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  The Strength of Eggshells

  Kirsty Powell

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  Kate was raised a farm girl. She’s six feet tall, handles a motorbike like a professional but has insecurities to match her height. She ignores her past by putting her fingers in her ears but that doesn’t keep the questions out. Why did Jane, her mute mother, adopt her out and only communicate through poetry? What became of her grandmother Meredith wo embarked up the Whanganui River on a paddle steamer to marry a war-damaged soldier in the ill-fated Mangapurua Valley, beyond the Bridge to Nowhere? And what should she do now about the love triangle with only two points instead of three? Kate reluctantly rides out on her motorbike to find out the truth of her ancestry and make decisions on the future. This book explores the lives of strong rural New Zealanders, set against the fragile existence that isolation brings, two world wars and a landscape that is slipping away.

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  A Journal of the Plague Year

  Daniel Defoe

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  Defoe’s gripping fictionalized account of the plague that racked seventeenth-century London  The year is 1665 and the plague has come to London. The air is heavy with death, the body count is rising, and the death carts are filling quickly. Our unflinching eyewitness narrator, HF, recounts the gruesome realities of life in a city overrun by the Black Death. Terror and hysteria seize the city as disease runs rampant. Blending fiction with journalism, Defoe re-creates the plague in all its horrifying detail. First published in 1722, A Journal of the Plague Year is one of the most chilling accounts of the plague ever written. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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  The Last Horseman

  David Gilman

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  Dublin 1899: Lawyer Joseph Radcliffe and his black American comrade Benjamin Pierce were 'Buffalo Soldiers' together; now Radcliffe defends the toughest cases in a troubled city. In South Africa the Boer War rages and after an argument with his father, Joseph's son, Edward, runs away to join the forces. When Edward is captured and held as a spy, Radcliffe and Pierce set off to find him and bring him home. In doing so, the old soldiers find their survival skills tested to the maximum…

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  The King Must Die - A Novel

  Mary Renault

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  New York Times Bestseller: This retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus, king of Athens, is “one of the truly fine historical novels of modern times” (The New York Times).  In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the child-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in The King Must Die. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault’s Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure—a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength and weakness—but also one steered by implacable prophecy. The story follows Theseus’s adventures from Troizen to Eleusis, where the death in the book’s title is to take place, and from Athens to Crete, where he learns to jump bulls and is named king of the victims. Richly imbued with the spirit of its time, this is a page-turner as well as a daring act of imagination. Renault’s story of Theseus continues with the sequel The Bull from the Sea.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary Renault including rare images of the author.

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  Betty Zane

  Zane Grey

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  A pioneer woman and her fellow settlers take a stand against a vicious attack in this classic Western adventure by a celebrate American author. 
   
  Fort Henry’s besieged by British rangers and Shawnee Indians . . . 
   
   . . . and now this small group of settlers must make their valiant stand in one of the last battles of the American Revolution. Their only hope now is heroic Betty Zane, who must run the gauntlet to retrieve the last keg of gun powder—and save the fort. 
   
  Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great grandmother, Betty Zane was Zane Grey’s first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.

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  The Shop Girls of Harpers - The...

  Rosie Clarke

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  The beginning of a brand new series from #1 bestselling author Rosie ClarkeWelcome to Harpers of Oxford Street. 
  London 1911 
  When Sally, Beth, Margaret and Rachel meet at a job interview for the wonderful new store in Oxford Street, they have no idea they will become lifelong friends. 
  When all four girls are lucky enough to be selected as sales staff their exciting new adventure begins. 
  Join them as they overcome heartbreak and grief, find love and happiness and remain united in their friendship, whatever life throws at them. 
  A heart-warming saga following the lives, loves and losses of the Harpers Girls.  Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Pam Howes and Dilly Court. 
  What readers are saying about The Shop Girls of Harpers: 
  ' Brilliant read. Wonderful characters that draw you into Harpers world. Thoroughly enjoyable' - Kitty Neale 
  'A lovely book to read and the first of a new series with characters that blend so well and a great story of friendship, family and love. Well worth 5*' - Reader Review 
  'A lovely read first in a new series, looking forward to the next. English saga writing at its best: wonderful characters, emotional, warm, lovely, highly recommend' - Reader Review 
  'Heart Warming, Compelling and Authentic, that features strong friendships, trials and tribulations of each woman, strong, relatable female characters, and a wonderfully enchanting location ' - Reader Review 
  'This book is brilliantly written and the descriptions are so well done that you feel like you are there in the book as a character. '- Reader Review 
  'I got sucked in immediately and could not put it down!'- Reader Review 
  'I can 100% guarantee that I will be reading more of Rosie's work in the future'- Reader Review

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