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Louise Redmond left Ireland for London before she was twenty. Now, two decades later, her heart already breaking from a failing marriage, she is summoned home. Her mother Marjorie is on her deathbed, and it is Louise's last chance to learn the whereabouts of the father she never knew. Stubborn to the end, however, Marjorie refuses to fill in the pieces of her daughter's fragmented past. Then Louise unexpectedly finds a lead: a man called David Prescott...
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2017
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Karen Bloom expects perfection. Her son, Ewan, has been something of a disappointment, and she won't be making the same mistake again with her beloved, talented child, Bronte. Bronte's every waking hour will be spent at music lessons and dance classes, doing extra schoolwork and whatever it takes to excel. But as Karen pushes Bronte to the brink, the rest of the family crumbles. Karen's husband, Noel, is losing himself in work, and his teenage daughter...
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Malaya, 1955: Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where is her husband, Alec? Her young daughters, Emma and Fleur? Fearful and desperate, she contacts the British District Officer and learns that Alec has been posted up-country. But why didn't he wait? Why did he leave no message? Lydia's search takes her on a hazardous journey through the war-torn jungle. Forced to turn...
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Hodder
Pub. Date
2013
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In the aftermath of her mother's divorce, seven-year-old Faith begins to confide in an imaginary friend. Her mother Mariah puts it down to Faith's imagination, but when Faith develops stigmata and performs miraculous healings, Mariah wonders if her daughter might actually be seeing God.
7) The farm
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Daniel believed his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. His father tells him his mother is not well - that she's been imagining things, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a psychiatric hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: 'Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad...I...
8) The chain
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Your phone rings. A stranger has kidnapped your child. To free them you must abduct someone else's. Your child will be released when your victim's parents kidnap another. If any of these things don't happen: your child will be killed. You are now part of The Chain.
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Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2010
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No-one knows what was happening in Christian Hartwell's life in the days before his body was found at the foot of Fellbeck Crag. Was he in trouble he couldn't get out of? Was his death a suicide? Or was it something more sinister? DCI Ed Smith and DI Cat Fallon must determine the cause of death - but finding evidence proves problematic.
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Seven Sisters volume 1
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Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, 'Atlantis' - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her sisters were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage - a clue which takes Maia...
11) The last song
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ISIS Soundings
Pub. Date
2013
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17-year-old Ronnie Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced & her father moved to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry & alienated from her parents, especially her father - until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him.
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Newly graduated photography student Lori Maddox chooses to spend the year after university travelling and visits China where she finds casual work as a private English tutor. When she disappears, her parents Jo and Tom, who separated when Lori was a toddler, travel to China to find their daughter. Landing in a totally unfamiliar country, with no knowledge of the customs or language, and receiving scant help bordering on indifference from the local...
15) A kind man
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The birth of a daughter, Jeannie Eliza, crowns the young couple's happiness - just as her shockingly early death casts them low. But they do not need to talk about Jeannie because she remains with them, and their love does not change. In some ways it is no wonder that one of them falls ill, for grief takes its toll, and one Christmas even Eve's sister Miriam is remarking that Tommy looks unwell. But what happens next is entirely unexpected, not least...
16) No going back
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Judith Chambers is an only child. For over 40 years she has been despised by her mother and dominated by her father, until now, when her father's death sets her free. And, to Judith's amazement, a surprise visitor from her past is going to bring her love and happiness for the first time.
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10 Canelo
Pub. Date
2022
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Eve wanted nothing more than to be a mother. She and her husband, Aidan, planned to have a family, but with each devastating miscarriage her hopes dwindled. When she eventually gave birth to her daughter, Kayla, it should have been the happiest time of her life. Instead, it was a waking nightmare for Eve, and one she was desperate to escape. Now, Eve has left all that behind. She pretends that she never had a child, and keeps her secrets close. But...
18) A monster calls
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The monster showed up just after midnight. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild.
20) The pact
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Hodder
Pub. Date
2013
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For 18 years the Hartes and the Goldes have lived next door to each other. Parents and children alike are best friends so it comes as no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. But one night a call comes from the hospital - Emily has been shot dead.