Watership Down by Richard Adams, 494 pages
One of the most beloved
novels of our time, Richard Adams's Watership Down takes us to a world
we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the
fields, forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a
powerful saga of courage, leadership and survival; an epic tale of a
hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their
fragile community...and their trials and triumphs in the face of
extraordinary adversity as they pursue a glorious dream called "home." Watership Down is a remarkable tale of exile and survival, of heroism
and leadership...the epic novel of a group of adventurers who desert
their doomed city, and venture forth against all odds on a quest for a
new home, a sturdier future.
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The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnell, 675 pages
East London, 1888 - a
city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and
dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a
killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths.
Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker
in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her
lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their
faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and
sacrifice to achieve their dreams.
But Fiona's life is shattered
when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly
everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death, she is
forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit
propels her rise from a modest West Side shop-front to the top of
Manhattan's tea trade. But Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, and
to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood,
where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her
future.