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  Lazarus in St Petersburg

  Wayne Goodman

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  Would you alter the course of history if you had foreknowledge of a catastrophic event?  
  Lazarus wrestles with this dilemma as he carries on his business as a healer in 1879 St. Petersburg. Accustomed to working with the talented and prominent, his charmed life gets upended with the introduction of a peculiar boy apprentice who might be the malevolent instrument of fate. 
  "Goodman’s book is a peek into Imperial Russia from a unique point of view. Rich in history and full of curious turns, I highly recommend it." 
  --Jo Niederhoff, San Francisco Book Review

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  A Class Coveted - A sweeping...

  Susie Murphy

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  Their choices have shackled her dreams… 
  It’s 1836, and Bridget and Cormac have arrived, full of hope, to the city of Boston with their growing family. However, as they adjust to domestic life together for the first time, they face anti-Irish sentiment from the local Americans, as well as a threat to their happiness from a much closer source. 
  Cormac undertakes the challenging search for his missing sister, Bronagh. He is determined to do all he can to put the broken pieces of his family back together, but the appalling truth he uncovers will shake him to his core. 
  Meanwhile, as Emily grows up in this new country, she realises how her parents’ past actions will affect her entire future and she begins to covet that which is no longer within her reach. When she receives an unexpected proposition, will she be able to resist its temptation, despite the untrustworthy nature of the person behind it? 
  A Class Coveted is the fourth book in Susie Murphy's historical fiction series A Matter of Class. The story continues in the fifth book, A Class Reunited. 
  Find out more at www.susiemurphywrites.com.

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  The Children of Punjab -...

  Ishar P. Singh

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  From 1748, Mir Mannu ruled over the Punjab as the Subedar of Lahore for the great Afghan emperor, Ahmed Shah Durrani. 
  During Mir's reign, the Sikh's were hunted, captured, tortured and killed. This fictional tale takes place during one of the darkest chapters in Sikh history. 
  Join Ruhi Kaur and Jaikaar Singh as they navigate this world and embark upon an adventure that will change their lives forever.

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  Newly Made a Gentleman

  Andrew Wareham

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  Winner of Amazon KDP Select All Stars 
   
   
   
  Nick Turnhouse knows how lucky he has been, and has little choice other than to ride the wave of his good fortune, regardless of where it may take him. He has made himself into Bloody Nick and must continue to take risks and hope to survive them if he is to make his fortune at sea. 
   
   
   
  His orders base him on Gibraltar, part of a small squadron commanded by a new rear admiral who comes to value him and acts as his patron. In between missions to Africa and Barcelona, Nick is introduced to the Assistant-Governor, the senior official on the Rock, and his grown-up daughter. At just under a fathom, she's tall and outstrips most men, but Nick stands a comfortable hand taller than six feet and makes her a most welcome partner in the dance. And then at other social occasions . . .

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  The Blood of Others

  Graham Hurley

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  The blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley, The Blood of Others is part of the SPOILS OF WAR Collection, a thrilling, beguiling blend of fact and fiction born of some of the most tragic, suspenseful, and action-packed events of World War II. 
   
  A catastrophe no headline dared admit. 
   
  Summer 1942. Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths. 
   
  George Hogan is a devout young Canadian journalist who has caught the eye of press baron Lord Beaverbrook. Now he faces an assignment that will test his faith to breaking point. 
   
  Jackie Wrenne, meanwhile, is working in Lord Louis Mountbatten's cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters and is privy to the boldest cross-Channel raid yet conceived. 
   
  Three lives interlinked by a name and a date that no Canadian will ever forget: Dieppe, 19 August 1942. At dawn, over six thousand men storm ashore on heavily defended French beaches. Barely hours later, less than half will make it back alive... 
   
  From highly acclaimed thriller author GRAHAM HURLEY, the blockbuster SPOILS OF WAR non-chronological collection features compelling recurring characters whose fragmented lives mirror the war that shattered the globe. For fans of Philip Kerr and Robert Harris. 
   
  Praise for the author: 'A penetrating, compelling, and skilfully vivid slice of historical fiction' LOVEREADING 
   
  'Historical fiction of a high order' THE TIMES 
   
  'Tense, absorbing and faultlessly plotted' SUNDAY TIMES 
   
  'Beautifully constructed... This is one of Hurley's finest' DAILY MAIL 
   
  'Capable and understated characterization' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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  So Big

  Edna Ferber

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  Author Edna Ferber described the story of SO BIG as being about a "material man, son of his earth-grubbing, idealistic mother." Left an orphan at 19 years old in the late 1880s, Selina Peake needs to support herself. She leaves the city life she has known to become a teacher in the farming community of High Prairie, IL. Her father had told her that life is an adventure, and one should make the most of it. 
  Selina sees beauty everywhere, including in the fields of cabbages. She has a natural curiosity about farming and oversteps the woman's traditional role by having the audacity to ask the men questions. She soon marries Pervus DeJong, a farmer. Selina eagerly offers suggestions for operational improvements, but Pervus ignores her, preferring to use the unprofitable farming methods employed by his father. 
  Though she suffers many hardships, Selina always remembers the importance of beauty, and she admires those who exercise their creative talents. She tries to instill these views in her son Dirk and fights with her husband over the need for their child to get a full education. Once Dirk finishes college and starts work, will he retain Selina's values? 
  SO BIG was the first book to have the rare distinction of being the best-selling book of the year and win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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