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The Marquis of Chase is not a reputable man. He is notorious for his wretched morals and is never received in respectable houses. The ladies of ton would never allow him in their drawing rooms ... though they were more than willing to welcome him into...
Five years ago Trey Bouche found his best friend - with blood on his hands - standing over a body. Although Trey wanted to believe in his friend's innocence, he was forced to testify in court, and Jace was sent to prison for life. Trey returns determined...
The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift...
A magnificent collection from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author: stories from across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination. Steven Millhauser's fiction has consistently, and to dazzling effect, dissolved the boundaries between reality...
It is winter in the mountains of Greece and as the snow falls in the tiny village of Vrisi a coffin is unearthed and broken open, revealing some unexpected remains to the astonished mourners gathered at the graveside. In a village where gossip flows like...
"For over half a century the beautiful, ruined Temple of Apollo has been in the care of the old beekeeper Gabrilis. But when the value of the land soars, he is persuaded through unscrupulous means to sign away his interests - and hours later he meets...
Idyllic but remote, the Greek island of Thiminos seems untouched and untroubled by the modern world. When the battered body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of a cliff, the local police - governed more by archaic rules of honour than by the...
Hermes Diaktoros visits an island which is home to an ancient icon famed for its miraculous powers. But something about the Virgin troubles him, and Hermes calls on an old friend to confirm his suspicions that the icon is a fake. Ready to hand the matter...
A jilted bride weeps on an empty beach, a local doctor is attacked in an isolated churchyard - trouble has come at a bad time to Morfi, just as the backwater village is making headlines with a visit from a national government minister. Fortunately, w...
AThe bestselling author of The Madonnas of Leningrad returns with a breathtaking novel of love, madness, and devotion set against the extravagant royal court of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg. Born to a Russian family of lower nobility, Xenia, an ...
The runaway international No 1 bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's spectacular career and introduced his acclaimed hero, Jack Ryan, in the ultimate submarine adventure. Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia's ultra-secret missile submarine,...
"Jordan Willis, the Earl of Blackmore, has played with the heart of many a society belle--yet one stolen kiss impulsively planted on the soft, irresistible lips of the preacher's daughter proves his undoing. The prim and proper Emily Fairchild's inno...
In the crosshairs of a political bribery investigation, Dempsey Jo Killebrew suddenly finds herself unemployed and the victim of a sleazy smear campaign by her former boss. Dempsey decides to take up her father's offer of flipping a recently inherited...
"Diana Fanshawe has always wanted to be a duchess. She uses Sebastian Iverley to get to his ducal cousin, but finds she can’t forget the brilliant, unconventional viscount and his sizzling kiss. Sebastian Iverley has no time for women until he meets ...
"He was a dangerous man to love—and the last man she thought she'd marry. He was a dangerous man to love—and the last man she thought she'd marry. To prevent a dear friend from wedding the notorious Ian Lennard, Viscount St. Clair, Felicity Taylor set...
Multi-million copy bestseller Barbara Taylor Bradford's glittering new novel of deeply-buried secrets, passionate love, obsession and redemption. Thirty-year old Serena Stone is a talented war photographer who has followed in her famous father's footsteps....
A story of family tensions in a small-town rocked by the antics of a cougar. A heart-warming tale of love in the face of family and friendship, perfect for fans of Cathy Kelly and Maeve Binchy. Divorcee Jennifer Irwin has it all ' a successful interior...
Fans of charming domestic dramas in the vein of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will love Eleanor Hallowell Abbott's short story collection The Sick-a-Bed Lady. Filled with industrious heroines, resilient families, and budding romance, these inspiring...
In this classic Western set in Canada, a crew of motley misfits and outsiders set off on a two-month expedition in search of a legendary cache of gold. It seems too good to be true, but there are a few hints that the tall tales they've heard about the...
This refreshingly innovative take on the age-old theme of star-crossed lovers is set during the period when Mexico and the U.S. were warring over the control of California. The lovely Doña Chonita is loyal to her family's pro-Mexico position in...
English-born author Ada Cambridge lived much of her life in the rough pioneer towns of Australia, and the formative life experiences she had along the way helped shape her preternatural gifts of observation. She brings her talent for unforgettable ch...
American author Timothy Shaw Arthur gained widespread acclaim in the nineteenth century by penning a series of stories with strong moral themes. The collection Words for the Wise brings together a number of these simple, parable-like tales on topics ...
It is virtually impossible to overstate Edgar Allan Poe's importance in the field of American literature. He is credited not only with inventing or significantly advancing the short story, detective fiction, and science fiction, but also with being one...
The Purse is a short story that makes up part of Honore de Balzac's epic cycle The Human Comedy. Daydreaming while working on a ladder, the painter Hippolyte Schinner accidentally falls and sustains an injury. Two neighborś⁰₄a mother and daughterС́⁰₄come...
Honore de Balzac excelled at creating unforgettable characters, but most of his creations were works of pure fiction. Many critics have asserted that the novel Beatrix is a roman a clef depicting the life of the French memoirist George Sand, as well as...
In the charming romance novel Through the Postern Gate, author Florence Barclay pulls off a seemingly unimaginable feat, combining the intense emotions and roiling passions of a classic love story with unconventional, sharply drawn characters and a pair...
Far in the future, one planet has regressed to a primitive, desolate state. The man called The Keeper maintains a lonely vigil there. When some unexpected visitors make an appearance, he learns some startling truths about the planet's place in history--and...
In this classic Western from George W. Ogden, a mysterious stranger leaves his ramshackle mountain cabin and descends the dusty trail into town. Once he arrives, the stranger meets with one of the town's most prominent leaders. A mutually amenable deal...
Drawing on her own life experiences as a young, independent bride who struck out for Australia at a tender age, author Ada Cambridge creates a gripping historical novel in Materfamilias. Protagonist Polly is a plucky, opinionated young lady who has her...
French-born author Gustave Aimard had an abiding love for America's rough frontiers, and his extensive travels in those regions figure heavily in the many action-adventure novels he penned. The Trappers of Arkansas is an account of a band of self-rel...
The child of Irish immigrants, author May Agnes Fleming was born in Canada and lived her final years in the United States. The gripping romance novel The Actress' Daughter contains many of the elements that contributed to Fleming's popular acclaim: s...
Though he died tragically at the tender age of 28, Stephen Crane left an indelible mark on American literature, helping to forge a new style of naturalism that relied heavily on vivid descriptions and conveying a sense of immediacy. These war stories,...
Even when it's undertaken with the best of intentions, time travel can cause more problems than it solves. The unforeseen consequences begin to unfold when protagonist Benson wakes up in a strange time and place and finds himself tasked with a seemin...
England-born author E. W. Hornung spent several years working as a teacher in rural Australia, and the experience proved to be a centerpiece of his career in fiction. Like many of his novels, The Boss of Taroomba takes as its setting the stark, desol...
In 1832, amid the rough and tumble chaos of what is now Southern California, a brave sailor named William Harland saves a young man from Mexico from certain death when he is attacked by a roving band of marauders. The two become fast friendś⁰₄and soon...
Taking inspiration from the subject matter of Charles Dickens, Arthur Morrison's most famous novel, A Child of the Jago, follows the desperately impoverished Perrott clan and their young son Dicky, who struggle to make ends meet by any means necessary...
Essayist and newspaper columnist Fanny Fern enjoyed a rapid--and highly unlikely--rise to fame after an early life beset by tragedy and misfortune. Soon after accepting the position that established her as the highest-paid female writer in the United...
In the nineteenth century, marriage was often regarded as the be-all and end-all of women's lives. In the keenly observed novel Sisters, English-born author Ada Cambridge takes a closer look at this widespread belief and its implications and consequences....
Though set on dry land, W. W. Jacob's charming tale Admiral Peters is shot through with the salty dialect and rough humor of lifelong sailors. An admiral pays a visit to one of his men, now retired, and amidst a night of revelry and nostalgia, an odd...
"After a childhood beset by abject poverty, Jeckie Fletcher is determined to do whatever it takes to live a comfortable, stable life. That's why she rejects the love of her childhood sweetheart, Joe Bartle, and instead sets her sights on local merchant...
"If you're a fan of classic romance novels with an upbeat, positive tone, the fiction of Grace Richmond should definitely be on your to-read list. In The Indifference of Juliet, a well-born young woman struggles to make the right choices in life -- and...
Set in the rugged terrain of Western Canada, the classic novel The Protector follows the ups and downs of a persistent prospector. Though long unsuccessful in his pursuits, Wallace Vane suddenly makes a major discovery. Will it be enough to put his t...
The Orphan is the second novel in Clarence E. Mulford's abidingly popular Hopalong Cassidy series of Westerns. In this volume of the series, Mulford introduces several new characters and injects a romantic subplot into a tale centered on the mysterio...
Settle in for an enthralling tale of wartime romance in The Search from renowned Christian romance writer Grace Livingston Hill. As in all of Hill's books, the author's Christianity is apparent not in overt religious religious themes, but rather as a...
What starts out as an account of a humdrum administrative assignment is elevated to an existential examination of the meaning of life in Swedish author August Strindberg's novel On the Seaboard. A bureaucrat is sent to a remote island outpost with the...
"A dashing British military officer makes a splash in local society, but a clique of young socialites in the booming colonial town soon find out that there is more to Captain Cavendish than meets the eye"--Google Books.
On the outskirts of London, the body of a murdered pawn shop proprietor is discovered, and all the early clues point toward a struggling writer who lives nearby. But as the dead man's possessions and records are sorted through, it is found that sever...
This two-part tale from Frances Hodgson Burnett has it all: a charming character portrait of Emily, who in the first part of the story lives alone and is content in her admittedly predictable life; an account of a swept-off-one's-feet romance that will...
In the early 1800s, much of the then-nascent United States remained unexplored and largely unsettled, populated only by small numbers of indigenous peoples, hearty pioneers, and outlaws on the run. In the thrilling Western The Missouri Outlaws, French...
Master criminal Arsene Lupin is at it again in the taut thriller 813. When Lupin is framed for murder, the famed thief enters the fray of the investigation in an attempt to clear his name and prove that his moral code, though unorthodox, is unwaverin...
British author Berta Ruck offers up an imaginative take on the ancient myth of Icarus. Set in the months before World War I broke out, The Boy With Wings follows the course of an improbable romance that blossoms just as the world begins to fall apart...
London society takes its toll on a young girl unprepared for the corruptions of the "coming out" season.
Two young women are sent to a North Carolina resort to recover after illnesses. One is a cultured New Yorker, and the otheŕ⁰₄the Louisiana of the book's titleС́⁰₄is a beautiful but unpolished country girl. Both find themselves out of their element at...
Like many of Gustave Aimard's classic action-adventure novels, Stoneheart traces long-simmering conflicts between two groups of people: the indigenous tribes that occupied the land for thousands of years, and the more recent arrivals seeking to exploit...
Gallant knights, blushing maidens, tyrannical lords, damsels in distress, feats of courage, love pure and trué⁰₄you'll find all of this and more in this enchanting collection of tales from France's medieval period. Selected from the classic twelfth-...
You believe you're destined for great things, but with the sorry hand you've been dealt in life, you have no way to make your big dreams come true. That's the situation facing one of the characters in J. S. Fletcher's caper mystery The Talleyrand Max...
Book lovers of all ages owe it to themselves to conquer this masterwork of nineteenth-century fiction from Victor Hugo, also author of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame . One hundred and fifty years after the original publication of Les Miserables , the...
Sixteen-year-old Running Fox, a member of the Delaware tribe and the son of a famed warrior renowned for his bravery, must prove his manhood by undertaking a treacherous quest to find a cache of powerful medicine that will help the Delaware prevail over...
Can't get enough of Robert E. Howard's indelible fantasy hero, Conan the Barbarian? Be sure to add this enthralling tale to your must-read list. A prequel of sorts, this story follows a young Conan (still called "the Cimmerian" during this era) as he...
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, America remained very volatile. One outgrowth of this was Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising in Massachusetts that pitted a group of dissatisfied residents against the nascent state authorities. It may seem...
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"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs...
"Mickey Fitzpatrick has been patrolling the 24th District for years. She knows most of the working women by name. She knows what desperation looks like and what people will do when they need a fix. She’s become used to finding overdose victims: their...
"Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggle to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable massacre in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has...
"You think you know what's best for your grown-up children. But you'll find they have lessons they can now teach you. Kate Morgan is an esteemed Manhattan lawyer. After losing her beloved husband in a tragic accident, she's successfully raised their ...
"Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a bo...
"France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she...
"Two true crime thrillers that inspired the Investigation Discovery series! HOME SWEET MURDER: Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming...
"Hidden: "After being rejected by the Navy SEALS, Mitchum becomes his small town's unofficial private eye. But his investigation skills are put to the test when he searches for his missing teenage cousin - and uncovers a government conspiracy in the....
"FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D.D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Ge...
"Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. Each night he awakens a little earlier until he's barely sleeping at all. During his late night vigils and walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. He sees ...
"Veritas spent most of her life as a vampire Law Guardian. Now, she's about to break every rule by secretly hunting down the dark souls that were freed in order to save Ian. But the risks are high. For if she gets caught, she could lose her job. And ...
"In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in the War and the Germans - now their enemies - occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca were four young Piedmontese women who joined the R...
"Squib Moreau may be swamp-wild, but his intentions are (generally) good: he really wants to be a supportive son to his hard-working momma Elodie. But sometimes life gets in the way - like when Fake Daddy walked out on them leaving a ton of debt, or ...
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