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Fiction A to Z February 2021
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The Forgotten Orphan
by Glynis Peters
Southampton 1940
Abandoned when she was tiny, Maisie Reynolds was separated from her twin brother and forced to grow up in Holly Bush orphanage – a place where she has never known love or kindness.
But with the world at war and Hitler’s devastating bombs coming ever closer, fate has other plans for Maisie and a secret from her past changes everything.
When she meets handsome Canadian paratrooper, Cam, Maisie learns that love might not be lost to her after all – but not before her past life and D Day bring a tragic twist to her happiness.
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Eddie's boy : a novel
by Thomas Perry
Surviving an attempt on his life, retired mob hit man Michael Shaeffer reflects on his apprenticeship under an elite killer while pursuing his would-be assassins from Australia to the United States to identify who is trying to eliminate him. Simultaneous.
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The Women Who Ran Away
by Sheila O'Flanagan
Deira is setting out on the holiday she'd planned with her long-term partner Gavin... only she's on her own. Gavin will not be amused when he finds out she's 'borrowed' his car, but since their brutal break-up Deira's not been acting rationally. Maybe a drive through beautiful France will help her see things differently... Grace has been sent on a journey by her late husband, Ken. She doesn't really want to be on it but she's following his instructions as always. She can only hope that the trip will help her to forgive him. And then -- finally -- she'll be able to let him go. Thrown together by chance, Deira and Grace are soon motoring down the French highways, sharing intriguing stories of their pasts, as they each consider the future...
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A deadly education : a novel
by Naomi Novik
An unwilling dark sorceress destined to rewrite the rules of magic clashes with a popular combat sorcerer while resolving to spare the lives of innocents. By the award-winning author of the Temeraire series.
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The Forest of Wool and Steel : Winner of the Japan Booksellers’ Award
by Natsu Miyashita
''A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life' Japan TimesWhat he experienced that day wasn't life-changing .Under the tutelage of three master piano-tuners - one humble, one cheery, one ill-tempered - Tomura embarks on his training, never straying too far from a single, unfathomable question: do I have what it takes?
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Unrestricted access : new and classic short fiction
by James Rollins
A first anthology of short fiction by the best-selling author of the Sigma series includes 11 previously published stories as well as a new full-length novella featuring Captain Tucker Wayne and his military war dog, Kane.
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Cardiff, by the sea : four novellas of suspense
by Joyce Carol Oates
This haunting collection by one of the most important contemporary American writers contains four psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful stories about women facing threats past and present.
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Here the Dark
by David Bergen
From the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to fishermen lost on the islands of Honduras, to the Canadian prairies, where an aging rancher finds himself smitten and a teenage boy's infatuation reveals his naiveté, the short stories in Here the Dark chronicle the geographies of both place and heart. Featuring a novella about a young woman torn between faith and doubt in a cloistered Mennonite community, David Bergen's latest deftly renders complex moral ambiguities and asks what it means to be lost--and how, through grace, we can be found.
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Twelve Days of Winter
by Stuart MacBride
A collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season.
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Broken : six short novels
by Don Winslow
Presents a collection of six novellas in which drug dealers, bounty hunters, fugitives, struggling cops, and lost souls rob, steal, kill, corrupt, and betray
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