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Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot Man in the Iron Mask).
The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end...
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A Classic Celebration of Nature and Romance "Down the footpath the two went through the perfect morning, the love of God and all nature in their hearts." ― Gene Stratton,Porter At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton,Porter is about Dannie Mcnoun and how he spends his day and his relationship with friend Jimmy Malone. The relationship is complicated by a girl named Mary.
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I, Claudia: A Novel of the Ancient World
"They were the faces of my dreams..."
Claudia Procula--wife of one of the most controversial figures in ancient history--comes alive to twenty-first-century readers in a groundbreaking new novel by the award-winning author of the Lindsey McCall medical mystery series.
For decades, the daughter of the last Oracle at Delphi has suppressed the secrets of her birth, extensive education, and marriage to the...
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She will fight for her freedom. He will fight for her life.
Mila might be slaveborn, but she has no intention of remaining a slave. Impatient for her freedom, the nineteen-year-old takes matters into her own hands. Armed with the combat skills her half-brother taught her, Mila ignores the pleas of her family and takes to the arena. She is prepared to do whatever is necessary, prepared for anything-except Remus Latinius.
Raised inside the greatest...
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Never let your enemy become your weakness.
Brei is going up against the largest army in the world. As thousands march north to annihilate her people, she is ready to take revenge on those who have taken so much from her already. If you want to kill a snake, cut off its head. If you want to destroy a legion, kill its leader. But what if the legate she hunts is not the monster she imagined? When a surprise attack lands the young warrior in enemy hands,...
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He seeks the one his heart desires...
With their fae-blooded clan teetering on the verge of extinction, Jamie Matheson finds himself battling a deep attraction to one of the few remaining unmated women within his clan, a woman he's not permitted to touch unless a soul bond forms between them. Like his fellow clansmen, he must ensure her protection, even if that means from himself. Annabella wishes to forge a mated bond with only one man, yet when...
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One soul bound mate...one quest to find her.
Year 1211, Scottish Highlands. As the Laird of Carron Castle, Coll MacKenzie has agreed to wed the daughter of his clan's allied chief in order to strengthen their bonds, only when he returns home after months away, it's to discover a woman ensconced within his household who could so easily shatter all his well-devised plans. Fae-blooded Fiona is the only woman who's ever challenged him in ways that spoke...
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One soul bound mate...one quest to find her.
Year 1211, Scottish Highlands. Duncan MacKenzie is the Laird of Ardan House, an honorable and fierce Highland warrior on the chase for a band of enemy warriors who are intent on his destruction, only as he hunts them down, he runs into a lass who poses the greatest challenge. He's drawn to the dark-haired enchantress who holds the fae ability to compel, a lass also intent on finding her brother who travels...
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From one of the original masters of romance, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Bertrice Small invites you back to the magical, sensual world of Hetar.
The time of peace is over. After the murder of her husband, Lara—half faerie, half human—must leave the home she has made in the Outlands and follow the destiny that has long called her. Using her brilliant sword and even sharper mind, Lara must journey toward the coast,...
The time of peace is over. After the murder of her husband, Lara—half faerie, half human—must leave the home she has made in the Outlands and follow the destiny that has long called her. Using her brilliant sword and even sharper mind, Lara must journey toward the coast,...
10) DAUGHTER OF CANA
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Thomas and Tasmin, twin siblings hired to oversee a wedding feast in Cana, worry when the host runs out of wine . . . until a guest tells Tasmin to have the servants fill the pitchers by the gate with water from the cistern. Reluctantly, she obeys and is amazed when rainwater turns into the finest wine ever tasted in Cana.
When Thomas impulsively decides to follow the teacher from Nazareth, he and Tasmin argue--since the twins have been together...
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PW Pick 2013
"Australian author Greenwood, having made a name for herself with the lighthearted Phryne Fisher series, succeeds brilliantly with this gripping thriller set in ancient Egypt." —Publishers Weekly STARRED review
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams.
Ptah-hotep,
...12) Butterfly Swords
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During China's infamous Tang Dynasty, a time awash with luxury yet littered with deadly intrigues and fallen royalty, betrayed Princess Ai Li flees before her wedding.
Miles from home, with only her delicate butterfly swords for defense, she enlists the reluctant protection of a blue-eyed warrior....
Battle-scarred, embittered Ryam has always held his own life at cheap value. Ai Li's innocent trust in him and honorable, stubborn nature make...
Miles from home, with only her delicate butterfly swords for defense, she enlists the reluctant protection of a blue-eyed warrior....
Battle-scarred, embittered Ryam has always held his own life at cheap value. Ai Li's innocent trust in him and honorable, stubborn nature make...
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The sorceress Narena has done many things for Leisos — advised the king, helped heal a young girl and sent a prince forward in time to save his life. Now, to protect her people, she may have to sacrifice herself, her lover, her child. Maybe even all three.
She hunts for the one who threatens the royal family and the throne of Leisos. And also seeks the daughter taken from her at birth. There's only one problem. They might be one and the same. What...
14) Liberty
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Betrayed by her father and sold as payment of a Roman tax debt to fight in Londinium's arena, gladiatrix-slave Rhyddes feels like a wild beast in a gilded cage. Celtic warrior blood flows in her veins, but Roman masters own her body. She clings to her vow that no man shall claim her soul, though Marcus Calpurnius Aquila, son of the Roman governor, makes her yearn for a love she believes impossible.
Groomed to follow in his father's footsteps and...
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The third rebellion of Johannes Crescentius, Senator of Rome, enacted after the death of the pontiff and the election of Sylvester II, forms, but the prelude to the great drama, whose final curtain was to fall upon the doom of the third Otto, of whose love for Stephania, the beautiful wife of Crescentius, innumerable legends are told in, the old monkish chronicles, and whose, tragic death caused a lament to go, throughout the world of the Millennium....
16) Cassandra
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"The second in Greenwood's Delphic Women series offers a far different premise on a familiar story, crammed with well-researched detail, fascinating characters and erotic scenes." -Kirkus Reviews STARRED review
From Mount Olympus, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, yawned. Even perfection can be tedious.
"My Lord," she called to Apollo, "Sun God and brother. Let us play a game with mortals-my power against yours."
And so Cassandra, the golden-haired...
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A legendary courtesan is taken captive by an infamous warlord in this "beautifully written, deliciously sensual" romance of Medieval China (Library Journal, starred review).
Tang Dynasty China, 759 AD. Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin is renowned for her beauty; the ultimate seductress. But since the Emperor's death, she has lived in quiet and solitude. Now that seclusion is about to end . . . when the most ruthless...
Tang Dynasty China, 759 AD. Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin is renowned for her beauty; the ultimate seductress. But since the Emperor's death, she has lived in quiet and solitude. Now that seclusion is about to end . . . when the most ruthless...
18) Cleopatra
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THE INTIMATE SECRETS AND FABULOUS LIFE OF THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN OF ALL TIME!
What was Cleopatra really like? How did she gain the power to make men and break nations - to make herself the most beguiling symbol of sex the world has ever known?
Here is a sweeping exploration of the secret life and many loves of Egypt's fabled queen-her affairs with the great Julius Caesar and the lusty Mark Antony... the slave boys and gladiators who served her private...
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On a night when the whole city is looking for love, two foreigners find it in the last place they expected.
The riotous Psobion festival is about to begin in the city of Boukos, and the ambassador from the straightlaced kingdom of Zash has gone missing. Ex-soldier Marzana, captain of the embassy guard, and the ambassador's secretary, the shrewd and urbane eunuch Bedar, are the only two who know.
Marzana still nurses the pain of an old heartbreak,...
20) Sannah
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Barely more than a girl, Sannah is taken by a man who is both warrior and shaman in a winter raid on her Stone Age camp.But Memmet believes the spirits have given her to him and he will keep her at any cost.Two strong people must find the reason they have been brought together, because lives depend upon it.
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