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Gor is keeping busy. He has a magic show to rehearse, his new assistant to get in line and a dacha in dire need of weeding. But he keeps being distracted by a tapping on his window - four floors up. Is old age finally catching up with him? Tolya has woken from a long illness to find his memory gone. Tidied away in a sanatorium, with only the view of a pine tree for entertainment, he is delighted when young doctor Vlad decides to make a project of...
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2012
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At a large decaying house, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward, stay for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt and her housekeeper. At first the petty meannesses seem simply unpleasant. But when spoilt Leonora is not given the birthday present of a specific dolly that she wants, life takes a desperate turn for the worse.
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Rosanna is part of a close, extended Fenland family and the youngest of three cousins. As she grows up, the others turn to her when they are unhappy or in trouble. To find her own happiness, she has to break free and finally make them aware that she has feelings too.
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Broadstairs, Kent, 1851: Delphine and her cousin Julia have a secret, one they have been running from for years. The clean air and quiet outlook of the sea-bathing resort of Broadstairs appeal to them, and it seems this is a place they can hide from the darkness for just a little longer. Even so, they find themselves increasingly involved in the intrigues and relationships of other visitors to the town. But this is a place with its own secrets and...
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This Regency drawing-room comedy follows the development of sweet, honest and courageous Fanny Price from the shy little poor girl into the woman who marries her cousin, the goody-goody clergyman Edmund Bertram. Fanny could be looked upon as almost insufferably good, virtuous and dull, if she were not presented with such imagination and placed among the many diverse and interesting people who frequent the house of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram at Mansfield...
8) The letter
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2023
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Bella can't wait to be married to her fiance Sidney, and dreams of the day she will walk up the aisle to be given away by her widowed father, with her bookish sister Alice as her bridesmaid. Their lives are disturbed when they receive a letter from their fourteen-year-old cousin Millie. Taken in by her austere aunt and uncle when her parents were killed in an accident, Millie says she is being badly treated and pleads to be rescued. When the two sisters...
10) Harlem shuffle
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Ray Carney volume 1
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2021
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To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his facade of normalcy has more than a few...
11) A labour of love
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2008
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It's 1980s Merseyside and teenage cousins Sophie and Charlie are at a turning point in their lives. Sophie falls in love with Darrell, but when Sophie discovers that she's pregnant, her relationship comes to an end. Charlie is unhappy in his job as a chef. With Sophie's help, Charlie joins the family business with surprising results.
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Isadora Moon volume 5
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2017
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Isadora brings a dragon to school for pet day.
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Famous Five volume 3
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
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In their third adventure, the Famous Five discover that someone has been on George's island. And what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think they're on the trail of smugglers until they hear a child scream ...
14) My Lady Jane
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The Lady Janies volume 1
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2025
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A comical, fantastical and witty re-imagining of the Tudor world, perfect for fans of The Princess Bride. Lady Jane Grey, 16, is about to be married to a total stranger - and caught up in an insidious plot to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But that?s the least of Jane?s problems. She?s also about to become Queen of England. Like that could go wrong.
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Walker
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2012
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Maisy and Charley are visiting the city for the weekend - how exciting. They are met at the coach station by their friend Dotty, who shows them around. What noisy traffic. What giant buildings. So many flashing lights. And everywhere is so crowded - even the park.
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Simon & Schuster
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2014
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Spoilt, resourceful and proud, Sofia is loved by all around her. All, that is, except her Irish mother Anna. When Sofia embarks on a passionate love affair, Anna is horrified and sends Sofia away to Europe, exiling her from her family and her lover.