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Sophie Scott is a privileged but hard working London girl who's had just about enough of her mother's obsessive attempts to set her up with an eligible bachelor. She has no interest in dating and has never been in love. When she meets her new colleague Mel on a business trip to Hong Kong, her whole world is turned upside down by the beautiful and independent woman who couldn't be more different from her. It's hard to hide from love in a city that never dims its lights. But love is never easy when everything you know changes...





Their relationship with one another leaves little room for enemies, but that doesn't stop them from trying to infiltrate the family. The Wiggins Sisters are back and matrimony is in the air along with new threats to the family. These sisters can't be outdone by anyone and woe to the ones that try. Elaine takes her "Boutiques" on the road to get away from it all only to face one unpleasant surprise after another. Love's finally in the air for level-headed Kelly, but is it too good to be true? Shawnee will stop at nothing to have all that she wants. No new threat or the past will tear her away from the power that she strives to have. Matrimony is anything but blissful in Harmony's new marriage: Just when she thought there was no family worse than her own, she looks up to find one do exist. Salvation has its limits and so does Sandy as she goes through leaps & bounds to hold onto her husband. Tragedy has a way of invoking forgiveness when thought to be impossible. Being the only brother to the Wiggins sisters was never easy for Angelo. It's further complicated when the sisters insist on injecting t

In the schoolroom in Lowndes Square, a child, in her ugly, unsuitable frock of plum-coloured satin, cut down when discarded from one of her mother's, bent over the cutting out of a doll and its cardboard wardrobe, and shivered as she worked. Hilarious, shocking, and heartbreaking in turn, A Harp in Lowndes Square is like no other Rachel Ferguson novel. Perhaps her most personal work ? and the closest she ever came to a ghost story ? it tells of Vere and James, twins gifted with 'the sight,' which allows them to see and even experience scenes from the past (including one, at Hampton Court, involving royalty). The twins are already aware of their mother's troubled relationship with her own mother, the formidable Lady Vallant, but the discovery of an Aunt Myra, who died young and of whom their mother has never spoken, leads them to uncover the family's tragic past. Against the backdrop of World War I and Vere's unexpected relationship with an aging actor (and his wife), and rife with Ferguson's inimitable wit, the novel reaches a powerful and touching denouement when the twins relive the horrifying events of









Summer 1952, and fourteen-year-old J.W. Valentine wishes the world and everyone in it would leave him alone. His life so far has not gone well. His defenses ? anger and cleverness ? have only gotten him in trouble. And now the state has sent him to a farm for rehabilitation, something he is determined to resist. ? ? He finds in the nearby town resentment and suspicion and, out on the farm, Mac, a man who may know something of value, and Cassie, the girl who will haunt him for the rest of his life.? ? Amid the distrust, there is discovery, and through it, "J.W. Valentine" tells a moving story of love.



WHEN THE LIGHT RETURNED TO MAIN STREET is a collection of stories that explores the meaning of Christmas from different angles and perspectives. From the traditional settings of ?Just What They Wanted? and ?Crossing Christmas,? and the wonder of ?The Helpers? and ?The Christmas Angel,? to the folktale imaginings conjured by ?When the Light Returned to Main Street,? these stories will challenge you to consider what Christmas means to you, and to answer the question, ?From where comes the true light of the season?? ?

El propòsit d'aquest llibre és ajudar a fer conèixer i estimar el nostre país, com un servei més que gent de la nostra generació presta, bàsicament a les generacions joves, però sense oblidar les que no van tenir ocasió, per raons òbvies, de conèixer-lo perquè oficialment no existia en els manuals docents del franquisme. Es tracta de divulgar allò que han escrit sobre Catalunya historiadors, pensadors, polítics i persones rellevants d'aquí i de més enllà de les nostres fronteres naturals i polítiques, des de la Renaixença fins a la recuperació de les nostres institucions. No pretén ser un llibre exhaustiu: podrien formar-ne part molts més noms dels que hi apareixen i que potser algú hi trobarà a faltar. Però hem escollit un ventall ampli de veus prou significatives per posar en relleu l'evolució mental que va des d'un regionalismo incipient fins a una plena consciència de nació amb voluntat d'autodeterminar el seu futur. I és que, com va dir Enric Prat de la Riba: «Un poble que no sap que ho sigui [...] no és més que un poble a mitges. Un poble que es coneix a si mateix, que té consciència però passiva de la seva unitat espiritual, és incomplet encara. Quan, tenint aquesta unitat espiritual i sabent que la té, vol viure i actuar com a poble, solament llavors és un poble.»[Del "Pròleg" de Josep M. Macip]

¿Nunca leyó la traición en sus ojos?, ¿o negó leerla? Amor, pasión, tragedia, sexualidad y perversión dentro de cuatro almas que convergen en una trama de traición, odio, amor y muerte; siendo la locura la que desde una de esas almas rige y determina el destino trágico de las otras. Cuatro vidas y cada una lucha por su objetivo: poder huir del lugar en el que está atrapada. Hasta el momento en que el amor decide sobre las vidas de dos de ellos y se produce un giro absurdo y delirante que entrecruza lo imaginario con lo simbólico. Sexualidad y muerte de la mano de la perversión van dando forma a partir de lo que se descubre en el curso de una terapia, lo siniestro que se oculta detrás de las palabras y deja a cielo abierto la identidad del ladrón de almas.