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Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now a widow living in America, she believes that one man was responsible for her loss; a local doctor who caused an irreparable rift between mother and daughter.

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Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness,all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the centre of this powerful, popular American classic, yet still he prevails. Resourcefully, doggedly, Jacky nurtures his spirit of independence, his capacity to love, and his faith in a nation's dream in a journey that takes him from Wichita to Corpus Christi and from poverty to possibility.

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For Dubhlinn is set to be the site of a reckoningthe Old Ways versus the Newand Grimnir, the last of his kind left to plague mankind, must choose: stand with the Christian King of Ireland and see his vengeance done or stand against him and see it slip away

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But he and Geoffrey Chaucer have another, covert, mission: to ascertain whether the Duke's steward at Cydweli is betraying him to Welsh rebels.

Trouble precedes them: a body in the Duke's livery is left at the city gates.

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From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and set in the boom years of the West Virginia coalmining industry, this is an epic story of personal ambition, exile and return, and a grand heist.

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Aged only thirteen, Emma, daughter of the Duke of Normandy, is married in a strategic alliance to King Aethelred of England.

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Sheelagh Kellys famous first novel is also the first volume of her bestselling Feeney saga.

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She was a daughter, a sister, and a teacher in training. Her diary, presented to her by her father, tells the story over a one year span about her relationships with her family and friends, and her experiences briefly as a teacher in training in Roxbury,
Connecticut. Eunice Nicholson could not tell what her future would be as she began that journal on January 1, 1880

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An epic new novel about one of Western civilisation's most traumatic events - the Fall of Constantinople...
'A great tale, finely woven with action, palpably real characters and terrific twists of fate' Simon Scarrow

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A story about a nine-year old boy growing on the streets of Brooklyn, learning life's lessons and feeling the family economic pressures of growing up in a poor neighborhood. The book takes us on a journey of historic proportions and the things we played and experienced in the life of the main character, Pepino.

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A Red Dress is the haunting biographical fiction about a brutal attack on two twelve-year-old girls in a quaint town in Rural Vermont. Police officer Ben Fields and his team undertake the desolate journey to solve the crime. A must-read for Vermonters and all true crime buffs, this story reveal the fight to rid the state of Vermont of their shocked grief and deliver them the perpetrator.

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In times of trouble can she keep her family together Rosie, a recently orphaned young girl, is reluctantly taken in by her mother's estranged sister, Amelia. Rosie is determined to hold her family together and keep her younger siblings with her at all costs, but how many sacrifices will be demanded for the sake of the children

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After a childhood in poverty and leaving school to work at the age of thirteen, life is beginning to look up for Brenda Wilson. Freshly married to her handsome soldier husband, she finds her true vocation in hairdressing. However, Brenda is forced to give up her dreams of owning her own salon as Harry is called into service...

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* An historical romance set in nineteenth century Paisley.
* First time in paperback.

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This book tells the story of the turbulent lives of Akiko Yosano (1878-1942) and Tekkan Yosano (1873-1935), two poets who sparked a revolution in the world of Japanese classical poetry.

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A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity.

Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia.

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Paula Sanchez is famous in Seville. Now she is sitting for The Penitent Magdalen, along with Father Rastro and the monk Victor Maria, and watched over by the young painter Diego Velasquez. But Seville in 1616 is a dangerous place, and the eyes of the Inquisition are everywhere.

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It is 1924 and George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are attempting to be the first to conquer Everest. They face inhuman cold and wind, but putting one foot falteringly after another they reach for the peak. Meanwhile, at home Ruth Mallory goes about her day, hiding her doubts and the uncertainty about the future with or - god forbid - without George.

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