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Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman

A Mystery

By: Tessa Arlen

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Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman

A Mystery

By: Tessa Arlen

N this enchanting debut sure to appeal to fans of Downton Abbey, Tessa Arlen draws readers into a world exclusively enjoyed by the rich, privileged classes and suffered by the men and women who serve them.

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Macmillan

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1250052491

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9781250052490

Death of an Unsung Hero

A Lady Montfort Mystery

By: Tessa Arlen

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Death of an Unsung Hero

A Lady Montfort Mystery

By: Tessa Arlen

In 1916, the world is at war and the energetic Lady Montfort has persuaded her husband to offer his family's dower house to the War Office as an auxiliary hospital for officers recovering from shell-shock ... Despite the hospital's success, the farming community of Haversham ... does not approve of a country-house hospital for men they consider to be cowards. When Captain Sir Evelyn Bray, one of the patients, is found lying face down in the vegetable garden with his head bashed in, both Lady Montfort and Mrs. Jackson have every reason to fear that the War Office will close their hospital"--Amazon.com.

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Minotaur Books

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1250101441

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9781250101440

Etta Lemon

The Woman Who Saved the Birds

By: Tessa Boase

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Etta Lemon

The Woman Who Saved the Birds

By: Tessa Boase

Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds is the story of a pioneering conservationist who led the campaign against the slaughter of wild birds for extravagantly feathered hats and coaxed the world to care for birds.

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Aurum Press

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0711263388

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9780711263383

Translation and Survival

The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora

By: Tessa Rajak

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Translation and Survival

The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora

By: Tessa Rajak

The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was the first major translation in Western culture. Its significance was far-reaching. Without a Greek Bible, European history would have been entirely different - no Western Jewish diaspora and no Christianity. Translation and Survival is a literary and social study of the ancient creators and receivers of the translations, and about their impact. The Greek Bible served Jews who spoke Greek, and made the survival of the first Jewish diaspora possible; indeed, the translators invented the term 'diaspora'. It was a tool for the preservation of group identity and for the expression of resistance. It invented a new kind of language and many new terms. The Greek Bible translations ended up as the Christian Septuagint, taken over along with the entire heritage of Hellenistic Judaism, during the process of the Church's long-drawn-out parting from the Synagogue. Here, a brilliant creation is restored to its original context and to its first owners.

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OUP Oxford

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0191567914

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9780191567919

Come to Me

By: Tessa Fairfax

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Come to Me

By: Tessa Fairfax

Comte Grégoire FitzHenri, the new Earl of Shyleburgh, is known for his prowess as one of the Norman conqueror’s most favored warriors...but not for his romantic sensibility or his command of the English language. Grégoire looks forward to his imminent marriage with his seneschal’s beautiful daughter, his longtime betrothed. But as a rough-hewn soldier, he wishes to enchant the elegant lady before taking their wedding vows—which means an interpreter...and much-needed lessons in courtly love. The clever Bridget of Shyleburgh has been secretly in love with Grégoire since his visit as a dashing young warrior—when he was promised in marriage to her sister. But when he returns five years later as their new earl, Bridget is tasked with translating for him—including his love letters and somewhat awkward attempts to woo her sister. Mortified at first, Bridget soon finds herself completely charmed by his whispers of love and desire. She never expected such tenderness...or such wicked temptation...from a man like him. Grégoire’s heated missives tempt a fair maiden to stray down a path filled with forbidden pleasures. But his words are meant for another...aren’t they? Each book in the Rogues of Rouen series is STANDALONE: * Come to Me * A Knight of Her Own

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Entangled: Select Historical

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1633754375

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9781633754379

Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy

By: Tessa Morrison

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Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy

By: Tessa Morrison

Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended. Each of the ten authors expressed their theory through concepts of community and utopian architecture, but each featured an architectural solution at the centre of their social and political philosophy, as none of the cities were ever built, they have remained as utopian literature. Some of the works examined are very well-known, such as Tommaso Campanella’s Civitas Solis, while others such as Joseph Michael Gandy’s Designs for Cottages, are relatively obscure. However, even with the best known works, this volume offers new insights by focusing on the architecture of the cities and how that architecture represents the author’s political philosophy. It reconstructs the cities through a 3-D computer program, ArchiCAD, using Artlantis to render. Plans, sections, elevations and perspectives are presented for each of the cities. The ten cities are: Filarete - Sforzina; Albrecht Dürer - Fortified Utopia; Tommaso Campanella - The City of the Sun; Johann Valentin Andreae - Christianopolis; Joseph Michael Gandy - An Agricultural Village; Robert Owen - Villages of Unity and Cooperation; James Silk Buckingham - Victoria; Robert Pemberton - Queen Victoria Town; King Camp Gillette - Metropolis; and Bradford Peck - The World a Department Store. Each chapter considers the work in conjunction with contemporary thought, the political philosophy and the reconstruction of the city. Although these ten cities represent over 500 years of utopian and political thought, they are an interlinked thread that had been drawn from literature of the past and informed by contemporary thought and society. The book is structured in two parts:

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Routledge

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1317005554

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A Dress of Violet Taffeta

By: Tessa Arlen

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A Dress of Violet Taffeta

By: Tessa Arlen

A sumptuous novel based on the fascinating true story of La Belle Époque icon Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon, who shattered the boundaries of fashion with her magnificently sensual and enchantingly unique design from the USA Today bestselling author of In Royal Service to the Queen. Lucy Duff Gordon knows she is talented. She sees color, light, and texture in ways few people can begin to imagine. But is the male dominated world of haute couture, who would use her art for their own gain, ready for her? When she is deserted by her wealthy husband, Lucy is left penniless with an aging mother and her five-year-old daughter to support. Desperate to survive, Lucy turns to her one true talent to make a living. As a little girl, the dresses she made for her dolls were the envy of her group of playmates. Now, she uses her creative designs and her remarkable eye for color to take her place in the fashion world—failure is not an option. Then, on a frigid night in 1912, Lucy’s life changes once more, when she becomes one of 706 people to survive the sinking of the Titanic. She could never have imagined the effects the disaster would have on her fashion label Lucile, her marriage to her second husband, and her legacy. But no matter what life throws at her, Lucy will live on as a trailblazing and innovative fashion icon, never letting go of what she worked so hard to earn. This is her story.

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Penguin

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0593436857

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9780593436851

The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome

Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction

By: Tessa Rajak

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The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome

Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction

By: Tessa Rajak

Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's overall coherence derives from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans, essays which extend into Christian literature and on to the nineteenth century reception of the Judaism/Hellenism dichotomy. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

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BRILL

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9047400194

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A Handful of Dust

By: Tessa Barclay

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A Handful of Dust

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Mystery.

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0727859196

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Dayton and Daughter

By: Tessa Barclay

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Dayton and Daughter

By: Tessa Barclay

Beth Dayton's architectural designs have won many awards. Reaching her thirtieth birthday her father, also an architect, offers her a place in the family firm, Dayton & Daughter. She accepts but soon finds herself in the midst of controversy. Dayton & Daughter's latest contract provokes a battle with a local conservation group and Beth, already finding her father's disapproval because of her modern approach, is unable to work out where her sympathies lie. As her relationship with Peter Lambot, lawyer for the group, develops it looks as if she will be forced to make an impossible choice. Should Beth stand by her father or should she follow the man she loves?

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0747222592

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A Handful of Dust

By: Tessa Barclay

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Mystery.

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A True Likeness

By: Tessa Barclay

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A True Likeness

By: Tessa Barclay

Cosmetics millionairess Ursula Guyler asks a young solicitor, specializing in family law, to assess a girl who claims to be her daughter. Seventeen years have passed since the girl was abducted and the solicitor knows this will be no easy case.

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0727856405

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Dayton and Daughter

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Dayton and Daughter

By: Tessa Barclay

After spending several years in Denmark, where her architectural designs won many awards, Beth Dayton accepts her father's offer to return home to York and join the family firm. When they win an important contract to rebuild a town center, the proposed redevelopment faces strong opposition from an action group. Beth starts to feel extremely torn when her relationship with Peter Lambot, lawyer for the action group, develops. Should she stand by her father and compromise her own principles, or should she follow the man she has fallen in love with?

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Charnwood

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0708992692

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Exodus to North Korea

Shadows from Japan's Cold War

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Exodus to North Korea

Shadows from Japan's Cold War

By: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. Presented to the world as a humanitarian venture and conducted under the supervision of the International Red Cross, the scheme was actually the result of political intrigues involving the governments of Japan, North Korea, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The great majority of the Koreans who journeyed to North Korea in fact originated from the southern part of the Korean peninsula, and many had lived all their lives in Japan. Though most left willingly, persuaded by propaganda that a bright new life awaited them in North Korea, the author draws on recently declassified documents to reveal the covert pressures used to hasten the departure of this unwelcome ethnic minority. For most, their new home proved a place of poverty and hardship; for thousands, it was a place of persecution and death. In rediscovering their extraordinary personal stories, this book also casts new light on the politics of the Cold War and on present-day tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742554422

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9780742554429

The Silver Lining

By: Tessa Barclay

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The Silver Lining

By: Tessa Barclay

Karen loses her job after the upheavals of September 11th and eventually finds a new one with an agency which specializes in buying property in Europe. Through her job, Karen meets and befriends her boss' difficult yet gifted son, and in doing so she begins to fall in love with her boss.

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0727859188

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Ties of Affection

By: Tessa Barclay

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Ties of Affection

By: Tessa Barclay

A contemporary romance from this masterful storyteller - Olivia Fletcher runs an eco-friendly house-cleaning firm in leafy Surrey. Olivia soon realizes why none of her employees want to clean for the eccentric Moorfield family: they are impossibly spoilt and demanding. Olivia, against her own advice, finds herself becoming emotionally attached to the family and soon her life as a single mother is further complicated by the role she begins to play within the Moorfield family.

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0727866540

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9780727866547

A Final Discord

By: Tessa Barclay

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A Final Discord

By: Tessa Barclay

The new Crown Prince Gregory mystery from this well-loved author When Gregory Crowne is enlisted to help Gilles Guidon, the eccentric son of a merchant banker, to assemble a jazz quintet for the Montreux Festival, he soon discovers there is something wrong at the bank. Gilles falls in love with Morena, the sister of one of the quintet, and his ancient nurse, Nounou, dies in a mysterious fall. Then Gilles disappears with Morena, and an unusual ransom demand arrives . . .

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0727862499

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9780727862495

Richer Than Rubies

By: Tessa Barclay

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Richer Than Rubies

By: Tessa Barclay

A new novel of love and intrigue from the master storyteller - When Ivan Digby asks jewellery designer Jo Radcliffe to create a necklace using stones from the priceless 'Fieldingley Necklace', Jo is intrigued. The rubies were among the first sold abroad after Britain conquered Burma in the 1850s; after all these years, Betsey Fieldingley has had to sell them to clear her debts. But when the rubies are found to be fakes, Jo finds herself under attack and even the rather likeable Tim Fieldingley, Betsey's grandson, seems to blame her . . .

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0727864130

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To Die for

By: Tessa Barclay

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To Die for

By: Tessa Barclay

The new Crown Prince Gregory mystery - While in London, Greg Crowne Crown Prince Gregory von Hirtenstein befriends pretty Polish countess Marcelina. When Marcelina is found dead, Greg is drawn into the police investigation. It emerges that Marcelina was in England to buy a lost Chopin manuscript. No sign of the manuscript is found on her body. Unravelling the mystery will take Greg to Paris and Scotland on the trail of a thriving Chopin forgery industry...

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0727864718

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9780727864710

The Precious Gift

By: Tessa Barclay

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The Precious Gift

By: Tessa Barclay

Following World War II, the lives of Catherine and Laura Mertagen and their widowed father are finally returning to normal. But their peace is shattered when Laura runs to the aid of a man who collapses in the park. Instead of giving first-aid, Laura feels compelled to lay soothing hands on him, and later learns that she has completely cured him of a life-long ailment. Her strange and precious gift of healing has dire effects on Laura's family and her life...

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0783802714

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9780783802718

To Die for

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A Tissue of Lies

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A Tissue of Lies

By: Tessa Barclay

A race against time to save a family name . . . - Jenny Corvill, mistress of the Waterside Mill in the Scottish Borders town of Galashiels, was looking forward to taking it easy as a new wife. But when her sister-in-law disappears with a dashing young playboy, the Corvill family is plunged into disaster. Jenny must undertake a terrifying and dangerous journey into the seedy underworld of Victorian London and rescue her sister-in-law before its too late . . .

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0727865897

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9780727865892

Ties of Affection

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Death Sits Down to Dinner

A Mystery

By: Tessa Arlen

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Death Sits Down to Dinner

A Mystery

By: Tessa Arlen

Filled with deceptions both real and imagined, Death Sits Down to Dinner is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in London. Lady Montfort is thrilled to receive an invitation to a dinner party hosted by her close friend Hermione Kingsley, the patroness of England's largest charity. Hermione has pulled together a select gathering to celebrate Winston Churchill's 39th birthday. Some of the oldest families in the country have gathered to toast the dangerously ambitious and utterly charming First Lord of the Admiralty. But when the dinner ends, one of the gentlemen remains seated at the table, head down among the walnut shells littering the cloth and a knife between his ribs. Summoned from Iyntwood, Mrs. Jackson helps her mistress trace the steps of suspects both upstairs and downstairs as Hermione's household prepares to host a highly anticipated charity event. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Lady Montfort and Mrs. Jackson unravel the web of secrecy surrounding the bright whirlwind of London society, investigating the rich, well-connected and seeming do-gooders in a race against time to stop the murderer from striking again.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466854286

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9781466854284

Cozy Case Files: A Cozy Mystery Sampler, Volume 4

By: Ellie Alexander,Ellen Hart,Shari Randall,Frances Brody,Parnell Hall,Tessa Arlen,Vivien Chien,Julia Chapman,Paige Shelton,Jane K. Cleland

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Cozy Case Files: A Cozy Mystery Sampler, Volume 4

By: Ellie Alexander,Ellen Hart,Shari Randall,Frances Brody,Parnell Hall,Tessa Arlen,Vivien Chien,Julia Chapman,Paige Shelton,Jane K. Cleland

Looking for a new cozy mystery author to love? Dive in to this collection of excerpts from the Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press WINTER 2018 season (books published from January to April). The Cozy Case Files collection includes: Another One Bites the Crust: A Bakeshop Mystery by Ellie Alexander A Whisper of Bones: A Jane Lawless Mystery by Ellen Hart Curses, Boiled Again! A Lobster Shack Mystery by Shari Randall Death in the Stars: A Kate Shackleton Mystery by Frances Brody The Purloined Puzzle: A Puzzle Lady Mystery by Parnell Hall Death of an Unsung Hero: A Lady Montfort Mystery by Tessa Arlen Death by Dumpling: A Noodle Shop Mystery by Vivien Chien Date with Malice: A Samson & Delilah Mystery by Julia Chapman Lost Books and Old Bones: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery by Paige Shelton Antique Blues: A Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery by Jane K. Cleland

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Minotaur Books

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1250184347

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Other People's Dreams

By: Tessa Barclay

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Other People's Dreams

By: Tessa Barclay

Lindsay Dunforth, head of the Investment Portfolio Department of an old City bank, has doubts about William Tadiecski whilst interviewing him for the post of Research Analyst. However, she is persuaded that William should be appointed, and soon he is a force to be reckoned with. But, as the weeks go by, Lindsay begins to think that she should have paid more attention to her first impressions. Someone has tapped into her personal files and money is mysteriously disappearing from various accounts. Then she receives a letter threatening her mother and four-year-old daughter...

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074721851X

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9780747218517

A Web of Dreams

By: Tessa Barclay

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A Web of Dreams

By: Tessa Barclay

The first volume in the enthralling Corvill Weaving saga Scotland, the mid nineteeth century. Weaving is booming, tartan all the rage, and young Jenny Corvill is determined that her father's firm should receive Queen Victoria's royal seal of approval. Jenny may be fearless, but to somehow manage her way into Balmoral and engineer a meeting with the Queen could be beyond her ? even without the handsome equerry, Captain Bobby Prentiss, standing in her way . . .

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