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Harmien Robroch

    Life Skills
    The hippopotamus
    Summer of Love
    A Good Woman
    The Becoming
    Firekeeper's Daughter
    • Strong Ojibwe women are like the ride, reminding us of forces too powerful to control. Weak people fear that strength. Eighteen-year-old Daunis's mixed heritage has always made her feel like an outsider, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. When she witnesses a shocking murder, she reluctantly agrees to be part of a covert FBI operation into a series of drug related deaths. But the deceptions - and deaths - keep piling up and soon the threat strikes too close to home. Now Daunis must decide what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she'll go to protect her community, even if it tears apart the only world she's ever known

      Firekeeper's Daughter2022
      4,4
    • The Becoming

      • 400 stron
      • 14 godzin czytania

      "When Breen Kelly makes a leap into the unknown with a summer trip to Ireland in search of her father, little does she know she will find a portal into another world-- Talamh-- where she will find magic, family and a destiny beyond her wildest dreams. Breen is welcomed by most of her family and friends but there is one who is far from welcoming. Her grandfather, the outcast god Odran plots to destroy Talamh, and now all must unite to defeat his dark forces. There will be losses and sorrows, betrayal and bloodshed. But through it, Breen Siobhan Kelly will take the next step on the journey to becoming all that she was born to be."--Publisher.

      The Becoming2021
      4,2
    • Who knows what might happen in a summer of love?Sian Bishop has left the hustle and bustle of the city behind and has thrown herself into a new life in the country.With her young son, her picture-postcard garden and her small thriving business, she's happy and very busy. She is not - repeat not - looking for love.And then, one glorious summer evening, Gus Beresford arrives.One-time explorer, full-time heart-breaker, Gus is ridiculously exciting, wonderfully glamorous - and, Sian tells herself, completely wrong for a romantically cautious single woman like her.But she and Gus have met before. And, despite Sian's best intentions, it isn't long before she's falling for him all over again ...

      Summer of Love2011
      3,8
    • A Good Woman

      A stunning and passionate historical novel from the bestselling storyteller Danielle Steel

      • 416 stron
      • 15 godzin czytania

      Annabelle Worthington, born into a life of privilege, was raised amid the glamour of New York society. But everything changes on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic alters her world forever.

      A Good Woman2009
      3,8
    • Fired from his newspaper, cantankerous, boozy drama critic Ted Wallace seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the home of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on there - miracles and healings - phenomena beyond the ken of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted.

      The hippopotamus2004
      3,7
    • Perfect Day

      • 384 strony
      • 14 godzin czytania

      On a perfect spring morning, Alexander catches a train into London, but never reaches work. Instead, he spends the day with Kate, a waitress he met the night before. Such a perfect day, Nell goes to the seaside, hoping that the sea air will blow away the doubts she has about her life. As Nell ponders why falling in love is so different from loving someone, Alexander allows himself to imagine leaving his old life behind and starting afresh. And by a strange turn of fate, there's an opportunity to do just that.

      Perfect Day2001
      3,3
    • Life Skills

      • 343 strony
      • 13 godzin czytania

      Ditching her fiancé and taking a new career as a cook on a pair of hotel boats is a new departure for Julia, but even afloat her past catches up with her with the arrival of her childhood enemy, the enigmatic Fergus Grindley.

      Life Skills2000
      3,6