Tag: March-2025
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The House Of My Mother
by Shari Franke From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog – now the subject of a new Disney+ docuseries – and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and how, in the face of unimaginable pain, she found freedom and healing. Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant…
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Three Days In June
by Anne Tyler The happily ever after is only part of the story… A funny, touching, hopeful gem about love, marriage and second chances It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband…
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The Ghosts of Rome
by Joseph O’Connor February 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome. Inside the beleaguered city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini is a member of the band of Escape Line activists known as ‘The Choir’. Their mission is to smuggle refugees to safety and help Allied soldiers, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann.…
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The Mitford Affair
by Marie Benedict The Mitford Affair is a historical novel by Marie Benedict published in 2023. The novel is set in 1930s and 1940s Europe, tracing the ascendancy of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany through the family dynamics and love affairs of the famous real-life Mitford sisters. Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters–each more beautiful, brilliant,…
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Perspectives
by Laurent Binet Florence, New Year’s Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess…
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The Stolen Child
by Carmel Harrington It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. But there’s no waking up from this . . . On board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, Kimberly wakes to discover that her two-year-old son Robert has vanished from the cabin overnight. She and her husband Jason vow to do whatever it takes to bring Robert…
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The Favourites
by Layne Fargo Everyone thinks Heath Rocha was my first love. He wasn’t. My first love was figure skating. Katarina Shaw has always known she’s destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the…
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Universality
by Natasha Brown Remember – words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency. Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, a man is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar. A plucky young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist,…
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A Mother’s Promise
by Renee Salt ‘Mama. It’s me’. I held her hand in mind, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally , she spoke , her voice barely above a whisper. ‘Do not cry when I die’. From invasion to liberation, September 1939 to April 1945, as Renee was marched from ghetto to…