Set in wartime Britain, Mrs Porter Calling is the unforgettable follow-up to AJ Pearce's bestselling Yours Cheerfully and Dear Mrs Bird.
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A heart-warming, heart-wrenching wartime story about friendship and courage from AJ Pearce, the bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird.'Utterly charming and uplifting' – Jill MansellEmmy Lake is the much-loved agony aunt at Woman’s Friend magazine, relied upon by readers across the country as they face the challenges of life on the Home Front. With the problem page thriving and a team of fantastic women behind her, Emmy finally feels she is Doing Her Bit.But when a glamorous new owner arrives, everything changes. As the Honourable Mrs Porter tries to charm her way around the rest of the team, Emmy realizes that she plans to destroy everything readers love about the magazine.With happiness quickly turning to heartbreak and war still raging in Europe, will Emmy and her friends find the inner strength they need to keep keeping on - and save the magazine they love?'Heartbreaking yet feel-good, we loved it' – Woman & Home'A winning combination of warmth, humour and a compelling story of the power of friendship' – Katie Fforde
Mrs Porter Calling is the uplifting and heartwarming third historical novel from AJ Pearce, the beloved author of Dear Mrs Bird.'Brilliant, utterly charming and uplifting’ – Jill Mansell, author of Rumour Has It'A pleasure you’d be daft to deny yourself’ – Mail on Sunday'Heartbreaking yet feel-good' – Woman & HomeLondon, 1943.Emmy Lake is most definitely Doing Her Bit for the war effort. The readers of her magazine, Woman’s Friend, are facing the hardships of life on the Home Front and they need Emmy and her support more than ever. But when a glamorous new owner arrives at Woman’s Friend, Emmy soon realizes that the Honourable Mrs Porter could destroy everything.And then tragedy strikes. As Emmy’s own happiness turns to devastation, she must ask herself if she can find the strength to keep going. Can she save the magazine so many people love? And can she weather her own heartbreak?'If ever there was a book to cheer a heart, it’s Mrs Porter Calling’ – Milly Johnson, author of My One True North'A winning combination of warmth, humour and a compelling story of the power of friendship' – Katie Fforde, author of Going Dutch
Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading.On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway – fashionable, worldly, wealthy and an accomplished hostess – sets off to buy flowers for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life.On the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own isolation and loneliness.Parties and Passions, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Great Gatsby are also available in this Macmillan Collector’s Library series of gorgeous paperbacks featuring the greatest parties and the wildest passions in literature.
'Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies. You won't be able to put it down' - Ava Glass Get ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency's most treacherous secrets. *** Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum. She’s a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises. Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a Beatles-mad teenage daughter, Maggie finds comfort and purpose in her profession – providing a connection to her late husband, whose own covert past only surfaced after his death. But Maggie’s world spins out of control when a chance encounter with a mysterious Russian agent triggers a chilling revelation: he knew her husband. And what’s worse, the agent suspects someone on home soil betrayed him. As Maggie searches for answers, she’ll question everyone – and everything – she thought she could trust. In the murky and perilous world of espionage, can she outsmart those determined to keep her silenced? *** 'A gripping story and great 60s detail, Mrs Spy is the female answer to Harry Palmer' – Ian Moore 'Mrs Spy is a delicious recreation of 1960s London... rich and well-constructed' - Emma Flint
'A gripping story and great 60s detail, Mrs Spy is the female answer to Harry Palmer' – Ian MooreGet ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency's most treacherous secrets.***Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum.She’s a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises. Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a Beatles-mad teenage daughter, Maggie finds comfort and purpose in her profession – providing a connection to her late husband, whose own covert past only surfaced after his death.But Maggie’s world spins out of control when a chance encounter with a mysterious Russian agent triggers a chilling revelation: he knew her husband. And what’s worse, the agent suspects someone on home soil betrayed him. As Maggie searches for answers, she’ll question everyone – and everything – she thought she could trust. In the murky and perilous world of espionage, can she outsmart those determined to keep her silenced?***Praise for Mandy Robotham“You're going to love Ruby Devereaux... A chronicler of life and love, her story is by turns fierce, feisty, passionate and poignant” Emma Flint“Exciting, alluring, seductive” Clare Whitfield“Brilliant, courageous... funny and flawlessly told” Melanie Golding“It's hard not to fall in love with Ruby Devereaux. I thoroughly enjoyed her warm, witty company on this joyous journey through the late 20th century” Nicola Rayner
'Dark, twisty, and thoroughly entertaining, Mrs Spy is a Thursday Murder Club for spies. You won't be able to put it down' - Ava GlassGet ready for a pulse-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride through 1960s London as Maggie Flynn, unexpected MI5 operative and single mum, unravels the intelligence agency's most treacherous secrets.***Maggie Flynn isn’t your typical 1960s mum.She’s a spy, an unsuspecting operative for MI5, stalking London’s streets in myriad disguises. Widowed and balancing her clandestine career with raising a Beatles-mad teenage daughter, Maggie finds comfort and purpose in her profession – providing a connection to her late husband, whose own covert past only surfaced after his death.But Maggie’s world spins out of control when a chance encounter with a mysterious Russian agent triggers a chilling revelation: he knew her husband. And what’s worse, the agent suspects someone on home soil betrayed him. As Maggie searches for answers, she’ll question everyone – and everything – she thought she could trust. In the murky and perilous world of espionage, can she outsmart those determined to keep her silenced?***'A gripping story and great 60s detail, Mrs Spy is the female answer to Harry Palmer' – Ian Moore'Mrs Spy is a delicious recreation of 1960s London... rich and well-constructed' - Emma Flint
"I sometimes wonder where I was when I changed my mind."Ainslee's husband once said, "Physical change is not necessary for spiritual growth, but it's almost always the impetus for growth." With that mindset, when a job offer prompts Lyndon and Ainslee to move across the Prairie Provinces; they look forward with a renewed sense of hope. It doesn't take Ainslee long, though, to be conflicted with the realization that what she defines as significance will be challenged on every level by Lyndon's recent commitment to homeschooling."Was homeschooling what God wanted for me? For us? Could I submit myself to God if it was? Could I fight Lyndon if it wasn't?" Pressures mount from every side. When Ainslee comes to terms with what it means for her to use homeschooling as a good means to impact her sons' lives, she finds that systems are incapable of accomplishing the transformation they all need most.Discussion questions included make Mrs. Homeschool an excellent choice for a Book Club study.
"I sometimes wonder where I was when I changed my mind."Ainslee's husband once said, "Physical change is not necessary for spiritual growth, but it's almost always the impetus for growth." With that mindset, when a job offer prompts Lyndon and Ainslee to move across the Prairie Provinces; they look forward with a renewed sense of hope. It doesn't take Ainslee long, though, to be conflicted with the realization that what she defines as significance will be challenged on every level by Lyndon's recent commitment to homeschooling."Was homeschooling what God wanted for me? For us? Could I submit myself to God if it was? Could I fight Lyndon if it wasn't?" Pressures mount from every side. When Ainslee comes to terms with what it means for her to use homeschooling as a good means to impact her sons' lives, she finds that systems are incapable of accomplishing the transformation they all need most.Discussion questions included make Mrs. Homeschool an excellent choice for a Book Club study.
Mrs. Jones: Book 1 of the Adelaide Henson Mystery Series
William Cain
Independently Published
2019
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Mrs. Thomas: Book 3 of the Adelaide Henson Mystery Series
William Cain
Independently Published
2020
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The Bodies Pile up ....A Psychological Murder Mystery with jaw dropping, heart-wrenching chapters.Follow Adelaide Henson, a dedicated officer, as she becomes the strong-willed, one-of-a-kind woman she is.A mentally deranged murderer has escaped. A fugitive running away from justice - New York to Florida, Texas and New Mexico - leaving a host of brutally slain innocents behind. A mysterious man is following the fugitive, and Henson is hot on the trail, leaving her post as Captain in the Asheville P.D. to reenter the field. But the battered women's Underground keeps getting in her way. Who is the man following the fugitive and what does he want?Why is the Underground helping the escaped fugitive? Henson is determined to find the killer, and she digs deep, using novel techniques to set and spring her traps. The ending will leave you wanting more. Mrs. Thomas, Book Three in a Ten book series.
The scintillating finale of the Mrs. Jones Duet...I vowed I'd never return...and yet, somehow I'm here. My hometown of Port Butler, Mississippi.I was just beginning to feel normal again before I left Chase's house a sobbing, blubbery mess after his ex showed up to his house...IN LABOR...only to very literally fall into the arms of his younger, professional baseball playing brother. Now with a broken ankle, I am forced to sit and hear him out and listen to him spill all the secrets he's been keeping from me. I don't know if I can survive losing him so close to the death of my husband. But will it be too little too late for us? Or, will he convince me that our time together hasn't yet run its course?Step one, convince Melanie that her assumptions about me are wrong. Step two, spill every last one of my secrets. Step three, convince her we are meant to be together. There's just one problem with step three - her mother hates me. But to be fair, she hates everyone. I just hope that I can win back Melanie's trust before her mother gets involved.Step four, live happily ever after?***This is part two in a duet. For a full appreciation of this book, it is HIGHLY suggested that you read book one first***18+ years only, please
Elizabeth Bennet was raised with a strong belief and faith in God's plan for her life. She knew He had a plan, even if the details were hidden from her. But, when placed in an untenable situation, she turned instead to the arms of a man to find brief moments of joy. Finally, when able to realize the happiness which was always intended for her, the weight of her guilt over her past sins convinces her of her unworthiness. Only through reconciliation with the Lover of her soul can she truly fulfill the life He planned for her. But first, she must forgive herself in order to find redemption.Remember: In order to be redeemed, there must be sin. This story is intended for mature audiences.Trigger Warning: There are incidents of abuse in this story.
This children's book is about Justin who is sent to his neighbor Mrs.Elliott's house to get eggs, yet on his way home he decides to play in the sand dunes. He gets lost on his way home, and finds a lost animal that changes his life forever.
A secret crush. A mix-up in paperwork. And suddenly, a fake marriage that lands two women in one hotel room--and face to face with their denial. After six months of simmering attraction, librarians Sofiya Anderson and Molly Andersen are ready to burst. There's a magnetism between them that threatens their commitment to professionalism, and not even a librarian's stern shushing can quiet it down. But they've managed to hold themselves in check...for now. Until a mistake at a regional conference, a tiny oversight in spelling, makes the coordinators believe they're a married couple. Two women. One bed. And a Mrs. Mix-Up that doesn't quite go by the books. Can they make it through four days of professional development with both their hearts and their jobs intact?