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1) High Forest
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If one were to be asked which states played the most prominent role in our nation's history in the middle of the 19th century most people would reply California or Utah or Texas, or states involved in the conflict over slavery. Few would probably suggest including Minnesota on such a list, but an argument can be made for its inclusion. For starters, the Dread Scott decision which helped lead to the Civil War came about when an enslaved man sued...
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Un siglo revivido en siete relatos pertenecientes a un pasado ya perdido en el que se desarrollan historias de mujeres y hombres, en su diversidad, con algunos temas comunes.La libertad y la voluntad, la tradición y la innovación, las certezas y las dudas de una tierra ancestral, salvaje y profunda como es Cerdeña, reviven aún hoy en los pensamientos de sus habitantes del pasado, en lugares que, al fin y al cabo, nunca han cambiado.
3) Mathilde
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Un roman captivant, rempli de rebondissements, mais aussi une formidable histoire d'amour !
Dans le Québec effervescent des années 1930, Mathilde Levasseur rêve de liberté et d'indépendance. Elle tente de s'affranchir des contraintes de l'époque, mais surtout de celles imposées par son père, un homme autoritaire qui lui rend la vie difficile.
L'arrivée d'Étienne, le nouveau maître de poste, n'est pas sans émouvoir Mathilde. Les...
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A most unlikely governess...
...with a shocking secret
Part of The Governess Swap: Lady Rebecca Pierce escapes her forced betrothal when the ship she's on wrecks. Assuming the identity of a governess she believes has drowned, she enters the employ of brooding Lord Brookmore, who's selflessly caring for his orphaned nieces. Inconveniently, she's extremely attracted to the viscount, with her only chance of happiness tied to the biggest risk: revealing...
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Wicked Nights With a Proper Lady
Tiffany Clare
Leo Harrow, Earl of Barrington, is a regular subject of the scandal rags. Once an unrepentant pleasure seeker, he knows that young ladies are warned to look the other way when he enters a room. But when he comes face to face with a woman from his past-the one that got away-he will do anything to keep the rumors about him at bay. Or risk losing her forever…
Genevieve Camden is no stranger to Leo's...
6) Splendor
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She played a dangerous game. Carolyn Browne was a poor bookseller's daughter and an enlightened thinker, delighting London with her scathingly witty columns, written under the name Charles Copperville. Penetrating the town's gilded salons in male disguise, Carolyn soon throws her barbs at the wrong man-- the enigmatic Russian prince, Nicholas Sverayov.
He was a dangerous target. His notoriety, extravagances, and indulgent disregard for social convention...
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Joy Miller loves life. She's happy to be able to spend time in the fields helping her father and is willing to work for anyone who needs some harvesting or planting done. But she feels like she's ready to marry and leave her demon horde existence behind. Thomas Worthington is a wealthy bank manager from Boston, who needs a wife to help him with clients and entertaining. He decides to contact a matchmaker to provide him with a mail-order bride. When...
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Huérfana a una tierna edad, la señorita Louise Grant pasó su vida en la servidumbre para cuidar de sus hermanos menores. Ahora que ya no se la necesita como acompañante de la duquesa, Louise ha conseguido empleo en York. Pero en su última noche en Londres, su reputación se hace añicos cuando el borracho y desordenado marqués confunde la habitación de Louise con la de su amante.Luke, el marqués Graham está decidido a no atormentarse nunca...
9) The templar
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It's 1095 and crusading fervor has swept Europe. Hugh de Payens and Godefroi of St. Omer, the soon-to-be founders of the Templar Order, and Hugh's younger sister, Eleanor, leave the security of their homes in Burgundy, France, with a plan to join Count Raymond of Toulouse's army, and march across the known world to Jerusalem.
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Durante los últimos seis años, la señorita Lizzie Doherty ha tenido exactamente cero propuestas de matrimonio. No porque no sea atractiva, o de una buena familia o no tenga amigos bien conectados, sino simplemente porque es pobre. O eso cree la alta sociedad. Invitada a una fiesta en una casa de campo en una noche de tormenta, su viaje da un giro inesperado cuando su conductor la lleva a la propiedad equivocada. Al entrar a la casa, pronto se enmascara...
11) The Axe
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First published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf in 1928 in this English translation by A. G. Chater, now public domain. Set in 13th-century Norway, The Axe is the first volume in Undset's epic tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken. In it, we meet Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter, who were betrothed as children and raised as brother and sister. In the heedlessness of youth, they become lovers, unaware that their ardor will forge the first link...
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In the fifteenth century, with religious intolerance spreading like wildfire across Europe, English-born Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, earn a living in Prague by illuminating precious books, including forbidden translations of the Bible. Finn subscribes to the heresy that people ought to be able to read the Word of God for themselves, without having to pay a priest for the privilege, but holding that belief is becoming more and more hazardous....
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1910, Angleterre. Honoria Bellefort, jeune veuve de vingt-sept ans, accepte un poste de préceptrice à Wakefield Manor, dans les paisibles Cotswolds. Entre les murs du manoir, les mystères se dessinent et les bouches se condamnent au silence.
Et tandis que les cœurs s'embrasent, la tragédie se profile.
Deux ailes d'un manoir, l'une habitée par la duplicité, l'autre par les ruines. Saurez-vous trouver les réponses parmi les vestiges...
14) A Bride for Ross
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From a USA Today Bestselling Author...The Prescott Brides. A thrilling new series by USA Today Bestselling Author Cynthia Woolf!Five outlaw brides. Five brothers. They take a chance and each find love.The love of mother for her child can never be broken. Fiona O'Neill knows that love. To save her child she would do anything, even become a mail-order bride to a stranger.Her new groom is unlike any man she's ever known, he's physically stronger than...
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The very last novel that Gene Stratton-Porter wrote before her death. The tale of a wounded World War I veteran, a beekeeper and an impish tomboy all helped by each other. A book that examines the healing power that nature and kindness can have upon someone's life. Gene Stratton Porter's optimism and confidence in nature are on full show in this distinctly American tale of adventure, hope, and healing. Many films have been influenced by it.
16) Cyrus the Great
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A dramatic retelling of the life of the tough and bellicose sixth-century King of Persia, Cyrus the Great.
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Now a young woman of social standing, Fanette still holds out hope of finding her sister. One day, out of the blue, she receives a letter from Amanda and a mysterious request to meet in secret. But Amanda's troubled past catches up with her and ruins their reunion. A matter of revenge to which both sisters are inextricably linked, unbeknownst to them, proves to have unexpected repercussions. Journeying back in time, parallel to Fanette's story, the...
18) The Boar Stone
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Roman England, 366 AD. Minna, a Roman serving girl, loses family and home and is flung out into the brutal world to fend for herself. Desperate to reach her soldier brother at the northern frontier, she falls in with Cian, a tribeless youth with no loyalty to anyone but himself. A terrible mistake sees them thrust into the wilds of barbarian Scotland, a land in chaos. The Romans have sent scouts north from their frontier, seeking to subdue Scotland...
19) Child of June
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In the summer of 1914, unrest simmers across the Austro-Hungarian empire. Nationalist tensions are on the rise, the imperial parliament has been suspended, and the heir to the throne has been assassinated. While the capital hums with whispers of war, Ilse Eder lives a life apart, secluded on her brother-in-law's country estate. Headstrong but unworldly, she finds herself entangled in an illicit romance with the aristocratic Junius von Hess. As she...
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Lady Elizabeth Wakefield is a free-spirited young woman with intellectual leanings that make her determined to seek a marriage based on mutual understanding and respect. However, with her family on the brink of financial ruin, she reluctantly acquiesces when they arrange a pragmatic marriage between her and the imposing and enigmatic Earl of Danford, Andrew Danforth.
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