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Nan Turpin is in trouble again, accused of stealing. She's guilty. Cast out by her family, she turns to the House of Help for Friendless Girls, which promises Nan a fresh start - it's the House or gaol. She and warden Hetty immediately clash, but Hetty has her own secrets to keep her busy. With her sister Amelia drawing ever closer to their dark family past, will Hetty find the courage to reveal the truth before it's too late? As romance blossoms for Nan outside of the House, can she resist falling back into her lightfingered ways and forge a future for herself?

With the outbreak of War, the fishing fleet is confined to port, bringing hardship to the families and businesses of Fishers Wharf. Ruth Evans awaits the safe return of her father’s last trawler carrying her wayward brother Henry, the future of the family business. But unbeknown to their father, Henry sees war as a chance to break free from the constraints of his privileged background and follow his heart. Much is expected of Ruth. Her marriage to Arthur Marshall will help realise her father’s dream uniting two of the largest trawler companies in Grimsby.

Alice and Isaac have been close friends since childhood but their paths diverge when they discover they have very different values... Alice Leigh is being prepared for marriage by her mother but has her eyes opened to the injustices faced by girls and women when she gets involved with the charity that runs the House of Help for Friendless Girls, befriending worker Emma Hyde. She has dreams of going to London to continue the fight for women's rights. But her mother won't allow it.

A heartwarming, exhilarating novel about one young woman's determination to follow her dreams of becoming a pilot in the early 20th century. In Edwardian England, aeroplanes are a new, magical invention, while female pilots are rare indeed. When shy Della Dobbs meets her mother's aunt, her life changes forever. Great-Auntie Betty has come home from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, across whose windswept dunes the Wright Brothers tested their historic flying machines.

'Quirky and colourful' Times Crime Club 'The village life, the (mostly awful) food, the appalling hooch and, above all, the loveable eccentricity of Olga, make this a novel to treasure' A. N. Wilson 'This intriguing but charming murder mystery is packed with psychological depth and...

The summer of 1939 broke the Maudsley family. Cecily was only 13 years old and desperate to grow up, desperate to be as desired and reckless as her older sister, Rose. Now in her 40s, the family resemblance is uncanny, but Cecily is a shadow of her former self. A part of her died that fateful summer. Returning to the deserted family farm, Cecily recalls the light before the storm, before the war came and before the terrible family tragedy. She remembers how everyone was guarding a secret.

Estelle is the headstrong daughter of Fleur, a Resistance legend who disappeared during the Great War, supposedly killed while helping Allied soldiers to escape. Christa, an only child, longs to break free from the constraints of London suburbia, and fantasises about the ethereal Belgian heroine who saved her father. When Estelle comes looking for the truth about the mother she believes deserted her, an intense friendship grows between the two young women. Estelle invites Christa to De Eikenhoeve, her family's idyllic country estate. 

Le meurtre immonde d’un prêtre dans un pensionnat autochtone, au début des années 1970. L’inconcevable suicide du grand-père d’une journaliste prête à tout pour faire éclater la vérité. Un chamane amérindien banni de sa communauté, reclus au coeur d’une forêt mystique. Une entité ancienne née du froid et de la famine, prête à rétablir son pouvoir sur son royaume de glace. Une effroyable légende, oubliée de tous…

“A life-altering debut featuring fierce, funny, and irreverent women who battle the most powerful institution in the world. This is the book we’ve all been waiting for.”—Amy Schumer She would stop at nothing to protect the women under her care. Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn...

In the 18th century, Dawnay Price is an anomaly. An educated foundling, a woman of science in a time when such things are unheard of, she overcomes her origins to become a natural philosopher. Against the conventions of the day, and to the alarm of her male contemporaries, she sets sail to Portugal to develop her theories. There she makes some startling discoveries - not only in an ancient cave whose secrets hint at a previously undiscovered civilisation but also in her own heart.

Miri Goldstein is a party girl. Beautiful, dangerous, irresistible - and now she's dead. But the grave is not always good at keeping secrets. For those whose lives she touched, the truth is going to catch up with them. Denise Ang always played by the rules. Until she realised it can't protect you or the people you love from getting hurt. So when she meets Miri, a walk on the wild side is a siren song too hard to resist. Even if it means she'll be paying the price for years to come.

Par cette réécriture horrifique du conte célèbre Raiponce, engouffrez-vous au coeur d’un abîme où les masques de monstre et de victime couvrent le même visage ; où tous, y compris les sauveurs, n’échappent pas aux règles qui dictent l’abomination humaine. Un incendie mortel dans un hôpital psychiatrique pour enfants. Des jeunes femmes qui disparaissent de manière inexpliquée. Une adolescente capturée à son tour par un être défiguré qui se plaît à lui brosser sauvagement les cheveux au creux d’une mine désaffectée.

"Comment s'aimer soi-même (et parfois les autres)" est un enregistrement intelligent et branché, qui s'adresse aux personnes en quête de spiritualité, qui désirent vivre plus d'amour et de stabilité dans toutes les formes de relations. Présenté en adoptant le point de vue unique des auteurs, Meggan Watterson et Lodro Rinzler, cet enregistrement explique comment s'ancrer dans l'amour de soi alors que l'on parcourt le cycle naturel (et parfois tumultueux) d'une relation amoureuse.

Ce programme audio de Diana Cooper et de Tim Wild vous guide à travers 6 puissantes visualisations pour élever votre fréquence à la cinquième dimension, et même au-delà : Ancrez-vous par les douze chakras dimensionnels et de la cinquième Merkabah ; Devenez un Maître intergalactique par la connexion de vos chakras et de l'étoile associée ; Cheminez avec les licornes et recevez la protection de l'archange Marie associée à l'énergie de l'aquamarine, etc.