Author: Annie Murray
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1035019957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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1946: The war might be over but for the Gilby family there are still battles to be fought at home . . . For Birmingham and the Gilby family the war years have been a time of great change. With her husband having left her for another woman, Ann Gilby is finally free to follow her heart. While the neighbours may be scandalized by having a divorcee in their midst, Ann is determined to rise above the local gossip and make a happy home with her former sweetheart, the father of Ann’s youngest child. Meanwhile daughters Joy and Sheila are lucky enough to have their menfolk back home, but Joy’s husband has returned from his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp a broken man. Then there’s Ann’s son, Martin, who is still coming to terms with learning who his real father is, as well as having secrets of his own . . . From Annie Murray, the bestselling author of Chocolate Girls, Homecoming for the Chocolate Girls is the heartfelt and dramatic conclusion to this gritty family saga series about love, war and chocolate . . .

Author: Annie Murray
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330527142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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In Annie Murray’s bestselling Chocolate Girls, three very different women work together at Cadbury’s Bournville factory, where their lives become entwined by war and work – and a child called David. Edie marries young to escape her unhappy family home. Widowed at nineteen, and having lost her child from the marriage, she faces the war grieving and lonely. Then one night during the Blitz, an infant mysteriously abandoned during the bombing is handed into her care . . . Ruby, meanwhile, doesn’t want to be left behind in the wedding stakes, and settles for marriage with Frank. Finally there’s Janet, kind-hearted and susceptible to male charm, who is hurt desperately by an affair with a married man. David, the child who steals Edie’s heart as she brings him up through a time none of them will ever forget, is the love of all their lives. And when David is old enough to wonder who he really is, he leads Edie through struggle and heartache to a life and love she would never have dreamed of . . . Chocolate Girls is followed by the captivating sequel, The Bells of Bournville Green.

Author: Annie Murray
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1761261495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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September 1940, Birmingham. While her husband and daughter work at the Cadbury’s Bournville factory, Ann Gilby has her hands full at home with her youngest child Martin and her other daughter, Sheila, newly returned home with baby Elaine. With Sheila’s husband away doing his bit in the RAF, Ann knows she should be grateful to have all her children safe under one roof. But as bombs fall ever-closer to her Birmingham home, she can’t help but fear for their uncertain future. Part of her yearns for the carefree days of her youth when she also worked the line at Cadburys, filling trays of chocolate shells. But mostly Ann tries not to think of the past at all, since that would mean she would have to confront her oldest secret – one she’s kept since the last war, and that could easily rip her family apart . . . From the bestselling author of Chocolate Girls and The Bells of Bournville Green comes another gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate . . .

Author: Stacie Ramey
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492635898
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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A new, emotional novel from Stacie Ramey, the author of The Sister Pact They say you can never go home—and John's about to find out just how true that is. John's mother kicked him out of the house when she couldn't handle his anger, and John's spent the last few years bouncing between relatives. But after his last scrape with the law, there's nowhere for him to go but home. Starting senior year at a new high school and fitting into the family that shut him out is a challenge. And it's all that John can do to keep from turning back to bad habits. Lacrosse training helps him focus. As does Emily, the girl next door. She's sweet and smart, and makes him think his heart may finally be healing. Maybe he's ready to trust again. But tragedy has a way of finding John, and he must decide between saving his family or saving himself. "A powerful story of redemption, forgiveness, love, and the ability to persevere."—VOYA on The Sister Pact

Author: Annie Murray
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330527002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Continuing the saga begun in Annie Murray’s Chocolate Girls, and set in 1960s Birmingham, The Bells of Bournville Green is a story of families whose lives are entwined, of belonging and loss . . . and of a young woman’s search for transforming love. Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby’s latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham, where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962. Greta soon decides that her only way out is marriage, but all too soon she discovers that life with her old classmate Trevor is not a ticket to freedom and happiness. She finds herself on the streets, pregnant and homeless . . . She is taken in by her mother’s old friends, Edie and Anatoli Gruschov. In Anatoli, Greta finds the father she has never had. Kindly Edie loves to mother people and is desperately missing her son David and his family, who have settled in Israel. But the love and security of this haven is soon shattered by appalling tragedy, which affects all the chocolate girls and their children and changes life forever . . . The next novel in Annie Murray's gritty family saga is Secrets of the Chocolate Girls

Author: Shubhankar Sharma
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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'The problem with not burning the bridges after crossing them is that the past catch up pretty quickly.' Detective Alfonse finds his life in an outright turmoil after the murder of his dearest, Adalyn Cooper by a notorious serial killer that eventually triggered his irrevocable transformation and haunts his present. Months after, a new series of murders surfaces rife with anomalies and cloak and dagger which unravel the existence of a nefarious organization. Further investigation leads him to believe the involvement of his fellow associates and narrows down a suspect who once used to be Alfonse's colleague and could be very well involved in this conspiratorial scheme. Whilst being entangled in the web of lies, deceit and betrayal, will Alfonse be able to outwit his opponent? Or will he end up getting soaked in his own blood somewhere remote? How a kamikaze detective like Alfonse will close in on his enemy with this case with multiple realities linked to it?

Author: Kay Allenbaugh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743237031
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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A collection of real-life stories written by teenage girls and women relating their dreams concerning such things as love, friendship, and recognition of their talents, and how they make dreams and wishes come true.

Author: Peg Kehret
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807574600
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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1996 Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction 1997 ALA Notable Books for Children 1997 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers 1997 Pen Center USA West Literary Award 1998 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award (Vermont) 1998-1999 Mark Twain Award (Missouri) 1998 Joan Fassler Memorial Book Award 1998-1999 Texas Bluebonnet Award, Runner-Up 1998-1999 William Allen White Master Reading List (Kansas) 1998-1999 Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Master List 1998-1999 Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma) 1998-1999 Volunteer State Book Award Master List (Tennessee) 1998-1999 NH Great Stone Face Children's Book Award Master List 1999 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List (Washington State) 2000-2001 Iowa Children's Choice Awards Master List 2001 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List (Illinois) 2001 Young Hoosier Book Award 2015 Bluestem Book Award Master List In a riveting story of courage and hope, Peg Kehret writes about months spent in a hospital when she was twelve, first struggling to survive a severe case of polio, then slowly learning to walk again. Peg Kehret was stricken with polio when she was twelve years old. At first paralyzed and terrified, she fought her way to recovery, aided by doctors and therapists, a loving family, supportive roommates fighting their own battles with the disease, and plenty of grit and luck. With the humor and suspense that are her trademarks, acclaimed author Peg Kehret vividly recreates the true story of her year of heartbreak and triumph.

Author: Katie Davis
Publisher: Authentic Media Inc
ISBN: 1780780699
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Katie was a normal American teenager when she decided to explore the possibility of voluntary work overseas. She temporarily 'quit life' to serve in Uganda for a year before going to college. However, returning to 'normal' became impossible and Katie 'quit life' - college, designer clothes, her little yellow convertible and her boyfriend - for good, remaining in Uganda. In the early days she felt as though she were trying to empty the ocean with an eyedropper, but has learnt that she is not called to change the world in itself, but to change the world for one person at a time. By the age of 22 Katie had adopted 14 girls and founded Amizima Ministries which currently has sponsors for over 600 children and a feeding program for Uganda's poorest citizens - so it is no wonder she feels Jesus wrecked her life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together making it more beautiful than it was before.

Author: Meredith Russo
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250078407
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Amanda Hardy only wants to fit in at her new school, but she is keeping a big secret, so when she falls for Grant, guarded Amanda finds herself yearning to share with him everything about herself, including her previous life as Andrew.