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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A widow goes house-hunting in Barsetshire in this witty, moving novel by an author of “graceful stories of upper-class English life” ( The New York Times ). One rainy summer, amid the social and cultural changes of postwar England, Mrs. Macfadyen wrestles with the loss of her beloved husband after just five years of happiness. Life has left her uprooted--but where can she replant herself? The hunt for a new house (preferably not too close to her...
Author
Publisher
Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a bleak Mississippi farmhouse in 1918, Leona Pinson gives birth to an illegitimate son whose father she refuses to name, but who will, she is convinced, return from the war to rescue her from a hardscrabble life with a distant mother, a dangerous brother, and a dwarf aunt. When, instead, her lover returns with a wife in tow, her dreams are shattered. As her brother' s violence escalates and her aunt flees, Leona must rely on the help of Luther...
Author
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.‘ In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off.Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time -- symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant, dome shaped cover ... ' During the years of the Great Depression, Cressida Morley and her eccentric family...
Author
Publisher
Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The darkest days of Paris, 1790s. Riots ignite the street, classes struggle for power, and death rests at the foot of the guillotine. For Ani, the French Revolution is a catalyst for bringing down the corrupt aristocracy and avenging her fallen family, until she unwittingly befriends a high-ranking military nobleman who exposes the dark conspiracies of her own father' s past. Suspenseful twists, action-packed battles, narrow escapes, and daring feats...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin/Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Claiming His Child Who would guess the most formidable adversary former gunslinger Hunter Mitchell ever faced would be a fiery, violet-eyed female? Now that he's served his time, Hunter intends to claim the daughter he's only just discovered. While the law is on his side this time, his daughter's devoted aunt certainly isn't. Annabeth Silks can't bear to let a onetime outlaw take little Sarah. As the daughter of an infamous madam, she knows the hardship...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
His heart is unavailable. Luckily, her interest lies in the rest of him . . .
Though she was just a girl when they first met, Caroline Tolbertson's infatuation with David Cameron remains undimmed. Now fate has brought the handsome Scotsman back to Brighton for what promises to be an unforgettable summer. Soon, Caroline will have to choose a husband, but for now she is free to indulge her curiosity in things of a passionate nature.
That is, if David...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a world of gunpowder, smoke and blood, two men's love will rise above the chaos.
'Beautifully written ... will make your geeky heart sing sea shanties' The Times
In 1802, The Treaty of Amiens brings the French Revolutionary Wars to an end. After the drama of the past few years, Lieutenant Arthur Courtney returns home to England where he hopes to spend a blissful summer with his close friend, Hiram Nightingale.
But within weeks, HMS Loyal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
They came together for an orphaned child…
Will they stay together for love?
A fresh start, far from the heartache she left behind-that's all Maggie Porter seeks at the end of the Oregon Trail. But whatever she expected, she never could have imagined finding an orphaned child! Little Lilly May needs a family, and Maggie longs to be a mother. With the help of wagon train scout Adam Walker, that dream finally comes true. As they enter a marriage...
10) Caesar's Soldier
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Who was the man that would become Caesar's lieutenant, Brutus' rival, Cleopatra's lover, and Octavian's enemy? When his stepfather is executed for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy, Mark Antony and his family are disgraced. His adolescence is marked by scandal and mischief, his love affairs are fleeting, and yet, his ambition is vast. Antony's path to prosperity leads him to an education in Athens, a campaign for a seat in the Senate,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Resilience, courage, and bravery outshine the enemy is this fast-paced, historical read." -- Booklist She'll light the fire of resistance--but she may get burned 1942. Though she survived the bomb that destroyed her home, Yvonne Rudellat's life is over. She's estranged from her husband, her daughter is busy with war work, and Yvonne--older, diminutive, overlooked--has lost all purpose. Until she's offered a chance to remake herself entirely The war...
12) Lady of disguise
Author
Series
Dericott tales volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A "Jack and the Beanstalk" retelling set in medieval England in which a young maiden undergoes a journey to save her sister and herself. Will the chivalrous knight, Sir Charles, help her find the treasure she seeks before her uncle can marry her off?
Only the hidden treasure will allow Louisa and her sister to gain their freedom.
England, 1388. All her life, Louisa's dreamed of finding the rumored "Giant's Treasure," a collection of ancient, lost...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A gripping and powerful tale of resilience and courage set in Vienna on the brink of WWII, as two members of Freud's Circle try to keep themselves and their loved ones safe as the SS closes in.
Spring, 1938: Café Mozart in the heart of Vienna is beloved by its clientele, including cousins Mathias Kraemer and Johannes Namal. The two writers are as close as brothers. They are also members of Freud's Circle-a unique group of the famed psychiatrist's...
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