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The Silver Link The Silver Link Claire Lorrimer Pretty Adela Carstairs had lived in a secure and loving home until her father died. But her happy world is shattered when her mother remarries a cruel, hard-drinking man. As her stepfather's drunken … OL10540179W
The Wilderling The Wilderling Claire Lorrimer Although born into the British aristocracy, the Honourable Sophia Lucienne Rochford was raised in obscurity first in a French convent and then in a Parisian brothel. Like a wilderling—a cultivated fl… OL10540189W
Evergreen Evergreen Belva Plain **8 Months on the N.Y. Times Best-Seller List. The Best-Loved Best-Seller of the Year:** A young Polish immigrant woman, in love with the scion of the German-Jewish banking family for which she work… OL10672947W
Fool's Curtain = The Dynasty Fool's Curtain = The Dynasty Claire Lorrimer For three generations, Rochford Manor has dominated the lives of the women who live there. Willow became its chatelaine at seventeen. Her daughter, Lucy Rochford, taken from her mother and her hom… OL17791685W
Georgia Georgia Claire Lorrimer Georgia Driffield is passionate, wilful, resourceful, intelligent but often foolhardy, as she grows from girl to woman in the years between the two wars. It is not until she discovers the extraordina… OL17792592W
Master of the Game Master of the Game Sidney Sheldon **One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered… OL1881767W
Gold for the Gay Masters Gold for the Gay Masters Denise Robins,Harriet Gray Fauna is an exquisitely beautiful quadroon, in her veins mingled the blood of noble African chiefs and fiery Irish poets. Sold into cruel slavery in the West Indies, she is rescued by Lord Pumphret, … OL1937488W
The Taverners' Place The Taverners' Place Joanna Trollope A sweeping and epic novel about a great house, that traces the fortunes of its family from the 1870s through to World War II. OL29576W
The saga of Amral Khan The saga of Amral Khan Amral Khan ***Anything he touched turned to gold. The incredible succes story and daring escapades of Amral Khan.*** This book reveals how a simple citizen of Trinidad and Tobago started with nothing and ma… OL3087542W
Shades Of Fortune Shades Of Fortune Stephen Birmingham This is a novel of a modern-day cosmetics empire and the dynamic family dynasty behind it. Stephen Birmingham is the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction including "The Auerbach Wil… OL41754W
Pilgrim's Inn; or, The Herb of Grace Pilgrim's Inn; or, The Herb of Grace Elizabeth Goudge After WW II, Lucilla Eliot's soldier son George and his beautiful wife Nadine lived with their five children. They acquired an ancient pilgrim's inn on the river, that touches not only its new owners… OL535196W
The Heart of the Family The Heart of the Family Elizabeth Goudge Despite the “crinkled pink petals strewn in the path of those who would have preferred red,” four generations of Eliots have survived the War and are moving forward. The family’s remarkable matriarch… OL535200W
Adam's Rib Adam's Rib Charity Blackstock From the glitter of Georgian London to the drawingroom of Victoria's day - a family's pride and passion unmasked. Three women in three centuries, all with the same problem: how to keep the love of a … OL6518054W
Chantal Chantal Claire Lorrimer Chantal was brought up lovingly by her stepmother, Lady Waite. Stubborn in her loyalties and passionate in her affections, Chantal is exquisite, beguiling, and volatile. It is her spirited nature tha… OL79514W
Mavreen or Scarlett Mavreen or Scarlett Claire Lorrimer She was the daughter of an English aristocrat and a young and gentle governess. She was lovely, intelligent, and had a quality that drew all men to her, ensnaring them fatally in a web of charm. Stub… OL79515W
A Late Lark Singing A Late Lark Singing Naomi Jacob The story of a family divided by conflicting ambitions. Ann Lockly's realization that she no longer loves her husband, Silas, forces her to live her life in the way she feels is right for herself and… OL8341900W
A Passage Perilous A Passage Perilous Naomi Jacob The story of a family where the parents meet in one world war little expecting that their children will have to fight in another. OL8341903W
Sally Scarth Sally Scarth Naomi Jacob During the Victorian era, Sally Scart, a young orphan, enters the service of an earl and falls in love with her son. But when she becomes pregnant, the social prejudices separate the couple. OL8341904W
Wind on the Heath Wind on the Heath Naomi Jacob A moving story of family ties and true love battling against the odds in wartime Yorkshire. From their first meeting there is an undeniable attraction between Liz Tancred and Michael Anderson, bu… OL8341906W
Gollantz and partners Gollantz and partners Naomi Jacob The moving conclusion to the acclaimed Gollantz family saga. When young Charles Gollantz arrives at the sale rooms with a surprising claim, the family must adapt to a new reality. And the scene is… OL8341919W
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