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1) Sanditon
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Following a chance meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Charlotte Heywood accompanies them to their home in Sanditon, a very new and all but deserted town, which nevertheless, and with no small effort from her hosts, begins to fill with holidaymakers and characters of varying degrees of absurdity and sense.
2) Assembly
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"The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the stories we live within--those of race and class, safety...
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Morland dynasty volume 34
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The Jazz Age is in full swing in New York, while the London General Strike calls for everyone to help out. While television pioneer Lennie risks family ruin to learn more about a powerful man who has proposed to his beautiful cousin Ren, Emma and Molly find unexpected love and Polly looks back at her Old World heritage, circumstances that are thrown into turmoil by the Wall Street crash.
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Coventry museum curator David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife would still be the ambitious and sparkling Scottish girl he once found so irresistible; that his job could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought her parents closer. But a few careless words spoken by his mother's friend Julia have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around an untruth....
7) The hotel
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The young Miss Sydney is one of a group of British tourists vacationing at a hotel on the Italian Riviera in the 1920s, and she soon finds herself drawn to an older woman, Mrs Kerr.
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