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The Angry Hills
By Leon Uris. 1955
A writer moves to Greece just as the Nazis invade, and he soon becomes a pawn in a dangerous game…
of espionage After the death of his wife, Mike Morrison arrives in Greece simply to receive an inheritance and come to grips with his grief. But it's a bad time to nurse his sorrow--it's the beginning of World War II, and the German army storms the country before Morrison can leave. He's soon caught in a complicated cat-and-mouse game with Gestapo officers, British spies, and the Greek resistance movement. At the mercy of strangers, Morrison has to learn who to trust--and who to love. Leon Uris's fast-paced second novel draws from the diaries of an uncle who served in Greece during World War II. It was made into a film in 1959 starring Robert Mitchum. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Leon Uris including rare photos from the author's estate.Sea of the Dead
By Julia Durango. 2009
Kehl hates pirates. His father, the Warrior Prince, has always told him they were responsible for his mother's death. So…
when he is kidnapped by Temoc, the Pirate King, Kehl is more furious than frightened. But Temoc is mapping the vast seas known as the Carrillon and needs Kehl's cartography expertise. As Kehl spends more and more time with Temoc and his crew, he comes to realize that his father has not been honest with him and that his past is linked to the future of the new world he is mapping.The Daring Exploits of a Runaway Heiress (Millworth Manor #5)
By Victoria Alexander. 2015
To Do:Swim naked in the moonlightPlay in a high stakes card gameRide an elephantBe painted sans clothing. Take a lover.…
. .Lucy Merryweather has inherited a fortune--and her great-aunt's list of unfulfilled wishes. What better way to honor her memory than by accomplishing as many of them as possible? And with Lucy's family an ocean away in New York, nothing stands in her way--if one ignores the private investigator hired to spy on her. Yet Cameron Effington is infuriatingly difficult to ignore. . .As a reporter, Cameron is always looking for a good story. An American heiress running rampant between Millworth Manor and Mayfair is the perfect subject. Not to mention captivating. And extremely kissable. And if Lucy believes he's a detective? Well, the truth should never get in the way of a good story--or hinder delicious, impetuous passion. . .For the Sake of His Heir
By Joanne Rock. 2018
When a marriage of convenience is the only answer…things get inconvenient Gabe McNeill is done being manipulated. By everyone from…
his ex-wife who abandoned him and their baby to the grandfather forcing him to remarry. Now the only way Gabe can ensure his son’s inheritance is if Brianne Hanson agrees to be his bride. They’ve always kept things strictly business and this is no different…until she falls into his bed and all bets are off!Lawless Trail
By Ralph Cotton. 2013
A Family Affair The Traybo brothers have a reputation for being gentleman outlawsthe kind who will make polite chatter as…
they take your life savings. But Ranger Samuel Burrack has no sympathy for those who show poor manners when it comes to obeying the law. He’s traveled as far as the Mexican Badlands to pick up the Traybo brothers’ ex-cohort Fatch Hardaway to lead him to his prey. Burrack isn’t alone on his pursuit. Ranger Dallas Garand and his gang let the Traybo brothers slip through their fingers during a robbery once before, and they don’t plan on letting history repeat. Instead of joining forces with Burrack to create a unified front, though, Garand is going his own way. It’s Garand against Burrack on the trail of these criminal brothersand may the best ranger win. . . . More Than 2. 5 Million Ralph Cotton Books in Print .The Biograph Girl
By Mann, William J.. 2000
Grab your seat for a wild roller-coaster ride through the 20th century, led by a sassy, chain-smoking 107-year-old actress named…
Florence Lawrence. Masterfully blending fact with fiction, award-winning author William J. Mann has reimagined this very real historical figure. From her vaudeville childhood as Baby Flo, The Child Wonder Whistler to the snowy Bronx backlot where she shot her first motion picture, the lovely Florence commanded--and demanded--attention. By 1910, she was the legendary, enigmatic Biograph Girl, hounded by shrieking fans and blinding flashbulbs--the world's very first movie star. Yet, inevitably, the rabid interest in her faded--far too soon for a girl whose true identity had been lost amidst the glamorous trappings of Hollywood's glowing dawn. Reduced to MGM walk-on roles, a bedraggled, forgotten Lawrence finally ended her life in 1938 with a lethal ingestion of ant paste. . . or did she? Sixty years later, the fiercely competitive Sheehan twin brothers, Richard and Ben, discover a feisty, mysterious old lady named Flo Bridgewood telling tales of the McKinley assassination and the sinking of the Titanic. The twins share little more in common than identical features and a burning ambition to succeed. Muscular golden boy Richard is a gay journalist with too many credit cards and an unproduced screenplay in his drawer. Rebellious Ben is a notorious womanizer and independent filmmaker whose one success a decade ago was supposed to be his ticket to fame. Neither suspects that a chance meeting is about to launch them into a mystery-shrouded journey that spans not just an entire century, but one woman's remarkable life--and supposed death. . . Seamlessly combining actual people with fictional characters, Mann presents a wonderfully entertaining look at the ups and downs of the life of a star and of the film world, from its inception to the present day. --BooklistSamuel's Choice
By Richard Berleth. 1990
The Red Badge of Courage (Aladdin Classics)
By Stephen Crane, Jim Murphy. 2005
Written by Stephen Crane at the age of twenty-one, The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war…
novels of all time -- so groundbreaking that critics consider it to be the first work of modern American fiction. Although Crane never witnessed warfare, The Red Badge of Courage is a realistic and terrifying account of the Civil War and the fear that a young soldier must face on the battlefield as well as within himself.Dark Assassin
By Anne Perry. 2006
For countless readers, one of life’s great pleasures is the mesmerizing magic of a Victorian mystery by New York Times…
bestselling author Anne Perry. Her dramas of good and evil unfolding inside London’s lavish mansions and teeming slums hold us spellbound. Now, in Dark Assassin, she sweeps us into a darkly compelling world that we never dreamed existed. A Thames River Police superintendent struggling to win the respect of his men, William Monk is on a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge when he notices a young couple standing at the bridge railing, apparently engaged in an intense discussion. The woman waves her arms and places her hands on the man’s shoulders. A caress or a push? The man grasps hold of her. To save her or to kill her? Seconds later, the pair plunge to their death in the icy waters. Monk can’t help but wonder, was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? It seems impossible to determine the truth, but haunted by the woman’s somber beauty, he is impelled to try. Mary Havilland was her name, and she had planned to marry Toby Argyll, the fair-haired man who shared her fate. Mary’s father, an engineer employed by the Argyll Company, had recently died–a suicide, according to the police and Mary’s sister. But Mary’s friends tell Monk that she suspected her father had been murdered because of his stubborn insistence that the Argyll Company’s current project–the construction of a splendid new sewer system for the metropolis–was so badly flawed that it put the entire city in peril from flood and fire. Monk is now faced with the mysteries of the three deaths. Aided by his intrepid wife Hester, he starts looking for answers and is soon treading a slippery path that takes him from the luxurious drawing rooms where powerful men hatch their unscrupulous plots to a world beneath the city where poor folk fight starvation. In nightmarish tunnels, Monk and Hester find true friends, among them Scuff, a young mudlark; Sutton the ratcatcher; and Snoot, Sutton’s clever terrier. For once, even Monk’s old enemy, Superintendent Runcorn, is on his side. As rainfall strains the fragile manmade underground, Monk must connect the clues before death strikes again. With characters as vivid as Dickens’s, gripping courtroom scenes, breathless horrors beneath the earth, and a plot that twists and turns toward a stunning denouement, Dark Assassin is absolutely one of Anne Perry’s best. From the Hardcover edition.The Philosopher's Kiss
By Peter Prange. 2011
TRUTH--BETRAYAL-- INTRIGUE--REVOLUTION-- AND LOVE Paris, 1747. Betrayed by God and humanity, Sophie moves to the seething capital of the kingdom.…
To survive, she works at Café Procope, the meeting place for freethinkers and revolutionaries. Against her will she falls deeply in love with one of the regular customers: Denis Diderot, the famed philosopher and a married man. He and his colleagues are planning the most dangerous book in the world since the appearance of the Bible: an encyclopedia. Even more explosive are the covert references in the Encyclopedia that threaten to undermine both the monarchy and the church. But Sophie soon realizes that the stakes are even higher for her personally. At risk are her right to freedom, love, and happiness.Away
By Jane Urquhart. 1993
A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family's complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds…
with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian Shield; from the flourishing town of Port Hope to the flooded streets of Montreal; from Ottawa at the time of Confederation to a large-windowed house at the edge of a Great Lake during the present day. Graceful and moving, Away unites the personal and the political as it explores the most private, often darkest corners of our emotions where the things that root us to ourselves endure. Powerful, intricate, lyrical, Away is an unforgettable novel.From the Trade Paperback edition.Garden of Lies
By Amanda Quick. 2015
The New York Times bestselling author of Otherwise Engaged and The Mystery Woman presents an all-new novel of intrigue and…
murder set against the backdrop of Victorian London... The Kern Secretarial Agency provides reliable professional services to its wealthy clientele, and Anne Clifton was one of the finest women in Ursula Kern's employ. But Miss Clifton has met an untimely end--and Ursula is convinced it was not due to natural causes. Archaeologist and adventurer Slater Roxton thinks Mrs. Kern is off her head to meddle in such dangerous business. Nevertheless, he seems sensible enough to Ursula, though she does find herself unnerved by his self-possession and unreadable green-gold eyes... If this mysterious widowed beauty insists on stirring the pot, Slater intends to remain close by as they venture into the dark side of polite society. Together they must reveal the identity of a killer--and to achieve their goal they may need to reveal their deepest secrets to each other as well...Bloodshed of Eagles (Eagles #14)
By William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone. 2009
Strike Like An Eagle Stand Like A Man Falcon MacCallister never thought hed wear army brass. But Colorado is about…
to join the Union--and the would-be state has just made him Lt. Colonel in its Home Guard. Then, before his military career can take off, Falcon loses one of his men and two deadly new Gatling guns to a murderous ambush. Falcon is going to get those Gatling guns back--before they kill the wrong people. Tracing the missing guns to Eastern Montana, Falcon teams up with a scout named Isiah Dorman. Falcon and Dorman are spearheading a battle against the Sioux--in the shadow of the disastrous Little Big Horn slaughter. For the two men, survival along the Little Bighorn is going to mean breaking rules, standing strong, standing together--and holding off a deadly onslaught with only a few guns against many. . .LaSalle
By John Vernon. 1986
The Sieur de La Salle's story begins in 1682, when he sets out with twenty-two Frenchmen, eighteen Indians, and his…
always-grumbling, epileptic cartographer, Pierre Goupil, to chart the length of the Mississippi River. In the course of this breathtaking novel, we see early America as seldom before. This is a world as foreign to us as any, for, as John Vernon points out, “the map of North America, so etched in our imaginations, with the great furrow of the Mississippi River running down the center of it, did not yet exist for these colonists.” For them, North America is a vivid and dangerous dream of hardship, madness, and poetry. Not simply an adventure story, La Salle is an epistolary novel in the best eighteenth-century tradition. John Vernon has ingeniously molded historical facts into a set of diary entries by La Salle and Goupil. In their often conflicting and always vigorous styles, the two describe their journey into the wilderness and a world in which the reason and religion of Europe have no place. First published in 1986, La Salle is a classic of American historical fictionUnder the Olive Tree
By Courtney Miller Santo. 2012
In a small town in Northern California, the olives are ripening and the Keller women, a multigenerational family of firstborn…
daughters, are preparing to send their youngest, Erin, abroad. Although she worries about forsaking her family, she is compelled to take a chance at living her dream. A crisis the day before she is to leave makes Erin question her choice. Is it possible that before she can return to Hill House, she might lose one of her beloved grandmothers? Because, although she has three caretakers—Anna, her great-great-grandmother; Bets, her great-grandmother; and Callie, her grandmother—Erin has no mother. It is an absence keenly felt and never mentioned. Under the Olive Tree offers a tantalizing glimpse into the secrets of the Keller women, which spill out in surprising and heartbreaking ways in the forthcoming novel The Roots of the Olive Tree. Enjoy this early taste!The Walnut Tree
By Charles Todd. 2012
Paris, 1914. Lady Elspeth Douglas is visiting friends when the shadow of war falls across Europe. As her French fiancé…
races to rejoin his unit, she tries to reach England, only to be trapped on the French coast amid refugees and wounded men. Elspeth pitches in to help wounded soldiers, getting closer and closer to the Front, soon finding herself in danger as enemy shells fall. Captain Peter Gilchrist comes to her rescue, pulling her away from the battle and to safety. But before they can properly say goodbye, they are separated. In London, Elspeth is haunted by all she's witnessed, and she can't forget the gallant man who saved her. Without her guardian's consent, she trains as a nurse. She's determined to return to France to do her part, and to find the man she has no right to love. Then everything goes wrong. In this world of uncertainty, can love survive, or will Elspeth's troubled heart become another casualty of this terrible war?Paying the Viking's Price
By Michelle Styles. 2013
ORDERED TO THE VIKING'S BED! Feared warrior Brand Bjornson has finally got what he's striven for-lands of his own, granted…
to him by his king. But his new estate, Breckon, holds more than a few surprises-not least the intriguingly beautiful Edith, former Lady of Breckon. Proud Edith refuses to abandon her lands to the mercy of Viking invaders, and impressed by her courage, Brand agrees she can stay. He has one condition-that she should become his concubine!How Like an an Angel: A Novel
By Jack Driscoll. 2005
How Like an Angel is the story of Archibald Angel. With his career going nowhere and a marriage in decline,…
Angel retreats to a rustic cabin in northern Michigan to make a new life for himself. In spite of his forward thinking, Angel's move is in many ways a journey into the past. Besides lacking modern comforts, the cabin conjures the ghost of Angel's troubled childhood, when his undertaker father took the cabin in trade as payment from a widow who couldn't otherwise afford the cost of her husband's burial. After Angel's mother subsequently fled, abandoning her family to recover from a mental breakdown, the cabin was an escape for father and son. While Archibald Angel revisits his knotted and difficult past, his ex-wife and young son contemplate their future. Slowly, with unexpected help from an unpredictable woman, Angel realizes he too must find a way to begin again or risk failing his son as his own father failed him. With pathos, humor, and unflagging generosity of spirit, How Like an Angel takes us deep into the hinterland of the human heart and discovers there the source of the love that keeps us holding on against all odds.American Meteor
By Norman Lock. 2015
“[Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights. ” —NPR “[Lock] is one of the most interesting…
writers out there. ” —Reader’s Digest “Lock writes some of the most deceptively beautiful sentences in contemporary fiction. Beneath their clarity are layers of cultural and literary references, profound questions about loyalty, race, the possibility of social progress, and the nature of truth. ” —Shelf Awareness In this panoramic tale of Manifest Destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln’s funeral train, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes face-to-face with Crazy Horse, his life will be spared but his dreams haunted for the rest of his days. By turns elegiac and comic, American Meteor is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America’s fabulous and murderous history. Norman Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. His recent works of fiction include Love Among the Particles, a Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year, and The Boy in His Winter, a re-envisioning of Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which Scott Simon of NPR’s Weekend Edition hailed for “mak[ing] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone. ” He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey.The Overlords and the Wild Ones
By Matt Braun. 2003
Two of bestselling author Matt Braun s most beloved novels now newly repackaged as a 2-in-1 In The…
Overlords Galveston Texas belonged to criminal overlords But they couldn t predict that a Texas Ranger and a beautiful woman would try to shut down America s paradise of gambling Now a dangerous brew of mobsters flappers traitors lovers and lawmen is about to explode in a sin city by the sea In The Wild Ones into the 1870s West comes a family of New York City stage performers But the Fontaine family is unprepared for the hardship they endure across the Mississippi Their only hope If the young Lillian can sing her way to success in the rising boomtown of Denver