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  • Folcespel
    Peter Ward
    AD 450: A young king and his followers step down from their longship onto a foreign shore to celebrate Yule at the court of his brother-in-law. But their hopes of warm fires and ale, feasting and good cheer, are dashed as they realise that they have walked in to the middle of the mother of all family feuds.From the wreckage of the disaster, a reluctant leader emerges, one who m...
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    11,01 €

  • The Guardian Angel
    Kay Seeley
    When Nell Draper leaves the workhouse to care for Robert, the five-year-old son and heir of Lord Eversham, a wealthy landowner, she has no idea of the heartache that lies ahead of her. She soon discovers that Robert can’t speak or communicate with her, his family or the staff that work for his father. Robert’s mother died in childbirth. Lord Eversham, a powerful man, remarries ...
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    13,97 €

  • The Watercress Girls
    Kay Seeley
    Annie knows the secrets men whisper in her ears to impress her. When she disappears who will care? Who will look for her?Two girls sell cress on the streets of Victorian London. When they grow up they each take a different path. Annie’s reckless ambition takes her to Paris to dance at the Folie Bergere. When she comes home she takes up a far more dangerous occupation.When she d...
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    18,04 €

  • A Girl Called Hope
    Kay Seeley
    In Victorian London’s East End, life for Hope Daniels in the public house run by her parents is not as it seems. Pa drinks and gambles, brother John longs for a place of his own, sister Violet dreams of a life on stage and little Alfie is being bullied at school.Silas Quirk, the charismatic owner of a local gentlemen’s club and disreputable gambling den her father frequents, ha...
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    14,96 €

  • A Carnival of Lies
    Vernon L. Anley / Vernon LAnley
    The Gestapo arrested my father in Berlin in the summer of 1933. When he asked why, he was told, 'We do not give reasons.' ...
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    42,73 €

  • A Carnival of Lies
    Vernon L. Anley / Vernon LAnley
    The Gestapo arrested my father in Berlin in the summer of 1933. When he asked why, he was told, 'We do not give reasons.' ...
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    25,65 €

  • The Collector’s Apprentice
    B.A. Shapiro / B.AShapiro
    "A clever and complex tale of art fraud, theft, scandal, murder, and revenge.” --Publishers Weekly In this surprising, noirish page-turner, B. A. Shapiro once again takes readers into the world of art, glamour, and mystery. Accused of helping her fiancé steal her family’s fortune and her father’s art collection, Paulien Mertens has fled to France. To protect herself from the la...
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    13,27 €

  • Taken To The Grave
    Craig Godfrey
    This adventure continues…. Nineteenth Century Van Demonian sleuth, Caspian Hunter, is a colonial lawman deeply immersed in the life and crimes of Hobart Town, where convicts transported from Mother England form a majority of the population. Caspian and his decidedly unconventional associates are sworn to uphold the law where lawlessness is almost a way of life. The fledgling co...
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    18,13 €

  • A Winding Trail to Justice
    Reg Quist
    AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE MAC’S WAY INTRODUCES BOOK TWO OF A NEW WHOLESOME WESTERN SERIES! Zac Trimbell has found himself in Las Vegas, New Mexico where a troubled lady, Claire Maddison, arrives at his ranch seeking help. Claire’s sister and brother-in-law are missing, and all their cattle has been stolen. The sheriff advised Claire that if Zac can’t help, no one can. Trig Ma...
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    18,58 €

  • Chaney Law
    Robert Vaughan
    LANCE AND BUCK CHANEY, BROTHERS BY BLOOD, HARDENED BY WAR…After being seriously wounded in his pursuit of the Carter brothers, Deputy Marshal Buck Chaney wakes to find himself in the middle of a sheep war in Blanco County, Texas. On one side are the Texas cattlemen who’ll do whatever it takes to rid the range of the animals and those who come with them. On the other is a Mexica...
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    18,38 €

  • The Inevitable Fall of Christopher Cynster
    Stephanie Laurens
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to the Cynsters’ next generation with a rollicking tale of smugglers, counterfeit banknotes, and two people falling in love.A gentleman hoping to avoid falling in love and a lady who believes love has passed her by are flung together in a race to unravel a plot to undermine the realm. Christopher Cynster has finally...
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    17,77 €

  • The Persistent Buccaneer LARGE PRINT
    Dana Kester-McCabe
    LARGE PRINT EDITION - In colonial Virginia, an intrepid woman named Anne Toft rose from obscurity to become one of the greatest landowners in the region for that era. The Persistent Buccaneer is a fascinating work of historical fiction inspired by more than two decades of court records. Those dusty ledgers are anything but boring. They detail the dramatic lives of early settler...
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    22,00 €

  • Dark Angels
    Ron Thomas
    The streets of Darlinghurst are dangerous. It is 1930 and razor gangs compete for domination of the turf. Leaving home isn’t optional when Gilbert Maggs’ drunken father chases him from the house with a carving knife. He quickly finds that the back streets hold dangers of their own.With a name like Gilbert Maggs, and a shock of red hair, he is inevitably going to become Meggsie,...
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    17,22 €

  • Solly’s Legacy
    Ron Thomas
    Daniel Landerville’s roots are embedded deep in the red earth of the Australian outback. It is a time when Empire is paramount and many Australians, even native-born ones, think of England as ‘home’. His boyhood affinity for horses becomes both his business and his passion. When the clouds of the Great War gather over Europe, Australian soldiers need mounts, lots of mounts, and...
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    16,37 €

  • Solly’s Way
    Ron Thomas
    It is the 1890s and the prosperous years are gone. Drought and depression are biting hard across the outback. The falling price of wool triggers violent confrontation between the pastoralists and the shearers union. Banks across Australia begin to close their doors as property values plummet.Thomas Landerville is a small landholder caught between a crippling mortgage and a parc...
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    16,67 €

  • The Birdhouse Man
    Rick DeStefanis
    Sam Walker pulls no punches when he tells his Vietnam War story to college journalism student, Claire Cunningham. As Sam shares his unapologetic and unvarnished viewpoint, he begins to suspect Claire’s thesis work isn’t her only reason for interviewing him. When his tale unfolds, the seventy-three-year-old veteran and the young woman discover they are both grappling with questi...
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    20,88 €

  • Waltz in Swing Time
    Jill Caugherty
    "A reflective tale of growing up creative in a stifling environment and finding true love." –Kirkus ReviewsGrowing up in a strict Utah farm family during the Great Depression, Irene Larsen copes with her family’s hardship by playing piano. Even after an unthinkable tragedy strikes, Irene clings to her dream of becoming a musician. When a neighbor's farm is foreclosed, Irene...
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    17,18 €

  • Shaft of Truth (Choctaw Tribune Series, Book 3)
    Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer
    'Nothing to it but a stout heart.'On a mission to bring justice to the outlaw gang that murdered his father and brother, Matthew Teller leaves the Choctaw Tribune newspaper for his sister to operate and plunges into an unfamiliar world of darkness and danger. Working inside the coal mines of the Choctaw Nation-one of the most dangerous places in the country-he searches for a ma...
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    18,39 €

  • The Wheelwright’s Daughter
    Eleanor Porter
    Can she save herself from a witch's fate?Martha is a feisty and articulate young woman, the daughter of a wheelwright, living in a Herefordshire village in Elizabethan England. With no mother Martha's life is spent running her father's meagre household and helping out at the local school whilst longing to escape the confines and small-mindedness of a community drive...
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    14,26 €

  • Still We Hope
    Amanda Wilhelm
    September 1939 – Returning home to Manhattan for the High Holidays fifteen-year-old David Rosenbaum can’t help but notice the changes in his childhood friend, Kathleen O’Dell. No longer the little girl he lent his favorite books to, David finds himself torn between his growing affection for Kathleen and his certainty that his parents would never approve of a relationship with a...
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    20,03 €

  • The Wheelwright’s Daughter
    Eleanor Porter
    Can she save herself from a witch's fate?Martha is a feisty and articulate young woman, the daughter of a wheelwright, living in a Herefordshire village in Elizabethan England. With no mother Martha's life is spent running her father's meagre household and helping out at the local school whilst longing to escape the confines and small-mindedness of a community drive...
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    21,64 €

  • The Water Gypsy
    Kay Seeley
    Struggling to survive on Britain’s waterways Tilly Thompson, a girl from the canal, is caught stealing a pie from the terrace of The Imperial Hotel, Athelstone. Only the intervention of Captain Charles Thackery saves her from prison. Tilly soon finds out the reason for the rescue.With the Captain Tilly sees life away from the poverty and hardship of the waterways, butthe Captai...
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    17,97 €

  • O, Sweet Master
    Martha Fuller
    This story is about a family who endures a life altering situation and must learn to live with its far reaching effects. Their individual struggles reflect how many of us would react as well. The story takes place in the Nebraska Territory beginning in 1867. The timelessness of God’s message comes through a little easier in a setting which is less complicated by the trappings o...
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    13,85 €

  • O, Sweet Master
    Martha Fuller
    This story is about a family who endures a life altering situation and must learn to live with its far reaching effects. Their individual struggles reflect how many of us would react as well. The story takes place in the Nebraska Territory beginning in 1867. The timelessness of God’s message comes through a little easier in a setting which is less complicated by the trappings o...
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    21,64 €

  • All Our Yesterdays
    Peter Rimmer
    This is not a true story; I hope it never becomes one. In the summer of 1956, sixteen-year-old Marguerite Stearle, daughter of a housekeeper, falls in love with the squire of Mirelton’s nephew, Myles Featherstone. A delightful romance ensues, but in a class-conscious society, Myles has no choice but to end the liaison. With few prospects, a wretched Marguerite embarks on a new ...
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    10,91 €

  • The Birdhouse Man
    Rick DeStefanis
    Sam Walker pulls no punches when he tells his Vietnam War story to college journalism student, Claire Cunningham. As Sam shares his unapologetic and unvarnished viewpoint, he begins to suspect Claire’s thesis work isn’t her only reason for interviewing him. When his tale unfolds, the seventy-three-year-old veteran and the young woman discover they are both grappling with questi...
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    13,53 €

  • The King of Next Week
    E. C. Ambrose / ECAmbrose
    When a captain trades his cargo of ice to bring home a djinn bride, his life in coastal Maine will never be the same.“In the wake of the American Civil War, ship’s captain Matthew Perry and his best friend and first mate William Johnson – veteran soldier and escaped slave – must all sort out love in a time of racism, friendship in a time of division, and magic in a time of skep...
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    8,73 €

  • In Darkness, Look for Stars
    Clara Benson
    Paris, 1941: Going against her mother’s orders, spirited Maggie devotes herself to the Resistance. Her life is a whirlwind of forged passports and secret midnight runs, helping Jews escape. Much to her high-society mother’s disproval, she has fallen in love with Emil, a Jewish Resistance fighter, who is wanted by the Nazis.The city is growing more dangerous by the day, with sig...
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    12,28 €

  • Eli Hill
    Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
    Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin's 1946 autobiography The Making of a Southerner is considered a classic testament of a white southerner's commitment to racial justice in a culture where little was to be found. Lumpkin's unpublished novel Eli Hill, which was discovered in Lumpkin's papers after her death, contributes to the same struggle by imaginatively re-creating a h...
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    26,53 €

  • Far On The Ringing Plains
    Murray Andrew Pura / Patrick Edgar Craig
    ISLANDS: Far On The Ringing Plains                          INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTSIn the spirit of The Thin Red Line, Hacksaw Ridge, Flags of our Fathers and Pearl Harbor.Realistic. Gritty. Gutsy. Without taking it too far, Craig and Pura take it far enough to bring war home to your heart, mind, and soul. The rough edge of combat is here. And the rough edge of language, human ...
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    13,16 €


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