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This is England in the late 50's, and Penny is in her last year at school. She works hard, her teachers like her, and they have hopes she will go to Cambridge. However, no one in her family has been to university before and her father thinks it will only give her unrealistic fantasies. He needn't have worried: Penny is not destined to go to Cambridge. She makes the mistake of falling in love. At first she thinks she and Richard can go together...

The Prince Orsini has a lineage 800 years old. Unfortunately he no longer has the ancestral acres to support his dignity. They are all in the hands of a local farmer Don Luigi Spada, a self-made upstart who has gradually acquired all the princely mortgages. The Prince and his daughter occupy a dilapidated palace in the foothills of the Alps and she does what little she can to make up to him for all that he has lost. It seems only Ginevra can s...

Is this real, or did she make it up? The journeys, accidents, violent reversals of fortune, the pirates, brigands, unexpected murders, earthquakes, abandoned babies, the reader?s head is whirling. Whatever next? This is the Eastern Mediterranean in the years after Alexander the Great. Lydia, high-class courtesan, pirate's moll, bandit chief, and intimate confidante of Queen Berenice of Egypt herself, but also student of mathematics and astrono...

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It is England in the 1840's, and 'Railway mania' is raging. Fortunes are being made - and lost. Unfortunately for Harriet Pearson, the intelligent 23 year old daughter of a retired schoolmaster, her father was one of the unlucky ones. He lost his savings in a failed railway scheme, suffered a stroke, and was confined to his bed for eight years. After his funeral Harriet travels to Yorkshire to stay with an old school friend, Lady Blanche Walde...

At 23 Elaine has achieved much more than a woman of her age in 1939 might have expected - or predicted. She is single minded, ambitious and highly intelligent and can handle the heavy responsibility that has fallen on her as war threatens. It seems that anything is possible. She is wooed by a neighbour, one of 'nature's gentleman', modest, unselfish, but limited. Frank desperately wants to marry her. Then she meets Robert Leonard, owner of the...

Reflections on Life's Challenges For many of us, life is a tough and lonely road to journey on. At times, we seem to be struggling for a sense of direction and find it extremely difficult to decide on what path to take on the road to personal happiness and success. The things that are happening in our daily lives seem to be overwhelming us to the point that sometimes we do not know what to do, who to turn to or where to run to, so as to solve ...

Event Planning is an exciting option for individuals looking for a new and different career. There is an increasing demand for trained Event Managers, to work in a wide variety of organizations, and as freelance entrepreneurs. Their task is to take on the responsibility for planning and organizing events. Yes it is hard work, but it can also be quite enjoyable, especially when you see the results of your efforts, cumulating in the successful s...