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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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The Memory of an Elephant by Alex Lasker
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"The Memory of an Elephant" is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, perilous journey to find the humans who rescued him as an orphan some fifty years ago...Categorized as:
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![They Burn Thistles by Yaşar Kemal]()
They Burn Thistles by Yaşar Kemal
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is the story of a bitter war between the poor Turkish peasants of the Taurus Mountains and the Aghas who covet their land. Ali Safa is determined to take possession of the village of Vayvay but its inhabitants will not sell. Then one villager weakens, prepared to part with his land in return for the Agha's best stallion...Categorized as:
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![Fortune's Favorites by Colleen McCullough]()
Fortune's Favorites by Colleen McCullough
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThey were blessed by the gods at birth with wealth and privilege. In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. But there was one who towered above them all -- a brilliant and beautiful boy whose ambition was unequaled, whose love was legend and whose glory was Rome's...Categorized as:
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![Return to the Island by Kate Hewitt]()
Return to the Island by Kate Hewitt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat would her life look like without her beloved island in it? Where would she go? Ellen had come back here—to the place she felt she belonged—thinking she would stay here. But was it home… or just a place to hide?1918, Canada: The First World War is over and those who have been fighting in Europe are heading for home, forever changed... -
![Eternal by Lisa Scottoline]()
Eternal by Lisa Scottoline
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsWhat war destroys, only love can heal.Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor...Categorized as:
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![These Tangled Vines by Julianne MacLean]()
These Tangled Vines by Julianne MacLean
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsFrom the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a sweeping and captivating tale of one woman’s journey to the lush vineyards of Tuscany—and into the mysteries of a tragic family secret.If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret—even from the father who raised her...Categorized as:
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![The Trader's Reward by Anna Jacobs]()
The Trader's Reward by Anna Jacobs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1871. When Fergus Deagan's wife dies in childbirth, she makes him promise to take their family from Ireland to Western Australia to join his brother Bram, and also to marry again to make sure their children don't miss out on a mother's love. Disowned by her father for becoming pregnant, Cara Payton bears a stillborn baby... -
![The Bear of Britain by Steven A. McKay]()
The Bear of Britain by Steven A. McKay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAD 432. BRITAIN. The winter snows are melting at last, but spring will bring more than just rebirth this year. The Saxons are coming, and that means war. Bellicus, Duro and Cai have travelled south to join the warlord, Arthur, and his growing army of Britons... -
![Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett]()
Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe...Categorized as:
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![The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough]()
The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn this great drama, Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times, has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from his commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power...Categorized as:
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The Journeyer by Gary Jennings
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMarco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends offered him a last chance to confess his mendacity, and Marco, it is said, replied "I have not told the half of what I saw and did...Categorized as:
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![Les Miserables I & II by Victor Hugo]()
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... -
![Ironfire by David Ball, George Guidall]()
Ironfire by David Ball, George Guidall
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of Empires of Sand comes a mesmerizing new adventure that Jean Auel cites as "crowded with events that both forecast and mirror the conflicts of today...Categorized as:
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![Blood of a Gladiator by Ashley Gardner]()
Blood of a Gladiator by Ashley Gardner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLeonidas, champion gladiator of Rome, is set free from the games by a mysterious benefactor who grants him freedom, a place to live, and a servant—Cassia, a scribe—to look after him.But the benefactor is only so generous—Leonidas must pay his own way and Cassia’s, which means hiring himself out. The sharp-witted Cassia quickly lands him a post as a bodyguard, escorting a retired senator to Ostia... -
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Augustus by John Williams
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs.A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic...Categorized as:
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![Green City in the Sun by Barbara Wood]()
Green City in the Sun by Barbara Wood
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA magnificent saga of two proud and powerful families—one British, one African—and their battle over Kenya’s destiny in the twentieth century.In 1917, Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya, determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England...Categorized as:
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![A World Apart by Gretta Curran Browne]()
A World Apart by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Michael Dwyer story continues ... powerful in its drama and truth ... and his fame in the history of Ireland begins.Now a close friend of Robert Emmet, Michael does everything in his power to help the young aristocrat succeed in his revolutionary aims, but traitors abound everywhere, attempting to bring down both young men...Categorized as:
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![The Emperor's Games by Damion Hunter, Amanda Cockrell]()
The Emperor's Games by Damion Hunter, Amanda Cockrell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe strong will triumph. The weak will die. Correus and Flavius, half brothers and rivals, have won respect in service to the Empire. Correus, esteemed soldier in the Roman Army of Eagles, has been entrusted with the honoured task of running the Emperor’s brutal games. Flavius, a Centurion at his brother’s side, has risen to become the Emperor’s most trusted advisor... -
![The Reluctant Wife by Caroline Warfield]()
The Reluctant Wife by Caroline Warfield
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen all else fails, love succeeds…Captain Fred Wheatly’s comfortable life on the fringes of Bengal comes crashing down around him when his mistress dies, leaving him with two children he never expected to have to raise. After he chooses justice over army regulations, he’s forced to resign his position, leaving him no way to support his unexpected family... -
![The Footman by A. O'Connor]()
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... -
![New York by Edward Rutherfurd]()
New York by Edward Rutherfurd
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsEdward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native-born and immigrant—a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates rise and fall and rise again with the city’s fortunes...Categorized as:
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![The Lords of the Wind by C.J. Adrien]()
The Lords of the Wind by C.J. Adrien
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“For indeed the Frankish nation, which was crushed by the avenger Hasting, was full of filthy uncleanness. Treasonous and oath-breaking, they were deservedly condemned; unbelievers and faithless, they were justly punished.” Orphaned as a child by a blood-feud, and sold as a slave to an exiled chieftain in Ireland, the boy Hasting had little hope of surviving to adulthood...Categorized as:
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![The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du, Alexander Barton Woodside]()
The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du, Alexander Barton Woodside
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSince its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallenged as the supreme masterpiece of Vietnamese literature...Categorized as:
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![Angelique and the King by Anne Golon]()
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... -
![Tread Softly on My Dreams by Gretta Curran Browne]()
Tread Softly on My Dreams by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Emmets are Protestants, belonging to the elite society of Ireland’s ruling class. Born in 1778, Robert Emmet, the youngest son of the State Physician of Ireland, has grown up in the heart of a prosperous and loving family, one of the most respected in Dublin city. From his parents he acquired a deep love of Ireland and a commitment to justice...Categorized as:
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![The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson]()
The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including 250 from a tiny island off the mainland. Among the captives sold into slavery in Algiers were the island pastor, his wife and their three children. Although the raid itself is well documented, little is known about what happened to the women and children afterwards...Categorized as:
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![The Next Ship Home by Heather Webb]()
The Next Ship Home by Heather Webb
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEllis Island, 1902: Two women band together to hold America to its promise: "Give me your tired, your poor..."Ellis Island, 1902. Francesca arrives on the shores of America, her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. That same day, aspiring linguist Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center...Categorized as:
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![La spia del mare by Virginia De Winter]()
La spia del mare by Virginia De Winter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVenezia, 1741. Cordelia Sheffield è una spia inglese, bella, intelligente e letale. Cassandra Giustinian invece è una nobile veneziana dalla grazia incantevole, colpita da una misteriosa malattia. Nessuno sa che sono gemelle, che dividono un'unica vita e l'amore per lo stesso uomo: lo splendido Cassian d'Armer, una spia del Doge, tormentato da un passato di guerra e violenza... -
![Severed Knot by Cryssa Bazos]()
Severed Knot by Cryssa Bazos
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBarbados 1652. In the aftermath of the English Civil War, the vanquished are uprooted and scattered to the ends of the earth. When marauding English soldiers descend on Mairead O’Coneill’s family farm, she is sold into indentured servitude...Categorized as:
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![The Wayward Son by Gretta Curran Browne]()
The Wayward Son by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the mid 19th century, on the beautiful Island of Mull, the largest of Scotland’s Western Isles, on the estate of Jarvisfield owned by Lachlan Macquarie Jnr – a young man deeply unhappy with his lot in life...Categorized as:
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![Scottish Starter Box Set: Angel of Skye / The Dreamer / Borrowed Dreams by May McGoldrick]()
Scottish Starter Box Set: Angel of Skye / The Dreamer / Borrowed Dreams by May McGoldrick
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScottish Starter Box Set by May McGoldrickThree Full Length Series-Starter Novels. Opening the door to danger and desire!This box set contains the opening novels of three exciting, award-winning historical romance trilogies set in the Scottish Highlands... -
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Isola by Allegra Goodman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unforgettable epic saga of a French noblewoman deserted on an island where her survival will depend on the power of her faith and love—from the New York Times bestselling author of Sam.Heir to a chateau with its own village and lands, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility... -
![To Ride a White Horse by Pamela Ford]()
To Ride a White Horse by Pamela Ford
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings★ "A sweeping historical love story that hits all the marks." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Ireland 1846. The potato crop has failed for the second year in a row and Ireland is in famine. When Kathleen Deacey’s fiancé doesn’t return from a summer working in the Newfoundland fisheries, she faces a devastating choice—leave Ireland to find work or risk dying there...Categorized as:
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![Dusk by F. Sionil José]()
Dusk by F. Sionil José
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWith Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the exile of a tenant family from its village and the new life it attempts to make in the small town of Rosales... -
![The Scavenger's Daughters by Kay Bratt]()
The Scavenger's Daughters by Kay Bratt
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsHaving survived torture and imprisonment during China’s Cultural Revolution, Benfu escaped to find love with his compassionate and beautiful Calla Lily. Together they build a fulfilling life around the most menial of jobs—Benfu’s work collecting trash. As he sorts through the discards of others, he regularly discovers abandoned children...Categorized as:
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![The Last Jew by Noah Gordon]()
The Last Jew by Noah Gordon
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews - who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days of the Romans - are expelled from the country by royal edict... -
![The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough]()
The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds comes a masterpiece of historical fiction that is fascinating, moving, and gloriously heroic. The reader is swept into the whirlpool of pageantry, passion, splendor, chaos and earth-shattering upheaval that was ancient Rome...Categorized as:
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Fluch Der Begierde by May McGoldrick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWANTED…for crimes against the king. In retaliation for the brutality of the English troops. The Irish rebel Egan is fighting back, leading a secret group of revolutionaries—and building his legend across the country. REJECTED…by his own family. Jane Purefoy is a woman with a past. The daughter of an English magistrate, she watched her Irish lover die on the gallows... -
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Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny...Categorized as:
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![Angelique and the Ghosts by Sergeanne Golon]()
Angelique and the Ghosts by Sergeanne Golon
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe's one of the most ravished and ravishing heroines in the history of fiction. Her stormy adventures have taken her from the gutters of Paris to the harems of Africa to the silken prison of a king. Angelique has loved, intrigued, hated and fought her way into the hearts of millions of readers all over the world...Categorized as:
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![Les Caprices d'un astre by Antoine Laurain]()
Les Caprices d'un astre by Antoine Laurain
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsXavier Lemercier, agent immobilier, trouve au hasard d'une visite d'appartement un mystérieux télescope ayant appartenu à un célèbre astronome. Voilà bientôt qu'il cadre dans l'instrument, depuis son balcon, une femme derrière une fenêtre, sans oser, bien sûr, l'aborder. Divorcé et esseulé, avec pour seules joies ses week-ends avec son jeune fils, il commence à tomber amoureux de l'inconnue...Categorized as:
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![BY EASTERN WINDOWS by Gretta Curran Browne]()
BY EASTERN WINDOWS by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Stand-Alone Novel - also Book One of The Macquarie Series “Fabulous and heartbreaking … fresh and authentic in every detail … it has to be the best book I have read about the British in India since M. M. Kaye’s "The Far Pavilions" – Dr Aileen Keegan...Categorized as:
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![The Traitor by V.S. Alexander]()
The Traitor by V.S. Alexander
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrawing on the true story of the White Rose—the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime—The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny, during one of history’s darkest hours... -
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![Tribune of Rome by Robert Fabbri]()
Tribune of Rome by Robert Fabbri
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his brother into the army. But he discovers a city in turmoil and an Empire on the brink. The aging emperor Tiberius is in seclusion on Capri, leaving Rome in the iron grip of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard...Categorized as:
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![The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow]()
The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Twining music history with the political tumults of the 20th century, The Prague Sonata is a sophisticated, engrossing intellectual mystery...Categorized as:
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![The Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd]()
The Rebels of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga. The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick...Categorized as:
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![Palm Trees in the Snow by Luz Gabás]()
Palm Trees in the Snow by Luz Gabás
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAt once an epic family drama and a sweeping love story that spans both an ocean and a generation, Palm Trees in the Snow is an emotionally gripping and historically vivid tale of the secrets that can destroy a family—and the bonds that endure...Categorized as:
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![The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas]()
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsA major new translation of one of the most enduring works of literature from the award-winning, bestselling translator of Anna Karenina. First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written...Categorized as:
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Paris by Edward Rutherfurd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps through centuries as it weaves the tales of families whose fates are forever entwined with the City of Light. As he did so brilliantly in London: The Novel and New York: The Novel, Edward Rutherfurd brings to life the most magical city in the world: Paris...Categorized as:
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