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Christopher Cazenove
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Series
[Pastwatch series] volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the 23rd Century, a trio of time travelers journey back to the 15th Century in order to prevent Christopher Columbus from colonizing America. The trip is part of a project by an organization to change history, thereby improving life on earth. By the author of Alvin Journeyman.
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English
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The rousing story of lowborn William Thatcher's quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden and rock his medieval world. Follow this fearless squire and his band of medieval misfits as they careen their way toward impossible glory that's part romance, part road trip and part exuberant swashbuckling.
Series
Woman of substance trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A tale of love and betrayal set in exotic Hong Kong, London and New York. Paula O'Neill, Emma Harte's favorite grandaughter and successor--struggles to save the retal empire built by her grandmother, while also striving to sustain her marriage and family life.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of vivacious, adventurous Jennie Jerome, who was Winston Churchill's American mother, despite strong objections from both families.
Jennie Jerome: American heiress Jennie Jerome marries British aristocrat Lord Randolph Churchill.
Lady Randolph: Jennie can't wait until her child is born so she can return to the whirl of London life. However, a feud with the Prince of Wales exiles her family to Ireland.
Recovery: Randolph and Jennie...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
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Description
Heat and dust (1983): Story of a woman who goes to India to find the truth about her aunt who left her British husband for an Indian prince.
Autobiography of a princess (1975): A short feature film of memory and character exploration. An Indian princess, long divorced and living in self-exile in London, invite her father's ex-tutor, Cyril Sahib to an annual tea party, intended to celebrate a happier past, where the two watch old movie footage of...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A Woman of substance: the story of Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl who overcomes her impoverished Yorkshire beginnings in her quest to become an international retailing magnate and one of the richest women in the world. Hold the dream: continues the saga of Emma Harte, who rose from servant girl to head of an international retail dynasty. At 80, Emma passes control of the Harte-McGill empire to her beloved granddaughter Paula. To be...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Dame Agatha left us more than Marple and Poirot. Set in Art Deco England, these classic stories spotlight lesser-known Christie sleuths solving crimes of the heart as well as larceny and murder.
Magnolia Blossom: Theo is eloping to South Africa with her lover, but, having heard the news that her uncaring husband's financial empire is collapsing and he's in danger to be exposed as an embezzler, she prefers to return to him for sheer loyalty. But is...
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Series
Language
English
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Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve his soul, which he hastily sold years ago to learns the laws of necromancy. Satan, who is incredibly bored these days, proposes a little wager. Johannes has one years to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls, or he will be damned forever....
14) Cold Fall
Author
Publisher
Phoenix Books, Inc
Language
English
Description
The night that Flight 229 was blown apart on landing at Washington's Dulles Airport, killing almost 400 passengers aboard, a mission began that would become an obsession for James Bond. Who was responsible for destroying the British-owned aircraft? Was it a straightforward act of terrorism, an assassination aimed at only one person or a move to put the airline out of business, the search for answers has a personal meaning: his former lover and
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Publisher
Thorndike
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
On a grimy sidewalk in a defeated neighborhood, an old man is beaten to death. When a cop investigates, he finds two killers and a startling legacy of honor ... In a prestigious London art gallery an impoverished actor is swindled out of a fortune-until an eccentric appraiser hatches a delicious scheme for revenge... On an airplane high over war-torn Afghanistan, a passenger sends a note to the plane's captain, warning of suspicious behavior. But...
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Language
English
Description
A revolutionary plot hinges on the secret identity of a prisoner in the conclusion to the epic adventures of d'Artagnan and the three Musketeers In the darkest depths of the Bastille, a man has been robbed of his freedom and identity, denied any knowledge of the nature of his crimes. Only a handful of people, including the corrupt King Louis XIV and his mother, Queen Anne, know who the prisoner is and why he has been locked away. But the secret of...
17) Peter Pan
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Language
English
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Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up, meets the Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, and entices them away from their London home to experience adventures in Neverland.
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Language
English
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Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
19) Birds of Prey
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Series
Publisher
Phoenix Books, Inc
Language
English
Description
Wilbur Smith's writing captivates his listeners with tale full of passions, rage, and glory. In Birds of Prey, he sets the scene for 1667 when Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal are on patrol in their fighting caravel off the Agulhas Cape of South Africa. They are lying in wait there for one of the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient. So begins a quest for adventure and the spoils of war.
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