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  • The Beast’s Bride
    Jayne Castel
    The beauty who refuses to be wed. The beast who loves her in vain. A twist of fate that brings them together.Rhona MacLeod is the beautiful, willful daughter of a clan-chief upon the Isle of Skye. Desperate to remain free and bow to no man, she refuses all the suitors who ask for her hand.Taran MacKinnon is one of Clan-chief MacLeod’s most trusted warriors. He carries a secret ...
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    17,40 €

  • The Last Blast of the Trumpet
    Marie Macpherson
    16th Century.Conflict, Chaos and Corruption in Reformation Scotland He wants to reform Scotland, but his enemies will stop at nothing to prevent him. Scotland 1559:Fiery reformer John Knox returns to a Scotland on the brink of civil war. Victorious, he feels confident of his place leading the reform until the charismatic young widow, Mary Queen of Scots returns to claim her thr...
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    17,50 €

  • Fortune’s Son
    Jennifer Scoullar
    Heads you win. Tails you die ...Can one man’s revenge become his redemption? Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains, looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. The future appears bright, until he defends his sister from the powerful Sir Henry Abbott. His reward is fifteen years hard labour on a prison farm in Tasmania’s remote highlands.Luke escapes, finding sa...
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    19,43 €

  • Trotsky in Tijuana
    Dan La Botz
    In this counter-historical novel, Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary, survived the assassination attempt of August 1940. To prevent another such attempt, his protector, Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas, had him moved to the small, isolated border town of Tijuana. There Trotsky, continues to write political analyses and books and attempts to lead his worldwide revolutionar...
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    27,14 €

  • The Huguenot and the Heathen
    DCForce
    After studying in Europe to become a doctor at the forefront of the medical knowledge of his day, John Power, eldest son of Jacques and Marie, faces heartbreaking tragedy when he cannot save the woman he passionately loves - only to have the same scenario happen yet a second time. Frustration, anguish, and anger drive him to shelve his medical bag and his Hippocratic Oath. He c...
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    20,59 €

  • The Road to Sugar Loaf
    Eric TReynolds / Eric T. Reynolds
    Follow Suffragist Kathryn Wolfe from 1894 to 1920 as she strives to hike a nearby tall hill despite a physical challenge, while at the same time works tirelessly alongside her colleagues toward passing Suffrage in Kansas and Washington, DC. Kathryn and other Suffragists endure hardships, harassment, attacks, and brutality in prison as they fight for the Vote. ...
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    12,34 €

  • While the Wind Blew
    Bob Rockwell
    Relive some exciting historical events in Luna County, New Mexico in Bob Rockwell’s new book, While the Wind Blew. You’ll sit around a pit house fire in 1154 AD with Hateya, a young Mimbres mother and mourn the drought and hunger in her village. You’ll ride with Coronado’s conquistadors as Miguel gives us a glimpse into the New Spain of 1541. You’ll blaze a trail with Caleb and...
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    17,60 €

  • IVY Camp Branch to Groveton
    DrLarry GMorgan / Dr. Larry G. Morgan
    Ivy, full of compassion for the wounded soldiers on both sides of the Civil War, joins the Confederate nursing core and travels to the battlefields where she tends to those as best as she can while keeping her own fears for her fiancé’s well-being to herself. As the war wears on, she waits for word from her true love. Finally the war ends and she is reunited with Seth and her y...
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    23,80 €

  • Daughters of Sin Box Set
    Beverley Oakley
    Two nobly born debutantes and their illegitimate sisters - a governess and an actress - compete for love while bringing to justice a handsome, dangerous traitor in these passionate, intrigue-filled Regency romances.HER GILDED PRISON ~ She was determined to secure the succession, he was in it for the pleasure. Falling in love was not part of the arrangement.When dashing twenty-f...
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    28,94 €

  • El telón de los sueños
    Antonio Javier Roldán Calzado
    Desde que el cine dejó de ser un espectáculo ambulante hasta que inició su declive las productoras y las distribuidoras se esforzaron por promocionar cada uno de los estrenos siguiendo el camino abierto por el teatro. Las marquesinas y los carteles fueron un reclamo muy efectivo pero los programas, también llamados folletos o prospectos, permitían llevarte el sueño a tu casa, l...
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    30,05 €

  • The Last Bayman
    Doug Robinson
    Local Long Island boatbuilder, Jake Chichester, longs for the life of a Great South Bayman like his deceased father. In Prohibition jaded 1925, he joins the rum-runners and crosses paths with an ambitious Coast Guard chief petty officer. Their escalating cat-and-mouse game ends in a deadly Fourth of July confrontation out on the bay. ...
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    29,26 €

  • Jesús de Capernaún
    Ariel Hidalgo
    Jesús de Capernaún es el resultado de una investigación de más de veinte años cuyo descubrimiento más asombroso es el de un Jesús desconocido hasta ahora, sobre todo su verdadera personalidad y el movimiento que creó, cuya magnitud sobrepasa con creces lo hasta ahora supuesto. En Lucas 10:1, leemos: «El Señor eligió a otros setenta y dos discípulos y los envió de dos en dos del...
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    18,00 €

  • Fate’s Arrows
    Malcolm R. Campbell / Malcolm RCampbell
    In 1954, the small Florida Panhandle town of Torreya had more Klansmen per acre than fire ants. Sparrow, a bag lady; Pollyanna, an auditor; and Jack, the owner of Slade’s Diner, step on fire ants and Klansmen whenever they can while an unknown archer fires fate-changing arrows at the Klan’s leadership. They are not who they appear to be, and while they take risks, they must be ...
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    14,79 €

  • Betrayal’s Legacy
    Renee Gallant
    Who is the predator and who is the prey?Accused of treason and murder, Elaina is hunted by the British led by her own brother, Lieutenant William Spencer. Can she escape the hangman’s noose long enough to exact revenge on the man who killed her parents and has tormented her for the past year? But William’s future hangs in the balance too, and she would do anything to save his l...
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    29,91 €

  • Keeping Secrets
    McGee Mathews
    What would you do if, after finally finding the woman of your dreams, she suddenly leaves to fight in the Civil War?It’s 1863, and Elizabeth Hepscott has resigned herself to a life of monotonous boredom far from the battlefields as the wife of a Missouri rancher. Her fate changes when she travels with her brother to Kentucky to help him join the Union Army. On a whim, she poses...
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    18,10 €

  • The Devil’s Ruse
    Ruth Welburn
    Can Dr. Wareing’s desperate medical experiment save a world shattered by war and disease? The veil of obscurity is lifted, and the full horror of 1918 comes to life.SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF WWI, the novel pits the brightest scientific minds of the day against a deadly secret. In an effort to bring an end to a war that has been raging for four years, Dr. Nicholas Wareing take...
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    12,16 €

  • Runaway Haley
    William AThomas
    SEEKING A BETTER LIFE, Michael Haley fled Ireland, but in America he found only hard work, hardship, Civil War, and epidemics. His children’s futures didn’t start out brighter than what he’d left behind, as they suffered with him then, and later at the hands of others during the Reconstruction.In 1958, Ruby Haley received a letter from a distant uncle that told the story of he...
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    24,09 €

  • La tierra que la vio nacer
    Jacqueline Hernández Medina
    La tierra que la vio nacer de Jacqueline Hernández Medina nos sumerge en un viaje íntimo al pasado familiar de la autora y nos revela, a su vez, las costumbres arraigadas en la sociedad chilena de mediados del siglo XX.Una sociedad que fue testigo de grandes transformaciones sociales y económicas, y de una migración interna que llevó a miles de personas del campo a la ciudad pa...
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    14,56 €

  • Whispers of Deception
    Renee Gallant
    Scotland 1744Truth can be deadly and family not what it seems.Torn from her home of twenty years and orphaned in a country rife with political tensions, Lady Elaina Spencer doesn’t know where to turn. And Lord Spencer has more to worry about than trying to contain his hot-headed, independent sister while he steps into his new-found responsibilities. He’s determined that she sho...
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    30,49 €

  • īnangahua Gold
    Kathleen Gallagher
    This book is for the bone diggers and the song carriers - those interested in the roots, the old connections, and for those who have listening ears. It explores the relationships that unfold on the West Coast of Te Wai Pounamu New Zealand, in the mid-19th century as isolated, difficult to access parts of the country are entered by European explorers guided by local Māori.David ...
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    20,42 €

  • The Toll of the Bush
    William Satchell
    Geoffrey Hernshaw has left the high life in London to help his brother Robert with a scrub farm in Wairangi. Despite the difficulties the new world provides, Geoffrey finds friendship with Eve Milford, the daughter of the town’s store keeper. Their similar interests and provocative conversations on evolution and religion has Geoffrey hoping for more than just friendship. Eve ho...
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    21,09 €

  • IVY Yankee Sweetheart, Rebel Nurse
    DrLarry GMorgan / Dr. Larry G. Morgan
    Ivy is a dark-haired beauty gifted with strength and kindness. Raised in the hills of Virginia, she’s ushered farther south to the mountains of North Carolina to escape the ravages of war-leaving behind Seth, her fiancé who is willing to give his life’s blood for the Union cause. This sets up a series of life-impacting decisions when she meets Joseph, a strong-spirited farm boy...
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    23,80 €

  • Spare the Rod
    Rosie Lear
    A stranger in Sherborne fleeing justice from murder in another town causes a young apprentice working on the Abbey misericords serious injury.When young Luke, stepson to Matthias Barton, becomes involved with the felon an unhappy rift is revealed in the Barton household.The disappearance of Luke causes Matthias to leave the school in the hands of his wife and Martin Cooper, as ...
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    12,57 €

  • In the Company of Wolves
    Erick WNason / Erick W. Nason
    The woods before and above them opened fire, and a thousand voices rose in a Cherokee war-whoop. Three of the lead men in Marion’s section were not lucky this time, as several balls hit them at once.Ducking next to a tree, Jacob could hear the thuds of balls striking it instead of him. Looking around the tree, he could see the silhouettes of the Cherokee amongst the trees, thei...
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    32,74 €

  • In the Company of Wolves
    Erick W. Nason / Erick WNason
    The woods before and above them opened fire, and a thousand voices rose in a Cherokee war-whoop. Three of the lead men in Marion’s section were not lucky this time, as several balls hit them at once.Ducking next to a tree, Jacob could hear the thuds of balls striking it instead of him. Looking around the tree, he could see the silhouettes of the Cherokee amongst the trees, thei...
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    23,99 €

  • All Will Be Well
    Amy C. Martin / Amy CMartin
    On a cramped cargo ship called Mayflower, side by side with a congregation of religious Separatists, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins travel to the New World. But the dark, gloomy voyage is only the beginning of their trials and tribulations. Priscilla’s feelings for John grow while she cares for an ever-increasing number of sick and dying shipmates, and John faces the choice o...
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    20,27 €

  • 'Rick-a-ticks'
    Leyton Eden Franklin
    From his observation and knowledge, he knew how men treated women in the Caribbean; thought he was making a difference in her deplorable life. Also as a social worker, saw deplorable conditions in males-female interaction in the community. Women were only used for sexual purposes, production of children and men move-on to another woman. It was his last attempt to render help to...
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    28,02 €

  • Sultan of Najd سلطان نجد
    Abdullah Al-Salloum
    A passing coincidence may be the starting spark to change the course of a whole life. After continuous years of ruling the Ukhaydharia State in a manner that did not realize the real state of its Money House –as it mainly relied on the proceeds of commercial caravan taxes between Ahsa and the Hejaz, passing through the lands of Yamamah–, comes the coincident meeting of Michael ...
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    9,99 €

  • Hired Out
    Cathy Moore
    America Murphy was a slave as was her bi-racial mother. They were owned by her father, Jeremiah, who operated a livery stable in mid-nineteenth century Lexington, Kentucky. Working from Jeremiah’s three room dwelling, America assisted her mother as laundress for her father’s clients.America wished to read to enhance her status as a respected black servant, wondering how anyone ...
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    18,62 €

  • The Month after September
    Tobias Maxwell
    The quintessential Canadian novel, The Month after September, is a compelling love story set against the backdrop of the 1970 FLQ crisis. When Ontario teenager, Peter Mercier, meets Jean-Louis Lalande from Montreal, their lives and the lives of their families become perilously intertwined at the very intersection where Canada and Quebec vied to gain a foothold in history. ...
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    12,65 €


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