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Daughters of England volume 17
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The Philippa Carr titles are a series of fictional journals kept by the women of one family, beginning during the English Reformation and continuing through World War II. In this one Lucinda and her friend Annabelinda are in finishing school in Europe, but leave their troubles behind them to flee back to England on the brink of WWI.
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Few authors have achieved such renown as World Fantasy Life Achievement honoree and Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Andre Norton. With the love of readers and the praise of critics, Norton's books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Tamaris Penfold was hired as a companion to Alain Sauvage's frail but lovely half-sister, Victorine. She would be a "friend" who would try to protect her from another scandalous involvement - like the...
4) The sleeper
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"David Ashby spent the last war killing Germans, and the years after falling in love with one. By the time Hitler comes to power, David has a half-German daughter, Karen, whom he loves more than life itself. So when Europe begins to slide toward war, and it becomes unsafe for an American to stay in the Fatherland, David does the only thing he can: He flees--and takes his daughter with him. David takes refuge in England, becoming a teaching master...
5) Wicked
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Victorian fairy tale trilogy volume 1
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Shannon Drake is back-;with a story steeped in darkness, danger and desire
THE EARL WAS KNOWN AS A BEAST
Camille Montgomery is aware of the wicked man's reputation. But as an expert in antiquities, she also knows his family's Egyptian artifacts are the finest in England. The problem is, her wayward stepfather knows this, too-;and he's determined to steal them. So when he's caught in the act of robbing the so-called Beast of Carlyle, Camille must...
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Irrepressible heiress and intrepid sleuth Francesca Cahill moves from her own glittering world of Fifth Avenue to the teeming underbelly of society, a place of pride, passions...;and sometimes deadly perversion.
Despite the misgivings of her fiancé, Calder Hart, Francesca cannot turn away from a threat that is terrorizing the tenement neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. A madman has attacked three women, but while the first two victims survived, the...
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Francesca Cahill novels volume 8
Thorndike Press large print romance
A Francesca Cahill novel volume 08
Deadly volume 8
Thorndike Press large print romance
A Francesca Cahill novel volume 08
Deadly volume 8
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Called to the home of her fiancé's former mistress late one night, Francesca finds her curiosity piqued. But upon arrival, she is shocked to find Daisy Jones's bloodied body...;and even more devastated when the evidence points to one suspect-;her fiancé, Calder.
Francesca cannot-;will not-;believe that Calder is capable of such an act. Still, she is unable to shake her instinctive sense that Calder is lying about something. The police are far less...
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"1935. Rose Manon, an American daughter of the mountains of Nevada, working as a journalist in New York, is awarded her dream job, foreign correspondent. Posted to Paris, she is soon entangled in romance, an unsolved murder, and the desperation of a looming war. Assigned to the Berlin desk, Manon is forced to grapple with her hidden identity as a Jew, the mistrust of her lover, and an unwelcome visitor on the eve of Kristallnacht. And, on the day...
10) Deadly vows
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On the morning of her wedding to Calder Hart, amateur sleuth Francesca Cahill is lured away to a private viewing of a portrait that could destroy her entire family: the nude Hart commissioned of her. Her desperate quest to recover the scandalous portrait leads her into a dangerous trap with no way to escape--until it's too late. And when Francesca finally arrives at the church, it's vacant. She has unintentionally jilted Hart at the altar. When Hart...
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In 1871, nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the Arctic explorer USS Polaris found themselves cast adrift on an ice floe as their ship began to founder. Based on one of the most remarkable events in polar history, Afterlands tells the haunting story of this small society of castaways -- a white and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a Swede, an Englishman, and two Inuit families -- and the harrowing six months they spend marooned in...
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Alexander Vasin novels volume 1
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"A chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history--the Tsar Bomba--a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb, and unravel a conspiracy that could set the world on fire"--
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Gracelin O'Malley trilogy volume 3
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Gracelin O'Malley arrives in 1850s San Francisco, the City of Gold, in the thrilling final novel of Ann Moore's acclaimed historical trilogy With her two children, Gracelin O'Malley travels to post–Gold Rush San Francisco to meet the sea captain who has proposed marriage to her. But when she arrives, he is nowhere to be found. Destitute in a city filled with gangs, disillusioned soldiers, and professional gamblers, Grace takes a position as a...
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"British-occupied Palestine, 1946: Unconvinced by reports that his scientist brother, Raphael, died in a concentration camp, elderly writer Elias Lind persuades a contact in the Jewish resistance to send someone to search for him. Lilya joined the resistance to help form a new state, not to waste time on a fruitless chase at the request of a frail, likely delusional, old man. As her comrades prepare for a major operation, a bitter Lilya accepts her...
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Award-winning author Meagan McKinney weaves a captivating tale of destiny, desire, and a Celtic curse that can only be broken by the enchantment of love in this passionate novel set in nineteenth-century Ireland "You are the guardian of this ring, my son, and upon your shoulders the burden of it falls." The ring bears the fateful sign of the serpent, and ancient Celtic legend decrees that every Trevallyan heir must wed the woman who possesses...
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When the zeppelin transporting journalist Hannah Vogel and her adopted son, Anton, to Switzerland lands in Germany instead, the pair are captured by Ernst Röhm, head of the paramilitary SA, who claims to be the boy's father. Hannah manages to get away from Röhm when Hitler has him arrested; but, having been separated from Anton in the process, Hannah must now search for her son behind enemy lines.
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Hannah Vogel novel volume 04
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Journalist Hannah Vogel is covering the 1938 St. Martin festival when she learns that 12,000 Jewish-Polish citizens are being deported from Germany. She rushes to get the story, only to be kidnapped by the SS and rescued by her presumed-dead lover Lars Lang, whom she's wary of trusting throughout a daring escape plan.
18) A game of lies
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Hannah Vogel novel volume 03
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Posing as a travel reporter to collect Nazi secrets in a Berlin temporarily stripped of anti-Semitic propaganda for the 1936 Olympics, Hannah Vogel forges a romantic relationship with an alcoholic SS officer and is horrified when her mentor is poisoned.
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Summer, 1939. The glittering C̥te d'Azur is having a particularly brilliant season, as the world's wealthiest vacationers collide with Hollywood's illustrious movie stars for the first-ever film festival on the French Riviera. Into this hothouse playground comes an American named Annabel Faucon. Having left a dead-end job and a broken heart back in New York, she's escaped to a summer stint at the fabulous Grand Hotel where her uncle is the manager....
20) Front Sight
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2024.
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In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary drug, it makes some users happy, drives others insane, and...
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