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Following a betrayal by her step-father, Ellen takes on work as a kitchen maid. Determined for a better future, she gains a promotion to lady's maid. She soon attracts declarations of love from three very different men. Jealousy and betrayal plague her life once more and her dream of a better tomorrow begins to slip away.

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Every fly fisherman has personal favorite flies that inspire confidence, many in common with a multitude of fellow anglers. But some will be less well-known because they are an old pattern that is nearly forgotten, or maybe they came from a far-off land. In this book, the author hopes that the selection of trout flies offered will be met with approval and that some of the less obvious patterns will find a place in some more fly boxes, perhaps ...

Born in 1800, George Hudson rose from farmer's son to the rich and powerful Lord Mayor of York - friend to royalty and owner of half of the railways in the kingdom. But Hudson was driven by greed as well as ambition and dark secret lurked within his past - a youthful indiscretion...and an illegitimate child.

A big-game fishing boat is wrecked off the Mozambique coast. A light aircraft crashes in the bush. Two men and a woman survive and join forces in a fight for their lives - endangered by Rename guerrillas, wild animals, and simmering animosity between the men, fuelled by jealousy and desire...

Beatrice Rossall, the daughter of an elderly vicar, is faced with a bleak future when her father dies, leaving not only Bea without a home but also Daisy, a four-month-old orphan left in her care. With no money and nowhere to go, Bea is in a predicament until fate steps in and offers her a way out.

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Eighteen-year-old Alice Glass is rescued from her life in a small terraced house in the northeast town of Margrove when she volunteers to help in the wartime evacuation of schoolchildren to the Yorkshire dales. Here, she is reunited with shy, pretty Elsbeth Hobbs, a teaching assistant from Alice's hometown but from a privileged social background.

In the mid-1970s, the North Sea oil boom is in full swing and there is work for all. Though Catherine Williams's children are adult and all four have oil-related jobs, she is not happy with the upheaval the oil industry has caused and believes that Davy Jones will demand payment from those who rob his locker with men's lives.

Written by an expert in the field, "The DNA Detectives" describes the intricate processes used in DNA testing to solve crimes and puzzles across the globe, as well as the fascinating history of the discovery that DNA was the fundamental building block of all life on this planet. Starting with a short history of personal identification, including fingerprints, the author goes on to describe the various methods of creating a DNA profile. He also...

Channel Island mythology survives in local superstition, customs, poetry, art and folklore. This book uncovers and explores this mythology, and relates it to the ancient wisdom of the stones.

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