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The wallflower who was never loved...Lady Carol was supposed to marry the Duke of Augustine. Then, shortly before the wedding, the duke committed suicide, citing her for the reason he couldn't go on living anymore. While there was no love lost between them, her situation is not any better when her guardian threatens to send her off to a convent unless she finds someone else to marry. Marriage to a gentleman she barely knows is a risky venture, but...
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Un récit historique époustouflant marqué par la résilience et les moments de grâce.
Lorsqu'en 1666, à tout juste vingt ans, Jacques Lussier quitte Paris pour vivre la grande aventure de la Nouvelle-France, il ne se doute pas des conséquences de son geste.
Le rêve de bâtir un nouveau monde s'impose par sa noblesse, mais nul ne connaît réellement les défis qui l'accompagnent… Après avoir complété ses trente-six mois de service, il...
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Fernando VII ha muerto; España, como de costumbre, se debate en la impotencia. Andrés es un historiador que, junto con su amigo Juan, muerto en extrañas circunstancias. Tras asaltar, ambos, el panteón de El Escorial, tiene la clave de la legitimidad de Isabel II. El ADN de ambos monarcas.
Decide investigar la muerte de su amigo mientras escribe la historia como debió ser. Un ensayo entre la ficción y la realidad que muestra que España no avanza,...
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"...moving descriptions of Éire's [Ireland's] wayward sons and daughters yearning for a sense of belonging in the world." - Alexander Hackett, Montreal Review of Books
"If they ask, you can say we're wily micks who still refuse to be formed into anything other than what the spirits demand. Like the reshaped shoreline after the storm." -
Devin O'Sullivan has returned to his family's home on Grand Island, across from Kingston, Ontario, Canada,...
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Born on a Yorkshire farm in the 1820s, Florrie Clough's life is anything but easy. Yet, her restless spirit and daydreams of a life beyond the confines of her upbringing never waver.
Embark on a journey with Florrie as she breaks free from her humble beginnings, venturing into territories she once only imagined. Destiny smiles upon her, gifting her fame and fortune, allowing her star to burn bright. But when unexpected tragedy befalls, Florrie's...
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In Search of an Absconded Child meticulously paints a vivid portrait of a tumultuous era, immersing readers in the sights, sounds, and emotions of Afghanistan before U. S. involvement. Through skillful storytelling, the novel captures the essence of the human experience. Readers are swept along on an emotional rollercoaster, rooting for Naghma's resilience and hoping for the triumph of justice amidst the chaos.
Caught in a whirlwind of treacherous...
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Anita stared intently at Kofi unconsciously, trying to conceal her affection for him, yet she couldn't.As he stretched his hands and reached out to her, it was obvious that her inviting and prodding eyes were enough for Kofi.She kissed and moaned under her weakened emotions, kissed him passionately, and sunk into his arms like a defeated wrestler.All she thought to be true was a dream; all she saw was a mirage. Life had not been fateful to her.She...
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In 1890, shortly before her twenty-fifth birthday, Elizabeth Portland finds herself abandoned for the second time in her life. Against her better judgement she is persuaded to act as chaperone to an eighteen-year-old society girl to see her safely through a summer on the continent before her coming out season. Caught up in the parry and thrust of society match-making, she has no thought of herself becoming an object of interest, particularly to Hugh...
10) Someday Soon
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Regally beautiful, Lady Alexandra Wilton has refused to wed without love. She will not compromise-until her father dies and his shocking will reveals that Alexandra will lose everything unless she marries his heir. Much to everyone's surprise, the next earl is an upstart, a fiery Highlander just as outraged at the prospect of wedding a frosty Englishwoman as Alexandra is at the very idea of bedding him. But for this romantic lady, the unexpected is...
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A Year Without a Duke The duke has died. Long live the duke! The only problem is no one knows who the new Duke of Beckworth is. All of England wonders, but no one more so than the people who depend upon Beckworth for their livelihood. In 1816, a year so cold that the word "summer" is a cruel joke, that livelihood is even more uncertain. However, they are all about to find out, with the duke away, there is nothing more warming than scandal and love...Forbidden...
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Can she thaw the ice that encases his heart? They call him the Unaffected Earl...Many seek his favor, men and women alike, but few glimpse what lies beneath the Earl of Brantford's aloof exterior. She was the woman everyone wanted...Rose Hardwick was the most sought-after debutante in London until scandal touched her family and made her a social pariah. He alone has the power to help her...Rose is determined to prove her father innocent of the crime...
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A new Marquess, a chance meeting, and a hidden identity… He was simply John Evans when he enlisted ten years ago. But when John returns to England after the war against Napoleon is over, he gains an unexpected title-the Marquess of Lowenbrock. Niece to the former marquess, bluestocking Amelia Weston pretends to be a barmaid for one night as research for the novel she's writing. When one of the tavern's patrons tries to take liberties, a handsome...
14) Dear Stranger
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A case of mistaken identity…During a masked ball, Sophie Crandle's mask gives her the courage she needs to follow the man she expects will propose to her into the gardens, where she brazenly asks him for the one thing that will tell her if she can accept him-a kiss. And what a kiss it is! Her elation turns to horror, however, when she realizes she is kissing the wrong man. The man who has awakened her desire is not the man who is courting her, but...
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"The story of Andraee Geulen and Ida Sterno, who worked with the Committee for the Defense of Jews to hide more than three thousand Jewish children in Belgium during World War II"--
"Based on the true story of two World War II heroines who risked everything to save Jewish children from the Gestapo by hiding them throughout Belgium. ... Young schoolteacher Andraee Geulen secretly defies the Nazis in Belgium who are forcing Jews to wear a yellow Star...
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Honora St. Leger would much rather wield a sword than a needle. But when her girlhood infatuation, Ewan MacEgan, returns to compete for her younger sister's hand in marriage, she's startled by the unexpected yearning the Irish warrior awakens. As a widow, she found no pleasure in the marriage bed, but she cannot deny the forbidden spark between them. All his life, Ewan struggled to become a fighter like his brothers and now, he's competing for land...
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A group of misfits swindle their way into Congress with big talk and big dreams. They mismanaged their budgets, time, and attention. An entire nation fell at their feet. This is a must read to motivate any young person who is interested in joining American politics.
18) La traductora
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Octubre de 1940. El general Francisco Franco planea dirigirse en tren hasta Hendaya, donde se reunirá con Adolf Hitler.
Elsa Braumann es una joven traductora de libros alemanes que subsiste en el Madrid de 1940 al cuidado de su hermana.
Una noche, en la Capitanía de Madrid se requiere a Elsa para una misión de carácter secreto y que está relacionada con el encuentro entre Franco y Hitler.
A lo largo de los siguientes días, Elsa comienza a intimar...
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Rookery Manor, a large imposing country house in Somerset, holds many secrets and a dark tragedy which will lead James on a magical adventure.
He travels back through time and meets Rory, his sister Becky who had lived at Rookery Manor, Mchawi the white witchdoctor Guardian of the Sacred Mountain, and Mtumwa the spirit guide, all of whom will play an important part in James' future.
Adam from the local village doesn't know it yet, but he and James...
20) Bellosguardo
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Enter an opulent world that no longer exists. Stretching from Europe to North Africa to the Hawaiian Islands, Bellosguardo: The Lives of Anna & Huguette Clark is based on a true story. It is a novel of a remarkable American family from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Enabled by one of the richest men of the Gilded Age, the mother-daughter duo lived according to the values and traditions of Old Money, pursuing luxurious privacy and...
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