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Miss Juliet Adams would be living on the streets if not for the kindness of the dowager Countess of Wyndam. Her father died leaving her penniless and without any prospects. The countess offered her a position as her companion and she leapt at the opportunity. She's content with her life, but she's also no fool. She fully realizes a day may come where she won't have the protection of the countess and then where will that leave her? So she's made plans,...
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One Hour, one waltz, and several passionate, unforgettable kisses….There was only one time in her life that Lady Claresta Copeland enjoyed the freedom of nobody knowing who she was-when she attended a masquerade ball disguised as Juliet. There, she met her Romeo. The romance lasted not above an hour before her maid yanked her away but Claresta cherished that night and thought never to see her Romeo again, until he appeared before her in London.When...
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Patience Storm fell in love with her father's protégé, a young man with dreams of becoming a fighting legend. However, Godrick Gunnery wasn't what he seemed... Betrayed and heartbroken, Patience vowed never to see him again...until... four years later, the Storm family is in financial straits and her brother needs to win the Fight of the Century purse to keep them off the streets. There's only one man who has the skills needed to train him…Now,...
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This historic book will familiarize you with one of the very mysterious and secret societies in the world of all time: Freemasonry. There are many myths and legends surrounding this highly secretive organization all over the world. This makes people scared and, at the same time, inquisitive to some degree. We will try to dispel your fears and an air of mystery about Freemasonry, showing you the Freemasonry of the 18-19 centuries in detail from the...
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Gladiators Playing to the Six O'clock News is a fictional account loosely based on a year in the life of a young officer in Viet Nam. It has gritty language and adult situations graphically depicted in the lives of GIs at war. It follows what Lt. Marc Bowman has to go through from the time he lands in Viet Nam till he boards the Freedom Bird bringing him back to the states (The World). Although the events, situations and people in the book are mostly...
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Embark on a captivating journey through the ancient world with Rachel, a riveting tale set in the 1st Century AD during the tumultuous time of Jesus and Roman occupation.
Born to a Jewish family in 48 AD on the mystical island of Crete, Greece, Rachel is chosen by the enigmatic Magras to be initiated into the spiritual and martial arts at a young age. In the winter of 62 AD, a boat carrying two mysterious passengers-Josephus, a young priest on...
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At the tender age of ten, Mara Meimaridi's life took an unexpected turn when her aunt, famously known as "Katina the Witch" in Smyrna, guided her through a mesmerizing past-life regression. Under hypnosis, Meimaridi accessed vivid glimpses of a different existence-of being a Jewish Cretan girl named Rachel, deeply entwined in a profound love with a young man named Yusfus. But the passage of time carried Meimaridi through various pursuits-education,...
8) Little Book
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With a lyrical style designed to echo Ralph Waldo Emerson's own, "Little Book" continually swings from present to past, from the mind of the legendary literary figure as he muses and broods over the creation of his first book, "Nature," to the major events of his life leading up to that point. The colorful figure of his Aunt Mary, his grief over his first wife's death, his trip to England and Scotland to meet Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Thomas Carlyle,...
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The enthralling story of three unforgettable young adults living on the cusp of great change in early 20th-century Mongolia. A captivating, beautiful saga from debut novelist Erin Jamieson about having dreams, finding love, and learning to survive in a harsh, ever-changing place.In the winter of 1917, Bolormaa is introduced to the man she is to marry on her eighteenth birthday, over mutton stew and steaming buuz. She has spent her entire life in the...
10) Wolf Pack
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For Aniyvwiya brothers Kiyuga and Anagalisgi, change and turmoil is all they have ever known. With their parents taken from them at an early age, they are raised by their grandmother in a culture facing threats from all sides as the white-skinned men war for dominance over land they claim as their own.Kiyuga's destiny lies in the path of the warrior, going to battle to protect his people and providing meat for his family. Anagalisgi, however, travels...
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The Fall of France was almost complete. Thousands of troops were being evacuated from the port of St. Nazaire. Those crammed aboard the RMS Lancastria were anxious to get home. But before the ship could get under way it was hit by a German dive bomber. Within minutes the Lancastria went down to the sea. The sinking cost the lives of more than both the Titanic and Lusitania combined. The greatest maritime tragedy in British history, and the largest...
12) Trade Wind
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In M.M. Kaye's Trade Wind, when Boston bluestocking Hero Athena Hollis travels to Zanzibar to visit her uncle, an American consul, she arrives filled with self-righteousness and bent on good deeds. She believes that slavery is wrong and determined to do what she can to stop it. But she soon finds that maintaining her ideals is not so easy.
Then she meets Rory Frost, a cynical, wicked, shrewd and good-humored trader in slaves. What is Hero to make...
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Common Thread - Uncommon Women begins in 1863 at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. This historic saga covers four generations of women, beginning with the author's great-grandmother, Minerva, who was a Cherokee Native American.
Minerva warned her daughter, "Jennie, they put my people on a reservation, took away their pride, and left them with no way to defend themselves. Don't you ever let anyone hurt you or your children."
Jennie,...
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Aidan At Manassas follows the adventures of Aidan Whitehand and the Georgia Guards before, during and after the first battle of Manassas.Woven into the story are strong elements of family tragedy, betrayal and revenge. Aidan's relationship with General Jackson develops. He is given an independent command and orders to find and kill Union shirkers. The second part describes Aidan's and Graham's journey to Augusta, Georgia and his visit with his mother,...
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In 1956, southern Alabama, Frederick Harris and Sadie, 5 months pregnant, lived in his grandfather's large Victorian style home. His grandfather was a field slave before The Ratification of The 13th Amendment in 1865. Fred's grandmother was a doctor and born a free slave in the North Carolina in 1900. Fred, and his father, The Minister discussed the gruesome and horrifying acts placed upon the black people only, that the Klu Klux Klan felt they had...
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Book 04 in The Spinster's Society series - A Historical Romance BookMiss Sophia Taylor has a secret. In fact, the gossip column writer and daughter of London's most notorious tailor has more than one secret, and they're all about to be revealed… They will star the most untouchable member of the exclusive Men of Nashwood: The Duke of Cort. For Sophia, it's a forbidden love that can never see the light of day.But in the night, passions are set free.Freedom...
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Book 01 in The Spinster's Society series - A Historical Romance BookLady Lorena Cullip is the definition in Mr. Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary for the word: curious. One might also find her name under1- scandalous2- disastrous, 3- slightly mad. But the latest rumors about the lady have all of London holding their breaths. She's begun a Spinster's Society. Who'd have ever thought the daughter of a duke could have so much fun? In Lorena's opinion,...
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Book 03 in The Spinster's Society series - A Historical Romance BookLady Genevieve 'Genie' Toft's heart has always beat for one gentleman in particular. The Duke of Valdeston. Determined to finally win his love, she and her Spinster Sisters set out to trap the elusive duke.A scheme that might involve the occasional ax and willingness do whatever it takes to woo him. But her plans and heart are shattered in a single moment that leaves Genie lost and...
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Miss Madeline Lacey-world traveler and spinster-is a far cry from the other young ladies making their debut in London society. But instead of wilting into an aging wallflower, she surprises everyone by attracting the attention of a wealthy country gentleman and a newly made rough-around-the-edges earl. Except one lacks an adventurous spirit and the other is allegedly betrothed to the daughter of a marquess. And then there is the problem of what to...
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No confíes en un libertino
Annie Burrows
Su fama de libertino era de sobra conocida…
Se rumoreaba que lord Deben, que necesitaba un heredero y era el libertino más afamado e impenitente de Londres, se había olvidado de su predilección por las amantes casadas y estaba dedicando toda su atencion a seducir a jóvenes inocentes y virtuosas.
Sin embargo, si lord Deben creía que Henrietta Gibson iba a acudir al chasquido de sus dedos, estaba muy...
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