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  • Edge of Piracy
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    It all started with a sea fight. Ezra Bond came out of the smashing set-to as the master of the 'Forbearance' and of the bewitching young Lady Helen, who was transferred to his ship from the sinking British attacker. Ezra carried Lady Helen down to St. Eustatius, that fabulous West Indies island, where the local representative of the rebellious American colonies tried to persua...
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    21,92 €

  • Singapore Passage
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    This is the story of a race from Singapore to Canton between two barques, 'The Forest of Arden' and 'The Firefly.' Both ships carry cargoes of the finest opium and the first there will make the best prices. On board the Arden are two women, Anne Mackenzie, the daughter of Sir Gordon Mackenzie, who is bound for Canton; and Shen Ti, who was kidnapped from an opium den. Only after...
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    16,54 €

  • 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 Lumpkin's unpublished novel Eli Hill, which was discovered in Lumpkin's papers after her death, contributes to the same struggle by imaginatively re-creating a h...
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    143,50 €

  • Moonlight and Mountains
    B.N. Rundell / B.NRundell
    AUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAINT SERIES, B.N. RUNDELL, TAKES US ON AN EPIC JOURNEY IN BOOK FOUR OF THE STONECROFT SAGA.Louisiana Territory had been the exclusive domain of Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, seeking to fill their larders with the riches of the uncharted wilderness. But into that territory came two friends, determined to explore and l...
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    16,24 €

  • A Sparrow Alone
    Mim Eichmann
    1890’s Colorado. Desperate following her mother's sudden death, thirteen-year-old Hannah Owens apprentices as domestic help with a wealthy doctor's family in Colorado Springs. When the doctor declares bankruptcy and abandons his family to finance his mistress Pearl DeVere's brothel, however, Hannah is thrown into a vortex of gold mining bonanzas and busts, rampant p...
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    12,91 €

  • Backbone of the World
    Edward Lewis Henry
    The first book in an exciting adventure series 'The Temple Buck Quartet' that chronicles the rise and fall of the American Rocky Mountain fur trade. This volume is a coming-of-age story set in the first two years of the fur trade, 1822-24.Temple Buck is a young man whose rollicking tale begins with growing up in the Ohio wilderness before he is kidnapped by an evil keelboat cap...
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    30,77 €

  • Wall of Tears
    David Kerr
    If you loved ’Apeirogon’, ’The Tattooist of Auschwitz’, and ’My Promised Land’, don’t miss ’Wall of Tears’.What lies behind the single tear that trickled down Abdiel’s face at the Western Wall in 1973?Uri, his son, is obsessed with uncovering the truth.Abdiel and Maya, two Polish Jewish children, survive the Holocaust and flee to Israel. Their friendship with a Palestinian fami...
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    17,27 €

  • Sycamore Drive
    Charles Michael Casper
    It’s in 1955. Eisenhower is President and the Cold War is at its height, yet life on Sycamore Drive in the mid-sized city of Riverport, Illinois seems idyllic and sweet.Much of the neighborhood’s social life centers on St. Mary’s Catholic Church, its parish school and a group of families that have known each other for generations. But then the revelation of inappropriate intera...
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    11,79 €

  • The Lincoln Deception (A Fraser and Cook Historical Mystery, Book 1)
    David O Stewart
    “A taut, suspenseful, terrifically well-researched historical thriller about the greatest crime of the 19th Century.” ~William Martin, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Lincoln Letter and Bound for Gold.In 1900, former Congressman John Bingham tells his doctor, Jamie Fraser, about a terrible secret he learned thirty-five years ago while prosecuting John Wilkes Booth’s co...
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    17,40 €

  • The Last Pirate Hanged
    G. S. Willmott
    William Swallow was a wayward boy who became a wayward man. Transported as a convict, he became a diligent escaper, but his greatest exploit was when he and some of his fellows commandeered the Cypress in Recherche Bay Tasmania and sailed to Tahiti.The adventures that follow are as amazing as they are exciting, packed with historical detail and event. Swallow and his companions...
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    18,68 €

  • The House in Zanthos
    Brian Hamnett
    War and Civil War tear apart the generation of the 1940s, shattering families but sustaining loyalties. We follow the Creighton and Kazanis families from defeat in Greece and the flight from Crete, through the war in Egypt and Libya in the Western Desert, and thence into the Greek Civil War. Ancient civilisations lie in ruins around them, as the new civilisations destroy each o...
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    15,62 €

  • A Saint’s Letters from the Depths of Hell
    Ralph Vincent Morales
    Imagine being a nineteen-year-old young man in New York City in the late 1960s, revered by peers as a charismatic leader and simultaneously serving as the rock of your family. Imagine being that same young man, voluntarily enlisting in the Marines during an American era in which countless young men fear getting drafted into the armed forces and going off to war in a distant, la...
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    23,10 €

  • A Saint’s Letters from the Depths of Hell
    Ralph Vincent Morales
    Imagine being a nineteen-year-old young man in New York City in the late 1960s, revered by peers as a charismatic leader and simultaneously serving as the rock of your family. Imagine being that same young man, voluntarily enlisting in the Marines during an American era in which countless young men fear getting drafted into the armed forces and going off to war in a distant, la...
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    29,81 €

  • Firemaster’s Mistress, The
    Christie Dickason
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    14,41 €

  • Serve the People
    Charlie Lehman
    Berkeley, 1977. After the riots, after the Vietnam War, after the SLA, Berkeley is still a tough little town. Martin Luther Klein, a disillusioned ex-Jesus freak, finds his niche as a process server. Then he meets a newer member of his former fellowship and gets a chance at love and renewal. ...
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    8,33 €

  • Cornflakes
    Christiane Tann
    William Lucky stumbles into the chance of a lifetime when he meets racing car owner, Mr. Lovitz. Soon, he wins the most prestigious racing event of the year 1924, the Indy 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Lucky’s fame expands. There is no party without him and he no longer remembers a time when he raced sober. Barely surviving a racing accident Lucky must face the consequ...
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    10,17 €

  • The Reading of the Will
    Nwanganga Shields
    Funerals are usually the time when family members come together to bury their departed loved one. In Nigeria, the death of Nkechi the family matriarch, forces members of her family to reassess their relationship with her and each other. Of the siblings present, only Ejituru was given birth by her. Six were children borne for her by a girl (Onyeka) who she married and gave her h...
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    18,50 €

  • BY Sword and Storm
    Margaret Skea
    The eagerly awaited conclusion to the acclaimed Munro Scottish Saga trilogy‘…fast-paced … a hugely satisfying read.’ Undiscovered Scotland.1598. The French Wars of Religion are drawing to an end, the Edict of Nantes establishing religious freedom in all but Paris.For the exiled Adam and Kate Munro, the child Kate carries symbolizes a new life free from past troubles, despite th...
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    16,34 €

  • Katharina
    Margaret Skea
     Shortlisted for the BookBrunch Prize 2020While this book can be read as a standalone, it is also the powerful conclusion to her story, begun in Katharina: Deliverance.‘We are none of us perfect, and a streak of stubbornness is what is needed in dealing with a household such as yours, Kat… and with Martin.’Wittenberg 1525. The unexpected marriage of Martin Luther to Katharina v...
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    17,74 €

  • The Speaker
    Gail A. Webber
    Kitane looks back at tribe members shouting from the beach. No matter. Peering into the water, she sees the shadow undulating deep below. An eater, and this one is a giant.What if people who lived forty thousand years ago had developed working partnerships with animals, and what if only one woman in each tribe could speak with them? Kitane belongs to a tribe living seaside in w...
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    12,24 €

  • French Legend-The King of Rohan
    Joe-MIng Cheng
    By all appearances, Tom Rohan is an ordinary businessman, husband and father in Dijon, France. And yet, he has guarded a powerful secret for all of his adult life—a hidden legacy now threatened with exposure.Could it be true? This quiet, modest scientist is actually the direct descendant of the Carolingian emperor? Heir to a vast fortune, with land holdings in Germany, France a...
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    14,48 €

  • Just the Memory of Love
    Peter Rimmer
    The war is finally over and for the young and naïve Will Langton, his future is full of exciting adventure and happy dreams. Captivated by a brief, but innocent love affair on the rocks of Dancing Ledge, the romance is shattered in one single moment and she is lost to him. For Will, it's an unbearable pain that he cannot hope to escape from and the only means to assuage his...
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    17,53 €

  • Borne of the Deep
    Michael Patrick Hicks
    Emancipated during the American Revolution, Salem Hawley is a free man—until he finds himself indebted to a doctor for treatment for injuries incurred during the New York Doctors’ Riot. Recruited to recover the stolen grimoire, Al Azif, Salem embarks on a journey north, to Arkham, Massachusetts. Plagued by rain and the incursion of strange, otherworldly creatures, the seaside t...
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    10,41 €

  • A Journal of the Plague Year
    Daniel Defoe
    Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world’s most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times.From mounting death tolls, to horrific bodily ailments, contracting the Black Plague was considered a fate ...
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    10,57 €

  • Pushing Bobby’s Cadillac
    Allan Dare Pearce
    It’s 1968, and Aiken Day’s life is in chaos. Living in Windsor, Ontario, he suffers bleak visions and nightmares—flashbacks to the killing, the slaughter of the Essex Scottish Regiment on the shale beaches of Dieppe. His wife, the elegant former professor Paris Day, has run off with a civil rights group whose members have traded peaceful protests for violent bank heists, and th...
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    22,21 €

  • Little Miss of Darke County
    Gary M. Krebs / Gary MKrebs
    Based on the true story of an American iconDarke County, Ohio, 1866. Young Phoebe Ann Moses lives a life of peace and harmony on a farm with her Quaker family and has dreams of living a hunter’s life in the woods.When Jacob Moses, the beloved patriarch, tragically dies, Phoebe’s life is sent into a tailspin. The family suffers in squalor as they move from place to place, until ...
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    18,05 €

  • Whispers of Deception
    Renee Gallant
    Scotland 1744Truth can be deadly and family not what it seems.Torn from her home of twenty years and orphaned in a country rife with political tensions, Lady Elaina Spencer doesn’t know where to turn. And Lord Spencer has more to worry about than trying to contain his hot-headed, independent sister while he steps into his new-found responsibilities. He’s determined that she sho...
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    18,40 €

  • Precarious Game of Hide and Seek
    Celia Martin
    Lady Rowena Crossly is determined to rescue her daughter, Cecily, from the Cromwellian Cecily has been forced to marry even does she have to shoot the man, but luck is on her side. Haspel, the Cromwellian carting her daughter away, has been stopped by a gang of highwaymen. They help Rowena rescue her daughter, but then she and Cecily must travel with the highwaymen if they are ...
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    19,49 €

  • Peach Orchard
    Michaels Jurmane
    Are your ready for an exciting, fun-filled adventure ride?  Well this is not your ho-hum, melo-dram but an exhilarating surprise lurking around every turn of the page.  Peach Orchard is a cornucopia of thrills touching on all spectrums of the senses.  It will make you laugh, you just might cry, you may experience happy times, sad times, or you just might jump out of your seat w...
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    26,61 €

  • Mercies of the Fallen
    Eileen Charbonneau
    Maryland plantation heiress Ursula Martin is content with her secluded life in a convent.  Until the bloodiest day of the Civil War brings a downed soldier into her care. Blinded Rowan Buckley only knows he’s in deep love with the woman who pulled him off the battlefield. His superiors claim she’s a spy. He knows she’s full of secrets, but he’s out to prove that treason is not ...
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    20,19 €


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