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In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the proprietress of an infamous Florida bordello, the Hotel de Dream. In the midst of gathering tragedy, Crane begins dictating what will surely be his final work: a strange...
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Brighton novels volume 7
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"When Major Richard Rabbitt, owner of a large estate in Sussex, is found floating in a lake belonging to Nimue Grace, a charismatic former Hollywood actress, DI Sarah Gilchrist and DS Bellamy Heap are called in to investigate - and quickly discover Rabbitt was a notoriously difficult man to deal with. Rabbitt was hated by his estranged wife, had several rivalries with residents of the area, and was involved in a number of deals with other shady businessmen...
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"Laura is a happily married mother of two. But when her college boyfriend resurfaces after twenty years, she's forced to compare the passion of that first love with the domesticity of her suburban life in a gentrified English village. What if she'd stayed with him? Would she be happier? And what is happiness, really? Little does she know that many of her neighbors are struggling with their own personal crises. Among the cast of characters are a rector...
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In completing Jane Austen's last novel, Julia Barrett has emerged with a literary treasure, holding true to the characters and theme designed by Ms. Austen. Set in the developing seaside town of Sanditon, it portrays a young woman from the countryside who is exposed to the sophistication and cynicism of resort life. Her name is Charlotte. With disarming charm and wit, she observes for us the array of quirky characters who reside in the booming resort-to-be....
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Love and death are the only two sensational things that had ever happened to Margaret Parsons. The police knew all about her life and, by the look of it, it was very dull. Margaret Parsons had been a "good" woman--religious, old-fashioned, and respectable. But it was not her life that interested Chief Inspector Wexford, it was her death--passionate, violent, and unfathomable.
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Unfinished before her death, Jane Austen's last novel satirizes the early 19th century's obsession with vacationing at seaside resorts. Here, Julia Barrett, author of sequels to both Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, completes Austen's last work.
47) A vintage year
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Havenbury volume 2
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Three years on from her fairy-tale country wedding to the deliciously handsome Charlie Wellbeloved, Bella's life is far from the 'happily ever after' she dreamed of. Now, heading for the big three-oh at horrifying speed she has gained a couple of stone from boredom and comfort eating, her fledgling interior design business is succumbing to infant mortality, she talks to her black Labrador, Dolly, more than she does her own husband and now her close...
49) Beyond the moon
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In 1916 1st Lieutenant Robert Lovett is a patient at Coldbrook Hall military hospital in Sussex, England. A gifted artist, he's been wounded in the First World War. Shell shocked and suffering from hysterical blindness he can no longer see his own face, let alone paint, and life seems increasingly hopeless. A century later in 2017, medical student Louisa Casson has just lost her beloved grandmother -- her only family. Heartbroken, she drowns her sorrows...
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"Titania Danforth, osierocona dziedziczka fortuny, przybywa z Ameryki do Anglii, gdzie jej wuj, książę, ma znaleźć dla niej kandydata na męża. Titania wkracza na salony i oczarowuje wszystkich kawalerów. Jednak ona dostrzega tylko jednego mężczyznę. Niestety, jej wybranek ma nie tylko zniewalający urok, ale i fatalną reputację… Ian Eversea ani myśli dać się zakuć w małżeńskie kajdany. Wszak uwodzenie jest tak łatwe i przyjemne....
55) Dziedzictwo
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Wideacre trilogy volume 1
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"Pierwszy tom sagi rodu Laceyow Beatrice Lacey corka bogatego wlasciciela ziemskiego wychowana w rodowym majatku polozonym w samym sercu Anglii z uwielbieniem patrzy na nalezace do jej rodziny tereny Zgodnie z prawem obowiazujacym w XVIII wieku ziemie moze odziedziczyc tylko mezczyzna tymczasem Beatrice nie wyobraza sobie ze ktos inny mialby rzadzic posiadloscia W mysl zasady ze cel uswieca srodki nie cofnie sie przed niczym byle dopiac swego." --
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A former Scotland Yard detective, Father Gilbert knows about death. But, now a priest of a modest Anglican church in the small town of Stonebridge, he didn't expect it to show up like this - in the suicide of a man who threw himself off the church tower, and in the discovery of a two-hundred-year-old body beneath an ancient bridge. The deaths are linked.
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When Father Gilbert traded in his detective's badge for an Anglican priest's collar, he never expected that murder would follow him. Even a church conference in the quant seaside town of Englesea offers no escape. The vision of a dead woman, water dripping from her body, draws Gilbert into a mystery that seems straightforward, but soon entangles him in a power struggle between corrupt players who want to dominate the illegal sex trade in town. The...