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The Confidence to Be Yourself: How to Boost Your Self-esteem

By Claire Rayner (foreword by)

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9780749940997 | Reprint edition (Piatkus Books, April 1, 2013), cover price $13.95

Third Degree

By Claire Rayner

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9781849821322 | Midpoint Trade Books Inc, December 13, 2011, cover price $10.95

Second Opinion

The second installment in Claire Raynerâs medical murder mystery series featuring sensationally scalpel-minded heroine, Dr. George Barnabas. Claire Raynerâs instinctive understanding of character, motive and emotion and, like First Blood, Second Opinion once again interweaves the drama of life in a busy hospital with an intricate and entertaining mystery.

By Claire Rayner

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9781849821315 | Midpoint Trade Books Inc, October 18, 2011, cover price $10.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745165394 | Chivers Audio Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: The second installment in Claire Raynerâs medical murder mystery series featuring sensationally scalpel-minded heroine, Dr.

First Blood

Product Description: The first installment in a pathological murder mystery series featuring Claire Raynerâs sensationally scalpel-minded heroine, Dr. George Barnabasâthe new pathologist at a big inner city hospital. She is also a police surgeon - and the first woman to hold either postâcombining ingenious crime and detection with a lively medical background, an intelligent, spirited heroine and a large and thoroughly engaging cast of characters First Blood gives us the very best of author Claire Rayner...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9781849821162 | Midpoint Trade Books Inc, October 11, 2011, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The first installment in a pathological murder mystery series featuring Claire Raynerâs sensationally scalpel-minded heroine, Dr.

Sixties

Product Description: 'Rayner provides well-written entertainment...for general audiences.' - LIBRARY JOURNAL. This last book in the Poppy Chronicles begins just after the death of Poppy's mother, Mildred, at the age of ninety-seven. It is the beginning of the 1960s, and Poppy is still active in the running of 'Food by Poppy' and its hotel and restaurant offshoots...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9781842325414 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: 'Rayner provides well-written entertainment.

Blitz

Product Description: London in the Blitz. Poppy is a mature and capable woman. She struggles to enable her family to lead normal lives. The problems they create are known to all mothers-a daughter torn between two men and a difficult and headstrong stepdaughter...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9781842325391 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: London in the Blitz.

Flapper

Product Description: During the First World War Poppy finds freedom and real love. She marries, but is widowed after a brief but idyllically happy marriage. She is left to cope with Chloe, her determined and strong-willed stepdaughter who is enjoying the life of a bright young thing...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9781842325384 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: During the First World War Poppy finds freedom and real love.

Jubilee

Product Description: The marriage between Mildred Amberly and Lizah 'Kid' Harris, a Jewish boxer from the East End seems a union doomed to failure. However, they have a daughter, Poppy who has the strong will and feistiness of her parents as well as an insatiable appetite for all life's experiences...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9780708984796 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, August 1, 1988), cover price $23.95

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9781842325360 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The marriage between Mildred Amberly and Lizah 'Kid' Harris, a Jewish boxer from the East End seems a union doomed to failure.

Chelsea Reach

By Claire Rayner

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9781842325322 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95

Long Acre

Product Description: Amy and her brother Fenton, the grandchildren of the dazzling Lilith Lucas, arrive as orphans in the London of the 1860s, determined to find fame and fortune on the stage. But for Amy there is another, deeper quest - which is destined to set ablaze all the old embers of the family feud that has flared and smouldered throughout forty years...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9780708925935 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, February 1, 1992), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In the sixth instalment of The Performers family saga, Amy and Fenton, grandchildren of Lilith, arrive as orphans in the London of the 1860s determined to find fame and fortune on the stage.

Paperback:

9781842325292 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781842834879 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, March 30, 2005), cover price $84.95 | About this edition: Amy and her brother Fenton, the grandchildren of the dazzling Lilith Lucas, arrive as orphans in the London of the 1860s, determined to find fame and fortune on the stage.

The Haymarket.

Product Description: The second novel in THE PERFORMERS family saga. For eighteen years Abel and Lilith had deliberately led separate lives: Abel as a surgeon, Lilith as an actress. During these yearsof isolation Abel becomes a tyrannical father and husband, the situation finally exploding when his eldest son defies him, determined to make his way in the world as a poet, not a doctor...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9780708924525, titled "The Haymarket" | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, August 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The second novel in THE PERFORMERS family saga.

9780671218126 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1974, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The second novel in THE PERFORMERS family saga.

Paperback:

9781842325254, titled "The Haymarket" | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The second novel in THE PERFORMERS family saga.

Flanders

Product Description: It is 1911. At sixteen, Poppy is becoming a woman herself, and she can appreciate that the Suffragette Movement seems to promise a fairer future for all women. Then in 1914 The First World War breaks out and brings catastrophic loss and suffering...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9781842325377 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: It is 1911.

Charing Cross

Product Description: Sophie Lackland is the granddaughter of the great surgeon, Abel Lackland. She is twenty-one, alone in the world and virtually penniless. A letter tells her of the death of her step-grandmother and of a strange bequest. This legacy could make it possible to fulfil her ambition of becoming a doctor...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9780708926314 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: In the seventh book in The Performers saga, it is 1873 and impoverished Sophie Lackland must marry if she is to escape a lifeof genteel poverty.

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9781842325308 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Sophie Lackland is the granddaughter of the great surgeon, Abel Lackland.

9780843910230 | Leisure Books, June 1, 1982, cover price $3.25 | About this edition: In the seventh book in The Performers saga, it is 1873 and impoverished Sophie Lackland must marry if she is to escape a lifeof genteel poverty.

Festival

By Claire Rayner

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9781842325407 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95

Bedford Row

The latest in The Performers family saga centres on Martha, now thirty-eight and living at home with her father, Abel. In 1854 herlife is dramatically changed when she is shocked by reports in TheTimes concerning the Crimea. A chance meeting with Sal, a fallen young woman who has many horror tales of the appalling conditions of army camps, convinces Martha to raise money for medicine and food to take to the Crimea. With the help of Lydia, Jonah and Gideon the money is soon raised, and soon Martha faces the horrors of the Crimea with only the irrepressible Sal for support.

By Claire Rayner

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9780708925577 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, December 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The latest in The Performers family saga centres on Martha, now thirty-eight and living at home with her father, Abel.

Paperback:

9781842325285 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781842834886 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, June 30, 2004), cover price $89.95

How Did I Get Here from There?

A lifetime's passion for proper medical care for all has made Claire Rayner one of Britain's most important and successful campaigners, yet it is as an advice columnist that she is perhaps best known. In this biography, she reveals her childhood, early nursing career and more recent achievements.

By Claire Rayner

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9781844080502 | New edition (Gardners Books, December 4, 2003), cover price $15.20 | About this edition: A lifetime's passion for proper medical care for all has made Claire Rayner one of Britain's most important and successful campaigners, yet it is as an advice columnist that she is perhaps best known.

Soho Square

In the fourth volume in The Performers family saga, it is 1851: the year of the Great Exhibition and Paxton's Crystal Palace. Lydia Mohun, daughter of Lilith, former star of the Haymarket Theatre, arrives to take up residence in Soho Square. Abel's son Jonah, now a widower, is convinced she spells trouble. To his daughter Phoebe, brought up by Aunt Abbey, the introduction to Lydia opened a new world of delight. But for Abby's son Freddy,it set a formidable stumbling block in the path he had planned for his beloved Phoebe. Before the end of that summer of 1851, Freddy and Phoebe were to see both happiness and misery.

By Claire Rayner

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9780708925232 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, October 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the fourth volume in The Performers family saga, it is 1851: the year of the Great Exhibition and Paxton's Crystal Palace.

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9781842325278 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: It was the year of the Great Exhibition and Lydia Mohun, daughter of the famous Lilith Lucas, had arrived to take up residence in Soho Square.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781842834893 | Unabridged edition (Soundings Ltd, November 30, 2003), cover price $89.95

The Lonely One

Young Bridget Preston was a rather lonely girl who, as an orphan, had spent most of her life in boarding school. Her first venture into the wide world was to apply to the Royal to learn nursing. When she began her student training at the Royal, she was delighted to be included in the social life of the hospital, and even more excited to find that the charismatic surgeon, Josh Simpson, was showing such an interest in her...

By Claire Rayner

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9780753161210 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, August 1, 2001), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Young Bridget Preston was a rather lonely girl who, as an orphan, had spent most of her life in boarding school.

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9780753163825 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, October 1, 2001), cover price $21.99

Gower Street.

Product Description: The streets of London in the 1800's are no place for a respectable gentleman to take his evening stroll, but Jesse Constam is no ordinary man. So when Abel Lackland tries to pick his pocket, he doesn't hand the child over to the law...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9780708924136, titled "Gower Street" | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $19.95

9780671215507 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1973, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Jesse Constam is no ordinary man, having escaped the squalor of the slums and now living in fashionable Gower Street.

Paperback:

9781842325247, titled "Gower Street" | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The early 1800's.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781859035573, titled "Gower Street" | Unabridged edition (Ulverscroft Soundings Ltd, April 30, 2002), cover price $99.95 | About this edition: The streets of London in the 1800's are no place for a respectable gentleman to take his evening stroll, but Jesse Constam is no ordinary man.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781859034545, titled "Gower Street" | Unabridged edition (Ulverscroft Soundings Ltd, September 30, 2001), cover price $89.95 | About this edition: The streets of London in the 1800's are nop pace for a respectable gentleman to tale his evening stroll, but Jesse Constam is no ordinary man.

Nurse in the Sun

By Claire Rayner

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9780753161197 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, January 1, 2001), cover price $35.50

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9780753163368 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, August 1, 2001), cover price $21.99

Embarrassing Medical Problems: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask Your Doctor

Product Description: Embarrassing Medical Problems is a clear and informative guide, packed with useful tips and advice for curing or coping with an A-Z range of problems. Dr. Margaret Stearn provide medical explanations and solutions for a variety of embarrassing problems form hairy backs to twitching eyes, baldness to impotence, and much, much more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Claire Rayner (foreword by) and Margaret Stearn

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9781578260676 | Hatherleigh Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Embarrassing Medical Problems is a clear and informative guide, packed with useful tips and advice for curing or coping with an A-Z range of problems.

Paddington Green

Product Description: The latest in THE PERFORMERS family saga. PADDINGTON GREEN follows the fortunes of the children of Abel and Dorothea and Lilith's daughter Celia. Abel's first born, Jonah, his heart set on a theatrical career, married Celia. But all his hopes have been lost in his desire to provide for his family...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9780708924860 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, August 1, 1991), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The latest in THE PERFORMERS family saga.

9780671221904 | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 1976, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The latest in THE PERFORMERS family saga.

Paperback:

9781842325261 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The latest in THE PERFORMERS family saga.

9780449232651 | Fawcett Books, August 1, 1977, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: The latest in THE PERFORMERS family saga.

Piccadilly

Product Description: In the eleventh book in The Performers family saga the wedding between Letty Lackland's nephew Harry and Leah Landis, eight yearshis senior, provokes some uncharitable gossip. The Landis family,however, are more worried about the future of their cousins in Hitler's Germany...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9780708927762 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, December 1, 1992), cover price $29.99

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9781842325346 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In the eleventh book in The Performers family saga the wedding between Letty Lackland's nephew Harry and Leah Landis, eight yearshis senior, provokes some uncharitable gossip.

Seven Dials

Product Description: In the twelfth and final volume in The Performers family saga it is October 1946 and along with London, the Lackland and Lucas families are trying to pick up the pieces of a new life. At Queen Eleanor's Hospital, known as "Nellie's," the family, along with the Board of Governors, has to find money to rebuild following theblitz...read more

By Claire Rayner

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9781842325353 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In the twelfth and final volume in The Performers family saga it is October 1946 and along with London, the Lackland and Lucas families are trying to pick up the pieces of a new life.

Shaftesbury Avenue

Product Description: In the tenth instalment in The Performers family saga everyone except Theo Caspar seems to be celebrating the end of the First World War. Too sickened by his experiences in the trenches, Theo cannot join the family's merrymaking. Letty Lackland, now a respected film producer, seizes on the aimless but beautiful Theo as a highly promotable new star...read more

By Claire Rayner

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Hardcover:

9780708927359 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, October 1, 1992), cover price $29.99

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9781842325339 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In the tenth instalment in The Performers family saga everyone except Theo Caspar seems to be celebrating the end of the First World War.

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