Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. That's what it felt like for Keats in 1819. How about Autumn 2016' Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by...
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Author:Smith, AliSummary: - Author:COCHRANE, Lord ThomasSummary:
This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the development of naval fiction as a genre. Marryat sailed with Cochrane, while later writers borrowed...
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Author:Rimington, StellaSummary:London. Agent Liz Carlyle of the Joint Counter-Terrorist group at M15 learns the Islamic Terror Syndicate has deployed an "invisible"--A native operative who can move freely among populations - in the UK. With an attack imminent, Liz...
- Author:Stanton, RickSummary:
In July 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach disappeared into the Tham Luang Cave in Thailand. Any hope of survival rested on Rick Stanton, leader of the daring underwater rescue mission. While the world held its breath, Rick faced...
- Author:Muller, GeorgeSummary:
When George Mueller could not get it out of his mind to open a house for orphans in late 1835, he purposed to do so "that God might be magnified by the fact that the orphans under my care are provided with all they need, only by prayer...
- Author:Weir, AlisonSummary:
A novel filled with fresh insights into the story of Henry VIII's second-and most infamous-wife, Anne Boleyn. The new book in the epic Six Tudor Queens series, from the acclaimed historian and bestselling author of Katherine of...
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Author:Alexander, TashaSummary:For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt...
- Author:Lambdin, DeweySummary:
Three mismatched troop transports, lots of twenty-nine-foot barges, and an under-strength regiment of foot-a waste of Royal Navy money, a doomed experiment, or a new way to bedevil Napoleon's army in Italy? Either way, it's Capt. Sir...
- Author:Glass, CathySummary:
When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she...
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Author:Hunter, Kristi AnnSummary:Lady Georgina Hawthorne has worked tirelessly to seal her place as the Incomparable for her debut season. At her first London ball, she hopes to snag the attention of an earl. With money and business connections, but without impeccable...
- Author:Beverley, JoSummary:
When her vile brother's wicked scheming ruins her reputaion, Eleanor Chivenham is forced into a hasty marriage of convenience. She weds Nicholas Delaney, a hard-living scoundrel who is rumored to have a ravishing French mistress. Yet...
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- Author:Buford, BillSummary:
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known...
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Lawrence Hill a transformé une page négligée de l’histoire en un roman brillant et attachant, qui transporte le lecteur d’un village africain à une plantation du sud des États-Unis, d’un refuge sordide en Nouvelle-Écosse à la côte de la...
- Author:Aird, CatherineSummary:
When a body is found in the center of a maze of yew trees, Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan soon finds that his investigation into the murder of a woman has more twists and turns that the maze itself.
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Author:Robinson, PeterSummary:When DCI Alan Banks is dragged away from his vacation in London to supervise DI Annie Cabbot's sensitive murder case, he finds himself embroiled in the clandestine world of the secret intelligence service.
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Author:Brontë, AnneSummary:Like her sister Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Anne Brontë’s classic lays bare the vulnerable position of the governess in 19th century England. Let down by irresponsible parents, ill-treated by employers, Agnes’s one chance at happiness lies,...
- Author:Hibbert, ChristopherSummary:
The victory of Henry V of England over a larger force of the French, demonstrating the effectiveness of warfare by archers against a heavily armed feudal array on October 25, 1415.
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Author:Macintyre, BenSummary:Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into...
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