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102) Miss you
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A wryly romantic and moving debut novel with echoes of One Day that asks, what if "the one" just walked right by you, and you didn't even know it?"If ever a couple was 'meant to be,' it's Tess and Gus. This is such a witty, poignant, and uplifting story of two lives criss-crossing over the years, with near-miss after near-miss ... I couldn't put it down." --Sophie Kinsella "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." Tess can't get the motto...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A collection of stories about humanity's oldest supernatural obsession: ghosts. The Phantom Coach gathers memorable ghost tales from the Victorian era from Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton to Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Features an introduction to the genre and notes on each story.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin, and Sally: five retired expats who have pooled their resources to set up La Mosaïque, a divine little restaurant. But there is trouble in paradise: the friends are desperately struggling to make ends meet. It will take every bit of their talent and gumption to save La Mosaïque. With fussy customers,...
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Series
Emmy Lake Chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2023
Description
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away to war, Emmy Lake is now in charge of "Yours Cheerfully," the hugely popular advice column in Woman's Friend magazine. Cheered on by her best friend Bunty, Emmy is dedicated to helping readers face the increasing challenges brought about by over three years of war. The postbags are full and Woman's Friend is thriving.
But Emmy's world is turned upside...
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
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Description
'To the Lighthouse' was Virginia Woolf's fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the First World War, it has remained the most popular of all her works.
108) A Christmas carol
Pub. Date
c1995.]
Description
Classic holiday film of how the miser Scrooge finds his view on Christmas changed after he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
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