The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush

The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush
Author: Susan Wittig Albert
Publisher: Berkley
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2015-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425260615

When the first batch of Darling Dollars, a temporary currency approved by the town leaders to help the struggling town of Darling survive, disappears, the Darling Dahlias investigate.

The Best of Times

The Best of Times
Author: Penny Vincenzi
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2009-07-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385530455

From the internationally bestselling author of Into Temptation comes "the perfect beach read" (Parade) about how everything can change in the blink of an eye.... On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping the injured and hiding his young mistress; a bridegroom hopes to get to the church on time; a widow waiting to reunite with a lost love ponders whether she’ll ever see him again; and the mysterious hitchhiker, the only person who knows what really happened, is nowhere to be found. Filled with suspense, romance, and more twists than a country highway, The Best of Times proves once again why Penny Vincenzi is the queen of happy endings.

Miss You

Miss You
Author: Barbara Woodall Taylor
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820346152

During World War II, the millions of letters American servicemen exchanged with their wives and sweethearts were a lifeline, a vital way of sustaining morale on both fronts. Intimate and poignant, Miss You offers a rich selection from the correspondence of one such couple, revealing their longings, affection, hopes, and fears and affording a privileged look at how ordinary people lived through the upheavals of the last century's greatest conflict.

Dear Sweetheart

Dear Sweetheart
Author: MIBS Publishing
Publisher: Mabel Leo
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780965078771

The Davina Graham Thrillers

The Davina Graham Thrillers
Author: Evelyn Anthony
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 851
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504056299

The complete series starring the British female operative—from the international bestselling author and “powerful plotter of spy stories” (The Daily Telegraph). The Defector: MI6 agent Davina Graham knows better. But she’s fallen hopelessly in love with the married KGB defector she’s been ordered to debrief. In exchange for information, Ivan Sasanov insists his wife and daughter back in the USSR must be brought to England and given asylum. But the KGB is already on to him—he barely escapes an assassination attempt. And now his wife has been arrested. With Sasanov’s daughter in imminent danger, Graham knows there’s only one way to save the family of the man she loves. “Veteran romance-suspenser Anthony continues to sharpen her talents—and this East/West espionage . . . is one of her best.” —Kirkus Reviews The Avenue of the Dead: The British-born wife of Edward Fleming, the US president’s assistant under-secretary of state and close friend, has appealed to the British ambassador for sanctuary. Elizabeth Fleming claims her husband tried to murder her because she found out he was passing information to the Russians. Though it was ruled an accident, his first wife died in a fire in their Mexico vacation home. To find out the truth, Davina Graham follows a labyrinthine trail from the inner circles of Washington, DC, to Mexico, where she will use herself as bait to trap an elusive criminal known as the Plumed Serpent. “Solid and classy entertainment.” —Kirkus Reviews Albatross: A mole high in the ranks of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service has been feeding national secrets to the Soviets. Davina Graham goes undercover to root out the traitor, code named Albatross. Could it be her boss, Brigadier Sir James White, a twenty-year SIS veteran, months away from retirement? Humphrey Grant, White’s second-in-command, whose public persona conceals damning sexual secrets? Or John Kidson, the technocrat married to Graham’s beautiful, pampered sister? The MI6 agent must move quickly before time runs out for them all. “If you like your spy stories to have a touch of class, you will enjoy Evelyn Anthony’s Albatross.” —The Sunday Times The Company of Saints: Now the first female head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, Davina Graham is taking a well-deserved holiday in Venice, when on the Grand Canal, the US Secretary of Defense and his daughter are blown up in a gondola. When more assassinations follow, Graham is convinced that Igor Borisov, the power-hungry head of the KGB, is behind the executions. Working with Intelligence agent Colin Lomax, her ex-lover, they uncover a shadowy organization called the Company of Saints, a private brigade of hired killers whose chilling end game is just beginning. “Written and plotted with all the skill one associates with Ms. Anthony and readable as ever.” —The Irish Times

Liberty

Liberty
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 986
Release: 1944
Genre:
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Mr. Prohack

Mr. Prohack
Author: Arnold Bennett
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1922
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

This is a humorous story of a civil servant struggling with financial pressures post-World War I when he unexpectedly inherits £100 000 from someone to whom he did a good turn. This fortune affects him and his family (wife Eve, son Charlie, daughter Sissie) in different ways. He tries various tactics to handle the novelty: spending, scrupulously planned idleness, even visits to Turkish Baths. His son tries speculation, his daughter a dance school, his wife becoming a society hostess. The story reveals how Mr Prohack grapples with the reality of the power of riches without losing his integrity and sense of self.

In the Wee Small Hours

In the Wee Small Hours
Author: Gil McNeil
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2011-07-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1408825902

Life just keeps getting more complicated for Annie Baker. Her sister Lizzie's pregnant and wants Annie to be her birth-partner - she's planning an active labour, in water, with lots of candles and music. Her partner Matt isn't too sure, although he's bought some new swimming trunks just in case. Annie's friend Leila has got a new man, Tor, and she's getting heavily into yoga, while Kate from the village has somehow ended up having an affair with her own ex-husband. And as for the men in Annie's own life, it just gets worse. Her seven-year-old son Charlie is now officially Pagan, and desperate for his own pet pheasant. Boss Barney is building a bit of a reputation for TV commercials involving stunts, so if she's not lurching around the North Sea in a trawler, she's stuck up a crane. Then there's Uncle Monty to keep an eye on, a retired mole-catcher who collects bric-a-brac. He's eighty-three and a few sandwiches short of a picnic, and has just threatened the Meals on Wheels lady with a shotgun and refuses to leave the farm where he's lived all his life. And as if all that wasn't difficult enough, Mack comes back from New York, just when Annie was beginning to think she might be able to cope without him ... For everyone who fell in love with Annie Baker and her Only Boy for Me, here's what happened next. And for anyone who's ever wondered how to combine motherhood, the country life and a career in town, and why pheasants make that weird clicking noise, this is essential reading.