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List view record 8191: The women of TroyList view anchor tag for record 8191: The women of Troy
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The women of Troy

Barker, Pat, 1943-2021Troy ; n2.
Large Print
Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended, and so the victors remain i...
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The women of Waterloo Bridge

Casey, Jan2021
Large Print
London, 1940. After her fiance breaks off their engagement, Evelyn decides to do her part for the war effort by signing up for construction work on Waterloo Bridge. Grieving after her little boy dies in an air raid, Gwen is completely lost when her husband sends their younger children to the coun...
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The wonder

Donoghue, Emma, 1969-2017
Large Print
Lib Wright, a young English nurse, arrives in an impoverished Irish village on a strange mission. Eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell is said to have eaten nothing for months, but appears to be thriving miraculously. With tourists thronging to see this child, and the press sowing doubt, the baffled co...
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The wonder of it all

Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 1933-2024House of Falconer ; n3.
Large Print
"James Falconer--a tycoon and a self-made man--seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is d...
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The wonder of it all

Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 1933-2023House of Falconer ; n3.
Large Print
James Falconer has risen from being a barrow boy on a London market to a wealthy businessman. But not everything in his life has been as successful as his retail empire. Having lost his wife - and now estranged from his only child - he volunteers to fight in the Great War. And when he is gravely ...
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The Woolworths girls

Everest, Elaine2017Woolworths girls ; n1.
Large Print
It's 1938 and as the threat of war hangs over the country, Sarah Caselton is preparing for her new job at Woolworths. Before long, she forms a tight bond with two of her colleagues: the glamorous Maisie and shy Freda. The trio immediately form a close-knit friendship, sharing their hopes and drea...
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Word perfect

Harris, Liz2022
Large Print
California, 1960s. When Londoner Leigh Carter is asked to work for Hollywood star Matt Hunter, she jumps at the chance. Down to her last dime, and soon to go home, the job's a lifesaver. But she unintentionally humiliates Van Attwood, Matt's PA - he resolves to pay her back, and to punish Matt fo...
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Words of command

Mallinson, Allan2016Matthew Hervey ; n12.
Large Print
January 1830, and one of the hardest winters in memory. The prime minister, the Iron Duke, is resisting growing calls for parliamentary reform, provoking scenes of violent unrest in the countryside. Against this backdrop, Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Hervey takes command of his regiment, the 6th Li...
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The words we lost

Deese, Nicole2023Fog Harbor romance ; n1.
Large Print
As a senior acquisitions editor for Fog Harbor Books in San Francisco, Ingrid Erikson has rejected many a manuscript for lack of defined conflict and dramatic irony – two elements her current life possesses in spades. In the months following the death of her childhood best friend and internationa...
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The work of a narrow mind

Martin, Faith2016Hillary Greene ; n16.
Books, Manuscripts
When ex-DI Hillary Greene, now working for the cold case squad, is handed the case of the murder of a harmless old woman, who'd been brutally battered to death in her own home, she is determined to track down the killer. But with her lover pressing her for an answer to his proposal of marriage, a...
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