Becky Taylor is born the last of seven children into a poor working class family during the heyday of the Industrial Revolution. Her mother is exhausted by poverty and child-bearing; her father has given the best years of his life to worrells salt works as a miner. But in spite of the hardships, Becky grows up in a family full of warmth, loyalty and determination. Spanning twenty, this is at once a family saga and a story of the indomitable working class spirit; it is also the story of a beautiful women who is determined to rise about her origins and lead a better life. Her challenge is to achieve her dreams without losing the friends and family to whom she owes everything.

Salt of the Earth

Literature & Fiction

SALLY SPENCER

Genre Fiction

Orion Books, London

Continuing the family saga begun in "Salt of the Earth" and "Up Our Street". Sam and Lil Clarke are having problems with their children: Eddie is only interested in automobiles, Peggy wants a goat and will break the law to get one, and Annie is on the verge of making the wrong decision in love.

Old Father Thames

Magna Large Print Books

Spanning 80 tumultuous years, the incredible story of a peasant girl who became the Red Princess of the Russian Revolution.    Anna Mayakovsky is now a penniless old woman living in London, but no one can take away the vivid memories of her past: the Count who lifted her out of poverty; the Count’s son, Misha, whose baby she bore; Paul, the ruthless factory owner who became her lover – and her deadliest enemy; Sasha, the tough but gentle peasant who converted her to revolution. And her aristocratic husband whom she adored, but could never love as completely as a woman should love her man.   Now Anna finds she has one more battle ahead of her: her great-granddaughters Jennifer and Sonia wish to lock her away in an institution. Anna knows this would kill her. She will have to fight back . . .

The Silent Land

Contemporary

Orion mass market paperback

Up Our Street, Sally Spencer

Unknown

OLD FATHER THAMES

Those Golden Days

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Juanita's Flowers

AuthorHouse

The entire audience at the George Theatre saw Charlotte Devaraux stab William Kirkpatrick with a fake dagger, but they gasped even more when they realized he was dead. Assisted by Sergeant Patterson and Dr. Ellie Carr, Blackstone follows the trail of the killer.

Blackstone and the Balloon of Death (Inspector Sam Blackstone, 5)

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

The new Inspector Sam Blackstone mystery. July 1900: Sam Blackstone has gone to New York to pick up a prisoner, but he soon finds himself drafted in to investigate the murder of Inspector O’Brien who is famed for rooting out police corruption. Working with an enthusiastic young detective who worshipped O’Brien, Blackstone scours the city in search of the killer. And the more he searches, the more he becomes convinced that the police department doesn’t really want the murder to be solved.

Blackstone and the New World (Inspector Sam Blackstone, 7)

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