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A new start means a new chance at love…
Strong-willed Isla Scott leaves her job as a hospital nurse in Edinburgh to return to her hometown of Edgemuir, where her brother Boyd still lives. Hoping to reconnect with him after years apart, she divides her time between family and her new position at Dr. Lorne's fashionable hydro, a nearby spa that advertises cures through baths and steam.
Her important job and her renewed closeness with Boyd convince...
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The course of true love never did run smooth…
When attractive redhead Lorna Fernie is taken on to play saxophone in a post-war Glasgow dance band, she is over the moon. She finally gets to do what she loves in front of an audience. Even more exciting is the fact that she gets to work alongside the handsome and likeable trumpet player Rod Warren. It doesn't take long for the two to fall in love.
But then disaster strikes – Rod leaves and Lorna...
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The war threatens all she holds dear...
Jessica Raeburn lives with her family in a small flat in Edinburgh and works as a department store cashier. She finds herself bored, distracted and dreaming of a more exciting life. One filled with glamour and glitz and excitement. One like she sees in the movies. So when she is hired to work in the box office at the Princes Street cinema, she is thrilled – to be so close to the films and stars she loves...
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Should she wait for him?
Jinny Hendrie is content working in the accounts office of a large bakery in Edinburgh, but when she meets handsome Viennese cake expert Viktor Linden, she realises she could be happier. The promise of an exciting future with Viktor beckons, but her father and her kind-hearted boss, Ross MacBain, warn against it.
But then war is declared between Great Britain and Germany and Jinny has little choice but to break things off...
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Choosing the wrong man will leave her heartbroken…
Intelligent, ambitious Elinor Rae, maid at an exclusive ladies' club in the idyllic Primrose Square, dreams of a better future. Encouraged by her kindly manager, Elinor enrols in an evening course, where she soon falls for her handsome tutor, Stephen Muirhead. However it is her attraction to charismatic Barry Howat that turns her life upside down.
Breaking Stephen's heart is bad enough, but...
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The future she dreamed of is drifting further and further out of reach…
Spirited Roz Rainey lives in post-war Edinburgh with her sister, brother and widowed mother. She spends her days working in a lawyer's property office and dreaming – not of love, but of one day having a beautiful house of her own. After all, why shouldn't she be ambitious?
Then the unexpected happens when she falls in love with her new boss, the charming Jamie Shield. Full...
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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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Will she have the courage to pursue the happiness she desires?
After four years spent in an orphanage, Shona Murray has found her niche in a city florist's. She loves her job, and is content there until she is presented with a proposal that will change everything…
Fraser Kyle, the owner of the shop, asks for her hand in marriage. She is unsure whether to accept, especially when Mark Lindsay, the doctor from the orphanage and Shona's first love,...
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Can they put the past behind them?
Lorne Malcolm's wedding to her handsome suitor Daniel MacNeil is a joyful day much looked forward to by both families. But by the time Lorne's older sister, Rosa, returns from a trip to the flower shop on the morning of the wedding, Lorne has disappeared.
When news arrives that Lorne has run off to Ireland with a wealthy landowner's son, Rory Thain, their families are shocked. None more so than Daniel. Jilted on...
10) The Dharma Bums
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Penguin Publishing Group
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Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans—mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer—whose...
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans—mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer—whose...
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Film legend Kirk Douglas and Anne Buydens, his wife of nearly sixty-three years, look back on a lifetime filled with drama both on and off the screen. Sharing priceless correspondence with each other as well as the celebrities and world leaders they called friends, Kirk and Anne is a candid portrayal of the pleasures and pitfalls of a Hollywood life lived in the public eye.
Compiled from Anne's private archive of letters and photographs, this is...
