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Viking
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[2024]
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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Pre-order the BRAND NEW, next book in the Beamer Street series set around Liverpool Docks, by bestselling author Sheila Riley.
Liverpool 1924
Trapped in an abusive marriage to Lord Caraway with her beloved daughter Melissa, 24-year-old Lady Elodie Caraway knows she has to escape before her deepest and darkest secrets are revealed giving her husband every reason to seek his revenge. But time is of the essence, if she is to save herself and Melissa.
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"Regency Romance with a modern sensibility An action-packed romp through London and the English countryside, featuring unique and totally relatable heroines, irresistible love interests, and a cast of family, friends and villains that thoroughly captivates." –Ev Bishop, USA Today bestselling authorNever let a trifle like organized crime stop you from marrying the duke of your dreams and conceiving his baby. Not necessarily in that order.Parental...
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Formerly Pride & Penitence, now a 2017 National Reader's Choice Award Finalist!"Delightful, charming and moving." ~ InD'Tale MagazineWhen her daughter comes across a box of letters written by Georgiana's long-lost love and resolves to reunite the tragic lovers, Georgie can either let her daughter stumble upon her secret past… or face it-and him-herself. Georgiana Egerton had Malcolm MacKintosh shaking in his boots from the first moment he saw her....
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When faced with a dangerous new rival, the lead singer of the music group the Noble Lords is forced to place his singing career in the hands of a sexy widow. Lord Reid Follett enjoys all the lustful benefits that come from being a war hero on the battlefield at Waterloo. Every woman in London wants to bed him. And Reid is never a man to disappoint a lady.But the gloss of winning the war is starting to fade. Reid and his friends find themselves being...
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"Well-developed characters and an energetic storyline, readers will love the wit, romance, banter, and steam… highly entertaining... Readers who love regency romance with wit and... unexpected twists, will not be disappointed."-D. Gosney, InD'tale MagazineThe earl finally finds his mystery woman-will he lose her forever to his enemy, his best friend, or his own dangerous mistake?London-hating dreamer, Lydia Norwood, has failed spectacularly as a...
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What do you do when someone rips your life apart? You pick up the pieces and put them back together. And sometimes you discover the pieces form a new pattern better than the original. When Hermione Newburn steps through the door at her first ball her expectations go no further than a pleasant evening with a few dances with some friendly gentlemen. What she gets instead is betrothed to a man who only holds her in contempt. Over the next year she is...
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Is Lord Willingham the rake the gossips say he is or is he Lady Arabella's lastchance for love? A man with a secret past, Lord Christopher Hayes, Baron Willingham, wishessimply to be left alone to lick his wounds and regain the fortune his uncle lost to avillainous fraudster: a swindler who continues to plague Christopher wherever hegoes. When Lady Arabella lands unexpectedly on his doorstep, Christopher isforced to choose between helping her or keeping...
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Il y a des secrets qu'on ne doit jamais connaître et celui de sa naissance en fait partie.Lionel a promis à sa mère qu'il ne viendrait jamais à Londres pour que son âme repose en paix. Mais il ne tiendra pas sa promesse à cause de la tromperie d'une femme.En tant qu'espion, ta première règle est de cacher ta véritable identité. La deuxième, ne jamais tomber dans un piège et si vous le faites, chercher un moyen de mourir avant de confesser...
10) My Favorite Duke
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Lady Juliet is happy. Very happy. After all, she's engaged, even if she rarely sees her betrothed. So what if her betrothed keeps postponing their wedding? Or that there are wicked rumors about him? Still, when the Duke of Sherwood doesn't appear at a ball as intended, there's only one thing she can do: discover the truth herself. Lucas, the Duke of Ainsworth, is exceedingly dull. At least, that's what he desires everyone to believe. He makes certain...
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One of E.M. Forster's most beloved and critically-acclaimed works, "A Room With a View" follows the journeys - both abroad and romantically - of young Lucy Honeychurch, a British girl during the Edwardian era with a distinctly independent nature.
On a trip to Italy, with her chaperone Miss Charlotte Bartlett in tow, Lucy encounters a Mr. Emerson and his son George. Both men are free-thinkers, unbound by the strictures of the day, and as they...
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John Boyne became internationally known for his acclaimed novels Crippen and the bestselling The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Now, for the first time in the US comes The Thief of Time, the book that started the career of the author that the Irish Examiner calls "one of the best and original of the new generation of Irish writers."
It is 1758 and Matthieu Zela is fleeing Paris after witnessing the murder of his mother and his stepfather's execution....
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Redeemed From the Ashes is the story of a misguided young woman named Evelyn Richardson whose maimed husband Carl goes missing as a result of the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Bedridden because of an injury, she is unable to immediately search him out. The chances of finding him grow thin as the days pass into cruel winter and the chaos of a shattered city remains.After several weeks of searching, Evelyn is encouraged by her disheartening mother to leave...
14) Guilty Poet
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A soul that can transcend three millennia and travel beyond physical boundaries, visits England in 1593 to interrogate a poet.Considering the sexist pen that the poet used in one specific play and its cultural ripple effect that could impact women's rights in the future, the soul torments the playwright through a cross-examination.
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Wien, 27. Juli 1911. Ein Großbrand wütet auf den Holzlagerplätzen am Nordwestbahnhof. Erst nach zwei Tagen kann er unter Einsatz von 167 Mann der Wiener Berufsfeuerwehr gelöscht werden. Inmitten tausender Schaulustiger wird ein Mann brutal zu Tode geprügelt. Frantisek Oprschalek und sein bester Freund Nepomuk Budka, ein mehrfach verurteilter Gewaltverbrecher, ziehen eine blutige Spur von Morden und Brandstiftungen durch Wien. Inspector Nechyba...
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1520. Der Zimmermann Hannes Fritz befindet sich auf der Walz. Unglückliche Umstände verschlagen ihn in die mächtige Seestadt Amsterdam, wo er Opfer einer Intrige wird, die sein Leben bedroht. Zur selben Zeit wird seine Jugendliebe, die Kaufmannstochter Anna Neumann, von skrupellosen Landsknechten verschleppt und als Geisel festgehalten. Bald muss sie zu ihrem Entsetzen feststellen, dass ihr als Mörder gesuchter Noch-Ehemann Kaspar hinter ihrer...
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Im November 1893 wird ein angesehener Wiener Bankier ermordet in seiner Bibliothek aufgefunden. Am Tatort stößt Inspektor Karl Winterbauer auf fünf seit ihrer Kindheit befreundete Frauen und ahnt bald, dass alle ein Geheimnis haben. Allmählich wird aus seinem Misstrauen Sympathie und er beginnt, an ihre Unschuld zu glauben. Da geschieht ein zweiter Mord - und wieder sind nur die fünf Frauen am Ort des Verbrechens. Das Leben des Inspektors treibt...
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Bayern im Jahr 1475: In Landshut bereitet man sich auf die Hochzeit des Herzogs vor, doch das Verschwinden von fünf Nonnen aus dem Kloster Seligenthal wirft einen Schatten auf die kommenden Ereignisse. Als eine Nonne nach der anderen tot aufgefunden wird, zeichnet sich ein finsteres Geheimnis ab. Die Verstrickungen scheinen bis in die Spitzen der Gesellschaft zu reichen. Der Freisinger Chorrichter Johannes Heller wird aus seinen alltäglichen Gerichtsgeschäften...
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A richly imagined, gorgeously written historical novel set in the Stuart court featuring a unique hero: Jeffrey Hudson, a dwarf tasked with spying on the beautiful but vulnerable queen
It's 1629, and King Charles I and his French queen Henrietta Maria have reigned in England for less than three years. Young dwarf Jeffrey Hudson is swept away from a village shambles and plunged into the Stuart court when his father sells him to the most hated man...
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Im Jahr 1790 wanderte der Theologiestudent Friedrich August Köhler von Tübingen nach Ulm - und verfasste den ersten »Wanderführer« der Schwäbischen Alb. Uta-Maria Heim nimmt diese reale Reise zum Anlass und imaginiert klug und humorvoll das Aufeinandertreffen von fünf jungen Rebellen, die alle vom Zeitgeist der Französischen Revolution beseelt sind - jeder auf seine Weise:
Der heimatverbundene Köhler möchte Land und Leute studieren. Seine...
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