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The Count of Monte Cristo. Vol. II by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great thrillers of all time. In 1853 William Thackeray wrote to a friend: 'began to read Monte Cristo at six one morning and never stopped till eleven at night.'. Falsely accused of treason, the young sailor Edmund Dantes is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If...Categorized as:
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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)... -
Checkmate by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFor the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Checkmate takes place in 1557, where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in France, leading an army against England... -
Time of Parting by Anton Donchev
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the 17th century, a Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam. A Janissary who was taken from the village as a boy is sent to force the reluctant inhabitants to convert. The local Turkish governor seeks a peaceful solution, but ultimately torture, violence, and rebellion break out... -
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Musashi, Volume II by Eiji Yoshikawa
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMusashi, o grande romance épico japonês do século XX, com mais de 120 milhões de exemplares vendidos em suas diversas edições, além de inúmeras versões para cinema e televisão é a história de Miyamoto Musashi, na vida real o grande samurai do Japão da época dos xoguns... -
After Dunkirk by Lee Jackson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn the tradition of grand World War II sagas Beneath a Scarlet Sky and Of Windmills and War, After Dunkirk introduces the Littlefield family, fighting valiantly in the darkest days of the German occupation. AFTER DUNKIRK heralds a stunning new voice in historical epics, a worthy heir to Wouk and Follett. "Lee Jackson embeds you in the peril of war-torn France in the aftermath of Dunkirk...Categorized as:
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Queens' Play by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsSecond in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Queens' Play follows Francis Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots. Though she is only a little girl, the Queen is already the object of malicious intrigues that extend from her native country to the court of France... -
The Twisted Sword by Winston Graham
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe eleventh novel in the legendary Poldark saga. Cornwall, 1815: Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an "observer" of the French armed forces... -
The Secret Stealers by Jane Healey
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA female American spy in Nazi-occupied France finds purpose behind enemy lines in a novel of unparalleled danger, love, and daring by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Beantown Girls.Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at a private school in Washington, DC...Categorized as:
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Nobody's Boy by Hector Malot
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsA compelling story in which orphaned Remi gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer when his foster parents fall on hard times. Going from village to village with its act, ‘nobody’s boy’ has numerous adventures until his boss also falls on hard times and perishes, homeless and destitute... -
Gaban by Munshi Premchand
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGaban, first published in 1931, five years before Premchard's death, is the story of Ramanath, a morally weak but physically charming youth brought to near-disaster by his beautiful wife Jalpa's inordinate craving for jewelry. This is a felicitous translation by Christopher R King and will enable many readers to appreciate Premchand's important novel, available for the first time in English... -
Hand Of Justice by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs Boone Youngblood anxiously awaits the arrival of his first child, he wants nothing more than to live the quiet life of a rancher. His wild days of serving as a Texas Ranger are now nothing more than a memory...Categorized as:
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The Mark Twain Collection by Mark Twain
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis exceptional collection of "Junior Classics" lets listeners enjoy the exploits and antics of Tom, Huck, Tom Canty, Hank Morgan, and other characters, in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, " and "The Prince and the Pauper...Categorized as:
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I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 by Lauren Tarshis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis installment in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series from Lauren Tarshis shines a spotlight on the Normandy landings, just in time for the 75th anniversary of D-Day!A battle that would change the course of World War II...Eleven-year-old Paul's French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce... -
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Les Miserables I & II by Victor Hugo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsExcerpt from The Works of Victor Hugo, Vol. 2: Les Miserables Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work...Categorized as:
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Finding Gabriel by Rachel L. Demeter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsColonel Gabriel de Laurent departed for the war intending to die. After a decade of bloodstained battlegrounds while fighting in Napoleon's army, Gabriel returns to the streets of Paris a shattered and haunted soul. Plagued by inner demons, he swallows the barrel of his flintlock pistol and pulls the trigger. But fate has a different plan. Ariah Larochelle is a survivor...Categorized as:
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La pierre et le sabre by Eiji Yoshikawa
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDans le Japon du XVIIe siècle, le jeune Takezó devient le samouraï Miyamoto Musashi et n'a plus qu'un seul but : tendre à la perfection. Dépasser ses sentiments et persévérer pour s'améliorer, se perfectionner et parvenir à comprendre le sens profond de la vie en développant son art, l'art du combat. Duel après duel, il crée son propre style... -
End of Spies by Alex Gerlis, Rupert Bush
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEurope, 1945: no longer at war but not yet at peace. The gripping finale to the bestselling Richard Prince espionage thrillers.British agent Richard Prince and the Danish spy Hanne Jakobsen come together for a vital mission: to find a Nazi war criminal responsible for the murder of fellow British agents...Categorized as:
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The Judge by Maeve Greyson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes a broken promise really isn't broken. It's just a promise that takes a little longer to be fulfilled. When her father betrothed her to a duke, Isobel didn’t worry because Alasdair swore he’d save her. But he didn’t. Then word came her true love had succumbed to the plague. So, she married, and life became a living hell...Categorized as:
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La Parfaite Lumière by Eiji Yoshikawa
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings" Soudain, il vit la vérité : les techniques de l'homme d'épée n'étaient pas son but ; il cherchait une Voie du sabre qui embrassât toute chose. (...) Pour la première fois, il se demanda s'il était possible à un être humain insignifiant de ne faire qu'un avec l'univers. " Le jeune Takezo est devenu Miyamoto Musashi, redoutable samouraï...Categorized as:
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Son of Anger: A fast-paced Viking Saga filled with action and adventure by Donovan Cook
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Norse warriors, gods and all things epic. This tale of vengeance is nothing short of exciting." Reedsy ReviewUlf is like a storm, slowly building up its power, he grows more dangerous with each passing moment. And like all storms, he will eventually break. When he does, he will destroy everything in his path.Ulf is one of a long line of famous Norse warriors... -
Last Hope by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLast Hope is the highly anticipated third book in the Gideon Johann Western series. It joins #1 bestseller novels on Amazon.com in Western Classics, Last Stand and Last Chance. Love, second chances, new beginnings, and dispensing justice – all set in the town of Last Stand, Colorado in 1880...Categorized as:
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The Footman by A. O'Connor
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the country mansions of 1930s Ireland, to the decadence of 1940s wartime Paris to the courtrooms of London in modern times.What the Footman saw . . .In 1930s Ireland, Joe Grady becomes the footman at the stately home Cliffenden, owned by the glamorous Fullerton family... -
Mendelevski's Box by Roger Swindells
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe survived Auschwitz but now Simon Mendelevski has to find out who betrayed his family September 1945. Auschwitz survivor Simon Mendelevski, penniless and unkempt, returns to Amsterdam in a desperate search for his family, friends and neighbours. Simon meets two Dutch women, both of whom have also suffered...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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Il ritorno by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNell'Amuleto d'ambra Claire Randall, viaggiatrice nel tempo e nello spazio, aveva incominciato a spiegare una difficile verità alla figlia Brianna: negli anni in cui era ufficialmente data per dispersa, fra il 1945 e il 1946, era in realtà precipitata, attraverso il magico cerchio di pietre di Craigh na Dun, nella Scozia del Settecento, dove si era innamorata follemente del nobile James Fraser...Categorized as:
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Angelique and the King by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE SUN KING AND THE QUEEN OF PLEASURE.Louis XIV was one of history's great lovers. Fought over by every exquisite woman in France, there was only one luscious jewel Louis really wanted to possess; the irresistible Angelique. But the emerald-eyed enchantress knew Louis discarded beautiful mistresses like toys. And that she would never bear...Categorized as:
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Until Leaves Fall in Paris by Sarah Sundin
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen the Nazis march toward Paris, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. The Germans make it difficult for her to keep Green Leaf Books afloat. And she must keep the store open if she is to continue aiding the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books...Categorized as:
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The Queen's Fortune by Allison Pataki
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA sweeping novel about the extraordinary woman who captured Napoleon’s heart, created a dynasty, and changed the course of history—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor's Wife, The Accidental Empress, and Sisi...Categorized as:
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The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick, Elif Nihan Akbaş
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA medieval historical novel about William Marshal, probably the greatest knight of the Middle Ages. This is the story of how he rose through the dangerous world of Angevin politics to become one of the most powerful magnates of the realm and eventually regent of England...Categorized as:
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The Last Correspondent by Soraya M. Lane
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen journalist Ella Franks is unmasked as a woman writing under a male pseudonym, she loses her job. But having risked everything to write, she refuses to be silenced and leaps at the chance to become a correspondent in war-torn France.Already entrenched in the thoroughly male arena of war reporting is feisty American photojournalist Danni Bradford...Categorized as:
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Called by a Viking series Box Set: Five steamy Time Travel Romances by Mariah Stone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrue love is boundless…and timeless The Called by a Viking complete box set has 5 books and 900+ pages. It features modern, time-traveling women and the sexy, ancient warriors who love them...Categorized as:
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The Best of Robert Service by Robert W. Service
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties...Categorized as:
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Ten Years Later, Vol. 1: A Lover and His Mistress by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe serial chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan -- a young swordsman intent on joining the king's musketeers. Young D'Artagnan becomes embroiled in court intrigues, international politics, and ill-fated affairs between royal lovers. The book at hand is the second volume of the third serial...Categorized as:
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Heidi by Deidre S. Laiken, Johanna Spyri
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHeidi, of the majestic Swiss Alps, finds beauty and wisdom in nature. Living in isolation with Grandfather and two goats, she develops a special feeling for the plants and animals in their hills and valleys. Her life changes when she is urged to study in a city. She befriends an invalid girl but is homesick for her mountain life... -
Highland Honor by Hannah Howell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the second novel of her magnificent trilogy of medieval Scotland, bestselling author Hannah Howell returns to the 15th century and the embattled Highlands with this spellbinding saga of a Scottish mercenary fated to rescue a spirited young beauty accused of murder.Nigel Murray saw through her masquerade from the first: a young woman trying to pass herself off as a page...Categorized as:
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Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDuring the Nazi occupation of France, twenty ordinary French kids in a boarding school agree to hide ten Jewish children Then German soldiers arrive... -
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Sheriffs Don’t Surrender (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStepping into battle is never easy. Especially when you’re outgunned and walking into unknown territory. Sheriff Conrad Scott has returned home after a long absence to discover his town in disarray and his young sisters running wild. Even worse, Rudy Galloway and his gang think they can get away with murder... -
Dry Cross Honor (Westward Saga Western) (A Western Adventure Fiction) by Frank Wheeler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSheriff Merrill Vinson is looking forward to a new life in Dry Cross, Texas. But from the moment he arrives, he knows something isn’t right. The townspeople are nervous. Edgy. And no one will look him in the eye. Except for Cherry Jones.Cherry is the sassy saloon owner who keeps the town laughing. And Merrill is smitten. But Cherry’s got secrets she’ll go to her grave protecting... -
The Temptation of Angelique by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFaithful Wife of Slave of Passion? Separated from her husband and all alone i the savage wilderness, Angelique learned to be strong enough to brave all the perils of frontier life. Then an intruder entered the forest; the dashing, roguish pirate who had set her heart aflame once before. Angelique soon found her new strength give way to the familiar weakness of passion... -
One Love is Enough by Juliette Benzoni
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn turbulent 15th Century France, young Catherine Legoix grows into a woman of dangerous beauty. Her distinctive violet eyes and stunning mane of golden hair inflame the desires of the powerful Duke Philippe, who schemes to make her his mistress by having her unwillingly married to the hugely wealthy but emotionally distant Royal Treasurer...Categorized as:
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Röde Orm 1: Sjöfarare i västerled by Frans G. Bengtsson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRödhårig och mjäll i hyn, bred mellan ögonen, stubbnäst och stormynt- detta är porträttet av Röde Orm, hjälten i Frans G. Bengtssons underhållande roman där fornnordisk och österländsk saga ingått en sällsynt lyckad förening. I mustiga färger och kärnfull stil skildras de skiftande öden Röde Orm går till mötes på sina äventyrliga vikingafärder...Categorized as:
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Scent of Triumph: A Novel of Perfume and Passion by Jan Moran
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen French perfumer Danielle Bretancourt steps aboard a luxury ocean liner, leaving her son behind in Poland with his grandmother, she has no idea that her life is about to change forever. The year is 1939, and the declaration of war on the European continent soon threatens her beloved family, scattered across many countries...Categorized as:
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Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski, Anne Sebba
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHilary Wainwright, an English soldier, returns to a blasted and impoverished France during World War Two in order to trace a child lost five years before. But is this small, quiet boy in a grim orphanage really his son? And what if he is not? In this exquisitely crafted novel, we follow Hilary’s struggle to love in the midst of a devastating war... -
Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis, Edward Everett Tanner III
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEncore, Encore! The brilliant sequel to the smash bestseller Auntie Mame is back and the reviews are in .. -
Spy Line by Len Deighton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBritish agent Bernard Samson finds himself inexplicably hunted as a traitor, forced to abandon his life, his job, his position, and plunge into hiding in the most dangerous and darkest corner of Berlin. What is happening? What has he done? Nothing makes sense until Samson discovers that the Secret Service has known all along where he is. In fact, they have never taken him off the payroll... -
The Wicked Ones by Cassandra Clare, Robin Wasserman
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratings1 Hour and 56 MinutesCeline Montclaire goes to the Shadow Market to escape. She would go anywhere in Paris, or the entire world, to escape the suffering she experiences at the hands of her family. She did not expect to meet Valentine Morgenstern there, or to have him promise her freedom and the heart of the man she secretly loves. On one condition, of course...Categorized as:
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Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe runaway bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. This sweeping new novel, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I...Categorized as:
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