Alex Wyndham
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Young love torn apart by war and a cold marriage . . . Is ten years too late to start again?
Captain James Frome, seasoned veteran and war hero, is returning home after ten years away. He has sold his commission and must face what he left behind. Besides finding an estate that is in ruin and a family that is lost without his direction, he also runs into his past and the reason he was forced into the army in the first place.
Lady Annag Calder has...
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A World On the Precipice . . .
Will Grayson knew he would probably live to see the end of the world, with the way things have been going-he just didn't think he'd live through it, let alone with an insufferable git by his side.
A System Glitch . . .
Hiking in the Peak District at the moment Earth is-accidentally-infused with magic and thrown into an indifferent and muddled system, Will returns to his Derbyshire village to find a ghost town.
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From USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …
Lord Devonshire Sinclair understands his family's heightened senses are a result of a long ago pact between the Sinclairs and the powerful Raven family. To Honor and Protect is their creed. He has also accepted that no woman could live at his side and understand what he is capable of…until now.
Miss Lilliana Braithwaite...
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How can a reclusive earl convince the woman that he loves to give him chance?
Orphaned as a child and raised by her uncle, Rose Sutton has spent the last five years helping him with her cousins and the parish while eagerly awaiting her sweetheart's return from the army. However, when it becomes clear her beau is not coming back, and her uncle decides to marry the meddlesome village busybody, Rose is desperate to leave.
Gabriel Lloyd, Earl Mottram,...
5) The Portrait
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Lady Catherine Claverton lives alone and angry on the outskirts of Bath, banished by her father because she was born lame and a girl. When the old earl dies, leaving the ancient title to revert to the Crown, Catherine learns the secret that her late mother kept from her--that she is the heir to a title in her own right. If she marries and bears a son, she will have what her father could never have: a legacy through the female line.
But if she takes...
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From USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …
Healer, Essex Sinclair understands her family's heightened senses are a result of a long-ago pact between the Sinclairs and the powerful Raven family, but has always struggled to feel worthy of bearing the legendary Sinclair name. Unlucky in love, Essie has resolved to live a quiet, solitary life as a healer and leave passion...
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An epic account of how the Royal Navy tracked down, cornered, and sank one of the most fearsome German warships of the Second World War.
The Scharnhorst was a state-of-the-art capital ship of Nazi Germany's navy. Launched in 1936 she had terrorized Allied shipping since the beginning of the war, famously destroying the aircraft destroyer HMS Glorious in June 1940. Since then, she had made numerous sorties into the Atlantic to raid British merchant...
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From USA Today Bestseller Wendy Vella comes an exciting Regency series about legend, love and destiny, with a hint of magic …
Legend says the Sinclairs heightened senses are a result of a long ago pact between them and the powerful Raven family. To Honor and Protect is their creed, but the current Duke of Raven doesn't make their task easy.
Arrogant and aloof, James, Duke of Raven, is determined to forge his own path and to hell with folk tales...
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A powerful customer community will help you to scale customer support, attract new customers, and gather indispensable feedback and knowledge. But how do you make it happen?
Build Your Community fuses proven principles from the world of psychology with user experience and design thinking into a foolproof approach helping you to: start from scratch and attract your first members; find and design the perfect platform for your community; keep members...
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The engrossing but tragic history of the Royal Navy's worst loss of World War Two.
Ideal for fans of Jonathan Dimbleby, Max Hastings, and Craig L. Symonds.
On 8th June 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two destroyer escorts HMS Ardent and Acasta were sighted by the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst and her sister ship Gneisenau. In a brutal gun battle that lasted over an hour, all British ships were sunk, and more than 1500...
11) Voices Beckon
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Set in late 18th-century Philadelphia, this "engaging historical romance" (Booklife) spans seven years in the lives of three young Britons who meet while crossing the Atlantic in search of a new beginning.
David, a Scot newly apprenticed to a Philadelphia printer, and Elisabeth, a young Englishwoman with a class-conscious father, fall in love on the journey. Liam, an orphaned Scot with a checkered past, becomes a steadfast friend to them both.
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Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognized dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as, more controversially for some, subsistence, shelter, health, education, culture, and community. Far less attention has been paid to the interpersonal, social dimensions of a minimally decent life, including our basic needs...
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Wayne K. Blickenstaff, known as "Blick," was a stalwart of the 350th Fighter Squadron of the 353rd Fighter Group based at Goxhill, Metfield, and Raydon, England, as part of the Eighth Air Force prosecuting the strategic air campaign against Germany. As an original cadre member, he rose steadily through the ranks to a Lieutenant Colonel and Group Operations Officer. His double "ace" status included a Me262 jet fighter and the destruction of five aircraft...
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The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. It is a cowritten book, the result of more than five years of collaboration. Bringing together their knowledge...