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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Fleeing her native Sweden in 1905 to escape a life of poverty, Hanna Renström is widowed twice before becoming the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, where she is isolated by racism while bonding with the prostitutes and discovering an inner strength that leads to a boundary-breaking decision.
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Language
English
Description
A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.
67) Mistress
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Language
English
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Description
After a year of grand adventures touring the classical ruins of Italy and Greece, Iphiginia Bright returned to England to discover that the real excitement was at home. It seems that her Aunt Zoe has fallen victim to a sinister blackmailer and only Iphiginia can hope to stop the culprit before he can do more harm. Her plan is inspired: Imitating history's most legendary beauties—Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Aphrodite—the former schoolmistress will...
Author
Series
Scandalous Highlanders novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
High-spirited Rowena MacLawry comes to the Highlands a more mature woman, yet she still finds it difficult to outgrow her girlhood obsession with the brawny and rugged Lachlan MacTier.
73) The German girl
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Stripped of her family's privileges by the Nazi party in 1939 Berlin, Hannah Rosenthal forges a pact that she will remain true to her best friend, Leo, before embarking on a refugee ship bound for Havana, where rumors of a deadly plot force her to make an impossible choice.
74) Trespasses
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Cushla, living a quiet life with her mother near Belfast, finds herself caught between allegiance to her community and unsanctioned love when her affair with a married, Protestant barrister, who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members, threatens everything and everyone she most wants to protect.
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of an IRA bombing, Harry Clifton uses his new literary station to raise awareness for his POW friend while Giles Barrington works to secure a political career and Sebastian's past threatens his engagement.
Author
Series
Fairmile novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Tidelands finds 17th-century London warehouse owner Alinor reuniting with a man from her past while reaching out to her brother in war-torn New England for proof of her son's survival.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison.
78) Outlander
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for Jamie Fraser, a young soldier.
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