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  Adventure Stories with...

  Hank Wilson

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  An adventure story featuring thunderstorms in the background.
   
  The Forgotten Expedition
  by Hank Wilson tells the story of a group of Spanish explorers who disappeared
  from the official records. They were a product of their time. Their story
  actually begins in 1598, when one of the most brutal of all of the Spanish
  governors in what is now New Mexico came into power. Juan de Oñate brought in
  approximately 400 settlers and built a settlement named San Juan de los
  Caballeros. His real purpose was not to establish a new colony but to locate the
  legendary treasure of Quivira. He started searching for the treasure in 1601,
  he never did locate it and his missions to find gold and treasure were
  fruitless. His legacy does, however, include perhaps the most inhumane
  treatment of the Pueblo peoples in the area, and he left office in 1607 in
  disgrace. He was found guilty of cruelty, immorality, and false reporting, and
  he was exiled from the colony, fined, and deprived of his titles. 
   
  This story takes place
  approximately 4 years after Onate’s departure. New Mexico has a new governor, Governor
  Don Pedro de Peralta. He has authorized an expedition to explore more of what
  is now the Trans-Pecos region of the American Southwest. While the story is
  fictional, the people’s involved all either could have or did exist during this
  period. This story is built around excerpts from the journal of Fray Miguel De
  La Garza as he recorded the events that took place during the group’s
  exploration of an unknown territory.
   
  Those who found the
  journal noted the closing entry “I recorded this for the benefit of those who
  are to come. I have tried to be faithful to what we saw and did. May God have
  mercy on our souls. Fray Miguel De La Garza. December 1611”

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  A Nest of Vipers

  Harini Nagendra

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  This latest novel in the Bangalore Detectives Club mystery series takes the listener deep into the historical era surrounding the visit by Edward, Prince of Wales, to Bangalore in 1921. When the prince begins a tour of a number of Indian cities, he encounters passionate crowds demanding independence from Britain, with rioting on the streets of Bombay in November 1921. 
   
   
   
  The mood of the prince's subsequent trip to Bangalore and Mysore in January 1922 appears, at first glance, very different and is made to large, welcoming crowds. But perhaps all is not what it seems to be. While exploring another (seemingly unrelated) crime scene, Kaveri and Ramu become tangled in a complex web of intrigue, getting pulled into a potentially dangerous plan that could endanger the life of the visiting prince. 
   
   
   
  This new novel also takes us into the world of jadoo—Indian street magic—with sleight-of-hand magicians, snake charmers, and rope tricks. Kaveri and Ramu continue their sleuthing, with help from the Bangalore Detectives Club, amidst the growing rumblings of Indian independence and the backdrop of female emancipation.

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  Hugh Lofting: The Story of...

  Hugh Lofting

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   This is the original book about the amazing Dr. Dolittle who "Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar." In it, the kind hearted dreamer learns he likes animals better than humans; is introduced to animal speech by his parrot, Polynesea; becomes very poor; travels to Africa and has many adventures with his animal friends. And they are indeed friends. 
  Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the parrot teaches him the language of the animals, Doctor Dolittle becomes a world-famous doctor, traveling even as far away as Africa to help his friends.

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  Our Two-Week One-Night Stand

  Mimi Francis

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  One night turns into two weeks when their worlds unexpectedly collide. 
  Cecily Devereaux knows better than anyone that being the daughter of a billionaire can make it hard to trust people. Every relationship she’s ever been in turned out to be nothing more than an attempt to get her father’s money, and after a failed engagement, she vows to stay away from commitment. Shifting her focus to enjoying herself, she finds satisfaction in one night stands, defying her father’s demands, and spending time in her adopted hometown of Lakeside, Montana. Cecily doesn't need anything else. Until Lincoln Dunn strolls into her life. 
  With no business to run, no woman in his life, and nothing tying him down, Lincoln Dunn is at a crossroads. He’s free to do whatever he wants in New York City and that is exactly what he is doing. Uninterested in relationships, he runs through women with no regrets. Tourist Cecily Devereaux is just supposed to be one of those women … until he comes to Lakeside and finds her again. 
  In the third installment to the Loves of Lakeside series, two complicated people who aren’t looking for love fall into a sexy, steamy relationship. When feelings neither of them want to face come to the surface, which one of them will admit their feelings first?

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  Summers Dawn

  Dorothy M. Mitchell

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  Joe Summers is quite a mixed-up young boy. Born during the Second World War, the boy knows all about going without many things. Joe's father, Mark, who he once adored, has an accident that leaves him badly injured and much changed and becomes a no-good drunkard. Unfortunately, Joe also gets mixed up with an older boy who comes from a bad family.His mother, Bethany, does her best to take care of the boy, but Joe Summers wants to go his own way. He does eventually see the error of his ways, but not before he almost ruins his life.

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  His Remorseful King - An MM...

  A.N. Stauber

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  Patrick “Paddy” Murphy 
  Secretive, Quiet, Reserved. 
  The mafia taught him just how disastrous secrets and lies were. Despite that, he kept the deepest, dirtiest secrets of them all. His desire for men, or rather one man—me—was only the start of them. If the family or—even worse, a rival family—found out about us, life as Paddy knew it would cease to exist. 
  It was as if the universe knew this and tried to keep us apart. From Army Deployments and near death experiences to a secret baby, everything that could go wrong did. I didn’t know how much more I could take, until he committed the ultimate crime. 
  One final act of betrayal, and he might as well have ripped my heart from my chest. There’s no going back, and he has to learn to pay the price for his mistakes. 
  Michael “Griff” Griffin 
  Stubborn, resentful, mine. 
  He had every right to hate me, to never want me again. I betrayed him, broke him, but despite all of the mistakes of my past, Griffin would always have my heart. 
  We went through too much pain and heartache to just give up, and I would stop at nothing to earn his love back—even if it meant putting him before my brother’s orders and refusing to marry a woman in La Famiglia—the mother of my unborn child. 
  The skeletons in my closet are too much to bear. Will I be able to bury them, or will my dirty laundry be aired?

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