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Jane Austen's‚ Love and Friendship, is an epistolary story, written in 1790 when she was fourteen, and dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide. Featuring improbable coincidences and turns of fate, in form, the story satirizes conventional romance novels of the time, and shows the early development of wit and observation that would make Austen one of the most famous of all British writers. Even the subtitle, "Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed...
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Ready to see the world? Twenty-one countries, Seven continents. A trip of a lifetime.Eleanor's Travels is the second book in the Love and Friendship trilogy. Eleanor James embarks on a year long journey hoping to be inspired for her next big movie role. She has set her heart to see twenty-one countries at the tender age of twenty-one. What will she find? Adventure? Awe-inspiring places? Amazing people? Will she also find love?In the first book, My...
3) Ellie's Fate
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What would you do if Fate gave you a second chance? Would you learn from your past mistakes and take it as an opportunity to correct all wrongs?Fate has given Ellie another chance at life. The question remains... would it be worthwhile? My whole life shifted when Ellie died.Eleanor James. Ellie. My best friend.She was someone I knew better than even myself... or so I thought.Ellie's life was cut short. Ravaged by her addiction to drugs, and perhaps,...
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What would you do for your best friend? Cassandra Grace will do anything. This is a coming of age story about two beautiful best friends Eleanor James and Cassandra Grace. Eleanor James, or Ellie, is an aspiring actress who dreams of being a superstar and her best friend is there to support her all the way. What could come between their friendship? Cassandra, or Cassie, narrates their life story and tells us about their special friendship with a bond...
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Love and FreindshipLove and Freindship and Other Early Works is a collection of short epistolary stories initially meant to amuse Jane Austen's family. Austen wrote these stories at the age of 14 and 15 and read them aloud to her family. All the epistolary stories are satirical mocking the 18th-century English society from the mushy love novels to the former kings and queens of England.
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Snowed in at the ivory-towered Convers College, a professor's wife searches for a thaw-and for her own liberation Though born in New York, the men of Emmy Turner's family have long found their spiritual home in the idyllic Convers College. Her father, brothers, and uncles entered the New England intellectual enclave as boys and came out men, ready to take on the challenges of the world. It is a pity, Emmy has always thought, that women are not allowed...
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Read the complete love and friendship series about two best friends, Ellie and Cassie.
Book 1: My Dear Ellie
Book 2: Eleanor's Travels
Book 3: Ellie's Fate
What would you do for your best friend?
Cassandra Grace will live through heartbreaks over a thousand lifetimes.
A thought-provoking, coming of age story about two best friends.
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Listen to the complete series about two best friends, Cassie and Ellie.
Book 1: My Dear Ellie narrated by Anne Lorence
Book 2: Eleanor's Travels narrated by Jojo Parks
Book 3: Ellie's Fate narrated by Kathy Handrock
What would you do for your best friend? Cassandra Grace will live through heartbreaks over a thousand lifetimes.
A thought-provoking, coming of age story about two best friends.
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"A memoir of love and loss, of being in the right place at the right time, and of the mysterious ways a beloved pet can bring people together, from CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent and multi-Emmy-Award-winning Martha Teichner. There are true fairy tales. Stories that exist because impossible-to-explain coincidences change everything. Except in real life, not all of them have conventional, happily-ever-after endings. When Harry Met Minnie is that...
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A collection of poems about love and relationships in their many and varied forms. From romantic words on love and longing, poems on home and family right through to lighthearted verses on humor and nonsense, the writings of these famous and best loved poets are sure to inspire and warm the heart.
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You can't ask for true friendship, because it's not something anyone can just give. It grows over time. You share experiences, you play together, you help each other through the hard times. Then, one day, you're looking back on those memories, and you realize you have it, and that you wouldn't trade it for anything.
Levend is just twelve, when he meets Mr. Ben Ice, a gruff fisherman whose peg leg, eyepatch and hook hand all but prove a lifetime of...
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The bonds of family face the ultimate test in this novel of class divisions and buried secrets among three interrelated households.
Together with her feckless, self-centered mother, Ruby lives one step away from poverty on a rundown estate in Manchester. In the quiet suburbs of Cheshire, Ruby’s cousin Rosie leads a charmed, middle-class existence—even as she feels suffocated by her own domineering mother. Then...
Together with her feckless, self-centered mother, Ruby lives one step away from poverty on a rundown estate in Manchester. In the quiet suburbs of Cheshire, Ruby’s cousin Rosie leads a charmed, middle-class existence—even as she feels suffocated by her own domineering mother. Then...
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"A beautiful testament to the powerful love and friendship the two women shared as they searched for a miracle."
-Wichita Falls Times Record News
In My Journey with Farrah, Farrah Fawcett's longtime friend Alana Stewart shares her personal diaries from her three years by Farrah's side, during the former Charlie's Angels actress's tragic struggle to defeat cancer. A celebration of an incredible bond, the power of Farrah's indomitable spirit,...
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Can two unlikely allies unite to uncover the truth?
Edith Trewin, the general maid in the Killivant household, and Miss Alicia Killivant, the young lady of the house, are social worlds apart but share a streak of independence and intelligence. Edith is imaginative and has a keen perception of the world. Alicia is vivacious and tired of answering to her brother, Edwin, for the running of the house and the care of their ailing mother.
When a kitchen...
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With hope dwindling, will she find her way again?
The three Caldwell sisters have split up. Imogen has joined the war effort, Elsie has married, and
Daisy is living away from home and missing her sisters.
Although she is busy making new friends and dancing with handsome young men, Daisy cannot avoid the horrors of the war. Working as a nurse and confronted with death daily, she finds herself wondering what the point of it all is.
As the chaos...
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Her world will be turned upside down…
It's 1935 and beautiful Lindy Gillan dreams of getting away from her boring life in Edinburgh's impoverished Old Town. Her one consolation is her dear friend Neil, a young writer from the same tenement block, whom she has known for years. But then handsome Rod Connor walks into the shop where Lindy works one day and her life no longer seems quite so boring.
Rod's arrival brings with it new, unexpected opportunities,...
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Longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award
Nancy Skidmore has Alzheimer's and her oldest friend Eugene Chaney III once more a purpose in life - to end hers.
When the moment for Gene to take Nancy to her desired death in Coffeeville arrives, she is unexpectedly admitted to the secure unit of a nursing home and he has to call upon his two remaining friends to help break her out: one his godson, a disgraced weatherman in the throes of...
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Is it ever too late to take charge and live your life on your terms? Grown-up life in Dublin hasn't worked out quite as planned for school friends Melissa, Steph and Eilis. Melissa has a successful career as a journalist, but inside she's a mess of insecurities. Stay at home Mum, Steph is lonely and lost, walking on eggshells around her philandering husband and angry teenage daughter. And Eilis, a hardworking A&E doctor, is just going through the...