage that burns within him, ready to
ignite in a political climate that demands a cool head...
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Emma
(Paperback)
Jane Austen
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R460
Discovery Miles 4 600
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich...
Emma is also overly confident in her abilities as a matchmaker
for the residents of Highbury in Jane Austen's widely beloved
classic novel. Although convinced that she herself will never
marry, Emma makes finding the perfect partner for her new friend,
Harriet Smith, her most pressing project. It is a well-meaning
endeavor that leads both women into a complex tangle of intrigues,
misunderstandings, and conflicts of affection, especially after
several new admirers come to the fore whose sights are maddeningly
set on the wrong woman. Matters of the heart are never as simple as
they seem.
Jane Austen's charming novel of love, friendship, and social
grace is a timeless classic--as fresh, funny, and poignant as it
was when first written.
' ... once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to
examining those interesting little problems which the complex life
of London so plentifully presents.'. Evil masterminds beware!
Sherlock Holmes is back! Ten years after his supposed death in the
swirling torrent of the Reichenbach Falls locked in the arms of his
arch enemy Professor Moriarty, Arthur Conan Doyle agreed to pen
further adventures featuring his brilliant detective. In the first
story, 'The Empty House', Holmes returns to Baker Street and his
good friend Watson, explaining how he escaped from his watery
grave. In creating this collection of tales, Doyle had lost none of
cunning or panache, providing Holmes with a sparkling set of
mysteries to solve and a challenging set of adversaries to defeat.
The potent mixture includes murder, abduction, baffling cryptograms
and robbery. We are also introduced to the one of the cruellest
villains in the Holmes canon, the despicable Charles Augustus
Milverton. As before, Watson is the superb narrator and the magic
remains unchanged and undimmed.
This is a romantic tale with a sinister twist. It centres around
the life of Luke, an artist, who comes from a well to do but
dysfunctional family and has endured a troubled past relationship
with his unstable Mother. In adulthood, he meets and falls in love
with Maggie, but his love develops into a sinister obsession, and
he will stop at nothin, even murder, to conceal a dark, long buried
secret from her.
A heart-tugging tale of shattered trust, growing faith, and love
that endures . . . all in a romantic seaside setting. Samantha
Owens' estranged stepfather has died, leaving her his cottage in
Nantucket-a place she fled years ago, never planning to return. As
a single mom, Samantha can't afford to pass up a financial windfall
like ocean-front property. So she travels home to fix up the house
and sell it . . . never suspecting that Landon Reed still lives two
doors down. As their long-dormant romance begins to bud again,
Samantha must face a past that separated her from the God of her
childhood. And she must tell Landon why she fled the island in the
first place-a secret that could tear them apart. Is Landon's love
really as unconditional as he claims? And will Samantha finally
realize that the God she found all those years ago never abandoned
her? Full-length, standalone Clean romance Happily ever after
Praise for Surrender Bay: "No one can write a story that grips the
heart like Denise Hunter . . . If you like Karen Kingsbury or
Nicholas Sparks, this is an author you'll love." -Colleen Coble,
USA TODAY bestselling author
The Pyramid of Mud is the twenty-second Montalbano mystery from
Italy's finest crime writer, Andrea Camilleri. It's been raining
for days in Vigata, and the persistent downpours have led to
violent floods overtaking the Inspector's beloved hometown,
sweeping across the land and leaving only a sea of mud behind. It
is on one of these endless grey days that a man - a Mr Giuglu
Nicotra - is found dead. His body discovered in a large sewage
tunnel, half naked and with a bullet in his back. The investigation
is slow and slippery to start with, but when Montalbano realizes
that every clue he uncovers and every person he interviews is
leading to the same place: the world of public spending - and with
it, the Mafia - the case begins to pick up pace. But there's one
question that keeps playing on Montalbano's mind: in his strange
and untimely death, was Giuglu Nicotra trying to tell him
something?
She’s meant to be catching flights, not catching feelings…
Molly and Andrew are just trying to get home to Ireland for the
holidays, when a freak snowstorm grounds their flight.
Nothing romantic has ever happened between them: they’re friends and
that’s all. But once a year, for the last ten years, Molly has spent
seven hours and fifteen minutes sitting next to Andrew on the last
flight before Christmas from Chicago to Dublin, drinking terrible
airplane wine and catching up on each other’s lives. In spite of all
the ways the two friends are different, it’s the holiday tradition
neither of them has ever wanted to give up.
Molly isn’t that bothered by Christmas, but—in yet another way they’re
total opposites—Andrew is a full-on fanatic for the festive season and
she knows how much getting back to Ireland means to him. So, instead of
doing the sane thing and just celebrating the holidays together in
America, she does the stupid thing. The irrational thing. She vows to
get him home. And in time for his mam’s famous Christmas dinner.
The clock is ticking. But Molly always has a plan. And—as long as the
highly-specific combination of taxis, planes, boats, and trains all run
on time—it can’t possibly go wrong.
What she doesn’t know is that, as the snow falls over the city and over
the heads of two friends who are sure they’re not meant to be together,
the universe might just have a plan of its own…
A profound follow-up to the bestselling book and major motion
picture, The Ultimate Gift. When Jason Stevens found out he had to
jump through hoops to get an unnamed inheritance from his
billionaire grandfather, he was not amused. By the time he'd
finished learning the lessons, he'd become a different man. Ready
to tackle the duties of running a multibillion-dollar trust, he is
once again derailed, this time by his pugnacious family. Not
content with their cattle ranches and oil fields, his aunts,
uncles, and even his parents are determined to see every last dime
entrusted to their own self-serving pockets. With none of the
reluctance he initially showed for the gift, he eagerly accepts the
challenge and pushes himself to prove, not only to his family and
the court but also to the world, that with determination and the
simple tenets of the gift, anyone can lead the ultimate life.
An unforgettable novel that captures the power of longing, loss, and
love, The Time Keepers transports us from 1979 suburban New York to
war-torn Vietnam, revealing that sometimes the most unexpected
friendships can save us.
Two women from different worlds, Grace and Anh, are indelibly changed
when a runaway boy is found on a street in their small Long Island
town. Brought together by the love of this child displaced by war, the
women find friendship and healing from their own painful pasts when
their lives intersect with a mysterious wounded Vietnam vet. The vet,
Jack, works at the Golden Hours, a watch store that mends
timepieces—and might even mend damaged souls.
Richman interweaves the journeys of these wonderfully diverse
characters who will grip, fill, and break your heart—only to bring them
together with the care and precision of an expert watchmaker, one piece
at a time. Inspired by the true story of a Vietnamese refugee who
entrusted the dramatic account of her escape from Vietnam to the
author, and also that of a wounded veteran, Richman sheds light on
those whose lives were forever impacted by the devastation of that war.
'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the
discovery of a bearded corpse would give a fillip to my jaded
mind.' Vivian Lestrange - celebrated author of the popular mystery
novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse - has apparently
dropped off the face of the Earth. Reported missing by his
secretary Eleanor, whom Inspector Bond suspects to be the author
herself, it appears that crime and murder is afoot when Lestrange's
housekeeper is also found to have disappeared. Bond and Warner of
Scotland Yard set to work to investigate a murder with no body and
a potentially fictional victim, as E C R Lorac spins a twisting
tale full of wry humour and red herrings, poking some fun at her
contemporary reviewers who long suspected the Lorac pseudonym to
belong to a man (since a woman could apparently not have written
mysteries the way that she did). Incredibly rare today, this
mystery returns to print for the first time since 1935.
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