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Els assassins de l'emperador by Santiago Posteguillo
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRare...Categorized as:
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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... -
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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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Shifted By The Winds by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShifted By The Winds is the eighth book in the Bregdan Chronicles historical fiction series. As of today, there are 10 books in the series. Make sure you start reading with # 1 – Storm Clouds Rolling In. It's readers like you who have turned the series into a world-wide best-seller...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... -
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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... -
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Glimmers of Change by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Civil War has ended, but the struggle to rebuild America is just beginning.Carrie and Janie are living their dream in Philadelphia, but what price will they pay when cholera sweeps through America once again? Robert searches for peace on the plantation, but forces are in place that are determined to deny it... -
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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... -
![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... -
![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... -
![Emilia: The Darkest Days in History of Nazi Germany Through a Woman's Eyes by Ellie Midwood]()
Emilia: The Darkest Days in History of Nazi Germany Through a Woman's Eyes by Ellie Midwood
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSilver Medal Winner of the International Book Award contest Readers' Favorite in the Historical Fiction category (2017) This story is dedicated to all the victims of sexual slavery in German concentration camps, who had to endure inhumane suffering under the Nazi regime... -
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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo - tome 1 by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet...Categorized as:
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![The Scourge of Black Isle by Keira Montclair]()
The Scourge of Black Isle by Keira Montclair
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA true love that cannot be.The open road has tempted Padraig Grant his whole life. He’s not suited for life in the lists, training warriors for the battlefield. His calling is somewhere over the next hill. Or maybe it’s right in front of him, in the alluring form of Gisela Matheson. If only she weren’t already betrothed to Donald MacKinnie, the Scourge of Black Isle... -
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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 . -
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![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... -
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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... -
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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
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... -
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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... -
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![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... -
![A King's Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman]()
A King's Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Lionheart comes the dramatic sequel, telling of the last dangerous years of Richard, Coeur de Lion’s life. This long-anticipated sequel to the national bestseller Lionheart is a vivid and heart-wrenching story of the last event-filled years in the life of Richard, Coeur de Lion...Categorized as:
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![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... -
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![Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky]()
Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings* illustrated with many images related to Dostoyevsky's work, life and places* includes rare translations of short stories available nowhere else* the unfinished novel NETOCHKA NEZVANOVA* the rare novels UNCLE'S DREAM and THE VILLAGE OF STEPANCHIKOVO* informative and brief introductions to ALL of the novels* ALL of the short stories, which have been carefully collected and formatted for your... -
![Shadows in the Moonlight by Santa Montefiore]()
Shadows in the Moonlight by Santa Montefiore
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDon't miss the first book in the sensational new series from the number one bestselling author Santa Montefiore - coming soon!'Remarkable and compelling' JULIAN FELLOWES'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES'Fantastic, moving and beautifully written' TRACY REES'Enjoyable and engaging, I loved it!' BARBARA ERSKINE'A love story to break your heart!' LIZ FENWICK'Beautifully...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... -
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![The Perfect Gentleman by Deborah Wilson]()
The Perfect Gentleman by Deborah Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLady Brinley discovers shocking news that will leave her in despair… Her father is in possession of someone else’s horse. But… it is not just someone else’s horse. The horse belongs to the third son of the Duke of Curbain - one of the oldest and most respectable homes in England. Lord Lore Curbain...Categorized as:
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Owen by Christine Sterling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOwen Chapman has dreams as big as the Nebraska sky. What happens when a body turns up on the Chapman ranch and the dead man’s bride comes calling demanding answers?Owen Chapman’s plans of starting his own horse ranch are finally coming true. With his brothers as his business partners, he knows there is no way to fail...Categorized as:
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![An Uncommon Family Made under God's Light by Chloe Carley]()
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![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... -
![Rahab's Courage by Naomi Craig]()
Rahab's Courage by Naomi Craig
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA scarlet cord tethers one ruined woman to the salvation of mankind.Harboring two fugitives in a city slated for destruction, Rahab has one small chance of escape. In exchange for their safety, she bargains for her own. Their agreement rewards her courage, and she flees Jericho and a life of prostitution for a new life among the people of Israel...Categorized as:
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![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... -
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![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... -
![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... -
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Last Will by Ron Schwab
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen the dead body of one of lawyer Ian Locke’s wealthy clients is discovered in a place most unbefitting for a man of his station, it is just one piece of a complicated legacy that Ian must unravel...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![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... -
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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... -
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Ken Follett Epic Historical Collection by Ken Follett, Joachim Kerzel
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEpic Historical Collection Ken Follett Dive into the #1 New York Times bestselling author's masterpiece of medieval drama, The Pillars of the Earth, and its long-awaited sequel, World Without End... -
![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... -
![Hyperversum: Il cavaliere del tempo by Cecilia Randall]()
Hyperversum: Il cavaliere del tempo by Cecilia Randall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSono passati tre anni dal momento in cui Ian e Daniel si sono salutati prendendo strade (e secoli) molto diversi tra loro. Di tanto in tanto, Daniel non può fare a meno di ritentare una partita con Hyperversum, nella speranza di incontrare nuovamente l'amico...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![The French Sultana by Zia Wesley]()
The French Sultana by Zia Wesley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Sultan found her irresistible.The Chief Eunuch wanted to use her to his own ends.Jealous rivals plotted her demise...Categorized as:
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![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... -
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The Only Way Home by Jeanette Minniti
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinner of the 2022 Colorado Authors League 1st Place Award in Historical Fiction!Desperate times. Danger on the rails. A journey to save a family.It is 1933 inside a sweltering courtroom in Macon, Georgia. Fifteen-year-old Robert sits on a bench awaiting sentencing after being picked up for vagrancy and spending a night in jail...Categorized as:
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![Earl, Honey by D.S. Getson, Denise Getson]()
Earl, Honey by D.S. Getson, Denise Getson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEARL HAHN is slow, the last one to catch on to things. Since the day his father hit him in the head with a two-by-four of loblolly pine, he’s struggled with a “thickness in his brain.” It takes him longer to make the connections others arrive at easily. When his father is prosecuted for the crime of incest, it feels like deliverance for Earl, his mother Lizzie Belle and the entire Hahn family... -
![The Soldier's Daughter by Rosie Goodwin]()
The Soldier's Daughter by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA family pulled apart. A love silenced . . . For as long as Briony Valentine can remember she has been soft on Eddie, the boy next door. But their chance of romance is stifled when the Luftwaffe begin dropping bombs on the midlands. Eddie is called up to serve, as is Briony’s father, tearing her world apart. As the telegrams arrive, all she can do is pray...
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