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From the pomp of Victoria’s reign to the end of World War II, a brilliant panorama of life in England and Europe is the setting of the story of an extraordinary woman.
Sarah Rainborough was a little girl when she was taken away from the elegance of London society to...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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Beginning just before the outbreak of the First World War, this is the story of the moral values of the age. It is a story of illegitimacy and deception—where a child has to come to terms with discovering who his mother really is. It is a story in which romance is set...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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The theme of this particular book (set around Manchester and Cornwall, as so many of his are) is that there is no armour against fate; and the period it covers was certainly a fateful one, ranging as it does from the close of the Victorian era through two World Wars....
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-09-16
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How was a discharged woman from a fishing village on the west coast of Ireland able to find and market an unending supply of choice seafood from Vinland… long before Columbus or Cabot ever ‘discovered’ the New World? She exhibited the spunk of a proto-feminist,...
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Books We Love Ltd.
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2025-09-01
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Primarily known for historical novels in the Crusader and Cossack series, this time Harold Lamb in “A Garden to the Eastward” features a hidden tribe living in a volcano in Kurdistan.
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-02-04
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Originally published in Norwegian in 1927, this translation by Arthur G. Chater first published in 1929, public domain.
It is Norway in the thirteenth century, a land rent by unremitting warfare and feebly lit by Christianity. Olav Audunsson was once an outlaw; now he...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-01-21
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First published in 1929, public domain. Dickon is one of several fictional treatments of the last Plantagenet king wherein the author argued for his innocence in the murder of his nephews and presented him as a good man and potentially a very good king.
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-01-01
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L'aristocratico Giorgio Aurispa assiste al suicidio di uno sconosciuto a Roma e poco dopo è richiamato in Abruzzo dalla famiglia, in forte dissesto economico, per la morte dello zio Demetrio. Giorgio ha perso l'unico punto di riferimento della famiglia, poiché tutti i...
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Cactus
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2024-10-07
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Longing for a life bigger than the one she inhabits, Lizzie Donoghue thinks she’s found a simple escape route in Michael Power, but soon discovers that she might have been mistaken…
The Donoghue Girl is the story of Lizzie Donoghue, the spirited daughter of Irish...
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Latitude 46 Publishing
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2024-09-19
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Threatened by encroaching colonialism, one Métis family struggles to protect their way of life.
In 1869, the arrival of surveyors from the new Dominion of Canada sends ripples of anxiety through the people of Red River. As the Métis Nation begins negotiating terms for...
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Tidewater Press
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2024-09-17
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It is June 1940 and fifteen-year-old Olivia Baldini's idyllic English life is shattered as Britain declares war on Italy. With hyperthymesia, Olivia possesses an extraordinary ability to recall information with vivid detail, a gift that makes her invaluable to...
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Signature Editions
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2024-09-01
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This is the complete nine-book collection of the classic series.
The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on...
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Horizon Ridge Publishing
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2024-07-29
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Il Fermo e Lucia presenta numerose discontinuità rispetto alle redazioni successive che condurranno a I promessi sposi. A cambiare sono sia la struttura quanto la rappresentazione di personaggi maggiori e minori, a cominciare dai nomi dei due protagonisti: Fermo Spolino...
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Cactus
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2024-07-25
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In uno sfondo storico ricco di intrighi e contrasti, il capolavoro di Alessandro Manzoni ci trasporta nell'Italia del XVII secolo, tra nobili cortigiane, sacerdoti devoti e popolani oppressi. Le vicende dei giovani protagonisti, Renzo e Lucia, si intrecciano in un...
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Cactus
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2024-07-25
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Opera unica nel panorama della letteratura antica, il De rerum natura si propone come modello dell'universo infinito teorizzato da Epicuro e come strumento interpretativo di un mondo i cui fenomeni eterogenei sfidano da sempre la ragione dell'uomo e lo costringono a...
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Cactus
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2024-07-21
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"The Stranger" (French: "L'Étranger") is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1942. It is a compelling and existential work that examines the absurdity of human existence and societal norms through the story of its protagonist, Meursault.
The novel is narrated by...
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Horizon Ridge Publishing
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2024-07-20
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I will die,I will die. And nobody will know my grave. And nobody will come and remember, Only the nightingale will sing. Inspired by a real-life story, Black Sunflowers illuminates one of the darkest times in Ukrainian history: the Holodomor or "death by...
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Fitzhenry & Whiteside
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2024-06-26
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In 1916, as a costly war raged in Europe, the Newfoundland Government sought to curb spending on social support programs in order to finance the war effort. This decision led to deadly consequences for a group of people in Fortune Bay. A lightkeeper on St. Jacques...
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Flanker Press
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2024-06-07
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Juniper Tickle, Newfoundland, 1906
Jimmy Bailor is left on the edge of the wild North Atlantic with meagre supplies and limited survival skills. He stumbles upon shelter with Flory White, her sister-in-law, Lizzy, and Lizzy’s young son.
The Whites have been...
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Flanker Press
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2024-04-26
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Romance between a middle-aged widow and a younger man scandalizes 1920s London society in this classic novel by the author of The Enchanted April.
Although they thoroughly enjoy watching performances of The Immortal Hour, it is no longer the sole reason Catherine...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-04-24
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