Livia
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Dr. Rose Stevens is shy, anxious, and a believer in following the rules. However, when a handsome college student on her excavation crew catches her eye, things change. He is hotter than the Guatemalan heat and makes it hard for her to think. She tries to ignore her blossoming feelings and focus on archaeology...because an attraction like that could ruin her career and Gabriel's future.
Gabriel Cano is a wisecracking former solider who loves to fluster...
2) Xarax
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Celia was born and raised in a scorpion-infested desert town. She's stuck there, not knowing how to leave or where she wants to go in life. Every day is the same - long, hot, and boring.Then one day a mysterious group of men arrive. They are dangerous, confusing, and their leader is the sexiest guy she's ever seen. However, when they reveal that their mission is out of this world - literally - Celia will have to make some big decisions.Is she ready...
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Emmeline's life is comfortable. And utterly boring.
She lives in her small hometown, works at her dad's shop, and goes on blind dates set up by her parents. And sex? Well, that's never happened...at all.
Then her good-for-nothing brother disappears across the ocean and everything changes.
Forced by her mother, Emmeline must track her wayward sibling down in Europe. Her only lead comes in the form of a tall stranger with smoldering eyes and the...
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As she builds her own life anew, an Italian journalist embarks on an all-consuming search for the true story of the mysterious princess H. H. Amrit Kaur of Mandi—her disappearance from India, her persecution by the Nazis, and her pursuit of freedom at any cost.
On a sweltering summer day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself standing before a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess at...
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Richard III, the most notorious and most discussed of English kings, was also unusual among his contemporaries in regularly signing his books. This characteristic, among others, has enabled Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs to reconstruct his library, and link it to the culture and reading habits of his generation.
The books of Richard III are typical of what was available to and popular with the medieval reader - religion, chivalry, history, genealogy,...
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As a person's religious convictions, especially in times past, can be considered fundamental to their character and behaviour, the nature of King Richard III's piety has been the subject of considerable debate. Much of this controversy has focused on the Book of Hours adopted by the king for his own private use following his coronation, and to which certain prayers, including that known as the 'Prayer of Richard III', were added.
In The Hours of...