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June 1910. Charles Richard Crowningshield, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago, is sending his family east, to escape the summer heat. They arrive by private train, to the village of Woods Hole, a small fishing village on the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He's just purchased a new home there, high atop Juniper Point, a windswept promentary with views to the sea and the Elizabeth islands beyond. But the house, built in 1880, a large Victorian mansion...
2) Earth Story
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Earth Story' is an engaging and thought-provoking alternative view of mankind's history and those who have manipulated pivotal events throughout millennia. The story is told through the eyes of different characters who provide an, as yet, untold version of historical events, such as the discovery of the tomb Tutankhamun, the Second World War, and the 1969 moon landing. Are humans really the masters of their own destiny or merely pawns in a much wider...
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October 31, 1855. Celebrated author and social champion Victor Hugo, in exile from France, is forced to relocate to the Isle of Guernsey. En route across the Channel, the trunk containing his unfinished masterpiece, Les Misérables, is lost overboard! But fate deals Hugo a strange blow as he begins to recreate the book with the help of the very people he was destined to immortalize, and he discovers what really happened the night the barricades fell,...
4) Sanctuary
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The second volume in the continuation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.In 1855, while Victor Hugo continues to write Les Misérables on the Isle of Guernsey, he learns the story of Jean Valjean's continuing journey, taking him and his companion, the former Inspector Javert, from France in 1833 to the London of Dickens; from there the pair are drawn to the walled city of Québec, where awaits another attempted revolution which threatens Jean Valjean...
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"Celestial Brushstrokes and Moonlit Verses" by Engr Dr Naila Hina, unfolded as a tale of passion and peril, with Liang Chen navigating the treacherous waters of both mortal and celestial realms. The novel wove together elements of suspense, romance, and comedy, set against the backdrop of a mythical China where art held the power to unlock the secrets of the human soul. With Detective Dae and Confucius leading the game and Laizi poetry.
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En lo más profundo de la historia de la iglesia, más allá de las páginas llenas de fe, esperanza y amor, yace un oscuro y perturbador pasaje que ha sido ocultado por siglos. Este libro, "La Iglesia: Los Horrores Ocultos en su Historia", tiene la valiente misión de desvelar esos aspectos sombríos y controversiales que han sucedido en la vida real.A menudo, la iglesia ha sido considerada como un faro de luz y guía espiritual para millones de...
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Help and revenge.They had always come at a price.But redemption?Redemption has a cost of its own.Donaldson's men have been asked to enter the heart of Stalin's Russia to rescue an imprisoned scientist and afterwards a grieving mother gives them a chance to gain what has long escaped them…..redemption.The stunning sequel to 'Mr. Donaldson's Company'
8) Donovan
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Alternative history except with a vampire. What if a vampire was really the only person who could right all of the wrongs in history?
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Flush with the proceeds from the 'Israeli Caper' Prentice takes up with Caroline Maxwell the daughter of Lord Stigwell of Bashwell Higham. She is working as a Financial Advisor at Spooner, Sedgewick & Pell a City branch of Standish Holdings Plc., her father's Business Empire - a relic of the Victorian Era. Prentice is looking for advice on where to invest his new found riches from the 'Israeli Caper'. But it all comes apart at the seams when Caroline...
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Major Ralph Smith, injured at the Battle of Antietam is no longer able to lead his men into battle but goes undercover at the Port of Baltimore for the Confederate Secret Service to find out what a mysterious Frenchman, Reynard Gastonne, is up to. As Smith sets about to investigating the Frenchman, he is tailed by Pinkerton Agents on the lookout for Southern Spies.
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Victor Hugo continues to write his masterwork Les Misérables while he becomes more and more familiar with the people he will immortalize: Jean Valjean and his family. But not everyone welcomes Hugo's curiosity, especially as Valjean relates to Hugo how he and Javert encountered an old acquaintance and Marius rediscovered something long thought lost to him while struggling to keep his marriage to Cosette from disintegrating. And who is the mysterious...
12) Perdition
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The Union ambassador is missing. More than a hundred years after the McClellan-Davis Accords ended the Civil War, tensions are still high between the Union and the Confederacy. But recent trade agreements and personnel exchanges have made both sides hope that good relations can be restored. That is, until the Union ambassador vanishes one night from the embassy in Perdition. Two agents are sent to investigate his disappearance. Delilah Thorn, a video...
13) Taliban UK
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This engrossing alternative history novel, 'Taliban UK', is a remarkable imaginative feat. A young Christian man is murdered by his Muslim girlfriend's father that leads to a manhunt and trial at the Old Bailey where he receives a long prison sentence.
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After the Second World War, the world divided into five major blocs: the Third Empire, encompassing most European countries; the Capitalist Axis, consisting of the United States, England, Russia, and Israel; the Arab Kingdom, comprising Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, joined later by Morocco; the Latin Empire, formed by all Latin American countries with Cuba at the forefront; and the Yellow Dynasty, constituted by China, Taiwan, Korea, and Mongolia....
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"A Trunkful of Memories: The Autobiography of an Elephant" is a captivating journey into the heart of the wild, told through the keen eyes and wise perspective of a sentient being navigating the complexities of the untamed jungle. This extraordinary autobiography unveils the rich tapestry of a pachyderm's life, blending poignant reflections, thrilling adventures, and profound life lessons acquired beneath the sprawling canopy.As the pages unfold,...
16) Promised Land
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A Union city is in danger of being wiped off the map.After an anthrax attack terrorized the Union's populace, Rook and Thorn have been busy attempting to figure out what the terrorist plan of Promised Land really means. The anthrax attack was merely the opening salvo. What's next?Now Rook and Thorn learn that the German Empire has created a bomb that can destroy entire cities, and that Confederacy president Bradenton has one and has plans to use it....
17) Purgatory
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Getting away from the farm is all Hollis Fairfield can think about. But when the only job she can find is doing laundry at Camp Pinewood, she becomes a witness to horrific events she never dreamed could be real. Powerless to change anything, she despairs until her attention is snared by a young girl whom she vows to help. But what can one woman do when so much stands against her?Delilah Thorn is stuck in Atlanta engaged in diplomatic work and is desperate...
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From the bestselling author of The Illuminator comes a magnificent tale about the power of love and the perils of faith
Tudor England is a perilous place for booksellers Kate Gough and her brother John, who sell forbidden translations of the Bible. Caught between warring factions-English Catholics opposed to the Lutheran reformation, and Henry VIII's growing impatience with the Pope's refusal to sanction his marriage to Anne Boleyn-Kate embarks...
19) Paradise
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The first small gestures of rapprochement between the Union and the Free States brings not only hope for the future, but a new terror that no one had quite imagined. Disease attacks those at a governmental function, and those who have succumbed have only a small chance of survival.Can Rook and Thorn, partnered with agents from the Free States of America, get to the bottom of who is spreading disease and why before threats of plague and fire become...
20) Perfection
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Baton Rouge is the most alien place agent Delilah Thorn has ever been. Everything from the local cuisine to the alligators to the French-speaking populace works to keep her off-balance. Thorn is surrounded by potential enemies, a religion she does not understand, and deceit. Can she succeed in sorting through the conflicting information to understand why Louisiana has begun closing its death camps and has started to forge its own way independent of...
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