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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Romance > Historical
Rival ornithologists hunt through Europe for dangerous magical birds in
this historical fantasy romance. If Indiana Jones featured manners,
tea, and helicopter parasols - this would be it!
Professor Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing the rare
Deathwhistler bird when Professor Devon Lockley swoops in, stealing
both her bird and her imagination.
For his part, Devon has never been more smitten than when he first set
eyes on Beth.
When a competition to become Birder of the Year by capturing an
endangered caladrius bird is announced, Beth and Devon are forced to
team up to have any chance of winning.
From the mastermind behind The Dangerous Damsels series, India Holton
delivers another fantastical and whimsical story that's perfect to read
with a cup of tea . . .
Now in trade paperback for the first time--#1 New York Times
bestselling author Stephanie Laurens's unforgettable tale of love
and mystery that introduced her overwhelming popular Bastion Club
novels
Tristan Wemyss, Earl of Trentham, has a most unexpected
challenge: like all men of his class he must find a suitable wife,
but within a year, and if he fails, he must forfeit his
inheritance. Despite the many alluring young women paraded before
him, he picks his neighbor, Miss Leonora Carling. Spirited,
educated, and no man's fool, Leonora meets his requirements
perfectly. Unfortunately, she has no desire to marry anyone . .
.
But then unanticipated danger finds her and Leonora must beg
Tristan for his aid. A mysterious stranger is attempting to force
her family from their home, so when Tristan extends his services as
protector she has little choice but to accept. Yet as they get
ever-closer to uncovering the source of the threat, Tristan
discovers his offer of convenience is becoming an offer of
love.
The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born . . .
Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse
Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where
expectant mothers who have come down with an unfamiliar flu are
quarantined together. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders:
Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer
helper, Bridie Sweeney.
In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over the course of
three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways.
They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd
new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity,
carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work.
In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue tells an unforgettable and
deeply moving story of love and loss.
The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series
turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel,
a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged,
fractured world.
By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea
Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's
passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent
marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm.
When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between
Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household
management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come.
Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn
reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia's
responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing
cataclysm and turmoil.
As Tom marches to the front lines, and Kezia battles to keep her
ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters
and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort. Even Tom's
fellow soldiers in the trenches enter and find solace in the dream
world of Kezia's mouth-watering, albeit imaginary meals. But will
well-intended lies and self-deception be of use when they come face
to face with the enemy?
Published to coincide with the centennial of the Great War, The
Care and Management of Lies paints a poignant picture of love and
friendship strained by the pain of separation and the brutal chaos
of battle. Ultimately, it raises profound questions about conflict,
belief, and love that echo in our own time.
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