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By Gaelen Foley. 2008
La tercera novela de la trilogía «Spice». Tras el disfraz de una cíngara puede ocultarse una auténtica princesa. Lord Gabriel…
Knight se ha recuperado de las heridas que casi le costaron la vida en la India, pero todavía no ha conseguido sanar las que atormentan su alma. Ha renunciado a sus riquezas, a los honores militares, a los placeres mundanos y se ha refugiado en una aislada granja de la campiña inglesa donde espera recobrar la paz, dar un nuevo sentido a su vida y olvidar su pasado como oficial de caballería. Por eso se enfurece cuando descubre a una joven cíngara llamada Sofía dormida en el granero. ¿Acaso la ha enviado su hermano para hacerle olvidar su soledad? Ciertamente es una joven muy atractiva, pero no está dispuesto a romper sus votos tan fácilmente... ¿Podrá la exótica Sofía fundir el corazón del hombre al que todos llamaban «el comandante de hierro»?This Savage Heart (The Souls Aflame Series, Book #2)
By Patricia Hagan. 2018
Passions Rekindled and Love Reclaimed in THIS SAVAGE HEART by Patricia Hagan1864, Georgia, and The Way West.Separated from her lover…
Captain Derek Arnhardt by a cruel twist of fate, when Julie Marshal joins a wagon train heading west, she's astonished to discover Derek as the wagon master.Love renewed, Derek and Julie make plans to marry upon reaching Arizona. But fate deals a different hand when the wagon train is attacked by Indians, Derek is captured, and Julie is kidnapped by a sinister gun runner.Unwilling to live without each other, Julie and Derek brave the worst the untamed West has to offer, to win their happily ever after.Publisher's Note: This is an Author's Cut edition of a previously published work, revised and updated for today's audience. Contains graphic sexual situations and violence in keeping with the era.THE SOULS AFLAME SERIES by Patricia HaganThis Rebel HeartThis Savage HeartOTHER TITLES by Patricia HaganSay You Love MeStarlightSimplyHeavenOrchids in MoonlightFinal JusticeQuimaira
By Valerio Massimo Manfredi. 2001
Una maldición implacable desafía el abismo del tiempo. Un thriller del autor de Aléxandros. Fabrizio Castellani, un joven y brillante…
arqueólogo, llega al museo de la ciudad toscana de Volterra para descifrar el secreto que esconde una famosa estatua etrusca. Esa misma noche, una inquietante llamada telefónica y el terrorífico aullido de una bestia interrumpen su estudio. Al día siguiente es descubierto el cadáver de un hombre que ha sido atacado salvajemente por un desconocido animal de dimensiones inauditas. Es el inicio de una serie de espantosas muertes que Castellani relaciona con un asesinato cometido en la antigüedad. Convertido en detective del pasado y del presente, Castellani deberá enfrentarse a una misteriosa maldición etrusca que parece retornar de tiempos remotos. Reseñas:«Valerio Manfredi ha decidido ponernos los pelos de punta con un thriller acerca de un espeluznante rito etrusco.»Qué leer «Como en todas las novelas de Manfredi encontramos la solidez del arqueólogo e historiador, con su calidad como escritor y el buen ritmo de una aventura que nos atrapa sin permitir que la dejemos.»La RazónCity Wolves: Historical Fiction
By Dorris Heffron. 2010
A moving historical tale and remarkable literary achievement, City Wolves is the story of Canada’s first woman veterinarian, Meg Wilkinson.…
Born in 1870 on a farm near Halifax, Meg’s childhood experience with wolves makes her determined to be a veterinarian. Supported by the seemingly eccentric Randolph Oliphant and inspired by the ancient Inuit who first turned wolves into sled dogs, Meg surpasses the horse doctors at vet college and becomes the notorious ’dog doctor of Halifax’ in the 1890s. After her unusual marriage ends abruptly in Boston, Meg travels to Vancouver and up to the Yukon, seeking the legendary sled dogs. Arriving at the beginning of the Klondike gold rush, she makes her way amidst Mounties, dance hall girls, Klondike Kings, mushers, priests and swindlers…all the mangy and magnificent people, dogs and spirits that populated raucous Dawson City. Observed through the restless spirit of Inuit Ike, this is lively, insightful, historical fiction, subtly revealing the wolf-like nature of humans and the human nature of wolves. Both earthy and reflective, City Wolves is an important story told with compassion, humour and unflinching realism. In this her fifth novel, Dorris Heffron has created a wide range of unforgettable characters and achieved a breadth of vision exploring the deep conflicts and interconnection of social beings in a way that is uniquely Canadian and profoundly universal.You Can't Hurry Love
By Lee Kilraine. 2017
In Climax, North Carolina, climbing the professional ladder means making the right connections. And Paxton Cates is about to form…
a partnership he never expected . . . While his brothers have found their true loves, Paxton remains stubbornly single, and it’s not helping his career. Sure, he’s a successful lawyer, but to become a judge you’ve got to mingle with the right crowds—and without a partner at his side, he’s not getting enough invitations. He needs someone, and soon. Someone like Jolene Joyner . . . Jolene, a local high school English teacher, has a history of driving Paxton crazy. She’s just too perfect—and she’s never let him forget it. But now Ms. Goody Two-Shoes is in trouble for the first time in her life, and she needs a lawyer. He’ll take her case—if she’ll play by his rules. Six months of socializing should do the trick—if they can convince everyone they’ve put aside their animosity and fallen madly in love. Then they can go their separate ways. The only problem is that Jolene seems to have developed a taste for bad behavior . . . especially where Paxton is concerned. And instead of just a pretty partner in deception, he’s got himself a new client who’s anything but innocent . . .Cold-Blooded (Hell's Half Acre #2)
By William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone. 2017
THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Bestselling Western writers William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone introduce lawman Jess…
Casey, a rode-hard, stubborn, Texas cowboy with a knack for laying down the law—with a very fast gun… ONE DAY TO LIVE. SEVEN DAYS TO DIE. Sheriff Jess Carey and his oddball band of sidekicks have pulled off the impossible, taming Hell’s Half Acre, the most lawless town in Texas, infamous for murder, mayhem, prostitution, and every random act of bloodshed imaginable. Now the no-good politicians in Austin have decided it’s cheaper to dump hordes of criminals on Jess Carey’s town than hanging ‘em. In one dreadful week it seems as if the gates of Hell have burst open. Freed outlaws, gunslingers, bandits, rapists, desperados, drifters and miscreants are roaming Hell’s Half Acre—and Jess and his deputies are running out of bullets fast. As the fighting rages, some ruthless, powerful men see their chance to kill Sheriff Jess Carey and take the town for their own…The Fifth Heart
By Dan Simmons. 2015
In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of…
Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve matters of national importance.Holmes is currently on his Great Hiatus--his three-year absence after Reichenbach Falls during which time the people of London believe him to be deceased. Holmes has faked his own death because, through his powers of ratiocination, the great detective has come to the conclusion that he is a fictional character.This leads to serious complications for James--for if his esteemed fellow investigator is merely a work of fiction, what does that make him? And what can the master storyteller do to fight against the sinister power -- possibly named Moriarty -- that may or may not be controlling them from the shadows?The Abominable: A Novel
By Dan Simmons. 2013
ALA Reading List Award for History, Short ListA thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits…
of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The TerrorIt's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine high on the shoulder of Mt. Everest. By the following year, three climbers -- a British poet and veteran of the Great War, a young French Chamonix guide, and an idealistic young American -- find a way to take their shot at the top. They arrange funding from the grieving Lady Bromley, whose son also disappeared on Mt. Everest in 1924. Young Bromley must be dead, but his mother refuses to believe it and pays the trio to bring him home. Deep in Tibet and high on Everest, the three climbers -- joined by the missing boy's female cousin -- find themselves being pursued through the night by someone . . . or something. This nightmare becomes a matter of life and death at 28,000 feet - but what is pursuing them? And what is the truth behind the 1924 disappearances on Everest? As they fight their way to the top of the world, the friends uncover a secret far more abominable than any mythical creature could ever be. A pulse-pounding story of adventure and suspense, The Abominable is Dan Simmons at his spine-chilling best.Las hijas del agua
By Sandra Barneda. 2018
Una hermandad secreta de mujeres, una joven elegida para proteger un legado escrito en el agua. Sandra Barneda construye en…
un magistral juego de personajes reales y ficticios una novela que explora los territorios del deseo femenino y que sorprende por su honestidad y belleza. «Detrás del miedo está el mundo que deseas». Venecia, 1793. Arabella Massari contempla desde su palacio la llegada de los invitados. Ha organizado una gran fiesta de máscaras. Entre los asistentes se encuentra Lucrezia Viviani, la hija del mercader Giuseppe Viviani, que acude con su prometido Roberto Manin. Lucrezia no está dispuesta a casarse con un hombre al que detesta y hará todo lo posible por impedir la boda. Arabella descubrirá en el festejo que esa joven tímida es la elegida para mantener el legado de las hijas del agua, una hermandad secreta de mujeres que luchan por ser libres. Las hijas del agua rescata del olvido a aquellas que lucharon para que fuéramos libres. #lashijasdelaguaThe Tenants of Time
By Thomas Flanagan. 1988
Volume 2 of Thomas Flanagan's Irish History Trilogy The second volume of Thomas Flanagan's best-selling Irish-history trilogy (which begins with…
The Year of the French and closes with The End of the Hunt) is set at the turn of the twentieth century, though its action revisits the thrilling revolutionary period of nearly half a century earlier. It is 1904 and the young historian Patrick Prentiss is visiting rural Kilpeder to research the townspeople's rebellion during the 1867 Fenian Rising. Drawn into the events of that turbulent year by the intimate narration of the survivors, Prentiss discovers the struggles of the Irish nationalist movement refracted in the lives of those who participated in the failed revolt and its aftermath.Casting Lily (Orca Limelights Ser.)
By Holly Bennett. 2018
Fourteen-year-old Ava is thrilled when she lands a part in a play based on the true story of orphans sent…
to Canada in the 1800s to work on farms. But is she good enough to hold her own in a professional production? As the rehearsal pressures crank up, Ava struggles with her character, with the vocal demands of outdoor theater and with the annoying ego of her castmate Kiefer. But as she learns more about the historical Lily on which her part is based, things begin to fall into place. Then one bad decision jeopardizes Ava's chances of being able to perform on opening night.Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray: A Novel
By Dorothy Love. 2016
A general's wife and a slave girl forge a friendship that transcends race, culture, and the crucible of Civil War.…
Mary Anna Custis Lee is a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and heiress to Virginia's storied Arlington house and General Washington's personal belongings. Born in bondage at Arlington, Selina Norris Gray learns to read and write in the schoolroom Mary and her mother keep for the slave children and eventually becomes Mary's housekeeper and confidante. As Mary's health declines, Selina becomes her personal maid, strengthening a bond that lasts until death parts them. Forced to flee Arlington at the start of the Civil War, Mary entrusts the keys to her beloved home to no one but Selina. When Union troops begin looting the house, it is Selina who confronts their commander and saves many of its historic treasures. In a story spanning crude slave quarters, sunny schoolrooms, stately wedding parlors, and cramped birthing rooms, novelist Dorothy Love amplifies the astonishing true-life account of an extraordinary alliance and casts fresh light on the tumultuous years leading up to and through the wrenching battle for a nation's soul. A classic American tale, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray is the first novel to chronicle this beautiful fifty-year friendship forged at the crossroads of America's journey from enslavement to emancipation.Kara Kush
By Idries Shah. 1987
A riveting and fast-paced novel in which “Kara Kush”—or “The Eagle,” as the Afghan-born, American-schooled, Adam Durany becomes known—returns to…
his homeland to lead his people against the Soviet atrocities and communist infiltration that threaten to anni Adam, convinced that a resistance movement is imperative, rallies his followers, the ill-equipped patriots, to fight back. Idries Shah, the author of this gripping story, is the best-known Afghan writer of our time. His books on Sufism, philosophy, history, and travel, are known the world over. Shah was the descendant of a thousand-year-old Afghan family, and an author and teacher who found success explaining the East to the West. Kara Kush, first published in 1986, is his only novel: a fascinating adventure in which a gifted writer set out to inform the world about Afghan society, history, and culture. According to interviews with Shah, the novel is based on fact and eyewitness accounts.Creation: A Novel
By Katherine Govier. 2002
Running two steps ahead of the bailiff, alternately praised and reviled, John James Audubon set himself the audacious task of…
drawing, from nature, every bird in North America. The result was his masterpiece, The Birds of America. In June 1833, partway through his mission, he enlisted his son, Captain Bayfield of the Royal Navy, and a party of young gentlemen to set sail for nesting grounds no ornithologist had ever seen, in the treacherous passage between Newfoundland and Labrador. Creation explores the short, stormy summer throughout which the captain became the artist's foil, measuring stick, and the recipient of his long-held secrets. It is an exploration of that fateful expedition, a probing and imaginative narrative that fills in a gap in the visionary naturalist's well-documented life. In this atmospheric and enthralling novel, Katherine Govier tells the story of a man torn between the lies he has lived by and the truth he now needs. Her novel recreates the summer in which the world's greatest living bird artist finally understood the paradox embedded in his art: that the act of creation is also an act of destruction.The Man Who Never Returned: A Novel
By Peter Quinn. 2010
Judge Joe Crater's disappearance in 1930 spawned countless conspiracy theories and captured the imagination of a nation caught in the…
grip of The Depression. Fifteen years later, Fintan Dunne the detective encountered in Quinn's novel Hour of the Cat, recently retired and bored, answers a summons to New York where he is asked to solve the old case for a newspaper magnate only interested in making a profit from the story. Peter Quinn once again has written a compelling blend of history and fiction that is simply unputdownable.November 22, 1963: A Novel
By Adam Braver. 2008
November 22, 1963 chronicles the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination and explores the intersection of stories and memories and…
how they represent and mythologize that defining moment in history. November 22, 1963 chronicles the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination and explores the intersection of stories and memories and how they represent and mythologize that defining moment in history. Jackie's story is interwoven with the stories of real people intimately connected with that day: a man who shares cigarettes with Jackie outside the trauma room; a motorcycle policeman flanking the motorcade; Abe Zapruder, who caught the assassination on film; the White House servants waiting for Jackie to return; and the morticians overseeing President Kennedy's autopsy.Life's Good, Brother: A Novel
By Mutlu Konuk Blasing, Nazim Hikmet. 2013
A contemporary international classic, available in English for the first time. Hikmet's final book--an autobiographical novel about a man who…
is imprisoned for being a Communist, his friends, and the women he loved. Considered to be a major work in his oeuvre. This is the first publication in English translation.The Wolf and the Shield
By Sherry Weaver Smith. 2016
Kieran is braver and stronger than most eleven-year-old boys. And ever since his father's death, he's been doing his best…
to take care of his mother and little brother. In fifth-century Ireland, though, there aren't many options. When Kieran rescues a wolf pup and meets Saint Patrick, his choices become even more difficult. Ideal for ages 7-10.The Language of Paradise: A Novel
By Barbara Klein Moss. 2015
Set in nineteenth-century New England, this exquisite novel tests a woman's love against her husband's utopian quest. Sophy Hedge, the…
artistic daughter of the town's minister, falls in love with Gideon Birdsall, a driven theology student assisting her father with a Hebrew lexicon. Sophy is drawn to Gideon's intellect, passion, and spiritual nature, while Gideon glimpses in her a free soul unbound by convention. Yet Gideon's restlessness after they wed worries Sophy, and she finds his friendship with Leander Solloway, the charismatic new schoolmaster, a cause for anxiety. As the men immerse themselves in Gideon's mystical theories, Sophy translates her fears into secret paintings. When Sophy becomes pregnant, Gideon and Leander construct a faux Eden in a greenhouse as part of a daring experiment to discover the language of paradise--the tongue Adam spoke when he named the creatures of the earth. Sophy must decide whether to live and paint in the world her husband has made or escape to save her child and herself. Addressing the timeless issues of faith, art, and the elusive dream of perfection, Barbara Klein Moss has captured the fragility of human longing.The Man from Beyond: A Novel
By Gabriel Brownstein. 2005
From the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, a debut novel featuring Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is…
April 1922. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in New York on a spiritualist crusade. To packed houses at Carnegie Hall, he displays photographs of ghosts and spirits; of female mediums bound and gagged, ectoplasmic goo emerging from their bodies. In the newspapers, he defends the powers of the mysterious Margery, one of the most famous mediums of the day. His good friend Harry Houdini is a skeptic, and when Doyle claims Margery's powers are superior to Houdini's, the magician goes on the attack. Into this mix of spirit-chasing celebrities enters Molly Goodman, a young reporter whose job is to cover the heated debate. As she wanders into this world of spooks and spirits, murder and criminal frauds, Molly discovers herself: her true love, her place in the world; even her relationship to her beloved dead brother, Carl.