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34601) The Warlord's Bride
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Lady Roslynn knows not what to expect of her future husband, the infamous "Bear of Brecon." Offered in marriage to the powerful Welsh lord by the king, Roslynn fears the worst. She has no right to hope for a love match, but in her heart the lady dreams of a home and family of her very own....
One look at Lord Madoc of Llanpowell makes her blood run hot. The rugged warrior proves a passionate lover and attentive husband--but too soon turns cold and...
34602) Two College Friends
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Two College Friends (1871) is a novel by Frederick W. Loring. Published in the last year of the author's life, Loring's debut novel is a powerful story of male friendship and homosexual desire that shifts from college campus to battlefield in a series of diary entries, letters, and narrative sections. Partly inspired by Loring's life at Harvard, the novel was dedicated to his estranged friend William Chamberlain, who likely served as a model for the...
34603) Levi's War
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A story of courage and bravery from a Jew behind enemy lines during the Second World War.
How many secrets can one family hold?
Levi Horowitz isn't a natural-born soldier. But, in November 1938, Berlin is a volatile place for a Jew, and the talented young musician secures passage to Switzerland. Instead, Levi is taken to a Danish border checkpoint and from then on, his war becomes secret, even from those he loves best.
In 2017, a recording emerges,...
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Extrait de la préface de Colette Braeckman :
« Tout est vrai dans ce livre et, cependant, il se lit comme un roman. Pardon : c'est un roman, un vrai. Avec des héros de chair, de passion et d'idéal, comme Zwig ou Vicky, des traîtres, des tueurs, des mercenaires, des forces de l'ombre qui tirent les ficelles et récoltent honneurs et profits.
Durant des années, l'auteur a vécu dans la région des Grands Lacs. Il a tout vu, tout retenu : la...
34605) The Last Matriarch: A Novel
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"In the tradition of Jean Auel, this well-researched novel authentically recreates the world of the Clovis people." -Publishers Weekly
These children had never seen a tapir. They had never seen a mammoth.
So reflects Willow, clan elder of the Clovis tribe, hunters and gatherers who lived on the grassy plains of the great Southwest more than eleven thousand years ago. Looking back on her life, Willow tells the story of when the land was abundant...
34606) Pagan King
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From the author of The Last King series.
The year is AD641 and the great Oswald of Northumbria, bretwalda over England, must battle against an alliance of the old Britons and the Saxons led by Penda of the Hwicce, the victor of Hæ∂feld nine years before, the only Saxon leader seemingly immune to Oswald's beguiling talk of the new Christianity spreading through England from both the north and the south.
Alliances will be made and broken, and the...
34607) Beginning with Cannonballs
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In the 1940s, in segregated Knoxville, Tennessee, Gail (white) and Hanna (black) shared a crib in Gail's parents' house, where Hanna's mother, Sophie, was the live-in maid. When the girls were four, Sophie taught them to swim, and soon they were gleefully doing cannonballs off the diving board, playing a game they'd invented based on their favorite Billie Holiday song.
By the time they're both in college, however, the two friends have lost...
34608) Thunder At Dawn
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A heart-pounding First World War naval thriller featuring the rebel Captain Cochrane Smith1917: After three years, the outcome of the Great War is poised on a knife-edge. David Cochrane Smith, captain of the armoured cruiser HMS Thunder, is patrolling off the coast of South America. But then he attacks and sinks the Gerda, a neutral ship in a neutral port. Smith already has a reputation as a maverick and now he faces professional ruin for the sinking....
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Grace Baxter novels volume 2
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Surviving the 1941 Blitz and the predator in her small Shropshire village, policeman's daughter Grace Baxter moves to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Situated on the northern bank of the River Tyne, the ancient northeast city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius - named for the Emperor Hadrian who built the famous wall right at the edge of the then civilized world. No matter its later history as a wool trade, then coal mining center, and the ship...
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A notorious rake
Meets a spirited spinster…At a weekend shooting party, where the guests are as determined to bag a marriage partner as they are a pheasant, two attendees are under siege. The Duke of Kingsford from a clutch of desperate debutantes, and Charlotte FitzRoy from her matchmaking mother! A pretend courtship between them should keep the others at bay, but an unexpected, impassioned kiss may just bring about the marriage they both sought...
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One of the world's most legendary and elusive treasures, sought after for centuries.
An ancient mystery.
A Lost Treasure.
A Hidden City.
An impossible location.
An unimaginable adventure.
Included in Aztec and Mayan legends, Conquistadors had heard rumors of its existence when exploring the New World, but never found it.
During World War 2, Nazi inspired archaeologists were convinced they had pinpointed its location. They packed a U-Boat with supplies...
34612) Skye Cameron
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In New Orleans, a young woman uncovers a family conspiracy only to find solace in a man with a dangerous past. In nineteenth-century New England, flame-haired Skye Cameron was proud to be named for the misty island in the Scottish Hebrides where her father had been born-but it was the Creole heritage of her seductive mother, Louise, that would determine her destiny. In the wake of her father's death, with finances dwindling, Louise has accepted...
34613) Atado a la tierra
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Un hombre con genes Thaliano–Justine es abandonado en el planeta tierra. Tiene la nave espacial y la escondió en la espesura de Texas. Debe sobrevivir en este planeta violento y regresar para destruir a los Justine y vengar a su madre y a Thalia. Toma el nombre de MacDonald y rescata a Rolfe durante una pelea de bar. Se une a Rolfe en el comercio de pieles hasta que se termina. Se vuelven comerciantes hasta que un asalto kiowa destruye sus bienes....
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Matthew's Secret is a vivid and captivating tale of the struggles and triumphs of Oregon Trail pioneers who risked everything to make a better life for themselves and their families. In this inspirational historical fiction, young Matthew Evans embarks on a treacherous journey with his family and a group of emigrants through the American frontier of 1845.
As Matthew confronts daily challenges, he matures and grows in ways he never could have imagined....
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From the imagination of Liz Adams: A spicy, paranormal retelling of Cinderella
You have until midnight…
Her wicked stepmother makes her do unspeakable things. Thank goodness.
In this dream realm, men are afflicted with an illness that can only be treated by a daily regimen of drinking a woman's essence straight from the source. Married men are safe, their wives happy. But single men must line up to benefit from tasting Alice's elixir and must...
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Extrait: "Pierre s'engouffra dans le Métro. Foule brutale et fiévreuse. debout, près de l'entrée, serré dans un banc de corps humains et partageant l'air lourd qui passait par leurs bouches, il regardait sans les voir les voûtes noires et grondantes sur lesquelles glissaient les prunelles luisantes du train."
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Two Jewish brothers plan futures full of achievement and maybe fame. But Warsaw in the summer of 1939 is no place for dreamers.
Ian is thrown west to Paris. There, he unexpectedly falls in love with Alicia, a mysterious Frenchwoman, but then must leave her to race across France to safety in Casablanca. Daniel ends up in the Siberian Gulag, where he faces endless blizzards, starvation, and the often-lethal cruelties of guards and fellow prisoners....
34618) Gabrielle Roy
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In 1945, Gabrielle Roy skyrocketed to fame and fortune when her first novel, The Tin Flute, was an instant hit. Over 700,000 copies sold in the United States, and the book was awarded the prestigious Prix Fna in France. In Canada, The Tin Flute received a Governor Generals Award. Gabrielle Roy dedicated herself to her vocation as a writer.
34619) Anna's Story
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An immigrant woman reflects on her past in Germany before, during, and after World War II, as well as finding love, family, and a future in America.
This is the remarkable life story of Anna Burkardt McKay, who was born in Germany before WWII and who moved to the United States as an American war bride in 1947 to raise a family on a small cattle ranch in Nevada. Through a childhood in Hochst, Germany, where fond memories mingle with remembrances of...
34620) The Ride of My Life
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"The godfather of going big reveals all in this incredible autobiography." - --Tony Hawk
"Today I have a new American hero, and his name is Mat Hoffman. Read this book and you'll know why." - --Johnny Knoxville of Jackass
"[T]he autobiography of an extremist--narrow, fierce, and in flat contradiction to most of the laws of nature." - --James Parker, Boston Sunday Globe
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