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Gabrielle Glaister
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Alex Brown
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The wonderful new novel from Alex Brown, bestselling author of The Great Christmas Knit Off, perfect for fans of Trisha Ashley and Jill Mansell.
April Wilson is wondering what to do next – her life has been turned upside down after the loss of her husband so she’s hoping to piece herself together again with a visit to her elderly great aunt, Edith. Arriving in the rural idyll of Tindledale, she’s dismayed to find Edith’s cottage and the orchards surrounding it in a sorry state of disrepair. Edith seems to have lost interest completely, instead she’s become desperate to find out what happened to her sister, Winnie, who disappeared during WWII.
April gets to work immediately, discovering that the orchard still delivers a bumper crop each year, and with the help of some of the villagers – including Matt, the enigmatic Farrier – begins to unravel the mystery of the missing Winnie. Slowly,
April can feel things coming to life again – but can Orchard Cottage work its magic on her too?
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A Delightful Snapshot of the Mid Century Hebrides
- By Mimi on 04-25-20
By: Mary Stewart
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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
- By: Holly Ringland
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family’s story.
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Beautiful story
- By Julia Blackburn on 08-19-23
By: Holly Ringland
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The Little Bookshop on the Seine
- By: Rebecca Raisin
- Narrated by: Sally Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When bookshop owner Sarah Smith is offered the opportunity for a job exchange with her Parisian friend, Sophie, saying yes is a no-brainer - after all, what kind of romantic would turn down six months in Paris? Sarah is sure she’s in for the experience of a lifetime - days spent surrounded by literature in a gorgeous bookshop, and the chance to watch the snow fall on the Eiffel Tower. Plus, now she can meet up with her journalist boyfriend, Ridge, when his job takes him around the globe. But her expectations cool faster than her café au lait soon after she lands.
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Middle of the road
- By Talb on 01-18-20
By: Rebecca Raisin
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The Book Haters' Book Club
- By: Gretchen Anthony
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover… That was what Elliot—the beloved co-owner of Over the Rainbow Bookshop—believed before his untimely passing. He always had the perfect book suggestion for the self-proclaimed Book Hater. Now his grief-ridden business partner, Irma, has agreed to sell the cozy Over the Rainbow to condo developers.
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Excellent story, terrible narration.
- By Teresa Rumppe on 09-27-22
By: Gretchen Anthony
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The Lace Widow
- By: Mollie Ann Cox
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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New York, 1804. America's beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton's eighteen-year-old son, Alexander Jr., was seen fighting with a man in a tavern the night before his father's duel and quickly comes under suspicion for murder when the man turns up dead. Eliza searches for ways to clear her son's name, even as she is grieving, but as she combs through her late husband's papers, she finds evidence of a plot to steal money from the government during his tenure as secretary of state.
By: Mollie Ann Cox
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The Cartographer's Secret
- By: Tea Cooper
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A gripping historical mystery for fans of Kate Morton and Natasha Lester’s The Paris Seamstress, The Cartographer’s Secret follows a young woman’s quest to heal a family rift as she becomes entangled in one of Australia’s greatest historical puzzles.
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What Happened to Evie?
- By Anonymous User on 11-25-21
By: Tea Cooper
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- Stephanie
- 10-06-21
Its alright
It seemed like the storyline drug on without much magic. It wasnt like a light hearted light read nor was there any real depth.
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- Elisabeth
- 07-14-16
Speed up please
Nice story but the narrator was reading way to slow. It made it hard to follow the different storylines.
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- Tanya
- 10-03-16
Beautiful book.
A wonderful book. I laughed and cried. The authors note was especially wonderful. Well done.
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