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Anne Wynter's job as governess to three highborn young ladies can be a challenge - in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas, playing an evil queen in a play and tending to the wounds of the oh-so-dashing Earl of Winstead. After years of dodging unwanted advances, he's the ...

This sinfully sexy new romance from Maya Banks features a remarkable woman whose rare gift teaches a gruff Scottish warrior how to listen with his heart. Eveline Armstrong is fiercely loved and protected by her powerful clan, but outsiders consider her "touched." Beautiful, fey, with a level, inten...

The little French girl, Lily L'Alouette, was singing and dancing almost as soon as she could walk, and performing became as much a part of her as breathing. When she is left an orphan in an unfamiliar country after her parents have emigrated to New Zealand, it is performing in a circus that offers s...

Gaius Valerius Verrens returns to Rome from the successful campaign against Boudicca in Britain. Now hailed a 'Hero of Rome', Valerius is not the man he once was - scarred both physically and emotionally by the battles he has fought, his sister is mortally ill, his father in self-imposed exile. And ...

1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected wi...

When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall, wrecking ships and bringing death and destruction to seafarers and coastal communities, a young girl is found, barely alive, washed up among the rocks of a remote North Cornish cove. Her arrival and the mystery surr...

In "The Kingmaker's Daughter"," "#1 "New York Times "bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents the riveting story of Anne Neville, her sister Isabel, and their ever-changing fortunes."The Kingmaker's Daughter" is the gripping and ultimately tragic story of the daughters of the man known as the "K...

International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with his most ambitious work of epic storytelling--a multi-generational saga of fate, fortune, and redemption that began with ONLY TIME WILL TELL. On the heels of the international bestseller ONLY TIME WILL TELL, Jeffrey Archer picks up the swe...

Ken Follett follows up his #1 "New York Times "bestseller "Fall of Giants "with a brilliant, page-turning epic about the heroism and honor of World War II, and the dawn of the atomic age. Ken Follett's "Fall of Giants," the first novel in his extraordinary new historical epic, The Century Trilogy, ...

Historically very little is known about Spartacus. We know that he came from Thrace, a land north of Greece, that he once fought in the Roman legions and that, during two fateful years, he led a slave army which nearly brought Rome to its knees. In Ben Kane's brilliant novel, we meet Spartacus as he...

Following the poisoning murder of Prince Ra-em hotep of Egypt, Cretan pharmacologist Nikolas and his associates are inveigled by Pharaoh Ramesses II to pursue investigation into the death, become embroiled in political intrigue and caught up in a rebellion in the Far South.Author BiographyIain Campb...

Thomas and Eoin Joyce lose their family to The Great Hunger, Ireland's potato famine which cost the country half its population: desperate times lead to desperate acts and they flee the country. Now, thirty years later, the crops are failing again. The Joyces join a growing band of natives determine...

London 1527. Marry or serve: for Honor Larke, the choice is clear. Unwilling to perish of boredom as an obedient wife, she leaves the home of her ward to attend Her Majesty Queen Catherine of Aragon. Angered by the humiliation heaped upon her mistress as Henry VIII cavorts with Anne Boleyn and press...

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art today worth over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the...

1959: On a sweltering summer's day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can't wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, L...

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two wo...

Fictional but highly credible account of the last days and downfall of a dictator in Southeast Asia.

Did the churches ever really understand Jesus? Or was he doing something very different? Set after a violent rebellion in Roman-occupied Judea, The Blood of Innocents explores the political conflicts behind thePassover that became the first Easter. A young man is captured by the Romans as they savag...

1967. Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her when she marries Mason McPhee. But nothing can prepare her for the world she and Mason step into when he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia. In the gated compound of Abqaiq, Gin and Mason are given a home with marble fl...

1967. Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her when she marries Mason McPhee. But nothing can prepare her for the world she and Mason step into when he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia. In the gated compound of Abqaiq, Gin and Mason are given a home with marble fl...

Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden ...

In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers begins a new life as a homesteader. But the town is caught up in a range war, and when the bloodshed threatens its future, Esther finds her loyalties divided.

In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers begins a new life as a homesteader. But the town is caught up in a range war, and when the bloodshed threatens its future, Esther finds her loyalties divided.

In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers begins a new life as a homesteader. But the town is caught up in a range war, and when the bloodshed threatens its future, Esther finds her loyalties divided.

The book of war tells the story of a boy who comes to manhood in a war. William Kentridge has called it, "a rare feast", and Rian Malan, "a very good book, possibly great." An illiterate European child is stranded on the southern tip of Africa. The British and the Xhosa have been spilling each other...

The bestselling author of "The Bolter "returns with a delicious novel about two determined women whose lives collide in the halls of a pedigreed London town home. When eighteen-year-old Grace Carlisle arrives in London in 1914, she's unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an...

With war threatening to spread from Europe to England, the sleepy village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. Nightly air raids become grimly mundane. The tightening vice of rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and ...

Hans Keller is highly intelligent- so much so that he places little value in his studies or in religion. But after a chance meeting with the charismatic Josef Goebbels, a leader of the bourgeoning Nazi Party, atheistic Hans is offered a key role in shaping the future of the Nazis' new Germany: provi...

When Great War veteran Laurence Bartram arrives in Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty of the place: a crumbling manor, a venerable church, and a memorial to the village's soldiers, almost all of whom died in one bloody battle. Now peace prevails, and the rest of England is newly alight with ...

1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever.Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, saving every dollar and shilling in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams ...

It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau is forced to leave her glittering life of parties and champagne to become a parlor maid in England. She arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay, where servants polish silver and serve drinks on t...

"Janette Oke pioneered Christian fiction with the LOVE COMES SOFTLY series. Over one million readers fell in love with that first story of Marty and Clark Davis, whose tragic circumstances brought them to a "marriage of convenience" on the frontier prairies of the mid 1800s. Books 5-8 continue the s...

Over the course of his career, "New York Times "bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. "Midwives "brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter's night and a home birth gone tragically wrong. "The Double Bind "perfectly conjured the ...