Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Summary: Alroy Kear, commissioned to write a biography of literary lion Edward Driffield, faces a dilemma when h uncovers evidence of Driffield's somewhat less-then- respectable first wife, Rosie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAUTownsend, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOWHeley, Veronica.
Summary: After 24 years, she's learning the truth that was hidden from her as a child. Now the fate of many people depends on what she will do with it. At the age of four, Araminta "Minty" Cardale was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty years later, summoned by her half-sister, she has returned to see her dying father. But her hopes of a warm family welcome are shattered, and she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELGoddard, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poseidon 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GODDennison, Hannah
Summary: "When the body of a transport minister is discovered in the grounds on Honeychurch Hall, suspicion about his unusual demise naturally falls on the folks in the village. After all, who could possibly want a high-speed train line built in their front yard? News of the murder soon reaches our heroine Kat Stanford's nemesis Trudy Wynne. A ruthless tabloid journalist and the ex-wife of Kat's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DENIshiguro, Kazuo
Summary: A middle-aged Japanese woman, now living in England, relives her horrifying childhood memories of the bombing of Nagasaki.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISHBelfer, Lauren
Summary: When a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELDunn, Carola.
Summary: In the summer of 1924, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher has planned a quiet, relaxing holiday by the sea with her stepdaughter Belinda, Belinda's chum Deva, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Currently three months pregnant, Daisy is looking forward to a nondramatic vacation of quiet strolls along the cliffs and days down at the beach. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DUNAlbert, Susan Wittig.
Summary: In 1910 Miss Beatrix Potter is able to get away from her parents and goes to her properties in the Land Between the Lakes, Hill Top Farm and Castle Farm, where trouble is brewing in the hamlet. When Mr. Harmsworth barricades the foot path running through his property, Applebeck Farm, claiming he did it because someone lit a fire to his hayloft, and another fire ruins a place of business, Miss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALBFrench, Nicci
Summary: Holly Krauss lives her life in the fast lane. A successful, happily married businesswoman, she is loved and admired by everyone she meets. But that's only one side of Holly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREWood, Maryrose
Summary: Miss Penelope Lumley assuages the disappointments of her sixteenth birthday by accepting an invitation to speak at her former school, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, which will be closed if she cannot prove the academic progress of her incorrigible charges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins Childrens Books 2013