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  Gift for the District Nurses A:...

  Annie Groves

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  Heartwarming and nostalgic fiction from the best selling author of The District Nurses of Victory Walk. 
  It’s 1943 and the district nurses have two new recruits… 
  As the country ramps up for D-Day, the new nurses getting to know their patients on their patch in London’s East End. 
  Lily is quite sure of herself and doesn’t believe she has anything new to learn. She’ll find out the hard way that anyone can be made a fool of when she meets a man who promises her everything. 
  Ruby thinks that nursing might not be for her – is she as hopeless as she thinks, or will tough times bring out the best in her? 
  As the war takes on a new urgency, everything is at stake ─ can the nurses do what is right for the country and for themselves? 
  Annie Groves, the bestselling author, once again weaves a tale of love and duty set in the historical context of the 20th century. The narrative, a top bestseller, explores the lives of district nurses during World War II, their personal sagas, and the medical challenges they face. 
  For fans of Katie Flynn (White Christmas), Daisy Styles (The Wartime Midwives), Elaine Everest (The Teashop Girls at War), Rosie Goodwin (The Winter Promise), and Rosie Hendry (The Mother's Day Victory).

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  The Scarlet Letter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  First published in 1850, The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels. Its themes of sin, guilt, and redemption, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart. The book's immediate and lasting success are due to the way it addresses spiritual and moral issues from a uniquely American standpoint. In 1850, adultery was an extremely risqué subject, but because Hawthorne had the support of the New England literary establishment, it passed easily into the realm of appropriate reading. It has been said that this work represents the height of Hawthorne's literary genius, dense with terse descriptions. It remains relevant for its philosophical and psychological depth, and continues to be read as a classic tale on a universal theme.

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  The Collection Plate - Poems

  Kendra Allen

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  A deeply wrought and joyful debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice  
  Looping exultantly through the overlapping experiences of girlhood, Blackness, sex, and personhood in America, award-winning essayist and poet Kendra Allen braids together personal narrative and cultural commentary, wrestling with the beauty and brutality to be found between mothers and daughters, young women and the world, Black bodies and white space, virginity and intrusion, prison and freedom, birth and death. Most of all, The Collection Plate explores both how we collect and erase the voices, lives, and innocence of underrepresented bodies—and behold their pleasure, pain, and possibility 
  Both formally exciting and a delight to read, The Collection Plate is a testament to Allen’s place as the voice of a generation—and a witness to how we come into being in the twenty-first century. 

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  The Forgotten Princess

  James Holden-White

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  King Edward of England looks to secure his annexation of Wales and resolves to put the heir to Gwynedd’s throne, the orphaned infant Princess, Gwenllian, out of mind, secure and forgotten in a Lincolnshire Priory. The lady Rowena, ever loyal, undergoes many an ordeal to find, comfort and protect the miserable child, whose real identity has been cruelly kept from her.Eighteen years later when the King conceives a plan to settle any question of Welsh succession and news of the Princess leaks to those who would free her, Rowena finds herself faced with the most agonising of choices.

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  Revelation - Book Three of the...

  Maria McKenzie

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  Light-skinned Selina Standish lives a life of emotional pain and torment. In 1906, at the age of eight, she is convinced by her mother, actress Lavinia Standish, the daughter of a slave, to pass as white. Although Selina yields to her mother's insistence to pass, she refuses to cut ties completely with her "Negro" relatives, including her twin brother, a child her mother deems too dark.  However, at age seventeen, in the year 1915, Selina meets wealthy southerner Jack Cosgrove, the man of her dreams. Keeping her ancestry a secret, Selina is conflicted by Jack's negative attitude toward her race. She must determine if happiness with him could ever be a possibility, especially if she were to reveal her bloodline.  Later, a chance encounter with Pastor Tony Manning opens Selina's eyes to real love. Although he is a progressive thinker regarding race relations, Tony appears to draw the line at interracial marriage. In order to live as his wife, Selina decides she must completely disassociate herself from all her "colored" relatives. While bound to a chain of secrecy, Selina struggles to live in honesty. How true can she be to her husband, if she can never reveal the truth about herself?

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  Manchu Palaces

  Jeanne Larson

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  This rich and nuanced portrait of eighteenth-century China follows a Chinese girl'             s path to enlightenment. At the midpoint of the Manchus' long sway over the largest empire in China's history, a young girl stands reluctantly on the brink of womanhood. Lotus, the Empress Dowager's servant, decides to follow a spiritual path through the Forbidden City. She travels down routes of erotic fancy in search of a place called Mandala, where life's troubles are left behind.

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