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The Price of Pride: A Pride & Prejudice VariationIn Love with His Brother's Betrothed...As far as Fitzwilliam Darcy is concerned, the only good thing to come of Elizabeth Bennet's bitter refusal of his heart and his hand was his new resolve to prove himself a better man. He'd done it, too, by...
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The Price of Freedom in 1848The Price of Freedom in 1848 is a historical novel based on the story of seventy-five people being held as slaves who were freed by their Quaker master upon his death. One of the central themes of The Price of Freedom in 1848 is...
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The Pride and the AnguishSingapore, November, 1941. They called it the "Gibraltar of the Far East"-a British rock that could not be taken. But suddenly, in a lightning blow, Singapore may be defeated. Call it incompetence or call it false pride. It doesn't really matter. Just as the...
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The HighlanderBorn in the Highlands, Kuini thought his life was simple. You hunt and you fight, defending your towns against the raids of the Lowlanders and then raiding their lands in turn. His father was the Warriors' Leader, and he wanted to be just like...
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The Legendary Kokoweef Mountain Underground River of Gold: The Search ContinuesFearing discovery by others of his extraordinary find, Earl Dorr set off an explosion in 1927 that sealed a cave entrance in Kokoweef Peak in the Ivanpah Mountain Range. He had followed a treasure map given to him by two Indians and rediscovered within...
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The ShipReprint of the ed. published by Sun Dial Press in 1944.Author: C. S. ForesterPublisher: Simon PublicationsPublished: 01/20/2001Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.70w x 0.73dISBN: 9781931313179This title is not returnable
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The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826.It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840,...
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel"So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." - The Washington Post A spellbinding story about two gifted orphans - in love with each other since they can remember - whose childhood talents...
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The Secret of Willow Castle: A Historical Gothic Romance NovelWhen Rebecca Lennox receives a proposal from Sir Montague Chastain, she welcomes the chance to escape from poverty - but her new home is a maze of dark secrets, and temptation beckons in the form of her husband's cousin Mervyn. As she battles against...
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The Manhattan Island Clubs: A John Le Brun Novel, Book 3In the summer of 1906, a distinguished member of one of New York's most prestigious and powerful men's clubs - the Metropolitan Club - is found with his throat slashed, murdered within the club's walls. By all eyewitness accounts, the murder is another member...
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The Lace Maker's SecretGreed, Uncertainty, and Death Get Tangled in the Mystery of a Rare Piece of Belgian Lace"In this heartfelt tale of labor and love, Ernst produces one of her most winning combinations of historical evocation and clever mystery."-Kirkus ReviewsCurator Chloe Ellefson needs distraction from the...
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The Iraqi Enigma: "The Story of Enheduanna, the World's First Published Poet"In the 1920's, a British archeologist makes a shocking discovery in the Iraqi desert Leonard Woolley, a brilliant archeologist and master spy, was sent deep into Ottoman territory in World War I. Now the war is over and Mesopotamia has become Iraq. Woolley, appointed...
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The Officer's Affair: A novel of World War IIEngland 1944.For more than two years, Rachel Lock has waited for her husband to return from the battlefields of Italy. When at last he arrives, she is devastated to find he is a different man, a man she cannot love. Disabled and embittered, Danny...
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The Noise of War: A Tale of Ancient RomeRome, 105 B.C. One of the only survivors of Rome's most crushing military defeat, Quintus Sertorius is thrust back into the fray against the barbarians who caused it. The Roman army is now under the leadership of the brilliant and charismatic Gaius Marius, who...
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The Muralist's GhostIn 1941, Maxo Vanka is commissioned to paint murals in a tiny church near Pittsburgh. The job is perfect until a ghost that only he can see returns to terrify him in the deep midnight hours as he works. It is the second time...
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The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XV: 2019 Annual (1898-1917)Part XV: Mark Mower, Thomas Fortenberry, Robert Perret, Tracy J. Revels, Robert Stapleton, Peter Coe Verbica, Maurice Barkley, Edward A. Enstrom, William Todd, Roger Riccard, Kelvin Jones, Arthur Hall, Jack Grochot, David Marcum, Dick Gillman, Will Murray, Tim Symonds, Mike Hogan, Leslie Charteris and...
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The Magic Bullet: A Locked Room MysterySt. Paul, Minnesota. October 1, 1917. High above the city, a renowned local financier named Artemis Dodge lies facedown on the floor of his armored penthouse sanctuary, a single bullet hole in his head. Thirty stories up, in the city's tallest building, and not...
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The Star and the CrossBorn into a loving, wealthy German family, Katarina Von Rahmel, protected and cherished, becomes a prima ballerina but finds her career destroyed by the horrors of war. Betrayed by the Nazi officer she has married, she escapes a prison camp and joins her brother...
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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 SeparationResearching the war between Britain and Nazi Germany, which lasted from May 1940 to May 1941, historian Stuart Gratton becomes intrigued by the enigma of J.L. Sawyer, an obscure figure who played a key part in bringing the conflict to its conclusion. As he...
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