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The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThe Sun Sister is the sixth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley.To the outside world, Electra d'Apliese seems as though she is the woman who has everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous... -
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The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsFollowing on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series, loosely based on the mythology of the Seven Sisters star cluster...Categorized as:
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![The Cypress Maze by Fiona Valpy]()
The Cypress Maze by Fiona Valpy
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn this haunting tale from the bestselling author of The Storyteller of Casablanca, Beatrice kept a wartime secret to protect the innocent. Now, could telling it set her free?Tuscany, 1943. Stranded in war-ravaged Italy, Beatrice’s dream of an escapist year teaching English is shattered... -
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Aztec by Gary Jennings
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America... -
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![The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton]()
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsA lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever... -
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Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsBooks like PRECIOUS BANE are as rare as blue moons. A forgotten classic set in rural Shropshire at the turn of the 19th century blends a simple, rustic love story with a profound sense of nature's mystic truth.Prue Sarn is an original and appealing heroine of English literature as she triumphs over a physical handicap to win her heart's desire...Categorized as:
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![Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières]()
Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters...Categorized as:
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![Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima]()
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsTokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial familes, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them... -
![The Rose of Versailles, Omnibus 2 by Riyoko Ikeda]()
The Rose of Versailles, Omnibus 2 by Riyoko Ikeda
Oscar Fran�ois de Jarjeyes, female commander of the royal guard, is at the center of events as Marie Antoinette's involvement in the scandalous Affair of the Diamond Necklace and her passion for Count Fersen of Sweden cause chaos at the court of Versailles. This deluxe hardcover volume contains chapters 23-44 of Riyoko Ikeda's historical fiction masterwork... -
![King Of Camberwell by Mary Jane Staples]()
King Of Camberwell by Mary Jane Staples
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSammy was the sharp one of the Adams family.Since he was nine-years-old - when he'd charged his mother interest on a loan to make up the rent money - he'd been busy setting up deals and expanding the family business - a china stall in East Street market. But as his mighty empire grew - two shops and a factory in Shoreditch - so did the determination of his assistant, Susie Brown... -
![Phoenix Chosen Part 2 by Ashe Moon]()
Phoenix Chosen Part 2 by Ashe Moon
Pre-order and receive an early-phoenix price and a bonus set of SUPER spicy character artwork! (Download link included in the book) Just as Tyler's romance with his alpha phoenix boyfriend starts to ignite, he's attacked by a shadowy entity hell-bent on tearing him away from his newfound love...Categorized as:
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![Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini]()
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 33 ratings“Last Wednesday he had been engaged in moving an audience of Rennes to anger; on this Wednesday he was to move an audience of Guichen to mirth...”Once he was André-Louis Moreau, a lawyer raised by nobility, unconcerned with the growing discontent among France’s lower class—until his friend was mercilessly struck down by a member of the aristocracy.Now he is Scaramouche... -
![The Rose of Versailles, Omnibus 4 by Riyoko Ikeda]()
The Rose of Versailles, Omnibus 4 by Riyoko Ikeda
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrance spirals towards a civil war, as nobles continue to ignore the people of France. Noblewoman Oscar François de Jarjayes is forced to reconsider her life as a soldier and a woman, her loyalties and her love. Marie Antoinette and the royal family seek escape, while Robespierre and the National Assembly take up arms and demand democracy... -
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![The Watchmaker's Daughter by Dianne Haley]()
The Watchmaker's Daughter by Dianne Haley
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHiding the worn piece of paper among her father’s watch deliveries, her eyes fill with tears at the memory of her brave friend walking towards the Nazi soldiers, and the sharp sound of gun fire. Her friend sacrificed herself so that she could deliver this message... -
![The Circus Train by Amita Parikh]()
The Circus Train by Amita Parikh
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsAt the World of Wonders, Europe's most magnificent travelling circus, every moment is full of magic, and nothing is as it seems--especially for the people who put on the show Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, Theo... -
![Someday in Paris by Olivia Lara]()
Someday in Paris by Olivia Lara
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA magical new love story about star-crossed lovers, perfect for hopeless romantics and fans of One Day and The Notebook. Finding the one is only the beginning...1954. Zara is fifteen the first time she meets Leon. During a power cut in a small French museum, the two spend one short hour in the dark talking about their love for art, Monet and Paris. Neither knows what the other looks like...Categorized as:
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![Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies]()
Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMARRAKECH 1966 Vicky Baudin steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met. It’s an epic journey that’ll take her to the edge of Atlas Mountains – and closer to the answers she’s been craving all her life. But dark secrets whisper amongst the dunes. And in unlocking the mystery of Clemence’s past, Vicky will unearth great danger too . . -
![J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter]()
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in childhood and brought up in near-poverty... -
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Black Fox One by Elyse Hoffman
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJonas Amsel and Avalina Keller, devoted Nazis and best friends, have a bright future in Hitler’s Third Reich. Ava, a talented gymnast, wants to serve Germany in the Olympics, and Jonas, who has loved Ava since they were children, wants nothing more than to marry her and start a family. When he is about to propose, however, Ava and her entire family vanish without a trace... -
![Maison Ikkoku, Volume 10 by Rumiko Takahashi]()
Maison Ikkoku, Volume 10 by Rumiko Takahashi
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFrom the creator of RANMA 1/2 and INUYASHA comes one of Rumiko Takahashi's most beloved series, the romantic (sort of) comedy MAISON IKKOKU, re-presented in a second edition in its original episodic order, with a "missing" episode! Take a trip down memory lane back into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager;... -
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Maison Ikkoku, Volume 8 by Rumiko Takahashi
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFollows the tenants of Japan's nuttiest apartment house where Kyoko, the manager, Yusaku, the college student, Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip, Akemi, the boozy bar hostess, and Mr. Yostuya, the mooching peeper, reside... -
![Maison Ikkoku, Volume 5 by Rumiko Takahashi]()
Maison Ikkoku, Volume 5 by Rumiko Takahashi
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFollows the tenants of Japan's nuttiest apartment house where Kyoko, the manager, Yusaku, the college student, Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip, Akemi, the boozy bar hostess, and Mr. Yostuya, the mooching peeper, reside... -
![The Last Dress from Paris by Jade Beer]()
The Last Dress from Paris by Jade Beer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe secret is hidden within a collection of Dior dresses.... London, 2017. There’s no one Lucille adores more than her grandmother (not even her mother, she’s ashamed to say). So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks Lucille to help secure the return of something precious to her, she’s happy to help... -
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![Tales of Love, Madness and Death by Horacio Quiroga]()
Tales of Love, Madness and Death by Horacio Quiroga
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThis is an English translation of the famous collection of 18 weird tales of Horacio Quiroga, which is presented as a Spanish/English bilingual edition.Most of the stories are dark and strange and describe situations that offer no clear way out for the protagonist... -
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Ireland by Frank Delaney
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn the winter of 1951, a storyteller, the last practitioner of an honored, centuries-old tradition, arrives at the home of nine-year-old Ronan O'Mara in the Irish countryside. For three wonderful evenings, the old gentleman enthralls his assembled local audience with narratives of foolish kings, fabled saints, and Ireland's enduring accomplishments before moving on...Categorized as:
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![Wait for Me: A Novel by Santa Montefiore]()
Wait for Me: A Novel by Santa Montefiore
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom #1 internationally bestselling author Santa Montefiore comes a gripping new novel of enduring love and devastating secrets, sweeping across England during WWII to Australia five decades later, based on a true story.Rupert promised he was going to come back. All Florence had to do was wait... -
![Third Degree Yearn by Laney Hatcher]()
Third Degree Yearn by Laney Hatcher
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWhen I was just a girl, I gave my heart to the housekeeper’s son. He took it with him when he left and I never got it back.I’ve loved Julian Moore for as long as I can remember. But my plans for a future were stolen before we ever got the chance. Playmates at four. Constant companions at nine. And the undisputed love of my young life by sixteen. We were best friends through it all... -
![Palace by Katharine Kerr, Mark Kreighbaum]()
Palace by Katharine Kerr, Mark Kreighbaum
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsBestselling author Katharine Kerr joins with Mark Kreighbaum to present a vivid, alluring and terrifying world of the future. They call it Palace, the capital of a planet located in a region of space known as the Pinch... -
![Maison Ikkoku, Volume 9 by Rumiko Takahashi]()
Maison Ikkoku, Volume 9 by Rumiko Takahashi
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFollows the tenants of Japan's nuttiest apartment house where Kyoko, the manager, Yusaku, the college student, Mrs. Ichinose, the drunken gossip, Akemi, the boozy bar hostess, and Mr. Yostuya, the mooching peeper, reside... -
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Maison Ikkoku, Volume 11 by Rumiko Takahashi
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFrom the creator of RANMA 1/2 and INUYASHA comes one of Rumiko Takahashi's most beloved series, the romantic (sort of) comedy MAISON IKKOKU, re-presented in a second edition in its original episodic order, with a "missing" episode! Take a trip down memory lane back into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager;... -
![To Free the Stars by J'nell Ciesielski]()
To Free the Stars by J'nell Ciesielski
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Great War consumes all in its path, but for the assassins at Talon it’s just another day on the job . . . until a new threat rises from the smoke of war-torn Europe to obliterate the world as they know it... -
![The Secret of the Three Fates by Jess Armstrong]()
The Secret of the Three Fates by Jess Armstrong
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFollowing the atmospheric and award-winning gothic historical mystery debut, The Curse of Penryth Hall, USA Today bestselling author Jess Armstrong's heroine, Ruby Vaughn, returns in The Secret of the Three Fates, where the Scottish Hills hold ghosts of the past that threaten Ruby’s present.American heiress Ruby Vaughn still hasn't entirely forgiven her octogenarian employer and housemate Mr... -
![Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault]()
Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsAlexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India and a new cosmopolitan model for western civilisation. In Alexander's childhood, his defiant character was molded into the makings of a king... -
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![The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes]()
The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsBerlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture exchange program in Germany. For a girl from a small town in Maine, 1933 Berlin seems to be sparklingly cosmopolitan, blossoming in the midst of a great change with the charismatic new chancellor at the helm... -
![The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes]()
The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFor fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. Berlin 1933... -
![The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes]()
The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFor fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. Berlin 1933... -
![Pitchfork by Nicole Scarano]()
Pitchfork by Nicole Scarano
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratings“The first have come, and they seek the last.” The Oracle Of Delphi prophesied in the dead of night, carving ancient runes into the temple’s stone with her own blood, but she has no memory of her midnight trance. She knows not who spoke through her, yet one thing is certain. It was not an Olympian... -
![A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories by Eva Ibbotson]()
A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories by Eva Ibbotson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEva Ibbotson has proven that romantic fiction can be funny, well written, and even a little erudite. Her novel Magic Flutes won the Romantic Novelists Association award and, along with A Company of Swans , was a Booklist Editors' Choice selection. The New York Times said of Madensky Square that "she has fine-tuned-and perhaps even enlarged-the [romantic] genre... -
![Thornbound by Stephanie Burgis]()
Thornbound by Stephanie Burgis
Cassandra Harwood scandalized her nation when she became the first woman magician in Angland... -
![The Queen's Exiles by Barbara Kyle]()
The Queen's Exiles by Barbara Kyle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1572. Europe is in turmoil. In the Netherlands the streets are red with the blood of those who dare to oppose the brutal Spanish occupation. A vengeful faction of exiled English Catholics is plotting to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and install her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots on the throne. But amid the unrest, one resourceful young woman has made a lucrative enterprise .. -
![Enchanted Hill by Emily Bain Murphy]()
Enchanted Hill by Emily Bain Murphy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEscape to Enchanted Hill in this historical mystery where two people with a dark, shared past collide while working undercover at a glittering mansion on the California coast. The year is 1930 and Cora McCavanagh is posing as a maid at Hollywood magnate Truman Byrd’s legendary estate. She’s closing in on the damning evidence she needs for a high-profile client... -
![Mood Indigo by Boris Vian]()
Mood Indigo by Boris Vian
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsThe basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond QueneauThe story is simple: Boy meets girl; boy marries girl; girl falls ill on their honeymoon with a water lily on the lung, which can only be treated by being surrounded by flowers; boy goes broke desperately trying to... -
![Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau]()
Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 24 ratings'Achingly believable' - Publishers Weekly 'Beautifully written and impeccably researched, Dreamland is a rollicking ride... -
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![The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim]()
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsDedicated to all who "appreciate wisteria and sunshine," The Enchanted April is Elizabeth Von Armin's dreamlike celebration of womanhood, friendship, and love. Published in 1922 to critical acclaim, The Enchanted April follows the story of four Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot, two housewives whose marriages have lost their spark; Mrs... -
![John Thorndyke's Cases by R. Austin Freeman]()
John Thorndyke's Cases by R. Austin Freeman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this intriguing collection of detective stories, Richard Austin Freeman presents yet another batch of entertaining, clever mysteries to tempt and tease the curious mind. From robbery and murder to mayhem, Freeman takes the reader through a myriad of beguiling scenarios and asks whodunit, with the aid of the erudite Dr Thorndyke... -
![The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia]()
The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the author of Mexican Gothic .1950s Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times... -
![The Witch and the Monster by Chelsea Starling]()
The Witch and the Monster by Chelsea Starling
When a monster begins slaughtering the village of Wittsturm, a maiden is selected as a sacrifice to be sent into Glotterwal Forest to appease the beast.After taking her cousin's place as the sacrificial lamb, Cora Tahar journeys through the ancient wood then takes refuge in a witch's cabin.The monster is not at all what she was expecting.This book is perfect for fans of monster romances...Categorized as:
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![The Last Empress by Anchee Min]()
The Last Empress by Anchee Min
The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China’s history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion, ultimately ending in the demise of the Ch’ing dynasty... -
![Windward Heights: A Novel by Maryse Condé]()
Windward Heights: A Novel by Maryse Condé
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in the late 18th and early 19th centuries on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Maryse Condé's Windward Heights is a retelling of the Emily Brontë classic Wuthering Heights. The title of the novel alone might tell you that something formulaic is afoot--and the book does for the most part mirror the wretched and doomed story of Heathcliff and Cathy. But Condé's plan is actually ingenious...
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