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The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsOf course the noted Lady Astronaut Elma York would like to go, but there’s a lot riding on whoever the International Aerospace Coalition decides to send on this historic—but potentially very dangerous—mission? Could Elma really leave behind her husband and the chance to start a family to spend several years traveling to Mars? And with the Civil Rights movement taking hold all over Earth, will...Categorized as:
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![Who Speaks for the Damned by C.S. Harris]()
Who Speaks for the Damned by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIt's June 1814, and the royal families of Austria, Russia, and the German states have gathered in London at the Prince Regent's invitation to celebrate the defeat of Napoléon and the restoration of monarchical control throughout Europe. But the festive atmosphere is marred one warm summer evening by the brutal murder of a disgraced British nobleman long thought dead...Categorized as:
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![The Secret Wife by Gill Paul]()
The Secret Wife by Gill Paul
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsA Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world’s greatest mysteries . . . Love. Guilt. Heartbreak. 1914 Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. Grand Duchess Tatiana has fallen in love with cavalry officer Dmitri, but events take a catastrophic turn, placing their romance – and their lives – in danger . . -
![Who Slays the Wicked by C.S. Harris]()
Who Slays the Wicked by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent....When the handsome but dissolute young gentleman Lord Ashworth is found brutally murdered, Sebastian St...Categorized as:
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![Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers]()
Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For Helen it was the weekend that the Hidden Man came to Westbury Park.Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with a charismatic, married doctor... -
![Murder at Keyhaven Castle by Clara McKenna]()
Murder at Keyhaven Castle by Clara McKenna
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsWith her wedding to Viscount “Lyndy” Lyndhurst just days away, strong-willed American ex-pat Stella Kendrick is the talk of Edwardian society—and the focus of a deadly mystery—in Clara McKenna’s third historical mystery set in England’s New Forest region at the turn of the 20th century... -
![Abomination by Colleen Coble]()
Abomination by Colleen Coble
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"Crackles with an ominous electricity, pulling you inside the mind of a killer who is terrifyingly twisted...terrifyingly real. The pages will race by as you read, but I guarantee your heart will race even faster." -T.L. Hines, author of "Waking Lazarus" A beautiful woman stands by the side of the road, barefoot and bleeding, a child in her arms...Categorized as:
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![The Banned Books of Berlin by Daisy Wood]()
The Banned Books of Berlin by Daisy Wood
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAnother unforgettable story, tying together past and present, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris and The Royal LibrarianBerlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number, Berlin is no longer a safe place for young Freya...Categorized as:
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Kral by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsA stoic Vikir warrior meets his match in a spunky Earth woman determined to show him what he's been missing.After she's kidnapped on her way to Crakair, Mila's not sure she'll ever meet her arranged mail-order alien match. Until Kral falls--literally--on top of her during his heroic rescue mission... -
![Maggie the Mechanic by Jaime Hernández]()
Maggie the Mechanic by Jaime Hernández
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCollects the earliest, most sci-fi comics in Jaime Hernandez's Locas/Locos storyline, ripped from the pages of Love and Rockets : meet teenage mechanic Maggie, her anarchic best friend and sometimes-lover, Hopey, and their friends from the Southern Californian Hoppers 13, aka Huerta, neighborhood punk scene... -
![The Corpse Played Dead by Georgina Clarke]()
The Corpse Played Dead by Georgina Clarke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…’ When an undercover assignment for the Bow Street magistrate sees prostitute Lizzie Hardwicke trade Ma Farley’s Bawdy House in Soho for life as a seamstress the theatre on Drury Lane, it becomes clear quite quickly - what goes on in the wings is much more intriguing than the theatrics being played out on stage…Soon Lizzie is...Categorized as:
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![Dropping the Ball by Merry Farmer]()
Dropping the Ball by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe second part of this passionate silver fox romantasy series, set in a wholly new Regency England …Whoever marries last will inherit a cursed castle and this Lord has the perfect plan... -
![A Slash of Emerald by Patrice McDonough]()
A Slash of Emerald by Patrice McDonough
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a riveting new novel in a Victorian-set mystery series brimming with authentic atmosphere, Doctor Julia Lewis, Scotland Yard’s first female medical examiner, and her partner, Detective Inspector Richard Tennant, investigate a string of murders in the art world... -
![Where Shadows Meet: A Romantic Suspense Novel by Colleen Coble]()
Where Shadows Meet: A Romantic Suspense Novel by Colleen Coble
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHannah is distraught when her parents are murdered—but what makes it worse is that she should have been at home with them . . . not meeting her forbidden love, Reece. Unable to face the community and her guilt, she runs away and marries him.But Reece isn’t the man she thought he was... -
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![A Trace of Deceit by Karen Odden]()
A Trace of Deceit by Karen Odden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the author of A Dangerous Duet comes the next book in her Victorian mystery series, this time following a daring female painter and the Scotland Yard detective who is investigating her brother’s suspicious death.A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London’s art world to learn the truth behind her brother’s murder... Edwin is dead... -
![A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne Freeman]()
A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne Freeman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the latest USA Today bestselling, Victorian Era-set Countess of Harleigh Mystery from multi-award winning author Dianne Freeman, Frances Hazelton and her husband, George, uncover the secrets of backstage Paris to find out who’s acting the role of a killer to chilling perfection…Frances and George are enjoying some well-deserved leisure time in Paris when an old acquaintance from London,... -
![Shadows of Lancaster County by Mindy Starns Clark]()
Shadows of Lancaster County by Mindy Starns Clark
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAnna Bailey thought she left the tragedies of the past behind when she took on a new identity and moved from Pennsylvania to California. But now that her brother has vanished and his wife is crying out for help, Anna knows she has no choice but to come out of hiding, go home, and find him... -
![When Dreams Cross by Terri Blackstock]()
When Dreams Cross by Terri Blackstock
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsJustin Pierce's brainchild, Khaki Kangaroo, is exactly the cartoon theme Andi Sherman needs for her world-class amusement park, Promised Land. In turn, Andi's park is the opportunity that can rocket Justin from obscurity to success. For both of them, spreading the Gospel through their creation is their passion--a shared dream that could cement a powerful partnership...Categorized as:
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![Murder at Blackwater Bend by Clara McKenna]()
Murder at Blackwater Bend by Clara McKenna
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsStella Kendrick, a wild-hearted Kentuckian "Dollar Princess" shipped off to England for an aristocratic marriage and her soon-to-be groom Viscount "Lyndy" Lyndhurst must navigate culture clashes, scandal, and a high society killer in Clara McKenna's second historical mystery set in England's New Forest region at the turn of the 20th century...Categorized as:
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![The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper]()
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 38 ratings“Lively, thought-provoking . . . the plot is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise . . . Tepper knows how to write a well-made, on-moving story with strong characters. . . . She takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative narrative.”—Ursula K...Categorized as:
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![Not Quite a Duchess by Ava Rose]()
Not Quite a Duchess by Ava Rose
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOne confident Duchess. One broken hero. With danger looming, will they uncover more than they bargained for?A determined Duchess...Lady Anna Trevallyn, Duchess Wrexford, does not possess the typical qualities of the Boston elite...Categorized as:
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![Heart Secret by Robin D. Owens]()
Heart Secret by Robin D. Owens
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn the faraway planet Celta, there are some things you can never tell—until someone discovers your Heart Secret… When a virulent disease killed the woman he loved and her baby, Garrett Primross was left alive, a reluctant survivor. Now, as a private eye, he strives to banish the memories of his past and rebuild his life...Categorized as:
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![Inceptio by Alison Morton]()
Inceptio by Alison Morton
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. New Yorker Karen Brown is caught in a tangle of hot foreign agents, vicious maniacs and tough families. Running for her life, she flees into the alien culture of Roma Nova, the mysterious last outpost of the Roman Empire in Europe... -
![Murder at Madame Tussauds: The gripping historical whodunnit by Jim Eldridge]()
Murder at Madame Tussauds: The gripping historical whodunnit by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLondon, 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague nowhere to be found. To the police, the case seems one killed the other and fled, but workers at the museum aren't convinced and Scotland Yard enlists 'The Museum Detectives' Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton to aid the investigation... -
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![The Lady is Daring by Megan Frampton]()
The Lady is Daring by Megan Frampton
Five well-bred sisters, one sensational scandal. Now the Duke of Marymount's daughter Ida is about to find love in the most unconventional way...It was easy for society to overlook Lady Ida Howlett; they found her bookish, opinionated, and off the marriage mart...Categorized as:
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![Swords of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs]()
Swords of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Over nineteen hundred miles east of The Twin Cities of Helium, at about Lat. 30 degrees S., Lon. 172 degrees E., lies Zodanga. It has ever been a hotbed of sedition since the day that I led the fierce green hordes of Thark against it and, reducing it, added it to the Empire of Helium...Categorized as:
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![Time and Again by Jack Finney]()
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsOne of the most beloved tales of our time!Science fiction, mystery, a passionate love story, and a detailed history of Old New York blend together in Jack Finney's spellbinding story of a young man enlisted in a secret government experiment...Categorized as:
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![Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera]()
Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central Euroepean spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse & her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint & Don Juan); a popular trumpeter & his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an unillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his country...Categorized as:
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![Murder at the Ashmolean by Jim Eldridge]()
Murder at the Ashmolean by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole between his eyes, a pistol discarded close by. The death has officially been ruled as suicide by local police, but with an apparent lack of motive for such action, the museum’s administrator, Gladstone Marriott, suspects foul play... -
![The White Flag: A Tale of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness in the Limberlost Swamp by Gene Stratton-Porter]()
The White Flag: A Tale of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness in the Limberlost Swamp by Gene Stratton-Porter
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The White Flag" by Gene Stratton-PorterKnown for her modern and feminist beliefs, Stratton-Porter often used her personal experiences as a girl from the country as inspiration for her work. In this book, she explores how, while on the journey to find and increase power, one can become corrupt and vulnerable to malice... -
![Murder at the Natural History Museum by Jim Eldridge]()
Murder at the Natural History Museum by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 11 ratings1895. When the newly dubbed 'Museum Detectives' are asked to investigate deliberate damage to a dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum, there is evidence that the fossil-hunting mania of the notorious Bone Wars in America may have reached their shores... -
![Murder at the British Museum by Jim Eldridge]()
Murder at the British Museum by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 17 ratings1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen’s convenience cubicle at the British Museum, the stall locked from the inside. Professor Lance Pickering had been due to give a talk promoting the museum’s new ‘Age of King Arthur’ exhibition when he was stabbed repeatedly in the chest... -
![Echoes in the Mist (Kingsleys in Love) by Andrea Kane]()
Echoes in the Mist (Kingsleys in Love) by Andrea Kane
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTrenton Kingsley, the embitttered Duke of Broddington, has dreamt of the day that he would avenge his beloved father's death. Returning suddenly from self-imposed exile on the Isle of WIght, he takes aim at the man he holds responsible... the unscrupulous Baxter Caldwell, Viscount Winsham. In a masterstroke of irony, he forces the viscount's hand and walks away with his most precious posession..Categorized as:
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![World's End by Joan D. Vinge]()
World's End by Joan D. Vinge
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsHot on the heels of The Summer Queen, this novel is a must-read for fans of Vinge's Hugo Award-winning series. BZ Gundhalinu, a policeman who became an outcast after saving the future Summer Queen, quits his job to follow his ne'er-do-well brothers into the godforsaken waste, World's End, to prospect. BZ's odyssey will set the stage for The Summer Queen... -
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![The Plague Tales by Ann Benson]()
The Plague Tales by Ann Benson
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium—the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague...Categorized as:
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![Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen]()
Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWho killed gay bar owner and all-around nice guy Rick Wendell? Was it Larry Johns, the attractive young man found wiping his prints off the still-smoking gun mere moments after the murder? If so, why was Johns naked? And what happened to the large sum of money Wendell had just withdrawn from the bar's bank account? Hard-boiled, openly gay insurance claims investigator Dave Brandstetter aims to... -
![The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell]()
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of time On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the story of a small African nation, told by a swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis...Categorized as:
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![The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn, Janie Chang]()
The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn, Janie Chang
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsFrom bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.San Francisco, 1906...Categorized as:
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![Murder at the Manchester Museum by Jim Eldridge]()
Murder at the Manchester Museum by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1895. Former Jack the Ripper detective Daniel Wilson and his archaeologist sidekick Abigail Fenton are summoned to investigate the murder of a young woman at the Manchester Museum. Though staff remember the woman as a recent and regular visitor, no one appears to know who she was, nor was she carrying any identification... -
![A Pair Of Blue Eyes: By Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy, Asif Anjum]()
A Pair Of Blue Eyes: By Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy, Asif Anjum
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances... -
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Christie, Agatha - Murder in the Mews by Christie Agatha
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsLibrarian's note: this entry is for the collection of four short stories by the author. Entries for each of the stories, including the title one, can be found elsewhere on Goodreads...Categorized as:
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![What Wild Moonlight by Victoria Lynne]()
What Wild Moonlight by Victoria Lynne
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat wild deception... Nicholas Duvall, rakehell Earl of Barrington, pretended to be a coach driver when they met. Before he knew what hit him, headstrong Katya Alexander swept him into an intrigue of her own. Thinking she was a mere pickpocket--and a ravishing one at that--he made her an offer she couldn't refuse: pose as his mistress and help him retrieve a priceless family scroll... -
![Tipperary by Frank Delaney]()
Tipperary by Frank Delaney
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 21 ratings“My wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul.” So writes Charles O’Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaney’s extraordinary new novel–a sweeping epic of obsession, profound devotion, and compelling history involving a turbulent era that would shape modern Ireland... -
![A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier]()
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 38 ratings1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother... -
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![The Way of a Man with a Maid by Anonymous]()
The Way of a Man with a Maid by Anonymous
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Way of a Man with a Maid by an anonymous author is about a romantic drama between a young man who has been jilted by a beautiful young maid named Alice. "I, the man, will not take up the time of my readers by detailing the circumstances under which Alice, the maid, roused in me the desire for vengeance which resulted in the way I adopted and which I am about to relate...Categorized as:
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![Police Your Planet by Eric van Lhin, Lester del Rey]()
Police Your Planet by Eric van Lhin, Lester del Rey
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the future Mars is inhabited. Cities are growing fast and crime is rampant. Bruce Gordon, an ex-cop, was shipped to Mars with no return ticket... -
![Women in Love by David Herbert Lawrence]()
Women in Love by David Herbert Lawrence
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsKDP-OVERALL EDITION 1:-Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist... -
![How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina]()
How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAn exhilarating and propulsive debut novel from an emerging talent—a fresh, bitingly hilarious, sweeping satire of modern-day India hailed as "a monstrously funny and unpredictable wild ride" by Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy and Sex and Vanity The first kidnapping wasn’t my fault. The others—those were definitely me...Categorized as:
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![The Author's Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig]()
The Author's Guide to Murder by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig
Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAgatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote meets #MeToo in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White.There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland...Categorized as:
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