Posts Tagged ‘historical’
Poldark #12 Bella Poldark
Bella Poldark is the twelfth and final novel in Winston Graham’s sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark.Cornwall 1818. We continue the tale of Ross and Demelza; of the wayward Valentine Warleggan, whose existence keeps open the old wounds of the feud between Ross and George; of Bella, the Poldark’s youngest daughter, whose precocious talent as a…
Read MoreThe Nightingale
In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of…
Read MoreThe Midwife of Venice
At midnight, the dogs, cats, and rats rule Venice. The Ponte di Ghetto Nuovo, the bridge that leads to the ghetto, trembles under the weight of sacks of rotting vegetables, rancid fat, and vermin. Shapeless matter, perhaps animal, floats to the surface of Rio di San Girolamo and hovers on its greasy waters. Through the…
Read MoreMaud
For the first time ever, a young adult novel about the teen years of L.M. Montgomery, the author who brought us ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. Fourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery — Maud to her friends — has a dream: to go to college and become a writer, just like her idol, Louisa May Alcott. But living…
Read MoreThe Harem Midwife
Goodnight From London
From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France—comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start a new life an ocean away from her…
Read MoreAt the Water’s Edge
Kiss of the Highlander
Fleeing her humdrum life, Gwen Cassidy heads for Scotland in search of adventure, but a plunge into a Highland ravine lands her in the arms of Drustan MacKeltar, a powerful sixteenth-century warrior enchanted by a powerful spell.
Read MoreImmortal Highlander
Stripped of his immortality and rendered invisible by a curse, Adam Black seeks help from Gabrielle O’Callaghan, the only woman who can see him, but their subsequent romance is challenged by a dangerous conspiracy and haphazard circumstances in Gabrielle’s own life. By the author of The Dark Highlander. Reprint.
Read MoreThe Highlander’s Touch
Lisa, a modern-day woman, is hurtled back in time seven hundred years into the arms of a powerful Scottish warrior who lives in a world of magic and treachery and who could hold the key to a sacred elixir that could save the life of her dying mother.
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