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  Shadows of Villisca

  Hugo Swanepoel

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  Shadows of Villisca 
  Historical Mystery Novel Inspired by Real Events 
  In the quiet town of Villisca, Iowa, history never truly sleeps. 
  Over a century after the infamous 1912 axe murders shocked the nation, investigative researcher Alex Hartman and forensic scholar Dr. Samuel Graves arrive in Villisca chasing rumors of something older and darker than anyone had ever imagined. 
  When a modern family is found murdered in a chilling copy of the past, their investigation spirals into a tangled web of cryptic journals, forbidden sermons, and a long-forgotten traveling carnival that once passed through town... but did it ever leave? 
  As Alex and Graves peel back layers of buried truth, they uncover evidence of a blood covenant that links past and present, and a ritual still very much alive. Haunted by warnings left in fragile letters and ancient sermons, they must race to expose the sinister force at the heart of Villisca before they become the next chapter in its bloody legend. 
  History has teeth. And in Villisca, it's ready to bite again.

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  Lantern On The West Lake

  Pratiwi N. A.

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. 
  In the historic city of Hangzhou, Li Wei has built a respected silk business and a comfortable life for his family. Yet for all his success, his greatest concern is his only surviving child, Xiu-ying. Having already endured the loss of two children, Li Wei becomes fiercely protective of his daughter, determined to shield her from the hardships of the world. 
   
  Xiu-ying grows up surrounded by affection, beauty, and security. She spends her days in the family garden, visits West Lake with her friend Meiling, and knows little of the responsibilities carried by her father. Zhang Lan, her mother, quietly worries that such protection may leave Xiu-ying unprepared for the future. 
   
  Then a journey near West Lake changes everything. 
   
  A sudden accident leaves Li Wei critically injured. As his family waits through surgery and days of uncertainty, Xiu-ying is forced to confront a possibility she has never imagined: a life without the father who has always stood between her and the world. 
   
  After his death, grief consumes the household. But while trying to understand the father she has lost, Xiu-ying discovers something he left behind, a hidden letter and diary containing thoughts, fears, regrets, and hopes he never expressed openly. 
   
  What she finds changes the way she remembers him. 
   
  Li Wei's greatest act of love may not have been protecting his daughter from the world, but preparing her, however imperfectly, to face it without him. 
   
  As Xiu-ying begins to step beyond the sheltered life her father created, she must learn the family business, confront difficult decisions, and discover what it means to inherit not only a silk house, but also the responsibility behind her father's life's work. 
   
  Against the quiet beauty of West Lake, Lantern on the West Lake is a story of family, grief, inheritance, and the difficult first steps toward independence.

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  Rust Skies

  T.K. Blackwood

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  The year is 1992. The Third World War rages. With Central Europe locked in a bloody stalemate, the chaos boils over into Greece and Turkey, with NATO holding on by a thread against the Soviet onslaught. 
   
   
   
  But the greatest twists of fate unfold behind the scenes. The United States Presidential election may upend the balance altogether, as America's citizens choose who will lead them into the maelstrom. But in Moscow, hidden forces within the Soviet Union finally make their bid for power. The decisive battles of the war are being waged not for Europe, but for the White House . . . and the Kremlin. Who will stand victorious, and who will vanish into the dustbin of history?

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  Eighteenth and Western - A Novel

  Laura Jenski

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  Jean Dickey dreams of doing something important for women’s rights. She failed in 1970, but now she’s in her seventies and has a second chance. Her granddaughter, Dani, arrives to help her start a civil rights center on Chicago’s Lower West Side. But when a cold-case crime on the center’s deteriorating property is connected to Jean, and Jean talks about visits from her grandmother’s ghost, Dani faces a difficult decision about Jean’s future.

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  Five Children and It

  Edith Nesbit

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  After moving into a house in kent, five children go exploring and in a gravel pit, find a Sand Fairy, known as a "Psammead" who says he will give them one wish each day. What follows are eleven misadventures where it is discovered that making a good wish is actually much harder than it first appears... The first in E.Nesbit's "The Psammead" trilogy, published in the Strand Magazine from 1902. Narrated by Michael

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  Enemy’s Wife The: Don’t miss...

  Deborah Swift

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  'I was absolutely gripped… I did not want to put it down. When I did, I felt it calling me to get back to it… I can't highly recommend this book enough' NetGalley review, ★★★★★ 
  'A fast-paced, beautifully written, and moving story. Refreshing to read a book set in a different theatre of war. Wartime Shanghai jumped off the page' CLARE FLYNN 
  1941. Polish émigré Zofia is stranded in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, far from home and everything she once knew. Surrounded by a country at war, she finds unexpected solace in Hilly, a spirited young refugee fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria. Their bond deepens as violence closes in and survival grows more uncertain by the day. 
  Then news comes that Zofia’s beloved husband, Haru, has been conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army. As his absence stretches on, Zofia and Hilly take refuge with her American employer while the brutal realities of war begin to reshape not only her world, but her heart. 
  Can she still love someone who has become the enemy? 
  A poignant story of the impossible choices we make in the shadow of war, for fans of Daisy Wood and Marius Gabriel.Readers love The Enemy's Wife: 
  'A gorgeous novel that will truly pull at your heartstrings' CARLY SCHABOWSKI 
  'One of this year’s most powerful and affecting reads' SHEFFIELD STAR 
  'I loved The Enemy’s Wife – a gripping, fast-paced and evocative story about the Japanese occupation of Shanghai during WW2 – and really rooted for the brave and selfless central character, Zofia. Highly recommended' ANN BENNETT 
  'Such an emotional and moving read, grounded in immaculate research that never overshadows the heart of the story' SUZANNE FORTIN 
  'A side of WW2 that isn't often written about. Great characters, high stakes and a satisfying love story' KATHLEEN MCGURL 
  'A unique insight into the resilience of the human spirit and the power of love' CANDIS 
  'Deborah Swift delivers another beautifully written World War II novel that is impossible to put down. The Enemy's Wife is a poignant and powerful story' LANA KORTCHIK 
  'The Enemy’s Wife is an absorbing, compassionate novel with emotional depth and ethical complexity. Highly recommended' TONY RICHES 
  'I seldom give books of this type five stars, but this one fully deserves it for bringing something new and refreshing to the genre' ★★★★★ 
  'What a fantastic read this was' ★★★★★ 
  'Another stunning achievement in historical fiction from Deborah Swift' ★★★★★ 
  'Grips you from the beginning and does not let go until the end' ★★★★★ 
  In this 20th century romance, military loyalties and the shadow of the holocaust collide, forcing Zofia to decide what “best” means when the man she loves is now the enemy. A top, latest addition to Deborah Swift’s stories of wartime survival, it asks how far you’ll go for him when every choice could be final. 
  For fans of Marion Kummerow (Hiding in Plain Sight), Lesley Pearse (The Girl with the Suitcase), Lucinda Riley (The Last Love Song), Alison Weir (The Boleyn Secret), and Elizabeth Chadwick (The Crownless Queen). 
  HarperCollins 2026

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