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In Sarah Thornhill - the third and final book in the series including The Secret River, and The Lieutenant - Kate Grenville takes us back to the time when England was expelling their criminals to Australia. Unknown to Sarah, her father was one such criminal. Sarah was always taught not to ask about the past and she is oblivious to her father's true ways and that he's built himself up into a prominent station on the blood of Aboriginal people. Sarah...
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"Tucked into the mountains of North Wales, the village of Cwm Coed is bordered by a shimmering lake on one side and an army of pine trees on the other. But the tranquility is shattered when homegrown celebrity Rhys Lloyd returns to develop a luxury resort on the shore opposite the village. Old resentments begin to rise to the surface, and new tensions emerge between the locals and the outsiders. Still, when the resort throws open its doors for a New...
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When Fiona Edwards first sees the lanky backpacker striding up the lane toward her award-winning farmhouse bed-and-breakfast in the remote mountains of North Wales, she's puzzled. She's used to unexpected strangers, but few arrive on foot. The man to whom she opens her door is middle-aged, unshaven, sweat-soaked … and arrestingly handsome. What neither of them knows at that moment is that their lives are about to change forever.
American Alec Hudson...
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Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"La Ribera es un complejo vacacional de lujo recién abierto en Lago Espejado, situado en el límite entre Gales e Inglaterra, que indigna a los vecinos de Cwm Coed, la pequeña localidad galesa de la orilla oriental, pues no ven con buenos ojos una iniciativa pensada para turistas ingleses ricos. Cuando el cadáver de Rhys Lloyd, el promotor de la urbanización, aparece en el lago la mañana de Año Nuevo, la investigación, que recae en la agente...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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First U.S. edition.
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Investigating the discovery of human remains that have been frozen for a decade, DI Fiona Griffiths learns that the victim was a missing student with possible connections to Griffiths' father, a case that is further complicated by a recent murder.
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Minotaur Books
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2018.
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First edition.
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A black Labrador retreiver discovers the body of a missing woman at an agricultrual fair. A newcomer to town, a transgender woman, is suspected but amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan believes her to be innocent. Penny sets out to find the real killer, but when a second body is discovered, the case is thrown into confusion and it's up to Penny to figure out what happenend and why.
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The Brennans --parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby --have made a change from chilly Hobart, Tasmania, to a sprawling purple house in subtropical Australia. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf, they're still adjusting to work, school, and life when one morning, tragedy strikes. In the devestating aftermath, the questions fly. What really happened? And who's to blame? Determined to protect his family, Finn finds...
8) Too much lip
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"A gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life-winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award-that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world...
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"The residents of Llanelen are brimming with excitement. Antiques Cymru, a regional take on the popular national TV show, is coming to the Welsh town and people are flocking from miles around, hoping their attic treasures turn out to be worth a fortune. On the day of filming, quiet local sheep farmer Haydn Williams brings a generations-old long-case clock for evaluation, while the woman he's always admired from afar, Catrin Bellis, turns up with a...
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The Dial Press
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[2014]
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First edition.
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English
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Tooly Zylberberg, the American owner of an isolated bookshop in the Welsh countryside, conducts a life full of reading, but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who might ask awkward questions about her life. She prefers never to mention the strange events of her youth, which mystify and worry her still. Taken from home as a girl, Tooly found herself spirited away by a group of seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to...
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Penny Brannigan mysteries volume 8
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English
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"Local artist and amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan has been spending her summer painting the exterior and views of the once-lovely Gwrych Castle, now in a heartbreaking state of disrepair. A privately owned castellated country house of jaw dropping scale, the gorgeous house located just outside of Penny's picturesque Welsh town has been sadly neglected for decades. Penny is thrilled when she hears local Mark Baker is leading a team of enthusiastic volunteers...
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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First edition.
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English
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In need of power beyond her wildest dreams to get back what she's lost, hedgewitch Ffion agrees to help Prince Taliesin while secretly striking a bargain with his brother Dafydd, and soon the fate of Wales depends on their quest - and so might the fate of her heart.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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English
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"Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable...
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