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37721) Unexpected Rewards
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Olivia Davenport is looking forward to her future. After all, Prince Liam has professed his love and King William has promised her a reward for her role on a recent mission. She fully expects to continue her knightly training while enjoying a blossoming romance with her Prince. The King, however, has other ideas, appointing her as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Helen.
Thrust into unfamiliar territory and left to fend against the malicious women of court,...
37722) Gentleman of Christmas Past
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A lady determined to find love. A gentleman wanting her hand in marriage. A Christmas story you will never forget.Miss Agnes Fitzsimmons will do whatever it takes to catch the eye of one Mr. Phillip Rutley. Even if it means bribing a courier to deliver letters to him herself. Tall and handsome, Phillip is everything Agnes's heart desires for Christmas. But looming financial burdens are keeping him from asking that one important question. Will he ever...
37723) Dreams of the Damned
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With his partner married, brilliant engineer James Wainwright is at a loose end. When Scotland Yard asks for help with a hostage situation at a mental hospital, he's only too eager to lend a hand - particularly after he meets the winsome Doctor Loni Teague.
His partner socialite Bartleby, however, has a personal connection - Bedford is the institution into which he had his embarrassment of a father committed a decade ago, and now the old man has...
37724) Amazons in Medieval Europe
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How Amazons entered the imaginary to become legends? This book about the Amazons, the witches, men and women in Medieval Europe, is like no other in the subject, since it´s a tale told in first person, as the author talks about it as a witness and protagonist in extremely realistic and original elements converged to give free access to past lives. You will expand your knowledge of the Middle Ages with first-person accounts about the Amazons, what...
37725) All I Could Be
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A coming-of-age story about a modern military soldier who served in the U.S. Army from 1980 to 2005. Both, an enlisted soldier and commissioned officer, Scott reveals behind the scenes vignettes throughout his life and career, such as surviving a terrorist attack in Colombia, meeting the girl of his dreams in the Amazon jungles of Ecuador, encounters with the Russians in East Berlin, interrogations with Iraqi prisoners during Desert Storm, and obtaining...
37726) Sailor's Delight
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Self-effacing, overworked bookkeeper Elie Benezet doesn't have time to be in love. Too bad he already is-with his favorite client, Augustus Brine. The Royal Navy sailing master is kind, handsome, and breathtakingly competent. He's also engaged to his childhood sweetheart. And now that his prize money is coming in after years of delay, he can afford to marry her…once Elie submits the final prize paperwork.
When Augustus comes home, determined to...
37727) The Medway And The Military
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Where was the first major battle fought after the Romans invaded Britain?
What's the difference between 'Kentish Men' and 'Men of Kent'?
Why did a Medway castle store more gunpowder than the Tower of London?
Who was portrayed as Colonel Bulder in 'The Pickwick Papers'?
When did a football team from Chatham win the F A Cup?
Which field marshal, when still a child, was staked out on a lawn with his wrists and ankles tied to croquet hoops?
Why was a...
37728) An UNwilling Spy
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In 1974, at the height of the Cold War, a traffic accident occurs late one night outside the United Nations building. Or was it an accident. Anne Thomas, the low-level UN employee who was struck, is at first bewildered by the FBI's interest. Then, as one menacing incident follows another, she starts to share their suspicion that she's being targeted. But by whom? And why? A terrifying discovery finally galvanizes Anne to act with determination to...
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Three romance stories set in the San Juan Islands. The Stories from the San Juan Islands Collection includes three steamy romances - contemporary and historical - set in the stunning and gorgeous San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This collection includes:UndamagedA contemporary firefighter romance novella set on San Juan Island.An island brings together two damaged souls seeking respite and recovery. Will they discover...
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Historic reports & eye-witness accounts of the strange, unusual, and uncanny.
Since the dawn of time, humanity has recorded and collected strange and unexplainable tales of the unknown. Unimaginable encounters with ghosts, bigfoot, aliens, demons, weird coincidences, and other compelling tales of wonder.
Explore a fascinating study of the most unusual stories from history with STRANGE EVENTS From Around the World.
37731) One Enchanted Evening
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Lord Archer Sinclair spent his nights among the Echelon and his days running Rowen. Having been bred on duty and honor his whole life, he expected his eventual marriage would be one of convenience and advantage. Until he looked across a ballroom and everything changed. With one glance, he knew that she was meant to be his and nothing would stop him from having her by his side-even Garnet herself. Garnet had been raised to believe family was everything....
37732) Hope's Highway: A Novel
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Hope's Highway: A Novel (1918) is a historical novel by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming. Published during the Harlem Renaissance, Fleming's novel is a powerful work of fiction exploring the lives of formerly enslaved Black people living in the South during Reconstruction. Recognized as a leading advocate for the advancement of Black girls and women throughout her life, Fleming is a writer whose voice never falters from the task at hand: telling the story...
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On their very first time away from Hertfordshire without the watchful eye of their mother upon them, Elizabeth and Jane Bennet, are set loose upon the streets of Bath. Well, as loose as might be imagined. But during their stay, their enjoyment is marred by an altercation between a group of militia officers and a gentleman from Derbyshire who comes to their aid. While Jane and Elizabeth are shaken by their encounter, the dashing Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy...
37734) On a Midnight Clear
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Sometimes, the greatest truths of life come on a midnight clear.Major Cecil Stapleton is struggling with his new life as a civilian after nearly twenty years in the military. Wounds received in the Battle of Toulouse left him angry, disfigured, and sent him home to England. All he wants now is to retire to the country and be left alone, especially since it's the Christmastide season. Finding his old lover in his cottage leaves him at sixes and sevens…...
37735) Histoire de Napoléon Ier
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Extrait : "Le jour même o l'Église célèbre l'Assomption de la Mère de Dieu, dans cette contrée peuplée d'une race plus dure que ses rochers, plus sauvage que ses bruyères, et que les Romains n'avaient point osé appeler au honteux honneur de leur fournir des esclaves ; plusieurs mois après que la Corse, soustraite à la domination génoise, eut été cédée à la France..."
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Une femme seule, traversant l'océan vers un destin inconnu dans la forêt de Guyane.
Quelle étrange histoire!
Un bateau perdu sur la mer des Tropiques...
et une femme seule sur cette mer ardente.
Une femme est là, lumière dans la lumière.
J'ai vécu ma vie sur la mer des Antilles.
Mousse, pilote, marchand, j'ai vieilli sur des routes qui sont des fleuves de feu.
Maintenant je garde dans mes yeux l'image de la Mer.
Je sais que tout Mouvement,...
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Le destin de deux enfants abandonnés
De Magnat l'Étrange à La Courtine en Creuse, Pierre est le fruit d'amours illicites entre un soldat russe et la femme d'un prisonnier de guerre.
De Prague à Roussac en Haute-Vienne, la naissance de Gabrielle entrave la carrière prometteuse de sa mère pianiste.
Les deux enfants abandonnés à l'Assistance publique sont ballottés d'une guerre mondiale à l'autre. Privés d'amour, leur jeunesse oscille entre...
37738) Liar's Dice
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Boston might be white with snow, but there's nothing but a winter's darkness for Shane Cleary, a former cop, veteran, and reluctant PI. There's an international war within the mafia over drugs, and he has been asked to find the nephew of the local crime boss. When federal agencies descend on the city and order the police department to stand down on a homicide, the BPD reaches out to Shane for answers.
Shane's past in Vietnam comes to haunt him...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Juana de Arco, la Doncella de Orleans, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Profundizar en el personaje de Juana de Arco, entender su papel en la guerra de los Cien Años y descubrir su trágico final
• Comprender el contexto y el desenlace de la guerra de los Cien Años, en un conflicto que enfrenta...
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