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Courting Miss Vallois
Gail Whitiker
FROM THE FIELDS OF FRANCE… Miss Sophie Vallois’ looks and grace make her an instant hit with London Society. No one would know that the French beauty is a mere farmer’s daughter, with no interest in marriage whatsoever……TO THE DRAWING ROOMS OF...
Brushed By Scandal
Gail Whitiker
WHAT WILL SHE RISK FOR LOVE?Lady Annabelle Durst may be beautiful, but at four-and-twenty she’s firmly – and contentedly! – on the shelf. She’s learnt there’s nothing more important than protecting her heart against the perils of love. Then...
Regency Mistresses: A Practical Mistress / The Wanton Bride
Mary Brendan
The rake’s rescue… Sir Jason Hunter could not let young widow Helen Marlowe fall into ruin when he could so easily help. His intentions were purely honourable, until the lady herself surprised him with an offer of a carte blanche! Helen told...
Courtship In The Regency Ballroom: His Cinderella Bride / Devilish Lord, Mysterious Miss
Энни Берроуз
His Cinderella BrideJasper Challinor, Marquis of Lensborough was a man well usedto getting exactly what he wanted–and he wanted Hester!Convinced that the redheaded, badly dressed waif was a poorrelation, the noble lord was about to receive the...
Regency Surrender: Wicked Deception: The Truth About Lady Felkirk / A Ring from a Marquess
Christine Merrill
The truth will always come out…The Truth Will About Lady FelkirkWilliam Felkirk remembers nothing of the last six months. So who is this beautiful woman claiming to be his wife?Justine de Bryun will do anything to protect her sister. She must...
Regency Surrender: Notorious Secrets: The Soldier's Dark Secret / The Soldier's Rebel Lover
Marguerite Kaye
Which will it be hero or rebel?The Soldier's Dark SecretIf only Jack Trestain could easily put aside the tortured memories he carries deep within… Perhaps Celeste Marmion might be the distraction he so desperately craves? With Celeste’s every...
Rake in the Regency Ballroom: The Viscount Claims His Bride / The Earl's Forbidden Ward
Bronwyn Scott
THE VISCOUNT CLAIMS HIS BRIDEFor years Valerian Inglemoore, Viscount St. Just, lived a double life as a secret agent on the war-torn Continent. Returning home, he knows exactly what he wants: to claim Philippa Stratten, the woman he gave up, as...
Regency Surrender: Scandalous Return: Return of Scandal's Son / Saved by Scandal's Heir
Janice Preston
He’s back, and badder than ever!Return of Scandal’s SonIn her moment of need Lady Eleanor Ashby seeks help from a mysterious stranger. But the dashing Matthew Thomas is not all he seems. And when it appears someone is trying to hurt her Eleanor...
Regency Surrender: Forbidden Pasts: Lord Laughraine's Summer Promise / Redemption of the Rake
Elizabeth Beacon
Their pasts won’t stay hidden for longLord Laughraine's Summer Promise Nine years ago Callie Sommers eloped with Gideon Laughraine. But their passionate romance ended in tragedy. Now Gideon has promised to reclaim the wife he loved and lost....
Scoundrel in the Regency Ballroom: The Rake and the Heiress / Innocent in the Sheikh's Harem
Marguerite Kaye
by Marguerite KayeThe Rake and the Heiress: Any virtuous society lady would know to run a mile from Mr Nicholas Lytton. But Lady Serena Stamppe, returning from exile in France, is blissfully unaware of this rake’s reputation. He just happens to...
Храмы северных предместий Петербурга. Часть 2. Зеленогорск и его окрестности
Валерий Пикулев
Православные храмы России… их колокольный звон, столь гулко отдающийся в русском сердце… То одиночные удары благовеста, несущие благую весть о начале Богослужения, то радостный перезвон колоколов – не это ли проповедь, отлитая в звуке?! Храмы...
Юрюзань – быстрая река
Тимофей Черепанов
В книге от первого лица рассказывается двухвековая история поселений на реке Юрюзань в пределах Дуванского района Республики Башкортостан. Именно там в своё время снимался известный сериал «Вечный зов» по роману Анатолия Иванова. В XIX веке на...
Капкан. Роман о том, кто мы есть и как появились
Юрий Дмитриевич Теплов
НЕЗАКОННОЕ ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ НАРКОТИЧЕСКИХ СРЕДСТВ, ПСИХОТРОПНЫХ ВЕЩЕСТВ, ИХ АНАЛОГОВ ПРИЧИНЯЕТ ВРЕД ЗДОРОВЬЮ, ИХ НЕЗАКОННЫЙ ОБОРОТ ЗАПРЕЩЕН И ВЛЕЧЕТ УСТАНОВЛЕННУЮ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВОМ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬ.В романе переплетаются современность, основанная на...
Намтар
Владимир Василенко
Скрытая толщей веков письменность шумеров приоткроет тайны древней эры. Герой романа – высокопоставленный царский сановник при дворе богоподобного царя Шульги-Сина. Движимый обычными человеческими чувствами: любовью, ревностью, тщеславием,...
Для тех, кому не нужно славы. Серия «Трианон-мозаика»
Марина Посохова
НЕЗАКОННОЕ ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ НАРКОТИЧЕСКИХ СРЕДСТВ, ПСИХОТРОПНЫХ ВЕЩЕСТВ, ИХ АНАЛОГОВ ПРИЧИНЯЕТ ВРЕД ЗДОРОВЬЮ, ИХ НЕЗАКОННЫЙ ОБОРОТ ЗАПРЕЩЕН И ВЛЕЧЕТ УСТАНОВЛЕННУЮ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВОМ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬ.Снова читателю предстоит разобраться, чем связаны...
Идеальный полёт
Лора Деренская
Мечтательница с Урала попадает на край земли и неожиданно для себя становится… Невыдуманная история удивительных приключений захватывает, как водоворот. Аборигены, афганские беженцы, слава, любовь! «Терра Австралия! Игрушечная страна», –...
Понуровы. Крестьянские родословные
Наталья Козлова
Книга о древнейшем роде Понуровых из деревни Лбово Пустое Городецкого района Нижегородской области. Крестьяне в деревне были экономическими (помещика у них не было). По вероисповеданию были как православные, так и староверы. Приходское село Блиляково.
Знак Зевса
Анатолий Ильяхов
IV век до н. э. Македонский царь Филипп, умелый полководец и дальновидный политик, сватается к эпирской царевне Миртале. Царю нужен наследник царской крови, однако, несмотря на отсутствие видимых препятствий к браку, дело затягивается. Эпирский...
Гоголь. Страшная месть
Братья Швальнеры
Знаете ли вы, какая книга вдохновила создателей фильма «Гоголь. Страшная месть» на его съемки? А знаете, почему ими сознательно был искажен сюжет? Не потому ли, что снимать фильм в точности по книге страшно до такой степени, что экранизация...
Гоголь. Вий. Не выходи из круга
Братья Швальнеры
Успели посмотреть фильм «Гоголь. Вий»? Теперь самое время прочитать книгу. Зачем? Потому что в ней версия о том, что события легендарной повести имели место в жизни классика, изложена куда полнее и объективнее. Леденящий душу ужас здесь...
A Companion to African History
Charles Ambler
Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and...
Medieval Sensibilities. A History of Emotions in the Middle Ages
Damien Boquet
What do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources – spiritual and secular literature, iconography, chronicles, as well as theological and medical works – provide clues to the...
Путь Воина
Рамзан Саматов
Военно-приключенческий роман «Путь Воина» перенесёт читателя во времена Великой Отечественной войны. В книге отражены становление и боевой путь фронтового разведчика Виктора Кошелева, начиная с курсантской поры, участия в боях за Крым,...
Черный монастырь. Книга вторая. Беатрис
Микаэл Ханьян
Западная Франция, 9 век. Обитатели острова Нуармутье готовятся к неминуемому нашествию викингов. Благодаря новой крепости они чувствуют себя в безопасности; однако неожиданное появление чужестранки делает их положение не просто уязвимым, но и...
Yes, Mama
Helen Forrester
From the author of four bestselling autobiographies and a number of equally successful novels, comes another moving tale.A triumph of innocence over hypocrisy…Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy....
Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’.A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village.In 1666, plague...
Wonders of a Godless World
Andrew McGahan
An electrifying, tumultuous story of inner demons, desire and devastation.On an unnamed island, in a Gothic hospital sitting in the shadow of a volcano, a wordless orphan girl works on the wards housing the insane and the incapable. She counts...
Wolf’s Brother
Megan Lindholm
The compelling sequel to The Reindeer People , a saga of magic and triumph in an ancient world.Kerlew stared at the immense stone that jutted up from the tundra. Power radiated from it like heat from a fire. It attracted the boy and filled him...
William Shakespeare: History in an Hour
Sinead Fitzgibbon
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body...
Wife 22
Melanie Gideon
If you like Modern Family, you’ll love thisMaybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because my husband and I were running out of things to say to each other.But when the online study...
Whatever Happened to Billy Parks
Gareth Roberts
2014 JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE WINNERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 GORDON BURN PRIZEOctober 17th 1973: the greatest disaster in the history of English football.All England had to do was beat Poland to qualify for the World Cup.They didn’t.They...
Voyage of Innocence
Elizabeth Edmondson
From the author of THE FROZEN LAKE comes an enthralling novel of love, betrayal and idealism, as three very different young women go up to Oxford in the years immediately before World War Two.Vee – the clergyman’s daughter. Boyish, alluring, she...
Titanic: History in an Hour
Sinead Fitzgibbon
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912, and the subsequent deaths of over 1,500 passengers, sent shock waves around the world. Never before or since has a maritime disaster in a...
Till the Sun Shines Through
Anne Bennett
A family is divided when its favourite daughter is forced to flee rural Ireland and to seek her living in war-torn Birmingham.Bridie McCarthy loves her family’s farm in the remotest part of Donegal, even though she’s forced to work hard when all...
The Virgin Blue
Tracy Chevalier
Perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine, Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, this is historical fiction at its very best.The compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them.Ella Turner does her best to...
The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed
Джудит Фландерс
The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.Some images were unavailable for this electronic edition.The Victorian age is both recent and...
The Sweetest Hallelujah
Elaine Hussey
Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississippi. Now, ten years later,...
The Swan Maid
Dilly Court
The brand new compelling novel from the Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court.Lottie Lane is all alone in the world. As a chambermaid at one of London’s busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery and at the mercy of a vicious landlady, Lottie...
The Steel Bonnets
George Fraser MacDonald
From the author of the famous ‘Flashman Papers’ and the ‘Private McAuslan’ stories.An historical narrative about the Anglo-Scottish border raiders in the 16th century
The Spirit of London
Boris Johnson
First published as Johnson’s Life of London, now released with new material following Jubilee and Olympic celebrations in 2012. This updated history of London shows that the ingenuity, diversity, creativity and enterprise of the city are second...
The Skull and the Nightingale
Michael Irwin
Set in England in the early 1760s, this is a chilling and deliciously dark tale of manipulation, sex, and seduction.When Richard Fenwick, a young man without family or means, returns to London from the Grand Tour, his wealthy godfather, James...
The Silent Fountain
Victoria Fox
‘Atmospheric and foreboding this is the perfect contemporary homage to the gothic tradition.’ – The SunBeneath the surface lies a terrible secret…Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni...
The Secrets of Jin-Shei
Alma Alexander
A sweeping epic set in medieval China; it is the story of a group of women, the Jin-Shei sisterhood, who form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom.They are bound together by a declaration of loyalty that transcends...
The Secret of Summerhayes
Merryn Allingham
A war-torn summerA house fallen into ruinA family broken apart by scandal…Summer 1944: Bombed out by the blitz, Bethany Merston takes up a post as companion to elderly Alice Summer, last remaining inhabitant of the dilapidated and crumbling...
The Secret Mandarin
Sara Sheridan
A disgraced woman. A faraway land. A forbidden love… An unforgettable tale set in Victorian London and 1840s China from a shining, young historical talent.Desperate to shield her from scandal, Mary's brother-in-law, the ambitious botanist Robert...
The Secret Dead: A Novella
S. J. Parris
A short story featuring Giordano Bruno: heretic, philosopher and spy. Perfect for fans of C.J. Sansom.Even the dead have a story to tell…Naples, 1566. During a sweltering summer, eighteen-year-old Giordano Bruno takes his final vows at San...
