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The Road to GrantchesterThe captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves, and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London. It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian...
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The Maid's SecretLondon 1884. Victorian industrialist Alexander Glenville is a man with many secrets. Fleet Street reporter Penny Green is tasked with working undercover as a maid in his home, but tragedy strikes when Glenville's daughter is poisoned. Penny's insider knowledge is crucial for Scotland Yard's...
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The Sea-HawkSir Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish sea-faring gentleman, was betrayed by his jealous half-brother. He was then forced to serve as a slave on a Spanish Galley, but was soon liberated by Barbary pirates. After deciding to join the pirates, they give him the name...
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The Red ZThe story follows the journey of a young, Catholic Eastern European family immigrating in the early 1900's from their native Poland to the United States. After an arduous journey first by rail and then by sea, Jan and Emilia land at Ellis Island, New...
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These Thousand HillsWhen These Thousand Hills was published in 1956, The Saturday Review proclaimed it to be so compelling that it is hard indeed to set aside until it has been devoured. Conjuring up the ephemeral world of cattle ranchers in the 1880s, this intimate saga...
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The Witch's Tree'A wonderful book by a fabulous author, very highly recommended.' Louise DouglasA tale as old as time. A spirit that has never rested.Present dayAs a love affair comes to an end, and with it her dreams for her future, artist Selena needs a retreat....
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The Secret KnowledgeA lost musical masterpiece is at the heart of this gripping intellectual mystery by award-winning writer Andrew Crumey. In 1913 composer Pierre Klauer envisages marriage to his sweetheart and fame for his new work, The Secret Knowledge. Then tragedy strikes. A century later, concert...
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The Return of Hunter S. Thompson: An Untold Story of Nazi Hunting, Volume 2 Volume 2Very simply, it was time to bring back Hunter Thompson. The question was what would he do?I thought he would enjoy coming back as a Nazi hunter. Something he would be good at.A commitment he would gladly make. So I have given him that...
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The Red HillA killer who can't be stopped. A request that can't be refused. In 1482 the Englishman Thomas Berrington is living in the last remnants of Moorish Spain. A physician, he is an unwilling friend to the most powerful man in the kingdom. When bodies...
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The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan: A Novel of New AmsterdamWhen Mevrouw Jackie Lambert opens her New Amsterdam tavern in 1626, she jumps aboard a madcap ride through New York history. With a razor-sharp tongue and the tastiest beer on either side of the Atlantic, Jackie spurs the tiny Manhattan settlement toward a head-on...
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The Tribune's CurseIn his extensive series featuring the detecting feats of Decius Caecilius Metellus the younger, set in the ancient Roman Empire, Roberts achieves a very believable modern feeling with his well-researched description of the stories' background. This seventh episode, however, combines a familiar view of...
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The Satapur MoonstoneThe highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill. India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal...
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The Small Fortune of Dorothea QThirty years of family secrets. Three generations of women. One family heirloom that could change everything. When she ran away from her childhood home in Guyana, Rika swore that she would never return. Cut off from her family, she has fought hard to make...
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Tiberius Julius Alexander: A Historical NovelA fictional memoir that skillfully brings to life Roman society in the Near East of the first century, with all its luxurious refinements, brutal realities, competing religious cults, and social unrest.Author: Daniel M. FriedenbergPublisher: Prometheus BooksPublished: 05/25/2010Pages: 213Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.60w...
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The Shadow Bride: A Nicole Rayburn Historical Mystery Book 3In 1782, a ghost ship ran aground in a secluded cove in Cornwall. To this day, no one knows what became of the Aurora's crew or the shadowy woman rumored to be onboard. In 2021, when Kyle inherits his aunt's historic house in Cornwall,...
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The Last ReunionFriendships will be tested when five women come together at a New Year's Eve party after decades apart, in this thrilling story based on a brave group of WWII servicewomen, by the bestselling author of The Silk House Burma, 1945. Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy...
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The Simushir Island IncidentManufacturing and selling illicit drugs is a lucrative business. But what good is being rich if you can't enjoy your wealth? North Korean officers Admiral Pak and General Jang are in charge of an operation that produces high-grade heroin to be sold in the...
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The Stories We Tell: A Homefront MysteryIt's December 1942 and Betty Ahern is enjoying her fledgling career as a private detective, investigating everything from missing jewelry to wandering boyfriends. But when Bell Airplane co-worker Emilia Brewka, whose grandmother recently died, wants Betty to prove the death was murder and not...
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Through Every Bitter SeasonWhat would you do for love? How many lives would you sacrifice? These are the questions that Lancelot has to answer. In the complex, often brutal, world of Arthurian legend, where women are seen as little more than objects, we find the object of...
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The Strumpet WindThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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