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A young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support a sick brother drive Cytherea to accept the hand of Aeneas Manston, Miss...
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This novel is set in the period in which Stonehenge was built. It tells the story of the invasion of the Southern country of Britain by the Golden Strangers, the men of the Sun from across the seas who come in search of fresh pastures. The invaders are turned back from the Village on the Hill, Craig Dun, by Garroch, the young Chieftain of the primitive and terror-ridden community.
But, his triumph is short-lived, for he falls under the sensual spell...
3) The axe
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Master of Hestviken volume 1
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In The Axe, we meet Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter, who were betrothed as children and raised as brother and sister. Now, in the heedlessness of youth, they become lovers, unaware that their ardor will forge the first link in a chain of murder, exile, and disgrace. --From publisher's description.
4) Thugness
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When Tracy-a successful singles and couples counselor-turned thirty, she decided that she was ready to settle down. Tracy had not dated since her early college days. She took time to focus on her career. One day, she saw this dark skin, six-foot-tall guy walk into Pierre's. He had all the makings of a thug. A chance encounter a few days later, the two would meet. Christian Giles was an up-and-coming music producer from a different side of town than...
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Angkor, once the most populated city on the planet, is a mystery surrounded by lush tropical forests in Cambodia. Its magnificent temples were carved by hand from stone over a thousand years ago, one of which is the largest religious structure made of stone in the world. Cambodia was home to the Khmer people, who experienced the atrocities of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge holocaust of the 1970s. Chandara, a Cambodian refugee brought by his grandmother...
6) Over Yonder
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This book reveals some of the good and bad experiences while living in a foreign country, especially when the trip is for more than a vacation, an extended stay. As exposed in the book, finding a place to live can be an unforgettable experience. Also, seeking employment with a passport as an ID can present a major problem. In some cases, being a Black American had an advantage over being a Black African. (Perhaps sophisticated racism is reserved for...
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Fire and Ice came to me on a morning while living in Sierra Madre, California. It was like watching a film, and I simply wrote what I saw. The Grave was an experiment in writing in a different style, and was written after visiting an overgrown and disorganized graveyard in the hills east of Cambria, California. Meet Me at Ala Mar is a fictional tale focused on a quaint motel on the Cabrillo Highway in Santa Barbara, California, overlooking the Santa...
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Haghdar The Great Story happens in a different universe from ours but relates to many of today's issues on our planet with profound thoughts from above for sophisticated readers and constant action for adventurous ones.
The date is many thousand light-years apart; the place is in the fifth dimension, where the most powerful general of the most powerful country must seek help from an adversary to a supernatural force to ensure his succession. The...
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After discovering her daughter's abusive relationship, Jenna packs her daughter off into the world. Mallory needs to start over. She finds a job as an aspiring model for a well-established magazine. While in training, she runs into the magazine's silent owner, Richard, a man also looking for a new start. Can Mallory handle the demand of both her new job and this enigmatic gentleman?
Richard's been looking for a change. After a long business trip,...
10) Steinar
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Descended from the mighty Somerled, Lord of the Isles, Steinar MacDougall's supremacy over the seas is fierce. On a quest for King William, he is captured by the enemy and presented with a favorable opportunity. Yet Steinar soon realizes his greatest threat comes from the woman who hides behind the mask of a warrior, and the quest for control might send them hurdling into the abyss of the sea. As leader of the Serpents, Inga the Ruthless travels beyond...
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This book is about two people that had failed in past relationships. They both worked hard but had no love life. They knew each other thirty-six years ago. She knew who he was, but he did not remember her when they were old military friends married to someone else. Through it all, they kept the faith that maybe, one day, they will find love again. They ended up working for the same company and ran into each other again. Later on, their hearts started...
12) Finding Home
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Everyone is trying to find a place that they can call home. But, for some, they know where they belong from the start. Yet what do you do when the place that you feel comfortable and safe is also the place you believe does not exist?
Turn reality and fantasy into an unknown adventure to find yourself while along the way, meeting all kinds of new people who become closer friends and family than the ones that you have known. With these new relationships,...
13) On Shaky Ground
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The Copper Country was on strike; that is, the miners were as their union battled against the powerful mine owners' unreasonable demands. It was a time of turmoil, destruction and even death. But six-hundred miles south, the bustling city of Detroit was celebrating the Roaring Twenties with glitzy flappers, jazz, money, and mobsters. After disguising herself as the infamous 'Sable,' reporter Jessica Peterson exposes crime boss, Sid Brewster, and...
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A year ago, Magnus Tolljursson helped repel a treacherous attack from his father's enemies, and discovered he carries the berserker's seed of madness. Now he must sail to the settlement from whence those attackers came, and fulfill a promise to a friend. He doesn't know what he'll find in Husavik and never suspects he may lose his heart. In her father's absence, Embra Fritisson has been engaged in a desperate battle to keep leadership of the settlement....
15) Loves Redemption
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Nancy Blackwell and her daughter, Sarah, were starting a new life. One that would be free from all the bad memories of a failed marriage. Moving in with Nancy's sister was the first chapter. But Sarah getting hit by a hit-and-run driver was not part of the plan at all! Where was God when she needed him the most? Just because there was a handsome doctor who saw the whole thing didn't mean that God was there all the time, did it?
After losing his...
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In 1960, Katrina Morgan was at a personal crossroad in her life. She needed a reason to go forward, a project to give her purpose.
She has bought a run-down brownstone apartment building on Walker Avenue in New York. The deteriorated structure is the way Katrina feels about her own life.
Something she had not counted on was while the rebuilding, inside and out, was taking place, she grew to know and admire the twenty souls who have occupied...
17) Seeds of Hidalgo
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SEEDS OF HIDALGO
In 1846, California was embroiled in a war between Mexico and the United States. The Rancho Pena was owned by a Spanish family who had lived in California since it had belonged to Spain. When the Americans conquered California, the family was struggling to keep their land grant viable even as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. The beautiful and loyal daughter, the aunt with a secret, the Indian who tended to the rancho and...
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Quince Melville has survived his introduction to the Revolutionary War, though a limb lighter. In this second book in the trilogy, he has become a hardened warrior capable of vicious soldiering under the harshest conditions, in his continued amorous soldiering, not quite so vicious. As the war nears its conclusion, to the delight of the colonists, a new enemy emerges, crueler than the redcoats and their allies. Things will not become appreciably better....
19) Love and Life
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Love and Life covers a lot of each of those topics. The book contains poems about love and its various forms and how a person may experience it relating to the person whom they love. It also covers topics about outer space, nature, observations, existential order, companies, friends, aging, and much more.
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Imagine spending over two years knowing absolutely nothing about yourself. Until one night at the company party, while dancing, sharp moments of your life are cut into your memory. Like clicking through the channels to find something to watch, it occurs to Cyril she's in the moment looking out of her own eyes. Parts of Cyril's life are suddenly given back to her in no meaningful order. The images, emotions, and smell tell a frightening story explaining...
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