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Run Before the Wind by Stuart Woods
Will Lee ran from a life of Southern wealth and privilege to spend a peaceful summer on the coast of Ireland. But there is no peace in this beautiful, troubled land…
Jedder’s Land by Maureen O’Donoghue
Rachel journeyed across England and out of innocence. She was nearly hanged for claiming what was rightfully hers–the land on the mist-curled Devon hillsides, as beautiful and lush as a young girl’s dreams, waiting for her to plant and to plow, to make love upon, to bear children on–to fight for to the death.
A Parting Gift by Frances Sharkey
Medical student Frances Sharkey finds that end-of-life care is the most difficult task a doctor has. That is precisely why she decides to become a pediatrician; After all, children still have a whole life ahead of them? She reacts with shock when she experiences that children can also die, and realizes that her unwillingness to accept their death makes it even more difficult for her to assist these children. The treatment of the leukemia patient David, his irreversible death, but above all the courage in which this incurably sick child faces his fate, lead her to the conviction that there is never a right way in which a child can die, but that some ways are better. are than others.
Sharpe’s Sword by Bernard Cornwell
The greatest threat to Wellington’s Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon’s Army but France’s deadliest assassin. He’s already failed to kill Captain Richard Sharpe once. Now, he’s getting a second chance.