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Renowned gamester, and the first to own that he is untroubled by a romantic disposition, Max Ravenscar regards all eligible females with indifference. But when he learns that his young cousin Adrian is bent on marrying Deborah Grantham, beautiful mistress of her aunt's gaming house, he meets an opponent in whom all his experience of risk and gambles finds him totally unprepared.

Naomi Novik's stunning series of novels follow the global adventures of Captain William Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire as they are thrown together to fight for Britain during the turbulent time of the Napoleonic Wars. As Napoleon's tenacious infantry rampages across Europe and his armada...

1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petition the King and an investigation might ensue! The man in ...

Born in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing and begging, often cold and always hungry, but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday, 1916, he's fourteen years old and al...

Painting Mona Lisa offers an explanation behind the mysteries surrounding da Vinci's famous portrait – why did Leonardo keep the Mona Lisa with him until his death?An intricately woven tale of betrayal, love and loss, which unravels the mysteries surrounding da Vinci's most famous portrait.April 2...

A sweeping historical epic and powerful romantic drama set in medieval a time of the Great Plague, of witchcraft, and the Inquisition.During the height of superstition, in the midst of the Great Plague, religious fervour and terror of witchcraft sweep fourteenth-century France.Locked in a torture ch...

An historical romance based on the Ballantynes Department Store Fire in 1947 that killed 41 people, most of them store employees trapped in controversial circumstances. Set in an unnamed city in 1953, Fire tells the story of four working class friends, all employed at Dawsons, one of the country's m...

Brutally kidnapped and separated in childhood, Tommo and Hawk are reunited at the age of fifteen in Hobart Town. Together they escape their troubled pasts and set off on a journey into manhood. From whale huntingin the Pacific to the Maori wars of New Zealand, from the Rocks in Sydney to the miners'...

Young Englishwoman Angela Featherstone, a dashing redhead, is the heroine who survives brutality in Burma through her own determination. Escaping from her assailant, she meets a American, Captain Nathan de Veres-Vorne, who is also escaping from the Burmese prison to warn friends of impending danger. There are many convoluted plots before anyone's happiness can be resolved..

A haunting story of love and mystery in Victorian England.In the late nineteenth century in the lush atmosphere of the English countryside at Saxelby Mill, the seafaring Captain Adam Westerdale had brought his frail bride and where a few years later he buried her. The distraught husband returned to ...

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-10-24 Pages: 300 Language: English Publisher: Pan It is 1537. a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066 Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church The country. is waking up to savage new laws. rigged trials and the greatest ...

A portrait of fashionable society at the height of an era, The Edwardians reveals, through the lives of its characters, all that was glamorous about the period—and all that was to lead to its downfall. Sebastian and Viola are children of the English aristocracy. Handsome and moody, 19-year-old Seba...

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In the voice of an unforgettable heroine, V.A. Shannon explores one of the most harrowing episodes in pioneer history—the ill-fated journey of the Donner Party—in a mesmerizing novel of resilience and survival.Mrs. Jacob Klein has a husband, children, and a warm and comfortable home in Californi...

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