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The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels (5 Volumes) by Patrick O'Brian
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPatrick O’Brian’s twenty-one-volume Aubrey/Maturin series has delighted generations of devoted fans, inspired a blockbuster film, and sold millions of copies in twenty-four languages. These five omnibus volumes, beautifully produced and boxed, contain 7,000 pages of what has often been described as a single, continuous narrative...Categorized as:
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![The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara]()
The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by Michael Shaara
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsIncisive portraits of Lee, Longstreet, Meade, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with rich historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at Gettysburg, in a new thirtieth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel. 10,000 first printing... -
![Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque]()
Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic – a German doctor and refugee living in Paris – has been treating some of the city’s most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians...Categorized as:
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![A Time to Love and a Time to Die by Erich Maria Remarque, Denver Lindley]()
A Time to Love and a Time to Die by Erich Maria Remarque, Denver Lindley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the quintessential author of wartime Germany, A Time to Love and a Time to Die echoes the harrowing insights of his masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front. After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks’ leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes...Categorized as:
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![To Live by Yu Hua, 余华]()
To Live by Yu Hua, 余华
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese literature was also adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. This searing novel, originally banned in China but later named one of that nation's most influential books, portrays one man's transformation from the spoiled son of a landlord to a kindhearted peasant...Categorized as:
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![The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque]()
The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the author of the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Black Obelisk is a classic novel of the troubling aftermath of World War I in Germany.A hardened young veteran from the First World War, Ludwig now works for a monument company, selling stone markers to the survivors of deceased loved ones...Categorized as:
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![Les Misérables: Fantine by Victor Hugo]()
Les Misérables: Fantine by Victor Hugo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne terrible winter, Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread to feed his young nieces and nephews. He is caught and put in jail -- for 19 years When he finally gets out, Jean changes his name and tries to start a new life. But evil Inspector Javert wants him back in jail. As Jean hides from the law, he cares for the sick, the injured, and the poor -- those known as . . .Les Miserables...Categorized as:
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![The Night in Lisbon by Erich Maria Remarque]()
The Night in Lisbon by Erich Maria Remarque
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHistory and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survival from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front. With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed...Categorized as:
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![Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester]()
Beat to Quarters by C.S. Forester
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsJune 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles... -
![Mila 18 by Leon Uris]()
Mila 18 by Leon Uris
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists...Categorized as:
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![A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green]()
A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCora Mae Stewart’s world collapses when Sherman destroys the Georgia cotton mill where she works and has her arrested for treason and sent North. Faced with impossible choices, she does what she must to keep a little girl safe in an inhospitable land.Convinced he won’t survive the war, Union Sergeant Ethan Howard determines to make his death count for something...Categorized as:
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![Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese]()
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFranklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but he answers the call, a son's duty to a father. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure in a small town flophouse...Categorized as:
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![War And Peace, Volume 3 by Leo Tolstoy]()
War And Peace, Volume 3 by Leo Tolstoy
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...Categorized as:
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![The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian]()
The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsNapoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead the French armies to triumph at Waterloo. In the Balkans, preparing a thrust northwards into Central Europe to block the Russians and Austrians, a horde of Muslim mercenaries is gathering...Categorized as:
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![Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati]()
Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWith epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war.The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise...Categorized as:
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![The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara]()
The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLibrarian's note: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.In the Pulitzer prize-winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara's son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father's vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg... -
![Ship of the Line by C.S. Forester]()
Ship of the Line by C.S. Forester
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHornblower leads his first ship of the line into enemy waters in this installment of C. S. Forester's beloved adventure series, called "exciting, realistic, packed with grand naval action" by the New Yorker. May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars... -
![Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake]()
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOrdered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the adventure and beauty of the incredible movie, Dances with Wolves...Categorized as:
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![The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker]()
The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFifteen Montana cowboys and five hundred longhorns are embarking on a one of a kind Wild West adventure: a cattle drive across a thousand miles of Siberia. The clash of cultures between East and West, American six shooter and Russian saber, begins immediately when a band of Cossacks arrives to escort them to their destination...Categorized as:
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![Burning Sky: A Novel of the American Frontier by Lori Benton]()
Burning Sky: A Novel of the American Frontier by Lori Benton
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“I remember the borders of our land, though I have been gone from them nearly half the moons of my life. But who there will remember me? What I have seen, what I have done, it has changed me.I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with upheaval and loss.Yet memory of our land is a clear stream. I shall know it as a mother knows the faces of her children. It may be I will find me there... -
![From Sea to Shining Sea by James Alexander Thom]()
From Sea to Shining Sea by James Alexander Thom
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn one generation, the Clark family of Virginia fought for our nation's independence, and explored, conquered, and settled the continent from sea to shining sea. This powerfully written book recreates the warm life of the family, the dangers of the battlefield, the grueling journeys across an untamed wilderness, and the soul-stirring Lewis and Clark Expedition...Categorized as:
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The First Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnly one man can mete out justice on the unforgiving frontier. First in the Preacher series from the New York Times bestselling western author. He’s known from the Northwest to the deserts of the Southwest as Preacher, though he’s as far from being a man of the cloth as you can get...Categorized as:
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![Panther in the Sky: A Novel Based on the Life of Tecumseh by James Alexander Thom]()
Panther in the Sky: A Novel Based on the Life of Tecumseh by James Alexander Thom
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsRich, colorful and bursting with excitement, this remarkable story turns James Alexander Thom's power and passion for American history to the epic story of Tecumseh's life and give us a heart-thumping novel of one man's magnificent destiny--to unite his people in the struggle to save their land and their way of life from the relentless press of the white settlers...Categorized as:
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![Flashman & the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser]()
Flashman & the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHarry Flashman is back in the saddle, so to speak, making history that you won't find in textbooks. Mingling among heroes in the American West, the ace of knaves flees a murder charge, travels with a mobile brothel to California's goldfields, betrays the scarlet woman who loves him and tricks the noble Indians while seducing their women... -
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![Little Big Man by Thomas Berger]()
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of ten."So starts the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction. As a "human being", as the Cheyenne called their own, he won the name Little Big Man...Categorized as:
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![The Valentine's Curse by Jodi Thomas]()
The Valentine's Curse by Jodi Thomas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas takes you back to the Old West, where two strangers find love in the least likely place, with the least likely person, just in the nick of time . . -
![Fire the Sky by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear]()
Fire the Sky by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew York Times bestselling novelists W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear have long been considered the foremost chroniclers of early Native American life. Now, in a critically acclaimed, sweeping new series, they recreate the conflict-filled years following one of the first European invasions...Categorized as:
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![The Return of Kid Cooper by Brad Smith]()
The Return of Kid Cooper by Brad Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe year is 1910. Nate Cooper is an old-school cowboy who has spent nearly thirty years in a Montana prison of a wrongful life sentence for a false murder conviction. Nate's moral compass is true and unwavering: he does all the wrong things for all the right reasons. Upon his release he learns that the turn of the century has brought great change--none of it good... -
![The Centurions by Jean Lartéguy]()
The Centurions by Jean Lartéguy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is Jean Larteguy's most famous book that garnered international acclaim and sold millions of copies. It was also the basis for the movie, The Lost Command, starring Anthony Quinn. In his autobiography, Larteguy writes that he got the name of the book from when he was traveling with the Foreign Legion in the Sahara and came across an old Roman column at an oasis...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway, John Hemingway]()
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway, John Hemingway
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsTHE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection...Categorized as:
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![Last Stand by Duane Boehm]()
Last Stand by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGideon Johann had been gone from Last Stand, Colorado for eighteen years, seeming to have vanished after the Civil War. He is a man running from his conscience and keeping on the move seems to be the only thing preventing it from destroying him...Categorized as:
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![The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna]()
The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRecommended reading as part of the Chief of Naval Operation's Professional Reading Program!This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in 1962...Categorized as:
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![The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw]()
The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war...Categorized as:
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![Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts]()
Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis classic novel follows the career of Major Rogers, whose incredible exploits during the French and Indian Wars are told through Langdon Towne, an artist and Harvard student who flees trouble to join the army...Categorized as:
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![The Warriors by John Jakes]()
The Warriors by John Jakes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Kent Family Chronicles continue as Confederate Corporal Jeremiah Kent carries out his commander's dying request-while the Union Army ravages Georgia...Categorized as:
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![The Commodore by C.S. Forester]()
The Commodore by C.S. Forester
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratings1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower. Dispatched to northern waters, Hornblower will protect Britain's Baltic interests and halt the advance of Napoleon's empire into Sweden and Russia... -
![Butcher's Crossing by John Williams]()
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west...Categorized as:
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![Love and War by John Jakes]()
Love and War by John Jakes
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe Hazards and the Mains -- the first fatal shot fired at Fort Sumter divided them irrevocably with loyalties more powerful than family ties. The young would clash on the bloody battlefields of Bull Run and Fredericksburg, while in intrigue-ridden Washington and Richmond strong-willed men and beautiful women would defend their principles with their lives..Categorized as:
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![The Bastard by John Jakes]()
The Bastard by John Jakes
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsOne man’s quest for his destiny leads him to the New World and into the heart of the American Revolution. Meet Phillipe Charboneau: the illegitimate son and unrecognized heir of the Duke of Kentland. Upon the Duke’s death, Phillipe is denied his birthright and left to build a life of his own...Categorized as:
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![The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy]()
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFollowing All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought.In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events...Categorized as:
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![Bad Men Die by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone]()
Bad Men Die by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY In this brilliant series from national bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, Luke Jensen, reported killed during the Civil War, comes back with a vengeance to forge his own legend in a violent, lawless land...Categorized as:
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Massacre Canyon by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century Two outlaw brothers have been leaving a blood-trail on their way to infamy on the western frontier. Until bounty hunter Luke Jensen catches one of the black-hearted Kroll brothers away from his gang. But while Luke is trying to get Mordecai Kroll from jail to justice, he's ambushed by the Kroll gang and taken prisoner...Categorized as:
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![Blood on the Verde River by Dusty Richards]()
Blood on the Verde River by Dusty Richards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Dusty Richards writes. . .with the flavor of the real West." --Elmer Kelton"Dusty Richards is the embodiment of the old west. He brings it to life so realistically, you can almost feel the bullets whizzing past your face." --Storyteller Magazine Never Fight A Man. . . 600 miles from a railroad head in Texas, Chet Byrnes and a handful of cowboys set out to build a new life on the Arizona frontier...Categorized as:
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![A Viscount for Violet by Ellie St. Clair]()
A Viscount for Violet by Ellie St. Clair
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere will be no happily ever after for Violet Tavners -- or so she thinks. She has seen her sisters marry for love, but after falling for a man who turned out to be the worst kind of fraud, Violet is determined to never be deceived again. The only way to do that? Never fall in love... -
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![The Invasion Year by Dewey Lambdin]()
The Invasion Year by Dewey Lambdin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Invasion Year is the seventeenth tale in Dewey Lambdin's smashing naval adventure series...Categorized as:
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![The Gun Ketch by Dewey Lambdin]()
The Gun Ketch by Dewey Lambdin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt's 1786 and Alan Lewrie has his own ship at last, the Alacrity. Small but deadly, the Alacrity prowls the waters of the Caribbean, protecting British merchants from pirates. But Lewrie is still the same old rakehell he always was...Categorized as:
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![La Guerre Et La Paix by Leo Tolstoy]()
La Guerre Et La Paix by Leo Tolstoy
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHardPress Classic Books...Categorized as:
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![The President's Gardens by Muohsin Ramlai, Luke Leafgren]()
The President's Gardens by Muohsin Ramlai, Luke Leafgren
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this extraordinary novel by heralded Iraqi author Muhsin Al-Ramli, One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner against the backdrop of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "A profoundly moving investigation of love, death, and injustice." --The Guardian"A standard in contemporary Middle Eastern literature." --Booklist "A stunning achievement...Categorized as:
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![Hard Country by Michael McGarrity]()
Hard Country by Michael McGarrity
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier. Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family’s struggle to settle and endure in the vast, untamed territory of New Mexico...Categorized as:
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![No Place For A Lady by Gill Paul]()
No Place For A Lady by Gill Paul
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings‘If you loved POLDARK, you’ll love this!’ Lulu Taylor IN WARTIME, THE RULES OF LOVE CHANGE … 1854. Britain is fighting a gruesome war. There has been no news of Lucy Gray since she eloped with handsome and impetuous Captain Charlie Harvington and embarked with him to the Crimea. Dorothea Gray will risk anything to heal the rift with her little sister and bring her home safe...Categorized as:
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