Following the stunning 'Gate of Tears', Christopher Holt, has gone to the other end of the spectrum, with this chi...
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Call of a Distant Shore follows the travails of Elisabeth Heber and her family as they struggle under the rule of a tyrannical Prince in 1750s Germany and their subsequent journey to be among the first settlers of Nova Scotia. Unm...
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The Journey of Fallen Rock is a children's story about family, the adventure of traveling coast to coast across this great land and the lesson that we all can enjoy our natural resources while we still protect and preser...
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The ultimate lucky break gives John Harris and his family the opportunity to fulfill their wildest dreams. But all dreams have a darker side, and John's past is never far away, ready to reach through to cast its shadow.One hundred...
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King Henry has succeeded in suppressing the new Parliament. But the common people of England have come to believe that a new age has begun, a thousand year Era of the Sanctus Spiritus in which kingship and the Church will dissolve...
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Ex pirate, Captain Jesamiah Acorne, is in trouble. Big Trouble. All he wants is to marry his girl, Tiola Oldstagh, and live contented aboard his ship, Sea Witch. But her husband refuses to grant a divorce unless Jesamiah agrees to...
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Dell Hinton left the Boston Police Department after a high-profile shooting incident and moved to a quiet community in Maine. After living by the lake for a year, his friend, the local minister, convinces him to run for the office...
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Winning the lottery was just the beginning for Doreen Wilkinson, nothing prepared Doreen for her holiday at Villas Bonitas and nothing prepared Villas Bonitas for Doreen Wilkinson. Sometimes It Happens...is about secrets, decepti...
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Scarlett O'Hara meets The Scarlet Letter: Rebel Puritan is based on the true-life escapades of Herodias (Long) Hicks, one of New England's most notorious women. Like Scarlett O'Hara, Herodias was married far too young to a ...
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This is a story of the whales and dolphins who rule the Seven Seas and the odyssey of a white dolphin named Apollo whose destiny is to save whalekind from destruction on this planet man calls Earth but whales know as Planet Ocean....
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Sean Marcum is driven to find the meaning of his mother's swan song. The last words she wrote in her journal were, "Fuller Brush Man". She always communicated life's most important lessons via riddles, and he is convinced this is ...
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Jade Hawkins, the thirteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Cherokee family, is content with her life. Her family is successful, and she has a proud heritage to support and guide her. But this is Georgia in 1838, and Jade cannot g...
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Love among the ruins... Two people who were meant to be together, then war shattered body and mind. "Everyone makes mistakes, but I sometimes think I've made more than most. Marrying Magnus was one of them. But the biggest mistak...
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When a young reporter is pushed from a ninth story window in Greenwich Village, NYPD Homicide Lieutenant Frank Mead soon connects the case to a murder that took place at the same site a hundred years earlier, during the infamous T...
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Tony Johnson is a studious young man planning to soon graduate from much more than high school. Although his zip code places him in a Bronx tenement pre 'rise of Obama', his sights are set far beyond the trappings of a humble upbr...
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What would you do if street thugs invaded your home? What if you're a daycare provider, caring for a dozen children at the time? Lisa Kaamp, a most unlikely heroine, faces just such a nightmare in This Time You Lose, the suspense ...
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Gunpower and Sorcery in 1666 Historical Fantasy set during the Great Fire of London What caused the Great Fire of London? The Last Seal offers an explanation... September 1666: a struggle between two secret societies threatens t...
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Tick, tick, tick. That's time ticking away. All aboard! Next stop twenty-five years old. Pardon me while I panic. Don't panic. Don't panic. Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Delilah Dunnfield's neurotic fears have her convinced that when the ...
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When Moanica Moonsweep plans a special Halloween party, her witch's brew has to be just right. So she invites her witchy friends over to help her plan the perfect kettle of gruesome stew. But when they can't agree on the nastiest...
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"What's wrong with relaxing in the evening with a little sip of wino?" asks Carakas, an alcoholic vampire whose primary concern is maintaining his buzz. But finding a steady supply of heavy drinkers to feast upon is a challenge. U...
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Surviving King Henry's ill will, Simon is sent as ambassador to France, but returns to rescue Prince Edward -- and becomes enmeshed in the barons' rebellion against the king. When the barons abandon their own project, it is Simon ...
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Nottingham 1811. With low wages and long working hours for Nottingham's framework knitters, desperate men turn to direct action and machine breaking. And when a raid goes wrong and a man dies, someone has to pay the ultimate price...
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Book One in an exciting new Victorian detective series from former Headline author Harriet Smart. England 1840, and police surgeon Felix Carswell enters a murky world of professional gamblers and jilted lovers to solve the case of...
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Trailer trash is what people in Port Regal, South Carolina call seventeen year old Savannah Jade Mason and her family. Savannah dreams of doing important, spectacular things, but it is unlikely she ever will given her spectacular ...
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What would you do if someone murdered your child, but the justice system let you down? Kathryn Walters is faced with this dreadful decision when her daughter, Shelley, is found dead in a bath in her boyfriend’s flat. Despite the ...
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Simon de Montfort arrives in England, a near penniless youth but with a slender claim on the earldom of Leicester. King Henry befriends him -- until he commits an unpardonable treason and flees for his life, to become in the Holy ...
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One abandoned kitty's story of how he found a new home and the best mommy and daddy.
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It's 1807 on the Isle of Eigg. Four-year old Maggie believes she has killed her mother by saying bad things and now she won't say a word. It's true that Ma's voice stays in the cottage even though Da says she's gone, and sometimes...
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CAN WE EVER ESCAPE THE PAST THAT MADE US? When Jo Devereux returns to Ireland after an absence of 20 years, the last thing she expects is to end up writing a family history. Growing up in Mucknamore in the 1970s, with her village ...
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The scenic bayous and small towns of South Louisiana hold hidden dangers beyond those you might expect - in a tangled tale of mystery and suspense. Raya, a freelance writer and blogger, researches cold cases for true crime website...
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Peggy Pinch, unhappily married to the village policeman, must solve a murder to save her husband's job. It's 1926. In the shadow of the General Strike, a farmer's body is found on the local branchline. Scotland Yard's investigatio...
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As she breaks 200 pounds, and not in a good way, 29-year-old Rita finds herself married to a self-focused widower with two difficult kids and a mother who almost makes Rita's own mother look like a role model - which is really say...
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Escaping the bullying of his elder half brother, from the age of fifteen Jesamiah Acorne has been a pirate with only two loves - his ship and his freedom. But his life is to change when he and his crewmates unsuccessfully attack a...
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Jesamiah Acorne, Captain of the Sea Witch, has accepted a government-granted amnesty against his misdeeds of piracy, but old enemies do not forget the past. In particular Edward Teach - better known as Blackbeard - has a bone to p...
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If you think it was all good deeds and fancy ideals back in the days of Camelot, think again. Most people don't know this, but for a time things went seriously bad; Arthur was imprisoned, Merlin had vanished, and a vile demon had ...
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King Henry cannot do without Simon's skill as a military commander and sends him to quell rebellion in England's French duchy of Gascony. But the Gascons entangle Simon in intrigues -- and Henry has his opportunity to try him for ...
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When Charlotte Lucas married Mr Collins, she did not love him but had at least secured her future.However, what price must she pay for that future? She once said she was not romantic, but how true is that now after almost one year...
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When successful businessman Albert Cowgill and his family move into Byland Crescent in the genteel resort of Scarborough, it seems the culmination of his boyhood ambitions. Having battled from extreme poverty to affluence he could...
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Maggie, a widow with two teenage daughters, runs a rooming house smack dab on the town square. In 1860, this makes her a social outcast – boarding houses are hardly respectable. And her collection of eclectic boarders ...
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The Coach House story begins in 1945 Chicago. Newlyweds Marie Marchetti and her husband, Richard, have the perfect life together. Or at least it seems until Marie discovers cryptic receipts hidden in their basement and a gun in Ri...
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Why is someone killing the community band geeks of Richland, Texas? Miranda Beeling would like to know, since she's one of them. Law grad Miranda is trying to recover from the recent death of her mother and the betrayal of her fia...
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Pandora Johnson's new chest of drawers holds a hidden secret. It is a secret she is determined that no one else will know about until after she and her best friend Lucy have fully uncovered it for themselves. However, Pandora and ...
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1054, pious King Edward sits on the throne, spending his days hunting, sleeping and praying, leaving the security of his kingdom to his more capable brother-in-law Harold Godwinson, the powerful Earl of Wessex. Against this backd...
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London, 1889. Victoria is Queen. Charles Darwin’s son is Prime Minister. And steam is the power that runs the world. At 17, Claire Trevelyan, daughter of Viscount St. Ives, was expected to do nothing more than pour an elegant cup ...
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As the stock market crashes in October of 1929, Oliver fears for his job at the silk mill. When his nightmare comes true and the mill shuts down, Oliver is hesitant to allow his wife, Estella, to take a job at the local coff...
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Donald is at peace in knowing that he was born in another dimension, no longer insecure when being picked on by the other orphans for his differences. His father, only able to talk to him from his home world through dreams, appear...
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