Kate Morton
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English
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During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded...
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"From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets. Living on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family...
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English
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"In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the charismatic and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins. More than one hundred and fifty...
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English
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Edie Burchill receives a letter that has lain for 50 years in a forgotten postal bag, and begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masked an old secret. She sets out to find the answers by tracking the letter back to its source, starting with the return address: Milderhurst Castle, Kent, where her mother had been taken as a child, during the London evacuations of World War II.
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English
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Abandoned as a tiny girl on a ship headed for Australia, Nell Andrews sets out on a journey to England to try to trace her story, to find her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell's death that all the pieces of the puzzle are assembled.
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English
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Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline. In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they--and Grace--know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight...
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Suma/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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En el verano de 1862, un grupo de jóvenes artistas liderados por el apasionado y talentoso Edward Radcliffe desciende a Birchwood Manor en las orillas del Alto Támesis. Su plan: pasar un mes de verano aislado en una nube de inspiración y creatividad. Pero para cuando su estadía ha terminado, una mujer ha muerto a tiros y otra ha desaparecido; falta una reliquia invaluable; y la vida de Edward Radcliffe está en ruinas. Más de ciento cincuenta...
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Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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"Nochebuena de 1959, Altos de Adelaida, Australia. Al final de un día caluroso, junto a un arroyo en los terrenos de la mansión de la familia Turner, un repartidor realiza un descubrimiento espeluznante. Comienza una investigación policial y el pequeño pueblo de Tambilla se ve inmerso en uno de los casos de asesinato más desconcertantes y dolorosos de la historia de Australia del Sur. Sesenta años más tarde Jess ha perdido su empleo en el periódico...
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Suma de letras
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2013.
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Español
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During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded...
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Español
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"A la muerte de Nell, su nieta Casandra recibe una inesperada herencia: una cabaña y su olvidado jardín en las tierras de Cornualles, que es conocido por la gente por los secretos que esconde. Aquí es donde Casandra descubrirá finalmente la verdad sobre la familia y resolverá el misterio, que se remonta un siglo, de una niña desaparecida."--P. [4] of cover.
A story of outer and inner journeys as "Nell, " abandoned as a child, leaves her adoptive...
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Albatros
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Polish
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"Rok 1961. W angielskiej posiadłości na prowincji szesnastoletnia Laurel Nicolson wymyka się z pikniku urodzinowego i kryje w domku na drzewie, by samotnie snuć marzenia o chłopcu o imieniu Billy, o przeprowadzce do Londynu i o swojej zawodowej przyszłości. Nagle widzi nieznajomego mężczyznę, zbliżającego się do domu i rozmawiającego z jej matką, która przystanęła w otwartych drzwiach z małym dzieckiem na rękach. Chwilę później...
12) The shifting fog
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Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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In the summer of 1924 : on the eve of a glittering Society Party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.
14) Milczący zamek
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Albatros A. Kuryłowicz
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Polish
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A long-lost letter arriving at its destination fifty years after it was sent lures Edie Burchill to crumbling Milderhurst Castle, home of the three elderly Blythe sisters, where Edie's mother was sent to stay as a teenager during World War II.
15) Dom nad jeziorem
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Wydawnictwo Albatros Andrzej Kuryłowicz
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Polish
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Alice Edevane, sędziwa autorka wziętych powieści detektywistycznych, wiedzie wygodne życie w swoim eleganckim londyńskim domu...Do czasu aż Sadie Sparrow zacznie zadawać niewygodne pytania o przeszlość jej rodziny i przedzierać się przez gąszcz tajemnic, od których pisarka uciekala przez całe życie.
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Bestseller) volume 1118/3
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Español
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"Edie Burchill y su madre nunca han estado lo que se dice unidas. Pero un domingo por la tarde llega a su casa una carta, perdida hace tiempo, con el remite de Milderhurst Castle, en Kent (inglaterra), y Edie empieza a pensar que la frialdad de su madre oculta un antiguo secreto." --P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Albatros
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Polish
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"Zapierająca dech w piersiach opowieść o miłości i tajemnicach, kłamstwach i zbrodni sprzed lat. Kiedy los wzywa cię do rodzinnego domu, sekrety niczym ptaki w klatce czekają, by wyrwać się na wolność. Powroty do domu po latach są trudne. Ale czasem pozwalają otworzyć drzwi, które od dawna były zamknięte. Tak jest w przypadku dziennikarki Jess Turner-Bridges, która z wraca z Londynu do zalanej słońcem rodzinnej Australii. Babcia,...
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Publisher
Wydawnictwo Albatros
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Polish
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Latem 1862 roku grupa mlodych artystów, którym przewodzil utalentowany i pelen pasji Edward Radcliffe, przybyla do Birchwood Manor w malowniczym Oxfordshire. Planowali spedzic miesiac na lonie natury, szukajac inspiracji. Ale ich pobyt na prowincji wlasnie dobiega konca: jedna z uczestniczek wyprawy zostala zastrzelona, druga zniknela - podobnie jak pewna bezcenna pamiatka rodowa - a zycie Edwarda Radcliffe'a leglo w gruzach.