Jessica Brockmole
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English
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Medfield Historical Fiction - 1900s
Medfield Historical Fiction for Adults - Europe
Medfield Historical Fiction for Adults - Inspiring and Lighthearted
Medfield Historical Fiction for Adults - Europe
Medfield Historical Fiction for Adults - Inspiring and Lighthearted
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March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet, has never seen the world beyond her home on Scotland's remote Isle of Skye. So she is astonished when her first fan letter arrives, from a college student, David Graham, in far-away America. As the two strike up a correspondence -- sharing their favorite books, wildest hopes, and deepest secrets -- their exchanges blossom into friendship, and eventually into love. But as World War I...
2) Something Worth Landing For: A Short Story from Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War
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English
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The acclaimed author of "Letters from Skye "returns with an extraordinary story of a friendship born of proximity but boundless in the face of separation and war. Luc Crepet is accustomed to his mother s bringing wounded creatures to their idyllic chateau in the French countryside, where healing comes naturally amid the lush wildflowers and crumbling stone walls. Yet his "maman" s newest project is the most surprising: a fifteen-year-old Scottish...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"A woman sets out on a cross-country road trip, unknowingly tracing in reverse the path her mother traveled thirty years before. 'Tender, touching, original, and rich with delicious period detail of Hollywood's heyday--buckle up, because you'll definitely want to go on a road trip after reading this delightful book!'--Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home. In the 1950s, movie star Louise Wilde is caught between...
