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Ponniyin Selvan - The Cyclone by Kalki
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe second part in the series of ‘Ponniyin Selvan’, describes the conspiracy afoot to deny the rightful heirs to the throne, the kingdom – and the plot to crown Prince Maduranthakar – uncle to the heirs... -
Ponniyin Selvan - Part 3 by Kalki
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis ebook is a product of Kizhakku pathippagam, which is a imprint of New Horizon Media Private Limited (NHM)... -
Ponniyin Selvan - The Crown by Kalki
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe fourth part in the series Ponniyin Selvan, recounts the incidents when crown prince Aditha Karikalan leaves Kanchi inspite of Malayamans efforts to prevent him from doing so. For Aditha Karikalan now, there is no turning back.. -
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis new, enhanced leather-bound edition includes all the completed novels of beloved author Jane Austen.Jane Austen’s stories of clever women, elusive love, and social mores have struck a chord with millions of fans who consider her work compelling, heartwarming, and essential...Categorized as:
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Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice * Mansfield Park * Persuasion by Jane Austen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJane Austen’s sparkling and witty novels continue to entrance readers today, as proven by the rapturous reception of the many film and TV adaptations of her works. Here are three of her best: Pride and Prejudice, Austen’s best-loved story; Mansfield Park; and Persuasion, her final novel. Delightfully illustrated with delicate line drawings...Categorized as:
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The Pinnacle of Sacrifice - Volume 1 Ponniyin Selvan - Part 5 by Kalki
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn engineer by profession, Karthik Narayanan (1938) was born in Calcutta and had his early education in Tuticorin. He is an industrialist and heads companies that manufacture automobile components...Categorized as:
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Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJanuary 1474, in the deep cold of an ice-bound Danzig: a man is spending a frivolous winter not facing up to his responsibilities ... It is the merchant Niccolo, diviner, soldier, banker to Kings; shunned by all who know him after revelations of hismurderous mischief-making...Categorized as:
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The Hall of Tyr Book Four of The Circle of Ceridwen Saga by Octavia Randolph
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Hall of Tyr: Book Four of The Circle of Ceridwen SagaIt is said that every man is haunted by one mistake...The year is 881. Ten years have passed since fifteen year old Ceridwen set out from her Priory home to make her own life. She has known love and loss, triumph and heartbreak...Categorized as:
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Tindr by Octavia Randolph
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook Five of the Circle of Ceridwen SagaThe Lady of the Forest, Freyja, the Goddess of all woodland beasts, appears here on Midgard as a white hind. So great is her love for her deer that she herself comes in their guise. None has ever seen her; but if she permitted man but a glance, that is what they would see...Tindr is handsome, kind, and the best hunter on 9th century Gotland... -
To Win a Widow by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe craved his touch—and they had yet to kiss. Book 5, the final book in the exciting new Soldiers and Soulmates series from bestselling author Alexa Aston, has arrived. A widowed duchess at loose ends, longing for love. A colonel with no family who unexpectedly becomes an earl. Two stubborn individuals who are drawn together by passion—and also find friendship..Categorized as:
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A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiled You'll come a‐waltzing Matilda with me...' In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Her father has turned swaggie and he's wanted by the troopers...Categorized as:
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Emma's Folly by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEmma Maureen Cummins is fleeing from an overbearing father and the prospect of a loveless marriage in Atlanta, Georgia. She's intrigued by stories of the Oklahoma land rush the previous year, 1889, and buys a train ticket to Oklahoma. After all, that's where the excitement is... -
Frontier Sisters by A.T. Butler
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOregon has to be better than what she has now.Annie Hudson already has one foot out the door. She has responded to a mail order bride advertisement and now needs to figure out how to get all the way to Oregon.When her older sister Louisa learns about her plans, she enlists the other two Hudson sisters to her side...Categorized as:
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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 Hardest Ride by Gordon L. Rottman
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 1 in the bestselling “Ride” series, which won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel 2014 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist for Best First Western Novel 2014 Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist for Best Traditional Western Novel for 2013. The Texas-Mexico border, the winter of 1886—The Great Die Up. A raw rift separates Mexicans and Anglos...Categorized as:
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Two Captains by Veniamin Kaverin
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwo Captains is the most renowned novel of the Russian writer Veniamin Kaverin. The plot spans from 1912 to 1944. For more than half a century the book has been loved by children and adults alike. The novel has undergone more than 100 printings, including translations into other languages. Based on its story, plays have been staged and an opera has been written...Categorized as:
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Scorned & Craved - The Frenchman's Lionhearted Wife by Bree Wolf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this Regency romance by USA TODAY bestselling and HOLT Medallion winning author Bree Wolf, a delicate English lady risks it all in order to capture the heart of a French privateer. Years ago, a coincidence brought them together.Now, Fate will reunite them upon the high seas...Categorized as:
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Sir Rowan and the Camerian Conquest by Chuck Black
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA knight left for dead. A country on the verge of ruin. And an evil lord rising to conquer. Sir Rowan is the most decorated tournament knight in Cameria, but when he is attacked and left for dead, his world collapses. Betrayed and lingering at death’s door, only a bizarre vision of his Prince and the help of a woman dedicated to the King keeps him alive...Categorized as:
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Raider's Promise by Lois Walfrid Johnson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree years after their first adventure began, Bree, Devin, and Mikkel now enter a new world with the explorer Leif Erikson. Their first task: build a shelter to survive the winter. But danger lurks from within—shadows on the horizon of a life where everyone needs the courage to win...Categorized as:
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Ishmael by E.D.E.N. Southworth
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou will never read a story that is more inspiring and challenging than Ishmael . The heights of success achieved by this young man reveal little of the utter poverty into which he was born. He entered life motherless and poor, and despite the wishes of everyone around, he survived and flourished in his paltry environment...Categorized as:
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To Trust a Duke by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 3 in the exciting new Soldiers and Soulmates series has arrived. A soldier returning from war. A war widow who’s created a new life for herself. An attraction that brings them together... Forced to marry a stranger after one chaste kiss, Lady Ashlyn Dunwood spends a single night with her new husband before his regiment ships off to war...Categorized as:
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The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low price, transforming it into a house...Categorized as:
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The Keeper of The Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe very last novel that Gene Stratton-Porter wrote before her death. The tale of a wounded World War I veteran, a beekeeper and an impish tomboy all helped by each other...Categorized as:
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Sapphire Battersea by Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHetty Feather is a Foundling Hospital girl and was given her name when she was left there as a baby. When she is reunited with her mother, she hopes her beautiful new name, Sapphire Battersea, will also mean a new life! But things don't always go as planned.…Follow the twists and turns of Hetty's adventure as she goes out to work as a maid for a wealthy man...Categorized as:
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Laddie: A True Blue Story: By Gene Stratton-Porter - Illustrated by Gene Stratton-Porter
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings1913. Stratton-Porter was an American feminist, environmentalist, photographer and one of Indiana's most famous female authors. Many of her writings were moralistic and romantic novels. Laddie is a wonderful child's book and is thought to be based on her brother Leander who drowned in the Wabash River. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded...Categorized as:
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A Precarious Excursion: An Austen-Inspired Romance by Wendi Sotis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUpon arriving in London from Kent, Miss Elizabeth Bennet assumes it was an error in her behaviour that made Mr. Darcy believe she would accept his proposal. Elizabeth decides she should act more like her sister Jane from this point forward...Categorized as:
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Heir to the Crown by Ron C. Nieto
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe raiding season might be over, but the court is a new threat on its own …A victorious Oren, newly minted Lord Commander of the Mountain Guard, returns to the capital to receive the King’s accolades and to ask for the one thing he wants as his prize—the right to marry the woman he loves.But the court is a dangerous place, and nothing is as Oren expects when he arrives at his childhood home... -
Kiss Me Duke by Tamara Gill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMolly Clare is living her dream. Being a guest in a gorgeous villa while she explores Rome is everything she could’ve hoped for and more. The man who owns the villa is equally charming—and entirely too tempting. At least, that’s what he appears to be. The truth of who and what he really is…well, that’s infinitely more complicated.Lord Hugh Farley is living a nightmare... -
Braveheart by Randall Wallace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom ... he became the hammer and scourge of England.In one of history's darkest hours there arose from humble beginnings a man of courage and honor—the likes of whom the world may never see again... -
Hellion at Heart by Tamara Gill
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSifting through the sands in the Middle East while learning of ancient cultures and buried civilizations is all Miss Hallie Evans dreams about. But when an impending scandal forces her back to England, her hopes and dreams are destroyed. Now, as a hired archaeologist for the rich, Hallie explores and studies the ancient ruins excavated on their properties...Categorized as:
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Angelique, the Road to Versailles by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHistorical Romance Large Print Edition For Ang lique, 17th-century Paris is a city of wild love and vicious hatred. Penniless, alone and sworn to take revenge on those who were responsible for her husband s death, she plunges into the dangerous underworld of the city to the nightmare Court of Miracles, a world of deformity, degradation, violence and lust...Categorized as:
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Angelique: The Marquise of Angels by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe story begins in 1648 during a time of insurrection, terror and revolt in a divided France. Angélique de Sance de Monteloup, a vibrant twelve-year-old tomboy, is the daughter of a simple nobleman impoverished by taxes and other burdens...Categorized as:
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The Unforgettable Mr. Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Victoria Kincaid, Stevie Zimmerman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Pride and Prejudice Variation Mr. Darcy arrives at Longbourn, intending to correct the mistakes he made during his disastrous proposal in Hunsford. To his horror, he learns that Elizabeth Bennet was killed in a ship’s explosion off the coast of France—in an apparent act of sabotage. Deep in despair, he travels in disguise to wartime France to seek out the spy responsible for her death... -
Song of the Sea (American Dreams) by Jean Ferris
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRaider is almost killed boarding the LIGHTNING to save Rosie from the cruel Captain Lawrence, who has kidnapped, tormented and imprisoned her. Rosie nurses his wounds and tries to forget his surprising kiss, while she prays for his life.and for her own strength to resist him. For she knows there's no room in his life for love...Categorized as:
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The Long Road to Longbourn: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Renata McMann, Summer Hanford
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFitzwilliam Darcy has nearly everything a gentleman could want. Looks, wealth, connections. He lacks but one aspect of a perfect life, a bride. He’s chosen Miss Elizabeth Bennet to fill the role but when he proposes, to his utmost chagrin, she refuses him in no uncertain terms. His heart stomped on by a country miss who is by no societal measure his equal, he can’t imagine a worse moment...Categorized as:
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Captain of the Guard by Ron C. Nieto
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOren Trevaine has never shaken the feeling that he’s not good enough, but he’s determined to avoid the same fate for his men. Oren’s first task as Captain of the Guard is to transform his unruly, undisciplined soldiers into a formidable army—if only they would cooperate.But Oren will need to act fast because the snow is melting with the budding of spring... -
Romance D’A Pedra do Reino e O Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-Volta by Ariano Suassuna
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'A pedra do reino' é apresentado como um romance autobiográfico narrado por Dom Pedro Dinis Ferreira-Quaderna, o auto-proclamado 'Rei do Quinto Império e do Quinto Naipe, Profeta da Igreja Católico-Serteneja e pretendente ao trono do Império do Brasil'... -
Millie's Grand Adventure by Martha Finley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHard times have come to Keith Hill. Millie Keith's home has been damaged by a tornado, which also destroyed the gardens and hen house. With mid-summer already upon the family, there is no time to replant and no money in the bank to buy food. Millie is sure everything is under control--until the morning Charles Landreth walks in the door. Then Millie begins a new adventure in faithfulness to God...Categorized as:
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Buffalo Gal by Bill Wallace
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's her mother's crazy idea: a trip to Texas to save the buffalo. Amanda Guthridge just wants to ride horses with her boyfriend Philip and plan her coming-out party...Categorized as:
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Millie's Steadfast Love by Martha Finley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'After turning down a proposal of marriage, Millie longed for her mother's comforting embrace. Instead, she finds herself acting as mother to her brothers and sisters at home in Indiana while her parents try to save Aunt Wealthy's life in Ohio. Millie must pray for wisdom as the Keith children make room for three orphan children with a murky past and a terrible secret...Categorized as:
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Millie's Faithful Heart by Martha Finley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMillie opened her diary. Yes, here it is, she said. Jesus, please hold my heart in Your hand. Don't let me give it or any piece of it away. I want YOU to give it away in your time, to the right person. Please hold it tight, lock it up, and keep the key. October 8, 1836. Millie sighed. I will be sixteen in a week. Sixteen is too young for romance, isn't it? Millie quickly snapped her diary shut...Categorized as:
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Millie's Remarkable Journey by Martha Finley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'Slavery is a great evil and we must stand against it,' insisted Millie. 'But we've never seen it ourselves. How are we supposed to know for sure if the awful stories we hear are true?' Effie asked. 'Millie will find out,' Celestia Ann said with certainty. 'I...will?' Millie questioned as she looked from one to the other. 'Of course you will,' Celestia Ann said...Categorized as:
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Amazing Grace by Faith Blum
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCaleb hurried to the post office. He had to get in and out before his sister finished at the general store. “Any mail for the Stuarts?” he asked the postmaster.The postmaster took a lazy look at him over the top of his eyeglasses and gave a heaving sigh as he turned around to check. “Yep. Somethin’ from Ohio and somethin’ from Montana...Categorized as:
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Silver Wings (Love Endures) by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmory Lorrimer watched from her bedroom window as the plane landed. The rugged young pilot who jumped from the plane was quickly surrounded by admiring friends. For a moment he looked toward the grand old mansion--and then his eyes met Amory's. In that instant they fell in love. The next morning Gareth was to leave on a dangerous flight over the Arctic--but his plane never made it...Categorized as:
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The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. Volume 3 by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsV nastoyaschej knige pechatayutsya pyataya i shestaya chasti izvestnogo romana A. Dyuma "Vikont de Brazhelon, ili Desyat' let spustya," zavershayuschego trilogiyu o mushketerah...Categorized as:
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Great Maria by Cecelia Holland
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHer father is a robber baron... Her husband has grand ambitions and a quick temper... She will become... The Great Maria... -
Verbannt ans Ende der Welt by Rainer M. Schröder
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEngland 1804: Abby Lynn ist gerade vierzehn Jahre alt, als sie an einem kalten Februarmorgen in den Straßen Londons in einen Taschendiebstahl verwickelt wird. Angeblich der Komplizenschaft überführt, verschwindet sie hinter den Mauern des berühmt-berüchtigten Gefängnisses von Newgate...Categorized as:
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Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChicot the Jester was one of King Henry III's trusted advisors and friends, sharp-tongued and cunning and spoke with the king without formalities. Dumas' novel is another great series of plot twists, schemes, and larger than life characters delving into the ill-fated romance of the Dame de Monsoreau and Count de Bussy... -
Angelique in Love by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFleeing the ruthless persecution of Louis XIV, Angelique, the most hunted woman in France, is finally forced to seek refuge on the high seas. With the outcast Huguenots, she embarks for the New World aboard a mysterious pirate vessel whose masked, enigmatic commander is Rescator, Black-sheathed spectre of her past...Categorized as:
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Angelique in Revolt by Anne Golon, Marguerite Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe beautiful setting of the Poitou region makes a stunning contrast with the story which often boils over into bloody violence. The political situation is destined to bring multiple tragedies for Angélique and, after enjoying a moment of revenge, finds that she is pregnant with an unwanted daughter...Categorized as:
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