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The Disconnected by Oğuz Atay
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOlric Press is pleased to announce for its first publication a major work in the canon of world literature. The Disconnected was the first book of Oguz Atay (1934-1977), and was before its time. First published in 1972 it was a cult book among younger writers, but he never saw a second printing before his premature death... -
![Roaring Liberty by Jean Grainger]()
Roaring Liberty by Jean Grainger
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew York City, 1922Harp Devereaux is torn. Part of her desperately wants to return to Ireland to finish what she and her family and friends started, and to witness the departure of the British forces from Ireland after eight hundred long years. But the other part finds life in America during the Roaring Twenties too exciting to trade for the sleepy streets of County Cork... -
![Petrova imperatorica by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė]()
Petrova imperatorica by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPiše se leto 1727. Ura bije devet zvečer. V času, ko dvor spi, se najvplivnejša ženska Ruskega imperija v predsmrtni vročici prepušča spominom, precej drugačnim od zapisov v zgodovinskih učbenikih.Voltaire je njeno zgodbo imenoval »najbolj neverjeten vzpon 18. stoletja« in v njej prepoznal uresničenje Pepelkinih sanj... -
![Silva Rerum II by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė]()
Silva Rerum II by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRomāna darbība notiek no 1707. līdz 1710.gadam. Karš, mēris, bads, nesamērīga greznība un nāvīgs izsalkums, zviedru un krievu karavīri, jūdu ārsti, holandiešu kāršu spēlmaņi, turku konkubīnes, franču dāmas, spītīgi žemaiši un ironiski viļņieši, bezvārda mūks, kurš apglabājis vairāk nekā divdesmit tūkstošus mēra upuru, un, protams, vēl viena bajāru Norvaišu dzimtas paaudze... -
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![Isaiah's Daughter by Mesu Andrews]()
Isaiah's Daughter by Mesu Andrews
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this epic Biblical narrative, ideal for fans of The Bible miniseries, a young woman taken into the prophet Isaiah's household rises to capture the heart of the future king. Isaiah adopts Ishma, giving her a new name--Zibah, delight of the Lord--thereby ensuring her royal pedigree. Ishma came to the prophet's home, devastated after watching her family destroyed and living as a captive...Categorized as:
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![Of Fire and Lions by Mesu Andrews]()
Of Fire and Lions by Mesu Andrews
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Old Testament book of Daniel comes to life in this novel for readers of Lynn Austin's Chronicles of the Kings series or Francine Rivers' Mark of the Lion series. Survival. A Hebrew girl first tasted it when she escaped death nearly seventy years ago as the Babylonians ransacked Jerusalem and took their finest as captives...Categorized as:
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![Y Julia retó a los dioses by Santiago Posteguillo]()
Y Julia retó a los dioses by Santiago Posteguillo
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMantenerse en lo alto es mucho más difícil que llegar. Julia está en la cúspide de su poder, pero la traición y la división familiar amenazan con echarlo todo a perder. Para colmo de males, el médico Galeno diagnostica que la emperatriz padece lo que él, en griego, llama karkinos, y que los romanos, en latín, denominan cáncer... -
![The Diamond Daughter by Janet MacLeod Trotter]()
The Diamond Daughter by Janet MacLeod Trotter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this emotional story set in 1946 post-war India, can a woman’s quest for love survive shocking secrets and betrayal?Filled with excitement and a little trepidation, Jeanie Munro is returning to India and her husband Mungo, having been forced apart from him by the long years of the Second World War... -
![Edge of Eternity: by Ken Follett | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense]()
Edge of Eternity: by Ken Follett | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdge of Eternity: by Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy, Book 3) | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense This is a Summary & Analysis of Ken Follett’s novel, Edge of Eternity... -
![Sarah and Solomon: Only A Stone Should Be Alone by Roberta Kagan]()
Sarah and Solomon: Only A Stone Should Be Alone by Roberta Kagan
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“…Fathers and Give me your children!” – Chaim RumkowskiIt is September 1942, and the already battered occupants of the Lodz Ghetto have just been dealt another horrendous blow from Hitler’s iron fist. They must surrender their sick, elderly, and children for ‘deportation... -
![Serenade for Nadia by Zülfü Livaneli]()
Serenade for Nadia by Zülfü Livaneli
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this heartbreaking Turkish novel based on the real-life sinking of a refugee ship during World War II, an elderly professor leaves America to revisit the city where he last glimpsed his beloved wife. Istanbul, 2001. Maya Duran is a single mother struggling to balance a demanding job at Istanbul University with the challenges of raising a teenage son... -
![El buzón de las impuras by Francisca Solar]()
El buzón de las impuras by Francisca Solar
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEn 1863, en el momento más crítico de la Guerra Civil Norteamericana, los miembros de la misión diplomática que el presidente Lincoln envió a Santiago de Chile se transformaron en los inesperados héroes de una de las tragedias más sobrecogedoras de la historia mundial contemporánea: la muerte de más de dos mil mujeres atrapadas y calcinadas en el incendio de la Iglesia de La Compañía... -
![Trickster by Sam Michaels]()
Trickster by Sam Michaels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGeorgina Garrett was born to be ruthless and she's about to earn her reputation. As World War One is announced a baby girl is born into a harsh life on London streets. Little do people realise that she's going to grow up to rule the borough of Battersea... -
![Little Black Girl Lost by Keith Lee Johnson]()
Little Black Girl Lost by Keith Lee Johnson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJohnnie Wise was just fifteen years old when her mother sold her virginity to an unscrupulous white insurance man named Earl Shamus. Stunningly beautiful, with long naturally wavy black hair, she possessed the voluptuous body of a thirty-year-old woman. Her skin was the color of brown sugar. Johnnie had heard about Earl Shamus and his escapades among the poor black women in New Orleans... -
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![In the Shadow of the Angel: Three Critical Decades in Mexico's History by Kathryn S. Blair]()
In the Shadow of the Angel: Three Critical Decades in Mexico's History by Kathryn S. Blair
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the Shadow of the Angel," which has been called Mexico's "Gone with the Wind," takes place during three transformational decades in Mexican history: 1900-1931, as mirrored by the life of an extraordinary Mexican woman, Antonieta Rivas Mercado... -
![Isaiah's Legacy: A Novel of Prophets and Kings by Mesu Andrews]()
Isaiah's Legacy: A Novel of Prophets and Kings by Mesu Andrews
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe drama of the Old Testament comes to life as Judah's most notorious king ascends to the throne in this gripping novel from the award-winning author of Isaiah's Daughter . At eight years old, Shulle has known only life in a small village with her loving but peculiar father...Categorized as:
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![The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl by Reşat Nuri Güntekin]()
The Autobiography of a Turkish Girl by Reşat Nuri Güntekin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTranslated from the Turkish by Sir Wyndham Deedes. Original title Çalıkuşu (1922)...Categorized as:
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![يسمعون حسيسها by أيمن العتوم]()
يسمعون حسيسها by أيمن العتوم
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsخلف الوادي انتشرت أشجار هرمة . إلا انها ظلت خضراء على طول عمرها الذي تجاوز مئات السنين . -
![Yo, Julia by Santiago Posteguillo]()
Yo, Julia by Santiago Posteguillo
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratings192 d.C. Varios hombres luchan por un imperio, pero Julia, hija de reyes, madre de césares y esposa de emperador, piensa en algo más grande: una dinastía. Roma está bajo el control de Cómodo, un emperador loco. El Senado se conjura para terminar con el tirano y los gobernadores militares más poderosos podrían dar un golpe de Estado: Albino en Britania, Severo en el Danubio o Nigro en Siria... -
![The Trade Off by Samantha Greene Woodruff]()
The Trade Off by Samantha Greene Woodruff
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA brilliant and ambitious young woman strives to find her place amid the promise and tumult of 1920s Wall Street in a captivating historical novel by the author of The Lobotomist’s Wife.Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street market’s stocks and patterns in the financial pages... -
![The Wolf At Large by Terry Cloutier]()
The Wolf At Large by Terry Cloutier
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“You have no idea what you are yet, Hadrack, but someday you will, and on that day the world itself will tremble.” - Einhard, Sword of the KingA year has passed since the Piths captured the Gander garrison at Gasterny. A year in which an unexpected and unwanted truce has been declared between the two nations... -
![Like Flames in the Night by Connilyn Cossette]()
Like Flames in the Night by Connilyn Cossette
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsStrong-willed Tirzah wants to join her people in driving the enemy from the land of Israel and undergoes training for a secret mission inside the stronghold of Shechem. But soon after she has infiltrated the ruthless Aramean commander's kitchen, she makes a reckless decision that puts her and her allies in grave danger...Categorized as:
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![Spindrift by Cindy Brandner]()
Spindrift by Cindy Brandner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpindrift usually refers to spray, particularly the spray blown from cresting waves during a gale. This spray, which "drifts" in the direction of the gale, is one of the characteristics of a wind speed of 8 Beaufort and higher at sea.Stories are like waves, slowly building and coming in toward the shore... -
![Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner]()
Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEach of us carries within a map of memory. The map is worn at the folds--sometimes right through--and so place names are missing first letters or last or have a hole through the middle. We carry those maps with us always, and this map is mine--an island on the edge of the world and beyond it a place of dragons and sunken cities with bells that still ring a thousand years on.. -
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![The Ladies' Tale: Caroline & Philippa by Julia Brannan]()
The Ladies' Tale: Caroline & Philippa by Julia Brannan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs well as telling the story of Caroline and Philippa, this book continues the tale of Harriet, which began in The Eccentric’s Tale.Now in her late forties, Harriet is so staggeringly rich and powerful that she fears no one. Along with her sister, she settles down to enjoy her freedom and to live the eccentric life she has always desired, estranged from her disapproving family... -
![The Eccentric's Tale: Harriet by Julia Brannan]()
The Eccentric's Tale: Harriet by Julia Brannan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHarriet Ashleigh, much-loved eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Darlington knows exactly what she wants from life. Just one simple thing; the freedom to be herself. But for a young woman living in the seventeenth century, freedom is not such an easy thing to achieve... -
![Silva Rerum III by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė]()
Silva Rerum III by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsŻywot człowieka majętnego. Rokokowa odsłona bestsellerowej sagi o dziejach szlacheckiego rodu z Litwy i historii, która stała się kamieniem węgielnym naszej współczesności. Wilno, Anno Domini 1748. Trzydziestosiedmioletni Piotr Antoni z Milkont Narwojsz, najstarszy syn Anny Katarzyny i Jana Izydora, wraz z żoną i trójką dzieci mieszka w okazałym dworku w mieście... -
![Erin's Child by Sheelagh Kelly]()
Erin's Child by Sheelagh Kelly
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFamily ties have united the Feeneys through famine and poverty, but can they withstand success? It is 1875 and the Feeneys have left the squalor of York’s slums behind them. Yet all is not well. Patrick remains a man of simple tastes, increasingly out of touch with Thomasin’s ambition to expand her business empire still further across Yorkshire... -
![A Family’s Heartbreak by Kitty Neale]()
A Family’s Heartbreak by Kitty Neale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll they ever wanted was somewhere to call home… Beaten When Jenny’s mother abandons her and her younger siblings, Jenny is left at the mercy of her abusive father Henry. And when Henry beats his eldest daughter so badly that she ends up in the hospital, it seems like there’s nowhere left for them all to go...Categorized as:
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![The Far Horizon by Gretta Curran Browne]()
The Far Horizon by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Complete stand-alone Novel and the second novel in The Macquarie Series As a young British officer, Lachlan Macquarie served his country in America, the West Indies, India and Egypt, but now he is being asked to go to a wilderness on the other side of the world where famine and strife amongst the inhabitants is flourishing... -
![Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra by Angela Elwell Hunt]()
Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra by Angela Elwell Hunt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"After her father and sister are killed, Salome and her mother move to Jerusalem. When a relative betroths Salome to a pagan prince half her age, she questions God's plan... -
![Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton]()
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA timeless classic of sleazy London life in the 1930s, a world of streets full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, where people emerge from cheap lodgings in Pimlico to pour out their passions, hopes and despair in pubs and bars... -
![The Eight-Shilling Girl by Faye Godwin]()
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![Wings of Refuge by Lynn Austin]()
Wings of Refuge by Lynn Austin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Powerful Story Set Against the Backdrop of Today's IsraelNothing in Abigail MacLeod's life as a wife, a mother, and a teacher has prepared her for what she will experience during her summer in Israel. At forty-two, her life is in chaos, even before she leaves home--her marriage is dissolving before her very eyes, her faith is in shambles...Categorized as:
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![Bathsheba: Reluctant Beauty by Angela Elwell Hunt]()
Bathsheba: Reluctant Beauty by Angela Elwell Hunt
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter sending his army to besiege another king's capital, King David forces himself on Bathsheba, a loyal soldier's wife. When her resulting pregnancy forces the king to murder her husband and add her to his harem, Bathsheba struggles to protect her son while dealing with the effects of a dark prophecy and deadly curse on the king's household... -
![The Lake Pavilion by Ann Bennett]()
The Lake Pavilion by Ann Bennett
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Lake Pavilion: a sweeping story of secrets and betrayal in wartime England and 1930s British India...India 1935: Amelia Collins, a missionary’s daughter, left destitute by the death of her parents, leaves their home in the Himalayan foothills to find work in Darjeeling... -
![King Of Camberwell by Mary Jane Staples]()
King Of Camberwell by Mary Jane Staples
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSammy was the sharp one of the Adams family.Since he was nine-years-old - when he'd charged his mother interest on a loan to make up the rent money - he'd been busy setting up deals and expanding the family business - a china stall in East Street market. But as his mighty empire grew - two shops and a factory in Shoreditch - so did the determination of his assistant, Susie Brown... -
![Tudor Court Series 6 books The Boleyn Inheritance / The Other Boleyn Girl / The Other Queen / The Constant Princess / The Virgins Lover / The Queens Fool by Philippa Gregory]()
Tudor Court Series 6 books The Boleyn Inheritance / The Other Boleyn Girl / The Other Queen / The Constant Princess / The Virgins Lover / The Queens Fool by Philippa Gregory
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPhilippa Gregory Tudor Court Novels 6 Books Collection Set Titles in the Set are The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl ,The Boleyn Inheritance, The Virgin's Lover, The Other Queen and The Queen's Fool... -
![Return to Bonnybrae by Gwen Kirkwood]()
Return to Bonnybrae by Gwen Kirkwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is the start of 1919 and Miss Rina Capel, granddaughter of the Laird of Stavondale has one ambition - to set aside her life of privilege and become a nurse. But when she is summoned back to the Bonnybrae to see her dying grandfather just before her eighteenth birthday, he reveals to her family secrets which turn her world upside down... -
![Wheel of the Fates by J. Boyce Gleason]()
Wheel of the Fates by J. Boyce Gleason
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIT IS 742. The throne is empty; the pagan states are in rebellion; Charles Martel’s widow and youngest son have been imprisoned, and trust between Carloman and Pippin—the two brothers who remain in power—has been shattered... -
![The Healer's Touch: Tikva's Story by Connilyn Cossette]()
The Healer's Touch: Tikva's Story by Connilyn Cossette
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Jewish Sailor's wife Tikva received word, more than a decade ago, of a family tragedy, the shock of the news sent her into premature labor, and she delivered a stillborn son. From that time until this, despite chasing after a multitude of healers’ promises and spending all she had on torturous treatments, she hasn’t been able to stop the resulting hemorrhaging... -
![Galloglass Book Two:: Defender of the Realm by Seamus O'Griffin]()
Galloglass Book Two:: Defender of the Realm by Seamus O'Griffin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe adventure continues as Ronan MacAlasdair is drawn deeper into the political intrigues and rivalries of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and Acre. New dangers arise as the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt moves closer to a war whose ultimate goal is to drive the last remaining Crusaders in the Holy Land into the sea... -
![Galloglass by Seamus O'Griffin]()
Galloglass by Seamus O'Griffin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEpic high adventure, Galloglass details the story of Ronan MacAlasdair,grandson of Angus Mor MacDonald, Lord of the Isles. Given to the Templars to save him from outlawry,the story takes the young Isleman from Islay to the Levant where he comes to manhood and finds fame, surviving intrigue, battle and seige. A rousing story with adult themes, this is the first in a series... -
![3 in 1: Love Only Once \ Tender Rebel \ Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey]()
3 in 1: Love Only Once \ Tender Rebel \ Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHere, in a Rhapsody exclusive edition, are the first three books in Johanna Lindsey's stirring series featuring the Malorys--a family of dashing rogues and adventurers and ladies of uncommon beauty and incomparable spirit whose amorous exploits are spoken of in envious whispers from Regency London to America's shores... -
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![Curran Glen: The Currans, Book Two by Donna Foley Mabry]()
Curran Glen: The Currans, Book Two by Donna Foley Mabry
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Civil War ended, but the turmoil of D’Arcy Curran’s life did not. Rather than give up the child she raised from birth, sixteen-year-old D’Arcy kidnaps her sister Suzanne’s son. The only safe place for her and little Danny is home…Manhattan, Kansas. Once there, D’Arcy learns that danger comes in many forms, and some of them are too close for comfort... -
![The Lake Pagoda by Ann Bennett]()
The Lake Pagoda by Ann Bennett
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Ann Bennett, bestselling author of The Orphan House, comes The Lake Pagoda, a captivating story of love and loss set in war-torn Indochina.Perfect for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria Hislop.Indochina 1945: Arielle, who is half-French, half-Vietnamese, is working as a secretary for the French colonial government when the Japanese storm Hanoi... -
![Der dunkle Thron by Rebecca Gablé]()
Der dunkle Thron by Rebecca Gablé
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLondon 1529: Nach dem Tod seines Vaters erbt der vierzehnjährige Nick of Waringham eine heruntergewirtschaftete Baronie und den unversöhnlichen Groll des Königs Henry VIII. Dieser will sich von der katholischen Kirche lossagen, um sich von der Königin scheiden zu lassen. Bald sind die Papisten, unter ihnen auch Henrys Tochter Mary, ihres Lebens nicht mehr sicher... -
![Una pasión rusa by Reyes Monforte]()
Una pasión rusa by Reyes Monforte
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsImpredecible, bellísima y dotada de un hondo sentimiento, como la música compuesta por el genial Serguéi Prokófiev, así era Lina, su musa, su amante y su esposa.Nacida en Madrid en 1897, con apenas 20 años se enamoró perdidamente del que sería su marido, del hombre y también del genio... -
![Um Milionário em Lisboa by José Rodrigues dos Santos]()
Um Milionário em Lisboa by José Rodrigues dos Santos
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBaseado em acontecimentos verídicos, Um Milionário em Lisboa conclui a espantosa história iniciada em O Homem de Constantinopla e transporta-nos no percurso da vida do arménio que mudou o mundo - confirmando José Rodrigues dos Santos como um dos maiores narradores da literatura contemporânea... -
![Esir Şehrin İnsanları by Kemal Tahir]()
Esir Şehrin İnsanları by Kemal Tahir
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Esir Şehir Üçlemesi" edebiyatımızın güçlü ve klasikleşmiş ismi Kemal Tahir' in başyapıtlarındandır...
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