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Coming Home
₱65.00“when the only place you want to be is home… when ella’s beloved grandmother dies, she comes back to the beautiful cornish coast to heal her heart. there she finds her home again and discovers a new life, and new love. but she also opens a treasure trove of secrets. sennen left cornwall a young single mum but unable to cope. she left her children, her family and part of her. she’s spent the years hiding from her past, hiding from herself. now it’s time to come back. to cornwall. to face her mistakes. to pray for forgiveness. to hope for a future with her daughter.” –publisher description.
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Winter Of The World
₱99.00Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. eleven-year-old carla von ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as hitler strengthens his grip on germany. into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former british mp, ethel leckwith, and her student son, lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of nazism.
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World Without End
₱120.00On the day after halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of kingsbridge. they are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. in the forest they see two men killed. as adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. they will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. one boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. one girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. and always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. ken follett’s masterful epic the pillars of the earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. world without end takes readers back to medieval kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change. world without end is followed by the third of ken follett’s kingsbridge novels, a column of fire.
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The Holiday Home
₱65.00Two sisters. one house. the holiday of a lifetime… each year, the carew sisters holiday at atlantic house, the family’s cornish retreat, but they are complete opposites. prudence, hard-nosed businesswoman married to the meek and mild francis, and constance, loving wife to philandering husband greg, who has always been outwitted by her manipulative sibling. suspecting that pru wants to get her hands on atlantic house, connie won’t take things lying down. when an old face reappears, years of simmering resentment reach boiling point. little do they know that a long-buried secret is about to be exposed. is this one holiday that will push them all over the edge.
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Intrigue In The Village
₱60.00There is a mystery surrounding the invitation by craddock fitch to the big house. it is billed as a celebration of his business, but when everyone is assembled, they find that it is a lavish wedding reception for two very surprising people. with these festivities over, the inhabitants of turnham malpas are thrown into preparations of a different nature. it is the 150th anniversary of the village school and kate, the head teacher, is arranging a big event. she enthusiastically starts making plans, but there is one problem of which she is unaware. in asking the previous head teachers to attend, she has unwittingly placed the rector and his wife caroline in an impossible situation…
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The Brightest Star In The Sky
₱80.00June the first, a bright summer’s evening, a monday . . . and into the busy, bustling homes at 66 star street slips, unseen, a mysterious visitor. as the couples, flatmates and repentant singletons of no 66 fall in and out of love, clutch at and drop secrets, laugh, cry and simply try to live, no one suspects the visitor patiently waiting in the wings. for soon, really very soon, everything is going to change . . .
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The Summer Seekers
₱80.00Pre-order your copy of sarah morgan’s new novel the summer swap now – coming may 2024! ‘the absolute perfect summer read that you need in your life’ reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘one of the best sarah morgan’s i have read. absolutely beautiful read’ reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘this book was exactly what i needed . . . the summer seekers has the perfect plot, with a bit of romance, a bit of quarter-life, mid-life, and later life crisis, a few old secrets, and lots and lots of hope for the future’ reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘i loved the story, the characters, everything about it . . . i couldn’t put it down . . . this book is highly highly recommended!!’ reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ * * * kathleen is eighty years old. after a run-in with an intruder, her daughter wants her to move into a residential home. she’s not having any of it. what she craves – needs – is adventure. liza is drowning under the daily stress of family life. the last thing she needs is her mother jetting off on a wild holiday, making liza dream of a solo break of her own. martha is having a quarter-life crisis. unemployed, unloved and uninspired, she just can’t get her life together. but she knows something has to change. when martha sees kathleen’s advert for a driver and companion to take an epic road trip across america, she decides this job might be the answer to her prayers. travelling with a stranger? no problem. she’s not the world’s best driver, but it couldn’t be worse than living with her parents again. and anyway, how much trouble can one eighty-year-old woman be? as these women embark on the journey of a lifetime, they all discover it’s never too late for adventure… * * * praise for sarah morgan ‘the road trip of a lifetime – terrific fun, and will have you reaching for your car keys’ veronica henry, sunday times bestselling author ‘such good fun! an inspiring, romantic and joyful tale that proves it really is never too late for adventure!’ laura jane williams, our stop ‘warm-hearted, tender and wise, a truly uplifting story of life, love and daring to discover what lies beyond what you know’ miranda dickinson, our story ‘thought-provoking fun, no matter what your age’ woman’s weekly ‘a warm-hearted tale of friendship, joy and sunshine with a message that it’s never too late to embark on an adventure. whisks you away on your very own road trip escape’ yours
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A Place To Call Home
₱80.00In the dead of night, ayesha takes her daughter, sabina, and slips quietly from her home, leaving behind a life full of pain. boarding a coach to london, all ayesha wants is a fresh start. hayden, a former popstar, has kept himself hidden away for years. he’s only opened up his home to two people – crystal, a professional dancer with a heart of gold, and joy, an ill-tempered retiree with a soft spot for waifs and strays. when crystal asks hayden if ayesha and sabina can stay with them, he reluctantly agrees and, as different as they may be, they quickly form an unlikely bond. so when enemies threaten their peaceful home, they will do all they can to save it and each other. uplifting and emotional, this is a novel of new beginnings, of discovering love and of finding a place to call home.
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A Winter Memory
₱99.00Helen is married to angus, the younger of the ballintyre brothers. they met as students and helen fell in love, not just with angus but with the romantic ballintyre family and their beautiful house on the edge of a loch. but marriage to angus has not proved happy. now, years later and with a family, helen and angus have been forced to move back to live at ballintyre with his older brother, charlie. helen is surprised to find that sylla, charlie’s wife, has disappeared and no one seems to know where she is. helen is worried, not least because charlie and sylla lost their teenage daughter, rose, only a year before. surely someone should be looking for her.
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Cold, Cold Bones
₱99.00Electrifying, heart-stopping and compulsive, this is tempe’s most personal and dangerous case yet . . .
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It’s Now Or Never
₱80.00When twins annie and lauren attend their older sister chelsea’s fortieth birthday party at the dorchester hotel, they wonder why their lives are so different. chelsea’s husband is twirling her round the dance floor, while annie’s husband has gone fishing and lauren’s lover is at home with his wife and children. annie and lauren decide it’s time to make a change and turn their lives around, it’s time they starting living again. but have they left it too late?
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Something To Declare
₱100.00A collection of essays on france from julian barnes. written over a 20 year period, the topics barnes covers range from landscape to literature, food to flaubert, film and song to the tour de france.
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One False Move
₱85.00It should be a straightforward missing persons case… until the mob are involved. an outstanding myron bolitar novel from the sunday times bestselling author of shelter, a netflix hit myron bolitar might have a slightly dubious past, but he knows how to handle himself and is doing just fine as a sports agent. and then he meets brenda slaughter, one of the hottest female sports stars around. she’s gorgeous, funny and single, and also seems to have mislaid her agent. but when her father disappears, and the mob starts leaning on her, it soon becomes apparent that potent forces are at work. and the more myron tries to help, the closer he gets to losing his heart – and his life…
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Spider Bones
₱99.00Dr temperance brennan spends her life working amongst the decomposed, the mutilated and the skeletal. so the two-days-dead body she is called to examine holds little to surprise her. until she discovers that the man is john lowery, an ex-soldier who was apparently killed in vietnam in 1968. so who is buried in lowery’s grave. the case takes tempe to the heart of the american military, where she must examine the remains of anyone who may have had a connection to the drowned man. it’s a harrowing task, but it pays off when she finds lowery’s dog tags amongst the bones of a long-dead soldier. as tempe unravels the tangled threads of the soldiers’ lives and deaths, she realises there are some who would rather the past stayed dead and buried. and when she proves difficult to frighten, they turn their attention to the one person she would give her life to protect.
