War Brides: Library Edition

As evacuation gets underway and Britain waits for the Luftwaffe to arrive, the lives of five very different women are about to collide in the sleepy little village of Crowmarsh Priors. Evangeline has eloped from New Orleans with naval captain Richard Fairfax. A Sussex village is about as far away from home as she can possibly imagine, but brings her nearer to her true love - Laurent, who has fled to France. Alice is resigned to life as the parish spinster, but the war will bring her friendships and passion she could never have foreseen. Elsie leaves her East End home at fifteen, to become an under-house maid for Lady Marchmount. She soon catches the eye of another young evacuee - Bernie Carpenter. Tanni has fled from Vienna, and arrives in Crowmarsh Priors with her newborn son, not knowing if her family are alive or if she will ever see them again...Frances is to see out the war with her godmother, Lady Marchmont. She has lived a carefree life of privilege, but now her desire to help her friend, Tanni, leads her into a whole new world of danger and excitement...Together these five women will face hardship, passion and danger. They form a bond that lasts for the rest of their lives and sees them through their darkest hours.

War Brides

Literature & Fiction

Bryan, Helen

Genre Fiction

Penguin??Books

A contempary anecdote not only confirms that Martha commanded respect in her own right during her lifetime, but also suggests an awkward truth later historians have preferred to ignore-that without Martha and her fortune, George might never have risen to social, military, and political prominence.Toward the end of his life, George Washington, war hero, retired president, and object of universal fame and veneration, was negotiating to purchase a plot of land in the new capital city, to be named in his honor. The seller, an aged veteran of the Revolution, was reluctant to part with the plot, even to so distinguished a purchaser. Washington persisted until the veteran's patience snapped: 'You think people take every grist that comes from you as the pure grain. What would you have been if you hadn't married the Widow Custis!' -from the Introduction to Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty From the glittering social life of Virginia's wealthiest plantations to the rigors of winter camps during the American Revolution, Martha Washington was a central figure in some of the most important events in American history. Her story is a saga of social conflict, forbidden love affairs, ambiguous wills, mysterious death, heartbreaking loss, and personal and political triumph. Every detail is brought to vivid life in this engaging and astonishing biography of one of the best known, least understood figures in early American life.

Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Trade Paper Press

Five young women, five wartime love stories, an adventure plot, and eventually, revenge

Magna Large Print Books

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the planning system. It is a `user friendly' handbook for use by non professionals, and is also a quick and helpful resource book for law students and professionals involved in the planning system. It explains how the main elements of the planning system work, and gives sound practical advice to anyone seeking to use the system to obtain planning permission, voice objections to planning proposals, appear at a public inquiry, raise a variety ofconservation issues involving listed buildings or conservation areas, and, in some cases, to obtain compensation for planning decisions. As more and more people are affected by planning and development of some kind - whether the neighbour's loftextension or the Department of Transport's motorway proposals - there has been a corresponding increase in public involvement in the operation of the planning system to achieve publicly acceptable results. Planning Applications and Appeals should enableanyone to deal effectively with a range of planning issues, and contains useful guidance as to sources of further advice and assistance. Practical Comprehensive Useful advice for laypeople and practitioners

Planning Applications and Appeals

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Butterworth-Heinemann

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

As war moves ever closer, the sleepy English village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. The nightly German air raids become grimly mundane. Rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. And five women forge a bond of friendship that will change their lives forever in this engrossing novel of loyalty, loss, and love in the shadow of World War II. With the hardships of war intensifying every day, the women band together to defeat formidable enemies and find remarkable strength within themselves to help one another. It is a war-forged loyalty certain to endure years and distance. When four of the women return for a celebration fifty years later, their mission is not simply to commemorate or remember. Theyâ€™ve returned to confront a traitor whose actions cost countless lives â€” and to avenge one of their own at last.

United States

The Sisterhood

Reeling from a broken engagement, adopted nineteen-year-old Menina Walker flees to Spain to bury her misery by writing her overdue college thesis―and soon finds herself on an unexpected journey into the past. The subject of her study is Tristan Mendoza, an obscure sixteenth-century artist whose signature includes a tiny swallow―the same swallow depicted on a medal that is Menina’s only link to her birth family.Hoping her research will reveal the swallow’s significance and clue her in to her origins, Menina discovers the ancient chronicle of a Spanish convent, containing the stories of five orphaned girls hidden from the Spanish Inquisition before they escaped to the New World. Learning about the girls’ adventures, the nuns who sheltered them, and Mendoza, Menina wonders if accident or destiny led her to Spain―and the discovery of a lifetime.From bestselling author Helen Bryan comes The Sisterhood, an epic adventure filled with history, passion, and intrigue.

Reeling from a broken engagement, adopted nineteen-year-old Menina Walker flees to Spain to bury her misery by writing her overdue college thesis—and soon finds herself on an unexpected journey into the past. The subject of her study is Tristan Mendoza, an obscure sixteenth-century artist whose signature includes a tiny swallow—the same swallow depicted on a medal that is Menina’s only link to her birth family.Hoping her research will reveal the swallow’s significance and clue her in to her origins, Menina discovers the ancient chronicle of a Spanish convent, containing the stories of five orphaned girls hidden from the Spanish Inquisition before they escaped to the New World. Learning about the girls’ adventures, the nuns who sheltered them, and Mendoza, Menina wonders if accident or destiny led her to Spain—and the discovery of a lifetime.From bestselling author Helen Bryan comes The Sisterhood, an epic adventure filled with history, passion, and intrigue.

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War Brides

Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty

War Brides

Planning Applications and Appeals

War Brides: Library Edition

War Brides

War Brides

The Sisterhood

The Sisterhood

The Sisterhood