Daughter of the dales

Winter´s Daughter - Val Wood

<p>With her trademark warmth and powerful characters, Winter's Daughter is a stunning new Victorian saga - about a young child separated from her mother, and the family who bring her in from the cold.'As always, Val tells it from the heart . . . A stirring story of faith, hope and charity will enthral you' Peterborough TelegraphHull, 1856.James Ripley and his wife M...

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Dear Daughter, from you to me

Award-winning 'from you to me' Journals of a Lifetime are the perfect gift for every loved-one, for every occasion, for all the family. Each journal c

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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Poignant but laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations and stereotypes of growi

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Diver's Daughter: A Tudor Story (Voices #2)

A gripping adventure told from the perspective of a young girl whosemother was taken away from her family in Mozambique. Award-winningauthor, Patrice

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My Darling Daughter - J. P. Delaney

<p> </p> The much-anticipated new thriller from the million-copy bestselling author of The Girl Before <p> </p> <p>The child you never knewknows all your secrets . . .Out of the blue, Susie Jukes is contacted on social media by Anna, the girl she gave up for adoption fifteen years ago.But when they meet, Anna's home life sounds distinctly str...

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The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival - Friedman Tova

Anotace: An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. `I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor`s obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.` Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghett...

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The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival - Tova Friedman

The harrowing, moving and poignant account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only five years old when she was sent to an extermination camp. <p>An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They ca...

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Dance of the Fig Tree

Three generations of women: Teta, the grandmother, Fadwa, the mother, and Emne, the daughter who captures the tenderness of her fore-bearers. The poem

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My Darling Daughter - Delaney J. P.

Anotace: The child you never knewknows all your secrets . . .Out of the blue, Susie Jukes is contacted on social media by Anna, the girl she gave up for adoption fifteen years ago.But when they meet, Anna`s home life sounds distinctly strange to Susie and her husband Gabe. And when Anna`s adoptive parents seem to overreact to the fact she contacted them at all, Susie bec...

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Staré království 2 - Lírael - Nix Garth (Lirael, Daughter of the Clayr)

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Forgotten Realms - Hvězdný třpyt a stíny 1 - Drowova dcera - Cunningham Elaine (Daughter of the Drow)

Liriel, dcera arcimága Gromfa, je trnem v oku Prvnímu rodu Menzoberranzanu Baenre i ostatním. Je nepřehlédnutelná. Pořádá honosné večírky, ráda se toulá tunely, sjíždí podzemní řeky, přátelí se s dvouhlavým drakem – a má nebývalé nadání pro magii, která nemá nic společného s Pavoučí královnou Lloth. A když Liriel objeví krásy Povrchu, je snaha zkrotit ji v drowské Akademi...

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Yakuza Moon: True Story Of A Gangster's Daughter (the Manga Edition)

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House of a Hundred Doors

Following an encounter with Maximillion Crooked, Imogen Hackerton, daughter of a congressman and great-great-great-granddaughter of the infamous Hacke

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Daughter of Darkness (House of Shadows 1): thrilling fantasy inspired by Greek myth - Katharine Corr

<p>DISCOVER THE EPIC NEW FANTASY INSPIRED BY ANCIENT GREEK MYTH . . . 'Everything I want in a fantasy and more' - Mary Watson, author of Blood to Poison 'A book of smart, savage beauty' - Josh Winning, author of The Shadow Glass The Underworld awaits . . . Deina is trapped. As one of the Soul Severers serving the god Hades on earth, her future is tied to the tas...

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Musings of a Clergy Child

Nell Goddard writes honestly and openly about the ins and outs of growing up in a Christian home, from her experience as the daughter of two vicars.

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Child of Fortune - Tsushima Yuko

Anotace: Koko won`t do what is expected of her. Defying her family`s wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her cons...

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Parrot in the Pepper Tree

A sequel to "Lemons", that follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter, Chloe, as they get to grips with a misanthropic parrot who joins their

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Saint Death's Daughter: 2023 World Fantasy Award Winner!

Lanie Stones, the daughter of assassins and executioners, was born with a gift for necromancy and a literal allergy to violence, and raised by the fam

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Saint Death's Daughter: 2023 World Fantasy Award Winner!

Lanie Stones, the daughter of assassins and executioners, was born with a gift for necromancy and a literal allergy to violence, and raised by the fam

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Gang of One: One Man's Incredible Battle to Find his Missing Daughter

You're from Glasgow. You're in a notorious Texas prison. You're on your own. The true story of the man who became a ... Gang of One.

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Firekeeper´s Daughter, 1. vydání - Angeline Boulley

<p>Eighteen-year-old Daunis has always felt like an outsider with her mixed heritage, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. When she witnesses a murder, Daunis reluctantly agrees to go undercover. But secretly she pursues her own investigation, tracking down the culprits with her knowledge of traditional medicine. As the bodies pile up, Daunis...

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The Imitation of the Rose - Lispector Clarice

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the lum...

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A Partisan´s Daughter, 1. vydání - Bernieres Louis de

<p>A beautiful and unlikely love story about what unites us from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Chris is in his forties: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. He's a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a prostitute into his car. Roza has recently moved to London from e...

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A Partisan´s Daughter - de Bernieres Louis

Anotace: A beautiful and unlikely love story about what unites us from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli´s Mandolin.Chris is in his forties: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage.He`s a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a prostitute into his car.Roza has recently moved to London from east...

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Daughter of Darkness (House of Shadows 1): thrilling fantasy inspired by Greek myth - Corr Katharine, Corr Elizabeth

Anotace: DISCOVER THE EPIC NEW FANTASY INSPIRED BY ANCIENT GREEK MYTH . . .`Everything I want in a fantasy and more` - Mary Watson, author of Blood to Poison`A book of smart, savage beauty` - Josh Winning, author of The Shadow GlassThe Underworld awaits . . .Deina is trapped. As one of the Soul Severers serving the god Hades on earth, her future is tied to the task of sh...

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King of Dead Things - Holness Nevin

Anotace: Magical contemporary London. Two lives are about to collide. A journey of self-discovery.For fans of dark fantasy like Cemetery Boys, Noughts and Crosses and Threads that Bind from major new YA talent Jamaican British author Nevin HolnessThe first time Eli had tried taking magic that wasn`t his, it had wrapped around his palms like razor wire, tight enough that ...

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Light of the World

James Lee Burke's legendary detective Dave Robicheaux returns to try to save his daughter from a sadistic killer.

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Fading of the Light

From the award-winning author of The Apothecary's Daughter, The Fading of the Light is the next book in the Spindrift Trilogy, a beautifully evocative

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Fading of the Light

From the award-winning author of The Apothecary's Daughter, The Fading of the Light is the next book in the Spindrift Trilogy, a beautifully evocative

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Return of the Witch

Paula Brackston's long-awaited sequel to the bestselling book The Witch's Daughter, The Return of the Witch is another bewitching tale of love and mag

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Out of the Easy

Josie Moraine wants out of The Big Easy - she needs more than New Orleans can offer. Known locally as a brothel prostitute's daughter, she dreams of l

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Prisoner of the Inquisition

Zarita, only daughter of the town magistrate, lives a life of wealth and privilege. Indulged by her parents, she is free to spend her days as she plea

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The Brontes – Children of the Moors

A highly-illustrated retelling of the Bront« sisters life in Haworth in the Yorkshire Dales told from Charlotte Bront«'s point of view

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School at the Top of the Dale

The first in a delightful new series from bestselling author Gervase Phinn, set in a village at the top of the Yorkshire Dales, and following on from

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The White Rock: From the bestselling author of The Ballroom - Hope Anna

Anotace: FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BALLROOM AND EXPECTATIONThey are separating, she and her husband, after two decades together.This fact is new.There are many ways of telling the tale ...There are many different sides to every story ... A minibus journeys through rural Mexico. Inside it are twelve strangers on a pilgrimage to the White Rock, which stands, ancie...

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THE MASK OF ZORRO

Anotace: It has been twenty years since the tyrannical Rafael Montero imprisoned Diego de la Vega, alias Zorro, the people´s hero. Not only did De la Vega lose his freedom but also his wife and their beautiful daughter Elena. Now Montero has returned to California, and the people desperately need Zorro´s help again. Can the new Zorro, troubled bandit Alejandro, stop Mont...

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The Mask of Zorro

<p>It has been twenty years since the tyrannical Rafael Montero imprisoned Diego de la Vega, alias Zorro, the people’s hero. Not only did De la Vega lose his freedom but also his wife and their beautiful daughter Elena. Now Montero has returned to California, and the people desperately need Zorro’s help again. Can the new Zorro, troubled bandit Alejandro, stop Monte...

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Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess

The further adventures of the star of Our Yorkshire Farm and bestselling author Amanda Owen, as she takes us back to the Yorkshire Dales with her deli

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North Yorkshire Folk Tales

Whether hailing from the open Yorkshire Dales or the close-knit neighbourhoods of its towns and cities, North Yorkshire folk have always been fond of

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The Secret Of Hildegards

Abigail Hildegard, daughter of the leader of secret order, once she was told that her father disappeared. She should go to the family estate, headquarters of the Order, to find out what happened. She finds the family butler there. He was lucky not to suffer in a raid on a house and told Abigail that a secret weapon is kept in the house. And with it help it will be able to...

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Making the Father of the Bride's Speech

This book will help you help your daughter have the best and most memorable day of her life

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Out of The Box

Welcome to the Craziest Nightclub In this bouncer simulator you are Warren Baker, the new gatekeeper of the prestigious club The Box. After spending three years in jail, you just want to live an honest life and recover your daughter. However, the quirky clients of The Box will drive you closer to your turbulent past, involving you in a gangster scheme that threatens to de...

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Penguin Readers Level 6: A Tale of Two Cities (ELT Graded Reader) - Dickens Charles

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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Mystery of the Blue Train

The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice…

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Vengeance of the Pirate Queen

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William and Mary

Mary (1662-94), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, married William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadt

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In The Garden of Beasts

Dodd and his family, notably his vivacious daughter, Martha, observe at first-hand the many changes - some subtle, some disturbing, and some horrifica

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Our Lady Of The Prairie

For Phillipa Maakestad - theatre professor and mother to a troubled, volatile daughter - life is finally, miraculously, calm. What better moment, then

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Old Wives' Tales

A compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time, this work presents a challenge to orthodox medicine

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Atlas of the Difficult World

In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.

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The Imitation of the Rose - Clarice Lispector

<p>Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century.The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writ...

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The End of the Ocean - Lunde Maja

Anotace: From the author of the number one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter.`The story of a present-day Norwegian eco-campaigner alternates with that of a French family in the overheated future. They are in a camp for refugees from eco-dis...

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The End of the Ocean - Maja Lunde

<p>From the author of the number one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter. 'The story of a present-day Norwegian eco-campaigner alternates with that of a French family in the overheated future. They are in a camp for refugees from eco-di...

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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Anotace: After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past... A contemporary classic, The Remains of the D...

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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

<p>After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past... A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Da...

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The Ghost Riders of Ordebec

‘People will die,’ says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there have been stories of murderers, rapists, those with serious crimes on their conscience, meeting a gri...

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The Secret Of Hildegards (PC)

Abigail Hildegard, daughter of the leader of secret order, once she was told that her father disappeared. She should go to the family estate, headquarters of the Order, to find out what happened. She finds the family butler there. He was lucky not to suffer in a raid on a house and told Abigail that a secret weapon is kept in the house. And with it help it will be able to...

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The Cost of Living (0241977568)

Kniha - autor Deborah Levy, 128 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná What does it mean to be free - as an artist, a woman, a mother or daughter? And what is the price of that freedom? In this dazzling memoir, Deborah Levy confronts the essential questions of modern womanhood with humour, pragmatism, and profoundly resonant wisdom. Reflecting on the period when s...

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Reproduction of Mothering

When this text was published two decades ago, it put the mother-daughter relationship and female psychology on the map. The text was recently chosen b

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Secret Of The Royal Throne

It is believed that, in ancient India there was a noble king who had a throne guided by 13 deities. His kingdom was prosperous and invincible until an angry sage cursed the royal throne locking the deitie's powers. One day a renowned archeologist from the United States learns during his archeological site visit in India, that the kingdom really exists today and its R...

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