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For fans of the hugely popular Downton Abbey television series and lovers of British historical sagas, award-winning author Murray Pura continues the enthralling story of the Danforths of Lancashire. The second book in the series (following Ashton Park) transports the reader back in time to 1924 as Sir William, recently named Lord Preston, celebrates his sixtieth birthday at the Danforth summer home in Dover. Although the ravages of World War I are in the past, new threats loom as a man named Adoph Hitler publishes a book called Mein Kampf. Is he a danger to Europe? And what of Lord Preston's growing friendship with an up and coming political leader named Winston Churchill? On the home front, one of the Danforth daughters, the recently widowed Catherine, sells her home in Belfast to spend more time at Dover where she finds herself annoyed at the impertinent German theologian her father has befriended. The entire Danforth family faces many ... |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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1900-1999 |
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- England -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Social classes -- England -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Aristocracy (Social class) |
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Social classes. |
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Lancashire (England) -- Fiction.
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England. |
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England -- Lancashire. |
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Electronic books. |
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Domestic fiction.
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Fiction.
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History.
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Historical fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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9780736952897 : $9.99 |
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0736952896 : $9.99 |
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