LIBROS DEL AUTOR: lorna hunting

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: lorna hunting

  • Farewell to Vancouver Island
    Lorna Hunting
    In May 1858, English collier Sam Gray breaks his contract with the Hudson’s Bay Company on Vancouver Island and deserts to the mainland. He’s haunted by memories of his dead wife and a failed romance, and his dream is to make enough money in the Canadian goldfields to start a new life in San Francisco.Forced to live under an assumed name to avoid arrest, Sam finds himself inhab...
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    15,82 €

  • The Shackletons of Chapel St
    Lorna Hunting
    A heartwarming and beautifully researched novel about love and hardship in the 19th Century shipping town of Whitehaven.Whitehaven is thronged with out-of-work weavers and their families. The American Civil War means no cotton is reaching the country. For Fergus and Becky Shackleton, the war threatens to have a devastating effect on their lives, and they stand to lose the home ...
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    13,47 €

  • The Shackletons of Coates Lane
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    It’s 1861 in Whitehaven, and Fergus Shackleton is about to marry his sweetheart, Becky. With a new house to maintain, and a wife and ward to look after, money has never been so important, but Fergus’s shipping line is rapidly losing business to the railways. The days of sail are numbered. Forthe sake of his family, Fergus is forced to risk everything on one throw of the dice.He...
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    13,54 €

  • Called to Vancouver Island
    Lorna Hunting
    Grace Williams, a young English missionary, arrives in Colville, Vancouver, in 1857 to findthe community neither wants nor seems to need her. When her superior, Reverend Palmer,disappears into the snowy woods, on a foolhardy mission to seek converts amongst the SalishFirst Nations people, Grace is left behind to oversee their mission. There are no half-measures in this place wh...
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    12,41 €

  • The Shackletons of Whitehaven
    Lorna Hunting
    Will book-loving Fergus Shackleton find success in business and love despite his overbearing father, Hector?By forging his own path is Fergus going to turn into his father, the very person he is trying to escape?Is chasing success going to change Fergus so much that his girlfriend, Becky, is forced to doubt their future together?Will the price of success be a broken heart? ...
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    14,72 €

  • New Beginnings on Vancouver Island
    Lorna Hunting
    The year is 1854 and Stag Liddell, a young collier from Liverpool, signs up to work in Vancouver Island’s new coal mines. Whilst waiting for his ship to Canada, he meets ambitious school teacher Kate McAvoy who is also making the trip.  As the ship nears its destination, Stag and Kate’s relationship begins to blossom, but damning information comes to light and a pact made years...
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    15,87 €