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A diva and a showman work together to make history, finding romance along the way After Queen Victoria, Jenny Lind is the most famous woman in Europe. A Swedish soprano with a voice like an angel's and a temperament to match, she is in Vienna when she meets the shortest man she has ever seen. General Tom Thumb is a three-foot-tall sensation whom P. T. Barnum has made one of the wealthiest men in the world. Thumb arrives with a message from Barnum...
42) Megastar!
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Dive into the mesmerizing world of "MEGASTAR" and experience a poignant tale of music, love, and love lost. Nineteen-year-old Addison Stone, raised by a mentally unstable single mother, becomes an overnight international singing sensation. Still carrying the scars of his youth, he struggles to come to grips with his sudden fame and fortune. Will it suffice to fill the void left by his tumultuous past? With a twist of fate and a bit of kismet, Addison...
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One day searching through old, battered storage boxes sorting through paper file folders thinking he would shred them, Felix Fist discovers a large, tan envelope darkened by the dust of passing years. Surprised by what he finds in that envelope prompts him to search through an apple box of old notebooks taking him back over fifty years to when his search for the truths about the world and himself began. Reading through entries for several years, Felix...
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From an early age, Ben Baker knows that "when dad is mad, someone is going to get hurt." He sees it when his father bashes his mother in the head with a shotgun and experiences it through frequent beatings with brooms, rakes or whatever tool is handy. The physical pain is matched by the emotional damage of his father repeatedly calling him "the stupidest and laziest boy in the world." This mistreatment takes place while working on the family farm...
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A gripping saga of a family buffeted by war, dwindling fortunes, and royal rivalries, from the author of The Jacobite's Wife.
William Herbert has no Jacobite sympathies, but he's been persecuted throughout his life for his family's loyalty to the exiled Stuart dynasty. His sister, Winifred Maxwell, is guilty of treason, and William could be found guilty of the same charge for helping her escape from London.
Winifred and her unreliable husband...
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A new world …A new life …A new mother.With none but Adam to help her, Eve makes a new life on Earth. New experiences and discoveries fill their lives.But commands from God must be obeyed.Forgotten memories surface.Children are born.And the Destroyer battles to sabotage their happinessDiscover earth with Eve as she and Adam leave Eden.If you like rich historical fiction, feminine perspectives, and illuminating stories of motherhood, then you will...
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As the United States wrestles with its besetting sin-slavery-abolitionist John Brown is growing tired of talk. He takes actions that will propel the nation toward civil war and thrust three courageous women into history.
Wealthy Brown, married to John Brown's oldest son, eagerly falls in with her husband's plan to settle in Kansas. Amid clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers, Wealthy's adventure turns into madness, mayhem, and murder.
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As a young reporter in 1936, Muriel Rukeyser traveled to Barcelona to witness the first days of the Spanish Civil War. She turned this experience into an autobiographical novel so forward thinking for its time that it was never published. Recently discovered in her archive, this lyrical work charts her political and sexual awakening as she witnesses the popular front resistance to the fascist coup and falls in love with a German political exile who...
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Claire leaves her pretentious and arty husband because he declared that her dream journal did not have enough Freudian imagery. Claire realizes that her dream is actually to spend some time alone on her personal and artistic development as a novelist. She rents an apartment above a bistro in New York City's Greenwich Village. Claire pours all of her pain and doubt into a first novel featuring an unconventional heroine named Nevada whose trials mirror...
50) Boomerang
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Book 6 of Jack Freestone's series The Great Escape, set in Australia and New Zealand. The sequel to Weirdly Bland, and prequel to Bruce Grove. Novella based upon the author's experiences surfing, gambling, and traveling in Australia and New Zealand.
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This true story is filled with coincidences, love, intrigue, pain and bravery. Gillian met the boy of her dreams. They fell deeply in love. Heartbreakingly, they were parted by circumstances and went their separate ways. All she had to remember him by, was an engagement ring, along with her memories, her shattered dreams and a photograph. A photograph she would keep for the rest of her life.
52) The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World: A Novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
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"An affectionate homage...a loving reconstruction of an era of storytelling now lost." -The New York Times
"[A] triumph...If a writer is going to put on Stevenson's voice, he'd better, as the poets say, 'bring it.' Reader, Doyle has brought it...Adventures is a tonic for our bitter times." -Washington Post
The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco in the 19th century while waiting for his beloved's divorce from...
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Robert the Bruce was Scotland's greatest King ever. The Bruce, as he was known, was crowned King of Scots in 1306, a time when the ancient kingdom of Scotland was under harsh and illegal English occupation. As soon as King Robert began his reign, his army was treacherously attacked at Methven, resulting in a calamitous defeat for the Scots which forced the Bruce into hiding. Yet, steadily between 1307 and 1313 King Robert won battle after battle,...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a powerful and moving novel about Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife and mother of Mary I
When young Catherine of Aragon, proud daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, is sent to England to marry the weak Prince Arthur, she is unprepared for all that awaits her: early widowhood, the challenge of warfare with the invading Scots, and the ultimately futile...
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While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive – especially when it comes to solving crimes – in USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower's radiant new historical mystery series inspired by the real sister of the Wright Brothers.
December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking...
December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking...
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The Kindergarten Adventure" is a heartwarming children's book that follows the journey of five-year-old Sam as he embarks on his first day of kindergarten while navigating the challenges of autism. Written with empathy and understanding, this story sheds light on the unique experiences of children with autism and promotes inclusivity and acceptance in educational settings.Sam is a bright and curious child who loves trains, puzzles, and spending time...
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A Novel of Redemption from Addiction and a Broken Family
"A Clean Heart picks at the knot of addiction and recovery insistently and with a wholesomeness intriguingly at odds with its subject. I enjoyed this book." –Thomas Beller, author of The Sleep-Over Artist
Carter Kirchner struggles to stay sane and sober as a counselor at Six West, an adolescent drug treatment center run by Sister Mary Xavier, a hard-drinking nun with an MBA. The young...
58) Dead Hedge
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Dead Hedge is a satire. It is a fictitious novel, but based on a real case. It portrays the corruption and criminality prevalent in the global banking system today. It is the story of Cleopatra and how she and her shipping company were manipulated and cheated by powerful forces that reached into the High Courts and even governments. How Cleo was defrauded and then persecuted when she tried to expose the truth. It is not the end of the story and a...
59) W O K E
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A tale of embracing one's true self after a mind-boggling revelation.W O K E starts with a bang, a chorus to a concept whose time has come, and ramps up into a mind-blowing adventure no reader will ever erase from their memory. Woke is the cream of the crop, a masterpiece, no two ways about it - a triumph, gleaming with the wonky essence of our topsy-turvy era, and both a tale for our time and an epic for all times.Woke is a knight in shining armor,...
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La Martinique sert de décor à ce roman dont l'histoire se déroule à la fin du XIXe siècle, époque de l'éruption de la Montagne Pelée. Ceci est un hommage au personnage central, à savoir le gouverneur Louis Mouttet, qui ne parvint pas à sauver de nombreuses vies lors de l'éruption volcanique, car ignoré du gouvernement en France. Il fut longtemps tenu pour responsable des conséquences désastreuses de la catastrophe de 1902.
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