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  • A Cursed English
    Roy Cullen
    Nathan and Erika have a chance encounter with Serge Dubois and his friends in lavender-drenched Northern Provence. Serge’s mission is to stop helicopter test flights planned by a company in Aix en Provence - to begin once the French government’s missile silos in the region are de-commissioned. Nathan promises to help. Flashback to Nathan’s youth in Quebec province and his explo...
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    18,44 €

  • Raider of The Scottish Coast
    Marc Liebman
    Which serves a Navy better? Tradition and hierarchy, or innovation and merit? It is 1775 and the American Revolution has begun. In England, the Royal Navy has one eye on the rebellious colonials and the other on its traditional enemy, the French. Two teenagers - Jaco Jacinto from Charleston, SC and Darren Smythe from Gosport, England - become midshipmen in their respective navi...
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    17,56 €

  • Ivy
    DrLarry Morgan / Dr. Larry 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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    11,86 €

  • 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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    11,86 €

  • IVY Lillies of the Field
    DrLarry GMorgan / Dr. Larry G. Morgan
    Ivy and Seth, now settled in Groveton, are building a happy life together when war comes to the nation again. The Spanish-American War of 1898 embroils the nation in conflict and Seth answers the calling to help his country once more as an advisor. Joseph is also compelled to help the military due to his vast knowledge and wisdom from his Civil War experience. The fate of the t...
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    11,87 €

  • Antonio Pérez de Hierro, el hijo de Moctezuma que gobernó España en el siglo XVI
    José Luis Basulto Ortega
    Genaro García, Historiador Mexicanista, en su Carácter de la Conquista Española en América y en México dijo: «A pesar de que, entre los historiadores, que desde un principio escribieron acerca de la Conquista, hubo quienes tuvieron a la vista los más fehacientes documentos, solo los aprovecharon en cuanto podían favorecer a los intereses de España». Pues bien, en esta novela hi...
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    19,90 €

  • Mardi
    Herman Melville
    By turns travelogue, satire, allegory and philosophical speculation, Mardi is Melville’s first attempt at a more ambitious form of novel. The immediate precursor to his masterpiece, Moby Dick, it was a commercial and critical disaster for the author. It followed two straightforward adventure tales, Typee and Omoo, which were highly popular, and mid-19th century readers expected...
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    34,23 €

  • Gaige
    Susan Horsnell
    Dr. Gaige Adams, a surgeon at a large hospital in Charleston, is lauded for his brilliance and ability to save lives. But all is not as it seems with this troubled man.Amelia Cox is a nurse, posted to the same large hospital after completing her training. She is down to earth, independent and not afraid to take on any challenge thrown her way.When she discovers Gaige is flounde...
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    12,69 €

  • Cutter’s Reach
    Jason Manning
    A Novel of the Early FrontierA sweeping saga of a family caught up in an epic struggle between empires, with the fate of North America hanging in the balance, written by the bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including High Country, Mountain Renegade, and The War Lovers.With a flintlock rifle and a dream, Abel Cutter blazed a trail into the wild Allegheny forests to ...
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    10,49 €

  • Walker’s Way
    William Greer
    Joseph Walker is born into slavery on a Tennessee cotton plantation in 1846, but his circumstances are mitigated by the fact that he lives in the bosom of a loving family, surrounded by a supportive slave community. That all changes when he is sold to Jackson Budreau, a Louisiana sugarcane farmer, at the age of nine. Joe’s life becomes a living hell, marked by daily aggressions...
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    12,81 €

  • Imagining
    Jack Haberek
    She loved God. But she also loved one of the greatest philosophers of that time, Johannes Eckhart, the only regent of the Paris University twice during his life. Did this incredible encounter really happen? The documents available from the time are silent, leaving room for imagining. But was it really like that or not? It wasn’t the love for man which got her to the pyre; it wa...
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    12,03 €

  • Brewer and The Portuguese Gold
    James Keffer
    Newly promoted to captain, William Brewer is tasked to serve and defend British interests in the waters off Brazil. But who defines what constitutes Britain’s Interests? Portugal’s former colony is declaring independence, and an independent Brazil might better serve Britain’s economic development. King George, however, chooses to support Portugal’s monarch and his efforts to re...
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    17,89 €

  • The First Nation
    Douglas Coiner
    If you are a fan of Historical Fiction you will like this book. If you are a fan of gritty action and adventure, you will love this book. Join the incredible journey of Enkoodabaoo as his story intertwines with some of the most notable figures in Canadian history. Get to know such important men as Louis Riel, The Honorable John Norquay, and Big Bear, Chief of the Cree Nation. L...
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    20,20 €

  • Cartas de Gabriel
    Rosa María Soriano Reus
    La protagonista, una joven de 20 años, decide pasar otro verano con su abuela materna en la Masía, un paraje apartado en Inca (Mallorca) en los años 80, en plena transición democrática. A través de unas cartas de su abuelo Gabriel que encuentra fortuitamente en el desván, descubrirá poco a poco su arrolladora personalidad.Comienza un viaje de investigación minuciosa por los lug...
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    16,87 €

  • The Secret of Creek Cottage
    Tina M Edwards
    1916: While the Great War rages through Europe, in the small coastal village of Trunrowan, Cornwall, life for Loveday Nance could not be more different. With her husband Will away fighting, the reality of having a longed-for child of her own seems to be slipping away with each day that passes.Present-day: Kitty and Ben Gridley decide to leave their busy lives in Bristol hoping ...
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    17,30 €

  • Lost Generation
    Eralides Cabrera
    A dramatic story of the Cuban exodus sparked by political changes in the island during 1959 leading to a never ending migration. A new wave of migrants flock together and leave their homes to cast their luck in the American system that promises them protection and above all, freedom. In a show of perseverance and thirst for success, they abandon all they know to begin a new lif...
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    25,42 €

  • Lost Generation
    Eralides Cabrera
    A dramatic story of the Cuban exodus sparked by political changes in the island during 1959 leading to a never ending migration. A new wave of migrants flock together and leave their homes to cast their luck in the American system that promises them protection and above all, freedom. In a show of perseverance and thirst for success, they abandon all they know to begin a new lif...
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    17,63 €

  • El ángel cautivo
    Carlos Javier García Moreno
    Los hechos ocurridos en 1490, meses antes de la rendición de Granada a las tropas de Castilla y Aragón, pueden volver a cobrar vida setenta años después. Sevilla, 1561. Una visita inesperada, un juicio del Santo Oficio, una falsa acusación y un libro son el caldo de cultivo para una historia de superación, coraje, amor, heroísmo y lealtad; valores tan distantes de nosotros como...
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    19,00 €

  • 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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    18,88 €

  • American Baby Boomer
    Lucas Carter
    The book is the story about one individual who was born and grew up as a baby boomer in the United States.It begins by introducing his parents, who are Norwegian and grew up in Canada. They move to the United States, and soon after, Michael Larsen is born in California.The book begins by following Michael’s life from birth through high school and speaks to situation and events ...
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    23,61 €

  • American Baby Boomer
    Lucas Carter
    The book is the story about one individual who was born and grew up as a baby boomer in the United States.It begins by introducing his parents, who are Norwegian and grew up in Canada. They move to the United States, and soon after, Michael Larsen is born in California.The book begins by following Michael’s life from birth through high school and speaks to situation and events ...
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    15,81 €

  • Desert Journey
    DrJerry Burgener / Dr. Jerry Burgener
    Time and experiences had left lines on my face, which had grown deeper, like the dusty trails of my life that I seemed to be retracing. Reeling from yet another relationship failure, Jerry travels to the American Southwest to spend a couple of months riding his horse, savoring the warm weather, and finding respite from the daily grind. But what begins as a simple escape to the ...
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    10,20 €

  • ¿Por qué no me amaste?
    Margarita Wanceulen
    Hubo un tiempo en que las condenas eran pesadas y duraban toda una vida, solo porque el fruto de la unión entre un hombre y una mujer no contara con la bendición de la Iglesia o de alguna institución oficial. La existencia para ellas, en esas condiciones, podía llegar a constituir un auténtico enterramiento social. Un embarazo fuera del matrimonio proclamaba en sí mismo una sen...
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    17,63 €

  • Bedtime Reading for Grey Nomads
    John W Griffiths
    Bedtime Reading for Grey Nomads contains several short stories that relate to our past and concludes with a story of the challenges we may be facing in the future.While John Griffiths was travelling around Queensland it occurred to him that every town has one or more monuments, buildings or places that are unique to that town or district. But for John it was the story behind th...
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    12,15 €

  • War and Peace
    Daniel HShubin / Leo Tolstoy / Daniel H. Shubin
    This volume is a new translation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, for the American reader, by Daniel H. Shubin. For War and Peace to have the recognition of the greatest historical-fiction novel ever composed is an understatement, as it does not include its aspect of the philosophy of history provided by Tolstoy in regard to the conflicts and wars between France and Russia, and ...
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    75,00 €

  • Silver Moon
    Sara Litchfield / Jenny Knipfer
    By the Light of the Moon series: 'Readers who love being trapped in a character’s mind should relish this finely written, gripping series. A must read for fans of historical fiction.'--The Prairies Book ReviewA tale of courage and hope in the darkest of times...Silver Moon, the third book in the series: By the Light of the Moon, paints a stunning and poignant picture of life on...
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    11,90 €

  • Endless Mission
    Mehrdad Shahmoradi Mofrad
    This is a fictional plot, set in scenes, of a vivid World War I espionage drama. ...
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    4,60 €

  • Tom Shipley’s War
    Dr Peter T Scott
    Tom Shipley’s War: Memoirs of a Weekend Warrior.Tom Shipley was first introduced in The Innocence of Tom Shipley Teacher, Tom is an innocent, idealist reaching his maturity in the mid-1960s. He is dedicated, hardworking and loyal. His humorous escapades and wry observations give a very clear picture on what life was really like in Australia if you were part of the majority who ...
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    23,28 €

  • Disarming the Wildest Warrior
    Helen Louise Cox
    1725, Williamsburg.No more English tea parties with her father’s medical colleagues for Gilda Griffiths. She left those behind for the open Virginia plains and plans to leave the East Coast too before a violent figure from her past catches up with her. When Williamsburg bully, Emmett Lawson assaults an elderly Shawnee chief however Gilda feels compelled to use her medical backg...
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    18,62 €

  • Separate Realities
    W.W. Worley / W.WWorley
    Ezekial Robertson went to war before he was old enough to shave. He fought and killed those he learned too late were not his enemies. Returning from the insane and confusing was, there was no family left for him at home in Carolina so he left for Texas in search of a cure for his chronic loneliness and unrelenting yearning. Along the way he met other pilgrims searching for thei...
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    19,98 €