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Essential Prose eBook Series

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  • Waiting for Stalin to Die

    Series Book 133 - Essential Prose
    Fleeing Stalin's advance into Lithuania, shaken by communism and war, four refugees end up in Toronto in 1949. Vytas, a young doctor who gets into medical school by saving a child's life, is haunted by a lost love. Maryte, a seamstress whose affair with a German officer saved her half-witted brother, struggles to take care of him. Justine, a concert pianist raped during the war, strives to regain ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice (the basis for the TV movie) is the story of five unforgettable characters, lonely and haunted strangers who find love and loyalty as a reborn family of friends during the Christmas holidays.Elfrida Phipps, once of London’s stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually ... Read more

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  • Behind Closed Doors

    The emotionally gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

    'Leaves you with a smile on your face and hope in your heart' MILLY JOHNSONEscape this summer with the page-turning new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author'A fantastic, compelling story . . . The feelings on the page are tangible' 5***** READER REVIEW'Packed with fantastic characters, uncomfortable truths, and flashes of pure comedy. Who could ask for more?' JILL MANSELL__... ... Read more

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  • Heaven is Gentle

    by Betty Neels ...
    WAS ELIZA KIDDING HERSELF THAT SHE MIGHT STAND A CHANCE WITH THE PROFESSOR?Sister Eliza Proudfoot took a job at the special clinic run by Professor Christian van Duyl. She found him a somewhat intimidating character-large in build and large in personality! And somehow Eliza kept getting on his wrong side, which didn’t stop her from falling in love with him even though he was engaged to the very ... Read more

    $4.24 CAD

  • Village Christmas

    by Miss Read ...
    Taken from A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS, this is the perfect short tale for the festive season.When the Emery family first moved into the village of Fairacre, the locals were not entirely sure what to make of them. With three children, and another on the way, Mrs Emery didn't exactly fit the villagers' idea of a perfect mother.On Christmas morning, with the sunshine catching the frost on the thatched roofs ... Read more

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  • The Felse Investigations Volume Two

    A Nice Derangement, The Piper on the Mountain, and Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart

    by Ellis Peters ...
    Series series The Felse Investigations
    From the author of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael: More mysteries in the "admirable" Edgar Award–winning series about an English policeman and his son ( The New York Times Book Review ).CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorIn the English village of Comerford, just on the border of Wales, it's Det. Inspector George Felse's duty to keep the peace—and keep his teenage son, Dominic, out of harm's ... Read more

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  • Walking with Ghosts

    A Memoir

    by Gabriel Byrne ...
    “Make no mistake about it: Walking with Ghosts isa masterpiece. A book that will wring out our tired hearts. It is by turnspoetic, moving, and very funny. You will find it on the shelf alongside othergreat Irish memoirs including those by Frank McCourt, Nuala O'Faolain and EdnaO’Brien.” —Colum McCannAs a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin,Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of ... Read more

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  • Miss Seeton, By Appointment

    Series Book 6 - A Miss Seeton Mystery
    Who should be hobnobbing with the great and the good at a Buckingham Palace garden party but little Miss Emily Seeton, retired teacher and artistic sleuth. It seems there may be a traitor amongst HM’s faithful retainers.But while Miss Seeton is viewing shrunken heads and other royal treasures with Sir Wormelow Tump, a plan is being hatched by a titled crook to steal valuables of a different kind – ... Read more

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  • Whisper of Jasmine

    At a New Year's Eve party in 1914, two guests elope, hoping for the marriage of a lifetime in this prequel novella by a New York Times–bestselling author.Notorious socialite Delilah Drummond won't be deterred by the war. Instead, she decides to throw the event of the year, and she's handing out invitations with an eye for wanton fun and wild abandon.There is the dashing explorer and archaeologist ... Read more

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  • The Clothes On Their Backs

    by Linda Grant ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEIn a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sándor so violently unwelcome in her ... Read more

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  • The Light of Evening

    A Novel

    by Edna O'Brien ...
    The Light of Evening is a reissued edition of the novel by award-winning author Edna O'Brien.In Edna O'Brien's twentieth work of fiction, an elderly widow on her deathbed in rural Ireland tells the story of her life—a story of love, family, estrangement, and motherhood."O'Brien brings together the earthy and delicately poetic: she has the sound of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." — ... Read more

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  • Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin

    by W.J. Burley ...
    Wycliffe investigates the disappearance of a young girl - and becomes involved in a major criminal investigation . . .Chief Superintendent Wycliffe doubted whether he would enjoy his Christmas. With his wife away, he rashly accepted an invitation to stay with a Penzance lawyer and his family, but when he arrives the weather is awful, the house miles from anywhere, and the family less than ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD