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Gripping and poignant, this novel is the gripping story of a house, its inhabitants and the ghosts that haunt a spit of land from 1778 to the present day.

Jon Forsyte meets Fleur, Soames' daughter, and they fall in love. They must then face the unbreachable rift that divides their families. Book three of the Forsyte Saga.

Two sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedy are summoned home to their family matriarch's inn on the coast of Maine for a shocking announcement. Suddenly, Isabel, June, and Kat are sharing the attic bedroom-and barely speaking. But when innkeeper Lolly asks them to join her and the guests in the parlor for weekly Movie Night-it's Meryl Streep month-they find themselves sharing secrets, talking long into the night-and questioning everything they thought they knew about life, love, and one another.

When she moves to Boston to live with her wealthy grandmother, Heaven believes that she has found a place to belong and an opportunity to make something of herself until she begins to realize the terrible truth beneath the glamorous facade of her grandmother's life.

When bullying threatens to destroy a teen's life, painful memories resurface for dedicated high school teacher Laura Reed and pediatrician J. C. Fullerton. With the support of the Sweet Magnolias, they bring the town together to ensure that a promising student's future isn't ruined. And to establish once and for all that bullying has no place in Serenity, South Carolina.

A wickedly funny story of family love and betrayal which moves from the world of do-it-yourself property development in 1990s Auckland to the fabric mills and fashion showrooms of Milan.

The story of three young people in Northumberland in the first half of the 19th Century, their lives lastingly entwined by the inexorable demands of a strange cruel destiny.

Two woman embark on separate personal voyages of self-discovery, they meet new people and forge bonds that will reinforce for both of them the value of family connections.

Jane Porter has always been a free spirit. But, despite leaving Twin Rivers Valley, Rhode Island, behind her, fourteen years ago, the town is forever etched upon her heart. Now she is unexpectedly drawn home to visit her mother and only sister. A haunting story about small town secrets and families struggling to find their way back together.

"At forty-eight, Eloise McAllister loves living alone. Successful, assertive and resolutely private, her days pass in a blur of adrenaline, especially when she gambles the company fortunes on a tip from an old lover. Her mother Joan is eighty, a gifted pianist denied the delights of performance by old age and arthritic joints." "Both women know that Joan can't live alone indefinitely.