Imogen Church
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A mother's candid and moving account of the challenges and joys of having a Down Syndrome child
When Sarah Roberts's son, Oscar, was born, he was unexpectedly diagnosed with Down Syndrome. Sarah had to rapidly come to terms with a new normal, as she suddenly found her life on a different path to the one she'd always hoped and believed she'd follow.
For the Love of Oscar shares a mother's real and very raw emotions as she comes to terms with that...
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"The perfect summer novel-sharp, smart and so much fun!" -Viola Shipman, USA TODAY bestselling author
A messy family drama and a steamy little romance unfold under the Mediterranean sun for the perfect summer escape…
Celebrated romance author Catherine Swift has topped the bestseller lists for decades, though her personal story hasn't been quite so successful. Three failed marriages have left her relationship with her daughters strained,...
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When Darcie takes possession of an old suitcase abandoned in a railway station locker, she doesn't know what to expect.
Opening the stiff clasps, she discovers a beautiful silk evening dress for the 1940s, lovingly folded, and a notebook full of sketches. Written inside the cover is the name: Nathalie Leroux
Who was Nathalie? Why did she leave this at the station eighty years ago? And what stopped her from returning for it?
Darcie's quest for...
64) The Home
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A new devastating psychological thriller from the author of the bestselling The Good Mother.
Angela was just a baby when she was abandoned, and a children's home is no place to grow up. When manager Ray takes girls off to his 'den' in the garden, they always come back crying...So, when wealthy couple James and Rosemary come to choose a child to adopt, Angela is desperate to escape. Years later, Angela starts to search for her birth mother, Evelyn,...
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Nine realms volume 4
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Sarah Kozloff's breathtaking and cinematic epic fantasy series The Nine Realms, which began with A Queen in Hiding, comes to a thrilling conclusion in The Cerulean Queen.
The true queen of Weirandale has returned.
Cerulia has done the impossible and regained the throne. However, she's inherited a council of traitors, a realm in chaos, and a war with Oromondo.
Now a master of her Gift, to return order to her kingdom she will use all she has learned-humility,...
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In Wealth Wisdom, Julian Dawson will show you step-by-step how you too can invest your way to financial freedom, no matter what you earn. In this book, you'll discover:
• The six steps to financial independence
• Inspiring tips to help you on your journey to extraordinary wealth
• A killer wealth-creation strategy that combines share and property investing
• How to enjoy your investment riches and live the life you dream of.
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A Scottish castle. A Summer escape. A love story that could change her life forever...
Jess - aka Jessamine Byron, Countess of Cheshire - has just watched her perfect life go up in flames. After a messy divorce, she packs her bags and flees to her family's ancestral home, Rosemire Castle, in the remote Scottish Highlands.
When she runs into ruggedly handsome and surly gardener, Mac Douglas, in the castle grounds - accidentally messing up his flower...
68) The Murder Stone
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The Great War is still raging when Francesca Hatton's adored grandfather dies on the family estate in England's isolated Exe Valley. Among his effects, Francesca is stunned to find an unsigned letter cursing the Hattons and their descendants. Then a stranger appears, accusing her grandfather of murder. Was the loving protector Francesca remembers really a vindictive man who cultivated dangerous enemies? At the center of the intrigue is an unusual...
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Following his 2011 top ten hit The Case of The Missing Boyfriend, Nick Alexander returns with another #1 bestseller: The Half-Life of Hannah. Hannah is thirty-eight and the happily married mother of eleven-year-old Luke, the diamond in her world. Her marriage is reassuringly stable and after fifteen years she has managed to push the wild dreams of youth from her mind and concentrate on the everyday satisfactions of here and now. The first half of...
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In this glittering tale of forgotten treasures and long-held secrets, international bestseller Karen Swan explores one woman's journey to discovering the truth behind an abandoned apartment and a family whose mysteries may be better left undiscovered.
When high-powered fine art agent Flora Sykes is called in to assess objets d'art in a Paris apartment that has been abandoned since WWII, she is skeptical at first-until she discovers that the treasure...
71) The Common Years
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Jilly Cooper has kept a diary about life on Putney Common. Noting the effects of the changing seasons and writing about her encounters with dogs and humans, Cooper creates an affectionate and enthralling portrait of her everyday life. Cooper writes lyrically about the natural world; tellingly about the sorrows and joys of caring for dogs and children; and outrageously about the gossip, illicit romances and jealousies of small community life.
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Iris Turner, an unworldly young Englishwoman, arrives in the French Riviera to take up a secretarial role for the mysterious Hammond Brooke. Living in a small, exclusive hotel among eccentric and unpredictable aristocrats and struggling to gain her employer's trust, she soon realizes that nothing is as it seems. Initiated into the mysterious world of perfume, she finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue and deception.
73) Trust Me
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Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? Twenty-seven-year-old Lizzie has a great relationship with her teenage stepson, Sam, even though they could pass for brother and sister. When Sam becomes sullen and withdrawn, Lizzie starts to suspect that something sinister is going on at school. But no one believes her, and then suspicion falls on Lizzie herself...
74) The Lost Orphan
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A Sunday Times bestseller!
Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out...
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USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight returns as she delves into the life of Adele Astaire, who served up smiles and love both on and off the stage-with and without her also famous brother Fred Astaire- along with a determined young dancer with rags-to-riches dreams.
A spirited rising stage star…
Adele Astaire was a glittering, glamorous star, dancing with her brother, Fred, endearing herself to audiences from New York to London. But although...
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UH OH! JULIETTE HAD A BABY WITH THE WRONG MAN. NOW WHAT? As a mother, I imagined myself somewhere between Mary Poppins and Gwyneth Paltrow. You know — growing my own courgettes, laughing whilst covered in mud, possibly having my own kiddie clothing range... that sort of thing. But unforeseen circumstances have thrown me far from vegetable patches and spoonfuls of sugar. I am currently a single mother, living with my parents. And this New Year, I...
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UH OH! JULIETTE HAD A BABY WITH THE WRONG MAN. NOW WHAT? So I've had a baby. But motherhood isn't quite how I imagined. I don't live in a lovely cottage with roses around the door. I don't know how to get Daisy to sleep. I don't own a baking tray. And then there's Daisy's sh*tbag of a father... When Juliette has a baby, she knows her life isn't sorted. Not by a long way. And most especially not with Nick, long-term boyfriend and father of her child....
79) Loveless
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Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even wanted to; at the prom afterparty she is surrounded by couples making out, and she really does not know what is wrong--but in college she comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic, and to capture...
80) Light Chaser
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In Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell's action-packed sci-fi adventure Light Chaser, a love powerful enough to transcend death can bring down an entire empire.
Amahle is a Light Chaser, one of a number of explorers, who travel the universe alone (except for their onboard AI), trading trinkets for life stories. But, when she listens to the stories sent down through the ages she hears the same voice talking directly to her from different times...