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38081) Look Sharpe!
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Seafaring historical adventure, perfect for fans of Julian Stockwin, Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell."A real adventure story, the like of which I have not read in many a year. Suspend reality, hold on & enjoy the adventure" – R.P. Smith, Amazon reviewer.***Henry Sharpe is a recently bereaved and bankrupt English earl who travels to the Caribbean to help his uncle run his sugar plantation. When he arrives, he finds his uncle has given up on...
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"Se me ha ordenado por su consejo ir a la Torre, un lugar más apto para un falso traidor que para un súbdito verdadero, lo que, por lo que se, lo quiera o no, aún ante este reino lo soy", escribió la Princesa Isabel Tudor en su carta de última hora a su hermana la Reina María mientras los guardias esperaban para transportarla a la Torre de Londres.
La reina Isabel es tal vez la soberana más legendaria y celebrada en la historia inglesa. Aún...
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For fans of Downton Abbey.
A lush historical novel set in Victorian England, When It Rained at Hembry Castle is the story of an aristocratic family, secrets that dare not be told, and the wonder of falling in love. When the 8th Earl of Staton dies, his eldest son, the unreliable Richard, inherits the title and the family's home-Hembry Castle. The Earl's niece, the American-born Daphne, is intrigued by Edward Ellis, a rising author with a first-hand...
38084) ViCré
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Les faits vécus par Hélios et ses amis se déroulent entre l'Antarctique, le Mexique et la Roumanie. Différents ennemis émergent de l'ombre, certains plus menaçants que d'autres. Almane forge de nouvelles alliances afin de se préparer à la vague grandissante qui se dirige vers elle… Les conséquences de l'ouverture de la Porte du Temps se ressentent toujours mais le présent cache encore de nombreux secrets que nos héros découvriront. Divinité...
38085) La estación del pantano
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Este libro inventa una hipótesis: ¿qué sucedió durante el año y medio en que Benito Juárez, quien acabaría siendo el primer presidente indígena de México, vivió desterrado en Nueva Orleans? Es en ese «hueco marcado por el punto y aparte» en la autobiografía de Juárez donde comienza la narración. Acompañado por un pequeño grupo de exiliados políticos, Juárez desembarca en 1853 en esa ciudad hedionda que, situada a orillas de un pantano,...
38086) Becoming Zhivago
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This is a love story filled with humor and foreboding. It is a story of our time when the illusion of enduring peace and prosperity was possible. Journey with a youth flowering in the 60's as he becomes a doctor in a tiny town on the north California coast. Here he must confront the limits of mortality while he continues to mature as a man and a poet. This is a story of our time and the descent into a vision of a lost America. It is a reminder that...
38087) Hidden History of Pittsburgh
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When Mark Twain visited in 1884, he claimed to spy a little bit of hell in Pittsburgh's smoky appearance. Twain's observations are among the many riveting firsthand accounts and anecdotes to be found in the archives of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Great War hit home after the sinking of the Lusitania, which carried more than a dozen Pittsburgh residents. A few years later, cheering throngs of black and white residents lined downtown streets to...
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Few figures in the past quarter-century have played a more significant role in American foreign policy than Colin Powell. He wielded power at the highest levels of the most important foreign policy bureaucracies: the Pentagon, the White House, the joint chiefs, and the state department. As national security advisor in the Ronald Reagan administration, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and secretary of state...
38089) Price of Discovery
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Erin Price is determined to find a big, juicy story to prove she's a worthy journalist, and a sexy stranger living in an eerie Victorian house in the middle of nowhere seems like just the break she needs. But a competing journalist and a deeply secretive family force Erin to break every rule to uncover the truth. However, the reality may be more than she can handle.
The last thing Drakor wants is to be on Earth. After all, it's where his best friend...
38090) Hippocrates
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Hippocrates, who was born in 460 BCE and lived during the Golden Age of Greece, is known as the Father of Modern Medicine. He is responsible for changing the way that ancient Greeks thought about medicine. No longer were illnesses seen as punishments from the gods or the result of superstition. Hippocrates' method of treating illnesses was based on observation. His ideas that the parts of the body functioned as a whole in sickness and in health were...
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Bethlehem's bucolic countryside and bustling suburbs reflect the town's rich history. Uncover the stories that shaped the town from its Dutch settlement to today. Nathaniel Adams, along with his wife, Rhogenia, opened a stagecoach inn and became the first postmaster in what is now Delmar. The opening of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad broadened travel and freight transportation. The LaGrange family farmed the same land for over two centuries and...
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Ariane plonge dans un coup de théâtre au château, Ariane, Ying et Alex ont la chance de monter un reportage en France au sujet de l'assassinat d'Agnès Sorel, celle que l'on appelait la reine sans couronne, et qui fut l'amante du grand roi Charles VII vers 1430. Cette «Belle Agnès» mourut empoisonnée au mercure! Avec l'approbation d'une troupe de théâtre, qui va jouer ce drame en version vaudeville, l'équipe de Caméra Danger est autorisée...
38093) To So Few - Hunter
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Hunter is the eighth book of Cap Parlier's epic To So Few series of historical novels. In the wake of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the American volunteer fighter pilots, serving in the Royal Air Force in England seek transfer to the U.S. Army Air Forces and are, told to be patient; transfer will come in time. Losses and defeats continue to mount for the Allies-Singapore, Hong Kong, Tobruk, Malaya, the Philippines and Wake Island fell to...
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«Il aurait voulu le silence, la solitude, le calme. Enfin se trouver seul avec Joa comme avant, l'avoir à lui, bien à lui, sans aucun partage...Alors, il regretta amèrement la venue de l'enfant. Apparut alors le spectre de la légende dont son enfance avait été bercée. C'était une vieille histoire racontée par la nourrice ethnique qui s'occupait de lui quand sa mère était aux champs. Elle racontait la destinée prodigieuse d'un enfant béni...
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After the Ball is that rare true story that reads like an epic novel, a sweeping chronicle of an era, and an intimate account of the hope and betrayal of a son whose father gave him everything- except the training to find his way in territory ruled by the rapacious.
James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three in 1899 when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society. Only five years later, he fell from grace in a...
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By the time Loretto discovered the cache of WWII letters, her father had been dead almost 50 years. She'd accepted she would never know him. That changed when she decided to type his 500+ letters for her siblings. With each letter she heard her father's voice. With each place she visited, each person she met, the 50 years without him melted away and the enduring gap that had opened between them when she was 4-years-old gradually began to close.
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38097) Mail Order Mama
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When Emily's mother decides to marry, her fiancé says that twenty year old Emily needs to find a new place to live before the wedding. Emily has always been exceedingly shy and has no idea what to do. She runs across an advertisement for mail order brides and responds, hoping to find a good situation. Benjamin lost the love of his life just months before. He and his girls need a new mama in their house. Will Emily be the mama they need?
38098) Emerald
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She had nothing left to lose. Or so she thought...
Charlotte knew nothing of her parents except that they'd died when she was a child.
And when her aunt's will leaves no provision for her, Charlotte must leave the only home she's known for the uncertain protection of an uncle she's never met at his manor house, Plas Melyn.
Plas Melyn seems cold and unwelcoming, but when acts of violence that can only be directed at her occur, Charlotte has to wonder...
38099) Scorpions in Corinth
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Philocles novels volume 2
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Murder with a sting in the tail.
Popular playwright Philocles and his actors are hired to take his latest play to Corinth to promote goodwill between the two cities. But on arrival, their guide and fixer Eumelos drops dead - poisoned.
Philocles is convinced someone is out to sabotage the play. To find out who - and why - he must first uncover the murderer.
But in Corinth the ruling oligarchs seem more interested in commerce than justice. And with...
38100) Hamilton
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Though not incorporated as a city until 1857, Hamilton can trace its roots back to the founding of Fort Hamilton by Gen. Arthur St. Clair in 1791.Throughout its history, Hamilton has been "The Greatest Little City of its Kind in the World," "The Postmark of Distinctive Trademarks," and "Known in the World's Markets." In the time between the close of the Civil War and the beginning of World War II, the city thrived. Led by steadfast pioneers and industrious...
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