Fiction, Romance, Historical, 20th Century
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Return to Pamplona
A Lover's Quest in Post-War Spain by Peter J. Meehan
Weaving together romance with political intrigue, this enlightening mystery immerses the reader in an entertaining lover’s quest. A decade after the Spanish Civil War, a visitor is captivated by the country’s romantic allure. Richard falls for a...
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Caroline Bennett
by C. E. Leonard
… I do believe in love at first sight. The moment Rob turned and smiled at me on the first night we met, we both knew that we’d love each other forever … It’s the first long weekend of the summer of 1962, and sixteen-year-old Carrie is excited,...
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Gift of the Loon
by Gillian Andrews
Gift of the Loon is the story of a woman ahead of her time. Set in the early twentieth century, Margaret Harrison wants to be an artist—a difficult proposition for a woman at a time when a woman’s place was in the home. Eschewing the burdens of...
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In Truth
by Arti Auburne
In the grinding poverty of the post-war prairies, little Amélie Marchand always seems to be in the way. The youngest daughter of dirt-poor French-Canadian farmers, she must negotiate linguistic tensions, familial secrets, and the coldness of her...
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Rhubarb, Strawberries, and Willows
by Sylvia Barnard
Hurtling up Highway 69 toward Sudbury in her VW bug, Kate Dumont Walker decides she’s going to keep her baby. After all, it’s the 1980s. That is, until she is unexpectedly plunged 100 years into the past, without her Amelia, to the early days of...
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Moonlight - The Journey Begins
by Purabi Sinha Das
When Chandni Rai turned thirteen, two things happened to change the course of her entire life. Her father died suddenly. And, she discovered a clue to the mystery of her missing grandmother who had been a child-bride - a piece of paper stuck...
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Kanishka
by Devaguptapu Babu
At RLS Productions in New York City, Indian-Americans Simrin and Priya, join their boss, Bob, whose ancestry is European, in hearing a pitch for a movie, from PG, a writer who mysteriously went AWOL after impressing them with part of his story a...
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Picnic On Raspberry Island
by Brent Spiess
This novel brings to life the love story between a priest and a teacher that is set in a small French Canadian village on the prairie of western Canada during the Second World War. The love between them becomes the catalyst for a spiritual...
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I Always Win
by Jill Shakley
In this humourous story Rodney Goodale, a young would-be writer in London during the Great Depression, struggles to make a living until he finds a job as valet to the Hon. Frederick Oglethorpe, an eccentric gentleman with his own unusual...
