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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When her new husband joins an elite Army unit, Simone Gorrindo is uprooted from New York City and dropped into Columbus, Georgia--a town so foreign she might as well have landed on the moon. With her husband frequently deployed, Simone is left to find her place in this new world, alone--until she meets the wives. Gorrindo gives us an intimate look into the inner lives of a remarkable group of women and a tender, unflinching portrait of a marriage....
Author
Series
Immortal Knight Chronicles volume 6
Publisher
Dan Davis
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
AD 1444, Bulgaria. The Christian kingdoms come together for the last crusade against the conquering Ottoman Turks. But William de Ferrers has returned. And he has built an army of vampires to fight for the enemies of Christendom. To resist their onslaught, Richard must find whatever allies he can. Yet nothing is simple in the 15th century Balkan kingdoms and alliances are hard won and easily thrown aside. Soon, one young prince of Wallachia known...
Author
Series
Immortal Knight Chronicles volume 7
Publisher
Dan Davis
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
AD 1568, England. When an immortal assassin attacks Queen Elizabeth I, Richard must follow the trail to the New World to save England from a war it cannot win. While Richard finds an unlikely ally in the pirate Francis Drake and voyages across the seas to hunt vampires on the Spanish Main, the agents of William de Ferrers work to subvert the English Crown. Immortals have infiltrated the Spanish Inquisition and the Jesuits and all that stands between...
Author
Series
Immortal Knight Chronicles volume 8
Publisher
Dan Davis
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The immortal knight faces defeat in the English Civil War and battles the vampire Oliver Cromwell. AD 1644. While Richard Ashbury finds love in Italy, disaster strikes back home in London. When Richard returns he finds England in a state of war as Puritan rebels battle to overthrow the English Crown. But for the first time in centuries, Richard finds himself without allies and without his friends in the Order of the White Dagger as he struggles to...
Author
Series
Immortal Knight Chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Dan Davis
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
AD 1440, Brittany. Scores of children have gone missing from the countryside. The commoners know who is to blame. But they dare not speak up, for they suspect their very own lord, the Marshal of France and Lieutenant-General of Brittany, the Baron Gilles de Rais. As Richard investigates the monstrous crimes, he is haunted by the recent crushing defeats at the hands of Joan of Arc. But what is the strange connection between the Maiden of Orleans and...
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Series
Essex dogs trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting-and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France 'til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield. Obsessed with tracking down...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation--destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England--and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a war that...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize Award–winning author tells the story of the massive changes underway in America through the eyes of an Iraq war veteran engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping through his beloved country. David Finkel, known for his unique, in-depth reporting, spent fourteen years deep inside Brent Cummings’s world to create this intimate and vivid portrait of a man’s life, his work, family, community, his thoughts, and his quest for connection,...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe...and the impossible is exactly what the formidable Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he's sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines. For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French armies march towards the bridge. If they meet, the British...
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Series
A time for swords volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lindisfarne, AD 793. There had been portents – famine, whirlwinds, lightning from clear skies, serpents seen flying through the air. But when the raiders came, no one was prepared. They came from the North, their dragon-prowed longships gliding out of the dawn mist as they descended on the kingdom's most sacred site. It is 8th June AD 793, and with the pillage of the monastery on Lindisfarne, the Viking Age has begun. While his fellow monks flee...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Only a thriller writer for his last twelve years, Ian Fleming's dramatic personal life and impressive career in Naval Intelligence put him at the heart of critical moments in world history, while also providing rich inspiration for his fiction. Exceptionally well connected, and widely travelled, from the United States and Soviet Russia to his beloved Jamaica, Ian had access to the most powerful political figures at a time of profound change. Biographer...
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