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"A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist. Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene's recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret--but it's not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who...
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Forge
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"'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who...
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The Irish Century concludes in this climactic novel, Llywelyn's masterpiece is complete
The Irish Century series is the story of the Irish people's epic struggle for independence through the tumultuous course of the twentieth century. Morgan Llywelyn's magisterial multi-novel chronicle of that story began with 1916, which was followed by 1921, 1949, and 1972. It now concludes with 1999: A Novel of the Celtic Tiger and the Search for Peace. 1999 brings...
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Morgan Llywelyn's masterly epic, the Irish Century, continues in 1949, a sequel to 1916 and 1921.
The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the compelling historical dramas of the twentieth century. 1949 tells the story of Ursula Halloran, a fiercely independent young woman who comes of age in the 1920s. The tragedy of Irish civil war gives way in the 1920s to a repressive Catholic state led by Eamon De Valera. Married women cannot...
11) Aztec revenge
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Aztec historical novels volume 8
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Forge
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Forced to flee after killing a man who was beating a horse, Juan the Lépero, who hides his mixed heritage to escape life as a beggar, embarks on a series of adventures as a highwayman, horse thief, and wealthy caballero before resolving to rescue a man who once saved his life.
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Battle hymn cycle volume 2
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"Against the backdrop of the birth of modern warfare and the painful rebirth of the United States, New York Times bestselling novelist Ralph Peters has created a breathtaking narrative that surpasses the drama and intensity of his recent critically acclaimed novel, Cain at Gettysburg. In Hell or Richmond, thirty days of ceaseless carnage are seen through the eyes of a compelling cast, from the Union's Harvard-valedictorian "boy general," Francis Channing...
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When the village of Yellowtail is attacked and the children taken, it is up to Chief Koracoo and Deputy Gonda to track the war party responsible. Little do they know they are tracking a legendary evil, an old witch-woman who captures children for her own dark purposes. Print run 50,000.
15) Brendan
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New York
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The remarkable life and voyage of Brendan of Clonfert, whose legendary quest to find the Isle of the Blessed is one of the most remarkable and enduring of early Christian tales. From the author of the Irish Century series.
16) Snowbound
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A novelization of the adventures of American explorer John Frémont and his attempt to find a railway route to the West along the 38th parallel finds him trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains, from where he must fight his way out.
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Skye's West volume 12
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Forge
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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Legendary author Loren D. Estleman has built a distinguished career in both the Western and mystery genres. His historical Westerns are instant classics, and The Branch and the Scaffold is another triumph. Brutally efficient judge Isaac C. Parker is determined to rid Arkansas and the Indian Territory of all manner of criminals. But his quest for justice and liberal use of the gallows earn him just as many friends as enemies and take a toll on every...
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In "Massacre at Goliad," a pair of brothers arrives in the Mexican-controlled province of Texas only to witness the outbreak of the revolution, and in "After the Bugles," Joshua struggles to start over in a new republic that is finding its independence challenging.
20) The exile
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Banished from his native Ireland for sedition, Thomas Francis Meagher escapes to 1852 New York, where he campaigns for home rule in Ireland before fighting in the Civil War and becoming secretary to the governor of Montana Territory.
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