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Private peaceful
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Morpurgo, Michael
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A stunning adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's elegaic novel of the First World War. As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside. But t...
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2003
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The last Dickens
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Pearl, Matthew
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Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Dickens’s unfinished novel. But whe...
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Rabbit-proof fence
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Pilkington, Doris
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The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home.
Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by w...
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Survivor
Reckless, Beautiful an a born.....
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Pearse, Lesley
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It is 1938 and headstrong eighteen-year-old Mari Carrera leaves a gossipy small town in rural New Zealand aboard the SS Rimutaka. Rather too careless with her reputation, Mari is bound for the bustling anonymity of London - but she is all too willing...
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2014
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Mary, bloody Mary
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Meyer, Carolyn
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Blood is thicker than water – unless the King decrees othewise. A compelling first-person narration of childhood, as told by Henry VIII's daughter, Mary Tudor. History remembers her only as ''Bloody Mary'' because of the brutality of her reign, but t...
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1999
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The Quilt
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Paulsen, Gary
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A six-year-old boy goes to spend the summer with his grandmother Alida in a small town near the Canadian border. With the men all gone off to fight, the women are left to run the farms. There’s plenty for the boy to do—trying to help with the chores,...
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