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The Kept
(Paperback)
James Scott
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Whether he is nurturing a single rare seedling into a blossoming
tree or planning acres of exquisitely conceived royal gardens, John
Tradescant's fame and skill as a gardener are unsurpassed in
seventeenth-century England. But it is Tradescant's clear-sighted
honesty and loyalty that make him an invaluable servant, and in his
role as informal confidant during garden strolls with Sir Robert
Cecil, adviser to King James I, he witnesses the making of history,
from the Gunpowder Plot to the accession of King Charles I and the
growing animosity between Parliament and court.
Tradescant's talents soon come to the attention of the most
powerful man in the country, the irresistible Duke of Buckingham,
the lover of King Charles I. Tradescant has always been faithful to
his masters, but Buckingham is unlike any he has ever known:
flamboyant, outrageously charming, and utterly reckless. Every
certainty upon which Tradescant has based his life -- his love of
his wife and children, his passion for his work, his loyalty to his
country -- is shattered as he follows Buckingham to court, to war,
and to the forbidden territories of human love.
From the details of garden design and innovation to the politics
of a growing revolution which was to kill a king and turn a world
upside down, Philippa Gregory once again makes history come alive
through the people whose passions shaped that world.
Throughout the 1940s, forgers helped thousands of children escape Nazi France. In this instant New York Times bestseller, Kristin Harmel reimagines their story...
Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Book Thief.
In 1942, Eva is forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children escaping to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva realises she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember their own identities.
When Rémy disappears and the resistance cell they work for is betrayed, the records they keep in The Book of Lost Names become even more crucial to remembering the truth...
A present day discovery of the book leaves researchers fascinated by its origins and desperate to decipher its codes. Only Eva holds the answer but will she have the strength to face old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?
Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York City in the summer of 1940 with nothing but a sewing machine and a heretofore unindulged taste for adventure. Finding employment as seamstress at the Lily Playhouse, a charmingly down-at-heel Manhattan revue, Vivian quickly becomes the toast of the showgirls, transforming the tat only fit for the cheap seats into creations for goddesses. Adventure and opportunity blossom on every corner of this strange wartime city of girls, and Vivian and her girlfriends mean to down New York to its last drop. But there are hard lessons to be learned, and bitterly regrettable mistakes to be made. Vivian learns that to live the life she wants, she must live many lives, ceaselessly and ingeniously making them new.
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The Mercies
(Paperback)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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R430
R404
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"A brave and moving novel [that] has a tender empathy with the
natural world." -Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books From
the two-time Booker Prize finalist author of Days Without End comes
a dazzling companion novel about memory and identity, set in
Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil War Winona Cole, an
orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in
an unconventional household on a farm in west Tennessee. Raised by
her adoptive parents John Cole and Thomas McNulty, whose story
Barry told in his acclaimed previous novel Days Without End, she
forges a life for herself beyond the violence and dispossession of
her past. Tennessee is a state still riven by the bitter legacy of
the Civil War, and the fragile harmony of her family is soon
threatened by a further traumatic event, one which Winona struggles
to confront, let alone understand. Exquisitely written, A Thousand
Moons is a stirring, poignant story of love and redemption, of one
woman's journey and her determination to write her own future.
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Bittersweet
(Paperback)
Colleen McCullough
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R413
R390
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Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London
. . .
Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother
for . . . well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of
watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything
about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret . . . and fears
she doesn't know him at all.
Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an
empty-headed charmer, tired of the notorious gossip columnist Lady
Whistledown, who can't seem to publish an edition without mentioning
him. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad, he discovers
nothing in his life is quite the same - especially Penelope
Featherington! The girl who was always simply there is suddenly the
girl haunting his dreams. When he discovers that Penelope has secrets
of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide . . . is she his biggest
threat - or his promise of a happy ending?
Find out why readers love Julia Quinn . . .
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