Anne Douglas
Author
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Her world will be turned upside down...
It's 1935 and beautiful Lindy Gillan dreams of getting away from her boring life in Edinburgh's impoverished Old Town. Her one consolation is her dear friend Neil, a young writer from the same tenement block, whom she has known for years. But then handsome Rod Connor walks into the shop where Lindy works one day and her life no longer seems quite so boring.
Rod's arrival brings with
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Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2015], ©2015
Description
Set in 1925. Twenty-three-year-old Isla Scott leaves her job as a nurse in Edinburgh to return to her home-town of Edgemuir and take up a vacancy at Dr. Lorne's fashionable hydro, where she is reunited with her handsome brother Boyd. Revelling in her new role and being close to Boyd, all seems well for Isla and the Scott family. But the siblings soon find that romance threatens to cloud their future. Boyd is bowled over by pretty new waitress...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"1910. When eighteen-year-old Lorne Malcolm runs off on her wedding day with the landowner's son, Daniel MacNeil, the jilted groom, turns to Lorne's older sister, Rosa, for comfort. Rosa's feelings for Daniel grow and the pair soon marry. But are tragedy and heartbreak just around the corner?"--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
1937, Edinburgh. Attractive, dark-eyed Jinny Hendrie is happy enough in her job in the accounts office of a large bakery - until handsome Viennese cake expert Viktor Linden walks into her life with the promise of an exciting future. Although her father and her kind-hearted boss, Ross MacBain, warn against it, Jinny is determined to marry Viktor but, when war is declared between Great Britain and Germany, all her plans are in ruins. Austria has joined...
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Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature
“In [On the Road] Kerouac’s heroes were sensation seekers; now they are seekers after truth . . . the novel often attains a beautiful dignity.”—Chicago Tribune
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands...
“In [On the Road] Kerouac’s heroes were sensation seekers; now they are seekers after truth . . . the novel often attains a beautiful dignity.”—Chicago Tribune
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
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"Film legend Kirk Douglas and his wife Anne look back on a lifetime filled with love and drama both on and off the screen. Sharing priceless correspondence with each other as well as the celebrities and world leaders they called friends, Kirk and Anne is a candid portrayal of the pleasures and pitfalls of a Hollywood life. Compiled from Anne's private archive of letters and photographs, this is an intimate glimpse into the Douglases' courtship and...