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When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful childhood home, she is intrigued by an envelope she finds in her absent mother's post. But the letter inside contains a shocking revelation. If genuine it will change everything she believes about her family's recent history, her mother and her adored grandmother, Gabriele.
2) Act of will
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Set in Yorkshire, London, Paris, and New York from 1926 to the present, this novel tells the story of three generations of ambitious women--Audra Kenton, her daughter Christina, and her granddaughter, Kyle.
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2020.
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xii, 416 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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Victorian England is a country of sharp divides between rich and poor, but James Lionel Falconer is everything a self-made man should be: handsome, ambitious, charming, and brimming with self-confidence. Even as a boy working in his father's market stall in Camden, he was determined to become a merchant prince. Through hard work and a single-minded determination, James rises quickly through the ranks, with a loving wife, devoted children, and a lofty...
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House of Falconer volume 3
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"James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has...
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A woman's search for her roots after she was illegally sold as a baby to another family. She is Meredith Stratton, now owner of a chain of international inns, and she is dying to know who she really is. Her search takes her to England and France where she meets a man who will change her future. By the author of Dangerous to Know.
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A romantic mystery which begins when a philanthropist commits suicide for no apparent reason. The novel provides the reason through the eyes of three protagonists: the son who hated him, the divorced wife who remained his adviser, and an ambitious daughter who wants all the money.
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Harte Family volume 2
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1985.
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xiii, 632 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Traces the struggle of Paula McGill Fairley, Emma Harte's granddaughter and heir, to hold on the the empire.
10) Hold the dream
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2019.
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676 pages : genealogical table ; 20 cm.
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English
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Emma Harte is eighty years old and ready to hand over the reins of ther vast business empire she has created. To her favourite grandchild, Paula McGill Fairley, Emma bequeaths her mighty retaining empire with these heartfelt words 'I charge you to hold my dream.' As Paula follows in her grandmother's remarkable footsteps, she must exhibit determination and strength she possessed to 'hold the dream' which was entrusted to her and in so doing, find...
11) To be the best
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The enthralling sequel to A Woman of Substance and Hold The Dream. The spirit of Emma Harte lives on in her granddaughter, Paula O'Neill. Paula must act with daring and courage to preserve her formidable grandmother's glittering empire and to protect it from unscrupulous enemies - so that Emma's precious dream lives on for the next generation... Moving from Yorkshire to Hong Kong and America, this remarkable drama is played out against a backdrop...
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