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English
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John Kucich is Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Power of Lies: Transgression in Victorian Fiction; Repression in Victorian Fiction; and Excess and Restraint in the Novels of Charles Dickens. He is also the coeditor of Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century.
British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising...
2) Making it up
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Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Contains stories in which novelist Penelope Lively imagines how things might have turned out had she made different choices at various junctures in her life.
3) Keeping time
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Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Daisy Phillips, who is tired of being treated like an old lady, finds a watch that once belonged to her first love, an American soldier stationed in England during World War II, and is joined by her cousin in a search for the man in New York City to return his watch and get a glimpse of what her life could have been.
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English
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"1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions. Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the expedition...
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English
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Lady Julia Grey and her detective husband, having spent eight idyllic months in the Mediterranean, rush to India to help their old friend, the newly widowed and very pregnant Jane Cavendish, who has become consumed with learning the truth about her husband's death.
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fourth in line to the throne, is sent to the French Rivera by Her Majesty the Queen on a special assignment to recover a priceless, stolen snuffbox from Sir Toby Groper, but her trip is complicated by an invitation from Coco Chanel to be her model and the threat of a killer on the loose.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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In 1857 India, after the Siege of Cawnpore leaves a British guard dead and an Indian prisoner free, Lieutenant Victor Narraway is sent to defend a British medic accused of the crime without much evidence, and, even though he is not expected to try hard because the government simply wants a show trial, Victor is encouraged by a soldier's widow and her children to find the truth.
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English
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The shadows of war are drawing over the ancient city of Fez, and Holmes badly wants the wisdom and courage of his wife, whom he's learned, to his horror, has gone missing. As Holmes searches for her, and Russell, suffering a temporary memory loss, searches for her"self," each tries to crack deadly parallel puzzles before it's too late for them, for Africa, and for the peace of Europe.
11) Any human heart
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PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Relates the experiences of Logan Mountstuart, including his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, the publication of his first book, his association with some of history's most famous authors, his World War II service, and other adventures into old age.
12) Absolute friends
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English
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Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting international peace and understanding in the post-9/11 world.
13) Submariner
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Another epic Second World War adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers. As captain of the submarine Ursa , Lieutenant Mike Nicholson's mission is to disrupt the flow of war supplies to Rommel 's Afrika Korps. Although Ursa is small, slow and often out-gunned, she succeeds, on her seventeenth Mediterranean cruise, in sinking a German tank-transporter. That triumph makes Mike top of the league - he has now sunk more tonnage...
14) Flight to Mons
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"An action-packed and authentic First World War thriller. A young woman has vital information that could save millions of lives, and Charlie Holt is chosen to pilot a newly-built airship to evacuate her from France. In return for her intelligence he must guarantee the safety of her and her invalid mother. But retrieving two women from war-torn France is easier said than done. Holt sets out with the help of a marine and an air mechanic, but when all...
15) Non-Combatants
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"The second in the gripping historical Andy Holt Naval Thrillers series. Summer 1940: Andy Holt is second mate on the SS Barranquilla , sailing from the Clyde to Cuba. Though the outward journey may be perilous, it's the homeward trip where the real danger lies: U-boats prefer their victims deep-laden and full of cargo. There have been heavy losses off Norway and Dunkirk -- the vital priority is for escorting destroyers to counter the invasion threat....
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"A swarm of enemy aircraft. A hopeless task. A brilliant commander. Kubaiyah, an RAF airstrip squeezed between a razor-like ridge and a harsh desert plain, must be defended. But with the Nazis poised to conquer the Middle East and Britain stripped of her allies, things look bleak. Only the eccentric and gifted flying officer, Anthony Boumphrey , can save them. Armed with forty planes, all of which are training machines and biplanes, Boumphrey leads...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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"The greatest writer of historical adventures today." -- Washington Post Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell ( Agincourt, The Fort , the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Praised as "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian" ( Agincourt, The Fort ), Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers have ever done -- perhaps...
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ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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I want to be swept away into a beautiful romantic world, where men are heros and there really is such a thing as true love. This book did that ... A Page turning sizzler packed full of fun! ~Cindy Fegan, Reader Lord Arcenbryght Malloren is done with love. If he marries it will be for money to invest in his favorite scheme -- canal building. Then he meets the impoverished Portia St. Claire, and is soon entangled in her and her family's ruinous affairs....
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ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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A lively trip to Ireland and an action packed adventure with lots of mischief, mystery and passionate characters. ~Jennifer Blake Miles Cavanagh just wants to hunt in the Shires, but instead he finds himself the guardian to a twenty-year-old heiress hell-bent on marrying a fortune-hunting wretch. Refusing to let Felicity throw her life away, Miles kidnaps his ward and carries her off to England. But Felicity's determination is proving equal to his....
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Company of rogues volume 2
Publisher
ePublishing Works!
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
... what distinguishes Beverley's writing is the depth of compassion and human understanding. ~Kim E Power The Duchess of Belcraven committed a folly, and bore her husband another man's child. But Lucien was a third son, so all was patched over. Then the two older boys drowned, leaving disaster. Now, over twenty years later, the duke learns he has a legitimate daughter -- Beth Armitage, a child of his blood -- and he compels Lucien and Beth to marry....
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