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In 1914, Britain faces a new kind of war. For Edward and Beatrice Hunter, their children, servants and neighbours, life will never be the same again. For David, the eldest, war means a chance to do something noble; but enlisting will break his mother's heart. His sister Diana, nineteen and beautiful, longs for marriage. She has her heart set on Charles Wroughton, son of Earl Wroughton, but Charles will never be allowed to marry a banker's daughter.

While George has always been the brother to rush towards the action, fast becoming a boy-soldier when war breaks out, Joe thinks differently. Refusing to fight, Joe stays behind as a conscientious objector battling against the propaganda. On the western front, George soon discovers that war is not the great adventure he was led to believe. Surrounded by mud, blood and horror, his mind-set begins to shift as he questions everything he was once sure of.

The final installment in The Red Cross Orphans series from the Globe & Mail bestselling author! When the war is over, what will remain? With six hard years of war behind her, former nurse Kitty McCarthy should be facing a bright future. But her husband Michael shatters her peace in an instant...

Der Plan zur Sprengung des Müllplaneten schreitet unerbittlich voran – doch nichts ist verloren, so lange es Rufus gibt! Und da es ihn, dank einer Klon-Maschine bald sogar mehrfach gibt, ist noch mehr nichts verloren, als es das vorher schon war. Für die Rettung des Planeten muss Rufus alle verfügbaren Kräfte zusammenraufen: Seine immer wieder von ihm enttäuschten Freunde, seine nervige Ex-Freundin Toni, seinen Erzfeind Cletus und nicht zuletzt seine legendäre Lässigkeit.