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"Regency Romance with a modern sensibility An action-packed romp through London and the English countryside, featuring unique and totally relatable heroines, irresistible love interests, and a cast of family, friends and villains that thoroughly captivates." –Ev Bishop, USA Today bestselling authorNever let a trifle like organized crime stop you from marrying the duke of your dreams and conceiving his baby. Not necessarily in that order.Parental...
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What do you do when someone rips your life apart? You pick up the pieces and put them back together. And sometimes you discover the pieces form a new pattern better than the original. When Hermione Newburn steps through the door at her first ball her expectations go no further than a pleasant evening with a few dances with some friendly gentlemen. What she gets instead is betrothed to a man who only holds her in contempt. Over the next year she is...
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In the celestial realm of Paradise, the atmosphere has grown somber. Nightly discussions among Arab scholars, spanning from the classical to the medieval periods and even the present day, have reached an impasse. Conversations aimed at finding solutions for the earthly world below seem increasingly futile, as if history's lessons have been forgotten or ignored. The vibrant mood once prevalent in Paradise has given way to listlessness and gloom.
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Amid Cold War tensions, a gifted nuclear physicist – poised to become the future father of new weapons – shockingly gains religious faith. Seeking to confess this revelation, he enters the priesthood, finding purpose but facing myriad trials.
His startling 1970s conversion from secret Soviet weapon scientist to devout priest elicits incomprehension and suspicion on all sides. Colleagues shun him as studies now intermix seminary training with...
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Columbus, Slave Trader delves into an eye-opening exploration of history as it uncovers a seldom-told truth: the initial transatlantic slave ships did not traverse from Africa to America with captive Africans. Instead, the journey took a different, darker turn. The very first slave ships embarked from the New World to Europe, carrying a harrowing cargo of 500 captured Native Americans. Their enslaver? Christopher Columbus himself.As the narrative...
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In 1519, Pedro, a Franciscan priest, sets sail from Cuba with Hernan Cortes' brutal expedition to South America. Though filled with passion for adventure and converting native peoples to Catholicism, Pedro is unprepared for the shocking barbarity he is about to encounter.
Accompanying Pedro is his friend Aguilar, who spent eight nightmarish years enslaved by natives after being shipwrecked. As the journey to Mexico City grows increasingly treacherous...
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No longer a schoolboy but now a youth poised for a fresh start, he sensed significant changes brewing in the aftermath of World War II. With the war concluded, nations, both victors and vanquished, were in a flurry to redirect their economies towards peace. He was caught up in the palpable excitement of a transformation on the horizon.
'I'm leaving school this Easter,' he announced to the boys on September Road. Climbing down from the low stone wall,...
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The Sweet Revenge of Marcus Aurelius is based on the true story of a talented and ingenious slave who sold his master. When he was still a young house boy, Marcus Aurelius was taught to read and write by the plantation owner's rebellious twelve-year-old daughter, who also instilled in him a passionate desire for freedom. She even encouraged him to escape, which he did – three different times – thus setting in motion his ultimate and sweetest revenge....
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A riptide of circumstances engulfs the maritime Atlantic fishing village of Herring Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada. It's a time of peace and war, love and loss, life and death, all amidst underlying racial temperatures. Time moves through three generations. Memories of the past submerge the present. And stories are born. After a pilot boat went down in March of 1940, people in the fishing villages remember that fateful night over all of their years, generation...
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C'est l'histoire de Tristano, un jeune diplomate pontifical au passé mystérieux et ténébreux qui, entre stratégies et tromperies, aventures et complots, dans l'Italie de la Renaissance, porte au succès toutes ses entreprises en maîtrisant l'art de la séduction. Mais le moment arrive o le destin lui enverra sa mission la plus importante. C'est alors que Tristano voit sa vie bouleversée ... et qu'il séduit celle qui, immortalisée si énigmatiquement...
11) Dark Persuasion
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Set in 1890 Victorian England, Dark Persuasion tells a romantic story of regret, restitution, and forgiveness between three individuals who are prisoners of their past. Rival brothers seek to win one woman in a fierce competition, each driven by different motives. Charlotte Grey has no idea of their identity or their sudden interest in courting a blind woman. When Patrick Rochester is the victor and wins her hand in marriage, he is haunted by grief...
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She threatens to conquer his heart… When Matthew Donovan, Duke of Brunswick, proposes to Sarah Townsbridge, she's shocked. After all, she's never met him before. One thing is clear though – he obviously needs help. So after turning him down, she decides to get to know him better, and finds out she's right. But fixing a broken man is not the same as adopting a puppy. Least of all when the man in question has no desire to be saved. Matthew has his...
13) Rising Above
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Wilda Stone goes for a hot air balloon ride, and after a heart-stopping crash in California's Owens Valley, realizes she has somehow traveled back through time to 1874.Confused by this turn of events, Wilda accepts help from stoic Hal Grantham, who promises to take her to the silver mining town of Cerro Gordo. A sandstorm makes it impossible for them to reach their destination they seek shelter in a cave. In the modern day world Wilda is from, this...
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Love is never out of fashion …Felicity Dawkins is determined to save her dress shop, Madame Follette's, from ruin. Times and styles have changed, but the upcoming coronation of King George IV is just the opportunity she needs to bring it back into vogue.Evan Hewes, Earl of Carmarthen, also has big plans for Follette's dress shop: he intends to tear it down to make way for the grand new boulevard he's building. All he has to do is persuade Felicity.She...
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Un amor que solamente un cuento de hadas puede crear...
Un amor que solamente un cuento de hadas puede crear... Lady Delilah Everly no ha tenido una vida tan maravillosa como algunos podrían creer. El mal ni siquiera empezó a describir a su madre o como debería tratar a las personas que se suponía tenía que amar.
A Dalilah se le endureció el corazón y aprendió pronto a depender de sí misma comenzando a adquirir las habilidades necesarias...
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Que se passe-t-il lorsqu'un prince tombe amoureux d'une giroflée? Vous êtes invités... Le Salon de Fortuna reçoit la célébration d'une fête de Noël. Tous ses membres sont invités ainsi que leurs invités spéciaux. Pour une nuit, seuls les hommes seront autorisés à entrer dans les murs sacrés de l'enfer du jeu. Tout est possible quand la magie est dans l'air et que l'amour est le plus fort de tous les attraits. Entrez dans le salon et...
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Katherine y Bennett continúan cruzando caminos y palabras entre ellos. Las chispas vuelan y en poco tiempo la pasión comienza a gestarse entre ellos. Esto podría llevarlos a encontrar el amor o podría terminar siendo su ruina.
Lady Katherine Wilson nunca esperó heredar una granja de caballos, pero acepta el regalo y la oportunidad de continuar el legado de su abuela. Ella decide criar las yeguas de la granja y solo un semental lo hará. Infortunadamente,...
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Rhona Maclean dreams of being swept off her feet by a highlands hero: a man who is handsome, strong and brave and loves her more than life itself. Those dreams collapse into ashes when she is stolen from her home one dark night and delivered into the hands of a warrior from a rival clan.Calum Stewart has long planned his revenge on the Macleans for the murder of his beloved sister and his brother, and he cares not for the feelings of one frightened...
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Magical History Tour volume 15
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The latest volume of this educational graphic novel series takes readers on a journey to archeological digs the world over!
Join modern-day siblings Annie and Nico as they learn about dinosaurs, extinction, and the people who discovered the dino bones. Featuring jokes, brief historical bios, a timeline of events, and more in this educational and entertaining middle grade graphic novel - perfect for reluctant readers!
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A story of an Erotic Suspense, Romantic Erotica, Fantasy, Urban, BDSM, Fiction Anthologies Westerns, Paranormal Romance Poetic Folklore, Interracial Black & African American, Literary Criticism, Gothic Horror Futuristic, LGBTQ+ Short Stories for Lesbian, Humorous Victorian, New Adult College Women's Psychological Mysteries Fairy Tale Collections, Transgender Contemporary Western Bisexual, Poetry Teen Young European Geography Cultures Loners Outcasts...
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