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What if an Irishman and an Italian, each escaping religious persecution, land on the coast of Cornwall?
They are followed by two people fleeing the French Revolution, then a bi-racial orphan and next, a murderer.
What happens when they all seek to build new lives in one hard-pressed fishing village?
p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in">All over Europe in the late 18th century, people are trying desperately to escape revolutions and religious persecution. But where can they go to build new lives?br />
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Santino, a young Italian cooper, follows cousins to Cornwall. Patrick is lured there from Dublin by Zephaniah Cobbs, a man who, it seems, has many secrets. One not-so-well-kept secret is that Cobbs offers his services to French aristocrats fleeing the Revolution. Paying him an enormous sum of money, Bianca and Sébastien, her young charge, fall prey to his | |  | | Whitebeam
A young girl of mysterious but significant parentage joins Scotland's medieval rebellion against the English
At the cusp of the 14th century, aristocratic young Isobel MacDuff and dashing nobleman Rob-destined to become Scottish hero Robert the Bruce-deposit their love child for safekeeping on the remote Isle of Arran. Woven around real events, as the story unfolds, the child Pippa's true identity must be kept secret, even from herself, lest she run afoul of her parents' ruthless enemies. Unaware of these intrigues, Pippa is raised high in a secluded glen by a foster-mother. But as she approaches adolescence, the grim realities of war entangle her in her family's struggle against the Engli | |  | | Willow Oak
When war threatens, do you stand and fight, or flee for your life?
p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0.07in; line-height: 100%; text-align: justify;">font color="#000099">font face="Century, serif">font size="2" style="font-size: 9pt">Sisters. How can two girls raised in the same household be so different? Bronwen tolerated her annoying younger sister, Mariah, and somehow they managed to coexist without declaring all-out war. The gulf between them widened, though, when a real war intervened. On the eve of the American Revolution, their father insisted their Loyalist family flee their beautiful New York home and make their way, th |
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