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34501) Nichts Kann uns trennen
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Wie merkwürdig, dass ein Unfall mit einer Kutsche solch einen Zauber in Petulas Leben bringen sollte! Verlassen und verarmt mit nichts als zwei Dienern auf dem Land lebend, war sie nicht daran gewöhnt einen solch weit gereisten und gut aussehenden Hausgast zu haben wie Major Adrian Chester. Was für ein Glück dass er die Nacht in ihrem Gutshaus verbringen musste! Und was für einen schönen unterhaltsamen Abend sie miteinander verbrachten! Und...
34502) The Baron at Bishops Avenue
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The 1920s in the UK and the USA were tough for many. There was prohibition in the States. And of course with the Great Depression a fella couldn't drink his sorrows away. That left murder as consolation.
But for the Woolsack, the United Kingdom's Speaker of the House, life couldn't be better. A beautiful wife, arguably the most powerful position in politics next to the Prime Minister, and a side business supplying the Americans illicit liquor.
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34503) The Haunting of Low Fennel
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The Haunting of Low Fennel by Sax Rohmer is a classic horror novel published in 1919. The story is set in rural England and follows the life of Mr. Arthur W. Mace, who moves to the village of Low Fennel with his wife and daughter. The family soon becomes aware of the strange happenings in the village, including unexplained noises and sightings of a ghostly figure. As Mace becomes more and more obsessed with finding out the truth behind the hauntings,...
34504) Chopin´s Secret
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Could legendary composer Chopin have been part of a secret conspiracy to save the free world from the greatest threat in its millenary history?In 1913, Barcelona was a city in social and cultural turmoil. A few months after the unexplainable disappearance of Subinspector Morillo in a mysterious Casino hidden in the mountains, Inés will be hunted by a sinister secret organization that has spent centuries searching for a mysterious object that can...
34505) The Beckoning Ice
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It is February 1839, and the ships of the United States Exploring Expedition are thrashing about dreaded Cape Horn, on their way to a rendezvous at Orange Harbor, Tierra del Fuego, on a crazy mission to be the first to find Antarctica. A sealing schooner hails the brig Swallow with a strange tale of a murdered corpse on an iceberg-surely a case for Wiki Coffin, half-Maori, half-Yankee "linguister," who is the representative of American law and order...
34506) London in the Rain
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A life of set routine is the norm for Raymond Smith. Now in his mid-thirties, a fleeting wartime romance far behind him, he is an exemplary clerk at a London insurance firm where he's perceived as dry and conventional.
But Raymond has a secret. Every month or so, he visits Charlie's, one of the more understated bars in Soho's flowering gay scene in the 1930s. There, he seeks relief with strangers to get him through the next few weeks.
On one of...
34507) Walking Back to Happiness
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A gripping family saga set in post-WW2 Birmingham
Hannah Delaney is a young woman with a secret. It is not one that she can share with her large family still back home in Ireland, and especially not with her dying sister. Hannah's moved to England to build a better life, and has met and fallen in love with a young soldier. They intend to marry on his next leave, but then comes D Day, and he doesn't return. Hannah is left alone and pregnant.
Surrendering...
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Une jeune femme aux facultés hors du commun va participer à sa manière à la Grande Guerre.
Octobre 1922, forêt de Freyer.
Les feuilles mortes crissent sous les pas des chevaux de Justine, récemment médecin, et de Werner, son époux, médecin également.
Au détour du chemin, surgit un homme dont le visage est masqué de cuir noir.
Les chevaux hennissent tandis que l'apparition enlève la carapace qui dévoile une cruelle réalité. Il n'a...
34509) The Storm Girl
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The gripping new historical novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl from Bletchley Park and The Forgotten Secret. A heartbreaking choice. A secret kept for centuries. 1784. When Esther Harris's father hurts his back, she takes over his role helping smugglers hide contraband in the secret cellar in their pub. But when the free traders' ships are trapped in the harbour, a battle between the smugglers and the revenue officers leads to...
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April 1284 – Recently widowed and now lady-in-waiting to Queen Eleanor of England who is about to give birth to her sixteenth child, Catrin never dreamed of ever returning to Wales. She had even less imagined finding herself confronted with a murder, or coming face to face with Rhys, a childhood friend lost sight of twenty years earlier. Rhys had never thought of ever returning to his homeland either. But a whole life dedicated to war had brought...
34511) A Savor of Clove
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At the dawn of the twelfth century a lad on the verge of manhood, fell in love for the first time and it nearly got him killed. Thirty years later, can he find the courage to risk love a second time - with the same man?Left for dead by a stream and found by a kindly monk, Rhonwellt ap Mwrheth has spent the intervening years as a brother at a small Benedictine priory in southern Wales. His days there are simple and predictable, ora et labora-prayer...
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Margaret Oliphant's novel 'The House on the Moor' was first published in 1861. Susan and her brother Horace live a lonely life on Lanmoth Moor in Cumbria. Their mother died long ago, and their father is a bitter, controlling recluse who shows them little love. Susan has a sweet nature, but Horace bears bitterness and hatred towards everyone. Their father is bitter about a will, but why? When Susan meets Roger Musgrave they become attracted to each...
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À la faveur d'une carte postale, avec à son dos quelques noms, l'enquête débute. La question est de savoir s'ils ont survécu aux combats des mers. Nous sommes en 1914 et les cuirassés sont à la manœuvre. Le Gambetta coule et seuls quelques rescapés restent en vie. Par le jeu de l'histoire, des âmes resurgissent alors des flots. L'affaire Gambetta est un récit à la fois réaliste et empreint d'une compassion avérée envers les victimes...
34514) A Terrible Unrest
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When Spiro, Maria and Anna Andrakis, a young immigrant family from Greece, are unwillingly thrust into the maelstrom of the Colorado Coalfield War (1913-1914), the most brutal labor conflict in American history, they must overcome a series of tragedies that change their lives forever. A Terrible Unrest is a novel of desperate bravery and horrendous violence, of unflinching loyalty, abject betrayal and human survival.
34515) The Hanging Tree
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Sorrowful mysteries of Brother Athelstan volume 21
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Brother Athelstan must solve a theft from the royal treasure chamber and the murders of six executioners in this gripping medieval mystery.
London. January, 1382. The Crown's treasury has been robbed. Tens of thousands of silver and gold coin mysteriously lifted from the most secure chamber in the kingdom; the five Clerks of the Dark who guarded the king's treasure brutally garrotted. Sir John Cranston and Brother Athelstan are appointed to investigate...
34516) The Ishcrin Affair
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Clem Turner is pretty sure nothing else can go wrong. Assigned by the head of his museum to check out a possible acquisition, his train ride from Chicago to Duluth has been full of problems -- lost luggage, food poisoning, and now an unscheduled stop in the middle of nowhere, Wisconsin. Hoping for a bit of distraction, he decides to check out the local fair, only to run right into a different sort of predicament.
The 1890s aren't a great time to...
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It is, said that a man is grown by his past, and so it was with William Brewer. Before he took command of HMS Defiant in a hurricane and before he hunted pirates in HMS Revenge, Brewer endured a crucible of fire that molded him into the legend he became. Fresh from the tutelage of Napoleon Bonaparte on St. Helena, Brewer signs on for a cruise under Captain Bush in HMS Lydia to the Mediterranean to battle the Barbary Pirates. Here Brewer learns to...
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Percy Ernst Schramm, one of Germany's most distinguished historians, had exceptional insight into Hitler's headquarters while acting as War Diary Office of the High Command of the German Armed Forces. This classic volume, long out of print, contains the introductions written by Schramm to critical editions of Hitler's Table Talk and the official War Diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. In addition, there are two appendices: the first consisting...
34519) Around Mt. Helix
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Every year, the morning of Easter Sunday, thousands of intrepid souls trek to the summit of San Diego County's Mt. Helix. Once there, they experience the nearly century-old tradition of a community-based sunrise service held at the historic Mt. Helix Nature Theater. Constructed for that purpose in 1925, and located in a unique, privately-owned "public" park, the landmark serves as just one of the reasons this conically shaped peak has become a regional,...
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Back in the officer's arms...;
Four years ago, Tom Barrington shared a connection with Elizabeth Morley that was like nothing he had ever experienced. But as a solitary soldier, he knew marriage was out of the question.
So when he strolls back into her life, Elizabeth can't believe it. He once broke her heart, and now he's back-;more irresistible than ever! And when the dangers of Tom's lifestyle catch up with him, the question remains: can...
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