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HarperCollins
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[2013]
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English
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Now a Netflix Mandarin original drama! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger, a Reese's Book Club pick Yangsze Choo's stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists. Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she has few...
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Chicago Review Press
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English
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Maiden Flight is the true-life story of the Wright sister who in 1926 left her world-famous and intensely possessive older brother to marry newspaper editor Harry Haskell, the man she loved, and suffered the unhappy consequences. An international celebrity in her own right, Katharine embodied the worldly, independent, and self-fulfilled New Woman of the early twentieth century. Yet she remained in many ways a Victorian. Torn between duty and
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An Inspector Ian Rutledge novel volume Book 17
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd takes readers on a trip to Ian Rutledge's past, with the story of the last case the Scotland Yard detective tackles before he goes off to fight in World War I"--
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In 1909, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband, Winston. An angry woman emerges from the crowd to attack, shoving him in the direction of an oncoming train. Just before he stumbles, Clementine grabs him by his suit jacket. This will not be the last time Clementine Churchill will save her husband. Lady Clementine is the ferocious story of the ambitious woman beside Winston Churchill, the story of a partner who did not flinch through the...
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In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It's a decision that will alter her destiny ... and it's a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border,...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these historical romances of adventure and faith.
INSTANT FRONTIER FAMILY
Frontier Bachelors by Regina ScottMaddie
O'Rourke is in for a surprise when handsome Michael Haggerty replaces the woman she hired to escort her orphaned siblings to Seattle-and insists on helping her care for the children he adores.
THE BOUNTY HUNTER'S REDEMPTION
by Janet Dean
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"On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series. Hours after his sister's wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped...
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"Highly entertaining, refreshing, and witty. . . . [A] beautifully written, delightful, and faith-filled romance of two endearing hearts."
--Grace Hitchcock, award-winning author of My Dear Miss Dupré
Not much happens in Theodosia Stapleton's tiny Northumberland village. Certainly not to her. She has resigned herself to spinsterhood, caring for her ailing mother in the home of her grandfather, known to the locals as "General Contrary." When her...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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The Husband Hunter s Club is back in session! To Pleasure a Duke is the third installment in author Sara Bennett s delightful historical romance series set in England s Victorian Era, where the girls at Miss Debenham s Finishing School believe the only husband worth having is a husband they have hunted themselves. The intended husband the determined heroine of To Pleasure a Duke has chosen is a moody nobleman, not unlike Jane Austen s Mr. Darcy, who...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles! Enjoy these historical romances of adventure and faith. PONY EXPRESS CHRISTMAS BRIDE Saddles and Spurs by Rhonda Gibson Finding a husband is the only way Josephine Dooly can protect herself against her scheming uncle, so she answers a mail-order-bride ad. But when she arrives and discovers her groom-to-be didn’t place the ad himself, can she convince Thomas Young to marry her in name only? COWGIRL...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Love Inspired Historical brings you four new titles! Enjoy these historical romances of adventure and faith. A FAMILY FOR THE RANCHER Lone Star Cowboy League: The Founding Years by Louise M. Gouge With her uncle trying to claim her ranch, widow Lula May Barlow has no time to worry about romance. But as Edmund McKay--the handsome cowboy next door--helps her fight for her land, her children are determined to make sure Edmund becomes their new daddy....
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Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. The work was Forster's first novel, and its success helped launch his lengthy and critically acclaimed career as a writer of literary fiction. Where Angels Fear to Tread, the title is drawn from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711), is a moving meditation on class, gender, social convention, and the grieving process.
Following the death of her husband, a widow named...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Loyalty to your people. Loyalty to Rome. Only one can remain…
'Wonderful, distinct characters' Conn Iggulden
Centurion Faustus Valerianus marched with Julius Agricola on his six-year campaign to conquer the north of Britain. With Agricola now returned to Rome, Faustus is sent to Hibernia with exiled Irish prince Tuathal Techtmar to reclaim his throne, to crown a new king.
But victory is a fleeting thing, and back in Caledonia fears grow that...
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"December 1926: England unleashes the largest manhunt in its history. The object of the search is not an escaped convict or a war criminal, but the missing wife of a WWI hero, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie. When her car is found wrecked, empty, and abandoned near a natural spring, the country is in a frenzy. Eleven days later, Agatha reappears, claiming amnesia. She provides no answers for her disappearance. That is...until she writes...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: HIS CONVENIENT DUCHESS (Regency) by Louise Allen Lady Rose Trafford desperately needs a husband, and Marcus Cranford wishes to avoid a London season. A marriage between the two is convenient…but the lust between them is unexpected! LADY HELENA’S SECRET HUSBAND (Regency)...
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Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two teenage girls cast in an unlikely partnership through murder-perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and If the Creek Don't Rise.
Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace,...
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Harper Muse
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A fascinating story of love's ability to overcome family curses, scandals, and even war. Told in three parts, this multi-generational tale is wonderfully heartwarming!" -Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in LondonLeedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite a family curse determined to destroy their legacy and erase them from history.
1870. After a disastrous...
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"A fragrant French bonbon of a book: love, glamour, perfume, and paparazzi all circling around the wedding of the century..."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALICE NETWORK and THE HUNTRESS.
Named one of InStyle's best books to put in your totebag for the summer!
Named one of Popsugar’s best books to put in your beachbag this summer and one
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