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Bloodlines / by Traviss, Karen.;
Civil war looms as the fledgling Galactic Alliance confronts a growing number of rebellious worlds--and the approaching war is tearing the Skywalker and Solo families apart. Han and Leia return to Han's homeworld, Corellia, the heart of the resistance. Their children, Jacen and Jaina, are soldiers in the Galactic Alliance's campaign to crush the insurgents. Jacen, now a complete master of the Force, has his own plans to bring order to the galaxy. Guided by his Sith mentor, Lumiya, and with Luke's young son Ben at his side, Jacen embarks on the same path that his grandfather Darth Vader once did. And while Han and Leia watch their only son become a stranger, a secret assassin entangles the couple with a dreaded name from Han's past: Boba Fett. In the new galactic order, friends and enemies are no longer what they seem ...
Subjects: Star Wars fiction.; Science fiction.; Solo, Han (Fictitious character); Leia, Princess (Fictitious character); Fett, Boba (Fictitious character); Solo, Jacen (Fictitious character); Space warfare; Life on other planets; Assassins; Coruscant (Imaginary place); Good and evil;
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The German wife / by Rimmer, Kelly,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Berlin, 1934. Sofie Rhodes is the aristocratic wife of a scientist whose post-WWI fortunes change for the better when her husband, Jurgen, is recruited for Hitler's new rocket project. But too late they realise the Nazis' plans to weaponise Jurgen's technology as they begin to wage war against the rest of Europe. Alabama, 1950. Jurgen is one of hundreds of Nazi scientists offered pardons and taken to the US to work for the CIA's fledgling space program. Sofie, now the mother of four, misses Germany terribly and struggles to fit in among the other NASA wives. When news about the Rhodes family's affiliation with the Nazi party spreads, idle gossip turns to bitter rage, and the act of violence that results will tear apart a community and a family before the truth is finally revealed - but is it murder, revenge or justice?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Germans; Nazis; Scientists; Scientists; Spouses;
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An almost perfect summer / by Mansell, Jill,author.;
Nick is the most intriguing man Nella has met in a while. He's a 9 in the looks department (no one gets a 10), he makes her laugh, and he keeps her company when she ends up in A&E. But they live hundreds of miles apart. Then Nella loses her job. There's a perfect role on offer at a Cotswolds holiday retreat. The catch is that her boss would be Nick. And that makes Nick the one man she can't risk falling in love with. While Nella struggles with her feelings, a Hollywood star has found a haven at the retreat. Lizzie's sworn off people -- especially men -- until her friendly new neighbours entice her out of her shell. Maybe she needs a flirtation -- with gorgeous Nick, perhaps? Not with taciturn local Matthew, though, who is definitely not a member of her fan club. Then an astonishing secret revealed changes everything...
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Friendship; Life change events; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy;
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Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 / by Albright, Madeleine Korbel.; Woodward, Bill.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Setting Out -- Part One: Before March 15, 1939 -- An Unwelcome Guest -- Tales of Bohemia -- The Competition -- The Linden Tree -- A Favorable Impression -- Out From Behind the Mountains -- "We Must Go On Being Cowards" -- A Hopeless Task -- Part Two: April 1939-April 1942 -- Starting Over -- Occupation and Resistance -- The Lamps Go Out -- The Irresistible Force -- Fire in the Sky -- The Alliance Comes Together -- The Crown of Wenceslas -- Part Three: May 1942-April 1945 -- Day of the Assassins -- Auguries of Genocide -- Terezin -- The Bridge Too Far -- Cried-out Eyes -- Doodlebugs and Gooney Birds -- Hitler's End -- Part Four: May 1945-November 1948 -- No Angels -- Unpatched -- A World Big Enough to Keep us Apart -- A Precarious Balance -- Struggle for a Nation's Soul -- A Failure to Communicate -- The Fall -- Sands Through the Hourglass -- The Next Chapter -- Guide to personalities -- Time Lines.
Subjects: Albright, Madeleine Korbel; Albright, Madeleine Korbel; Jewish families; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2012., Harper,
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Three days in June / by Tyler, Anne,author.;
"Gail Baines is long divorced from her husband, Max, and not especially close to her grown daughter, Debbie. Today is the day before Debbie's wedding. To start, Gail loses her job--or quits, depending on who you ask. Then, Max arrives unannounced on Gail's doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband-to-be. It will not only throw the wedding itself into question but also send Gail back into her past and how her own relationship fell apart. Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humour, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the height of her powers."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Weddings;
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We All Live Here A Novel [electronic resource] : by Moyes, Jojo.aut; Coleman, Jenna.nrt; cloudLibrary;
The #1 New York Times bestselling author, whose books so many love, brings us a fresh, contemporary story of a woman and her unruly blended family “Nobody writes women the way Jojo Moyes does.” —Jodi Picoult Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad—a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago—suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you: about love, and what it actually means to be family.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Romance; Contemporary Women;
© 2025., Penguin Random House,
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Roped in : creative craft projects made with rope (and other awesome things) / by Patford, Gemma,author.;
Let Gemma rope you in to create a range of fun DIY projects for your apartment, your wardrobe, your pets, your kids or a dinner party with friends. Projects feature Gemma's famous ropework, but she also shares a range of other craft projects, tips and tricks for dressing up the everyday. Living in a small apartment with her husband, daughter and hefty cat, Gemma Patford Legge looks for creative ways to decorate, entertain and celebrate with crafts that make the everyday feel fancy. She's all about roping people in to creating life illusions: craft projects that feel fancy, but are simple and fun to make. Gemma uses her expertise with rope and her experience with decorating small spaces to come up with genius DIYs that will dress up your space and impress your friends. Looking to make your own macrame indoor plant holder or a fancy rope necklace as a gift for a friend? Wanting to impress your dinner party guests with proper placemats? Keen to make a cat scratching post that's not ugly? With beautiful photography and Gemma's witty writing, this book offers a range of projects, tips and crafty tricks to make your life more fabulous.
Subjects: Ropework.; Rope in art.; Handicraft.;
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Secrets of a happy marriage / by Kelly, Cathy,author.;
Bess is hoping to show everyone just how happy her recent marriage is, but behind all the party-planning the cracks are beginning to show. Why is joining a family so difficult? Jojo, Bess's stepdaughter, has a point to make. Bess is not her mother, and she won't replace the one she's been missing every day for the last two years. And will she ever get the chance to become a mum herself? Cousin Cari is a fierce career-woman who isn't unnerved by anything - apart from facing the man who left her at the altar, and he's on the guestlist. Her job has been a safe place to hide ever since - but is it time to let love into her life again? Thanks to laughter, tears and one surprise appearance, the Brannigans might just discover the secrets of a happy marriage. But will they find out before it's too late?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Married people; Marriage; Families;
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Disturbing the dead / by Armstrong, Kelley,author.;
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in this century. So, understanding the Victorian fascination with death, Mallory isn't that surprised when she and her friends are invited to a mummy unwrapping at the home of Sir Alastair Christie. When their host is missing when it comes time to unwrap the mummy, Gray and Mallory are asked to step in. And upon closer inspection, it's not a mummy they've unwrapped, but a much more modern body"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Time-travel fiction.; Novels.; Death; Forensic sciences; Mummies; Murder; Time travel; Undertakers and undertaking; Women detectives; Women household employees;
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Homeland elegies : a novel / by Akhtar, Ayad,author.;
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one--least of all himself--in the process.
Subjects: Picaresque fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Fathers and sons; Pakistani Americans; Muslim families; Immigrants; Immigrant families;
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