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  The Daughters of England Books...

  Philippa Carr

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  Continuing the romantic multigenerational saga by a New York Times–bestselling author whose novels have sold over 100 million copies.  Saraband for Two Sisters: Set in seventeenth-century England, Carr’s novel follows the twin daughters of Tamsyn Pennlyon—Angelet and Bersaba Landor—who couldn’t be more different. Angelet is sweet, gentle, and submissive. Bersaba is secretive, sensual, and headstrong. When the sisters are separated by forces beyond their control, Bersaba’s life takes a dark turn. After years apart, the twins are reunited within the echoing halls of Far Flamstead. As Angelet finds herself at the mercy of the manor’s secret past, Bersaba gives in to a perilous temptation. She will risk everything—even her life—for the love of one man.  Lament for a Lost Lover: Under the sway of the puritanical Oliver Cromwell, England simmers with religious persecution and political unrest. Like their exiled king, Arabella Tolworthy and her parents have retreated to France but yearn for their native country. When Arabella is separated from her family, she makes her way alone in an increasingly dangerous world and meets two people who will change her life: an actress named Harriet Main and the dashing nobleman Edwin Eversleigh.  The Love Child: As Restoration England continues to be torn apart by political and religious turmoil, fourteen-year-old Priscilla Eversleigh gives herself to fugitive Jocelyn Frinton in a moment of youthful passion. Desperate to conceal her shameful secret, Priscilla journeys to Venice, where her illegitimate daughter, Carlotta, is passed off to another woman—and a conspiracy is born. But Priscilla’s past will haunt her in the decades to come. As fortune-hunters circle, Carlotta becomes a pawn in a twisted game of greed and revenge. Now Priscilla must make the ultimate sacrifice—even if it costs her the man she loves—which will shape not only Carlotta’s future, but also the lives of the generations of Eversleigh women to come.

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  Short Stories About Gambling - A...

  Alexander Pushkin, D H Lawrence,...

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  When you are winning gambling seems very easy.  You place a bet and receive your winnings. The thrill is a joyous electric shock of joy and applause.  And winnings. 
   
  If you lose, well, at first you know your luck will turn.  It must, you’re a winner.  But if your luck fails, and keeps failing, misery endures and then envelops your life.  Everything is centered on that next roll of the dice, the turn of the card …. Nothing else matters. You are addicted.  
   
  01 - Short Stories About Gambling - An Introduction 
  02 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin 
  03 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence 
  04 - After the Race by James Joyce 
  05 - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County by Mark Twain 
  06 - A Bread and Butter Miss by Saki 
  07 - Brown of Calaveras by Bret Harte 
  08 - A Guardian of Morality by Anthony Hope 
  09 - The Bet by Anton Chekhov 
  10 - The Bet by Barry Pain 
  11 - Sir Julian Garve by Ella D'Arcy 
  12 - Tennessee's Partner by Bret Harte 
  13 - A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins

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  Hungry - The Inspiring Tale of...

  B. E. Baker

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  A mesmerizing work, literarily impressive and historically exacting. -Kirkus 
  In 1847, the Donner party resorted to eating human flesh to survive entrapment at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains. They became infamous, with books, stories, and interviews exploring their misery. None of them tell the extraordinary story from the first-person point of view of the female survivors. 
  Until now. 
  Three women yearned to make better lives in California: 
  Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Graves set out west with her family in search of a home that would be free of disease like the ague that had afflicted her mother and sisters for years. If she met a handsome guy along the way, well, she wouldn’t complain. As the belle of the Donner party, she certainly had plenty of interest. 
  Peggy Breen had just given birth to her seventh child, but she wasn’t afraid of the two-thousand-mile journey toward prosperity. She’d take care of her children and honor her husband along the trail, because that’s what women of faith did. But when supplies became limited, her giving heart and her mother’s instinct were at odds. 
  Virginia Blackstone Reed, the thirteen-year-old daughter of the group’s leader, set out in search of adventure, riding her sassy palomino pony alongside the largest double-decker wagon anyone had ever seen. As the adopted daughter of the most influential and prosperous man in the wagon train, she had no idea at the start that her polarizing father with his ostentatious wealth would pave the way for their future devastation. 
  By the time these women and the rest of the party reached mountains after taking a “shortcut,” they were already two months late. They'd lost people, oxen, mules, and livestock they needed. Then the snow began to fall. 
  And it didn’t stop.

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  The Emerald Necklace

  Linda Rosen

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  Three months after her husband's death in 1969, Rosalee Linoff is determined to jump back into life. 
   
   
   
  She desperately wants to be accepted as a talented sculptor, but that requires she dig up the courage to submit her work again—and be judged. Her paralyzing insecurity mounts when she meets her new neighbor, bestselling author Fran Barish. 
   
   
   
  But Rosalee's joy with her children, especially her granddaughter, Jill, eats at Fran, a constant reminder of her childlessness. A spiral of mutual envy ensues. It constantly bubbles below the surface of their friendship and is intensified by Fran's long held secret—and her inexplicable fascination with Jill's emerald necklace. 
   
   
   
  As Jill starts college, Rosalee worries about the choices her granddaughter might make. But Jill's passion for women's rights makes Grandma proud. Together with Rosalee's friends, they travel to New York City for the Women's Strike for Equality—which further escalates the tension between Rosalee and Fran. 
   
   
   
  When Jill's convictions are tested, Rosalee faces a dilemma. Does she dare trust Fran to help? Will their mutual jealousy make that impossible? Or will the story behind Jill's emerald bind them together?

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  Under the Diehard Brand

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson has a chip on his shoulder and a mission in his heart to save his dad, an aging sheriff who's lost control of his town. Lee's plan is a dangerous one — mix in with the desperadoes and risk death at their hand. But sometimes, the only way to restore the law is to break it. Take the law — and the action — into your hands, as the audio version of Under the Diehard Brand takes you into a town gone wild.

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  A Night of Flames - A Time for...

  Matthew Harffy

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  In the wild lands of Norway, Hunlaf must quell a vicious slave uprising in Matthew Harffy's latest historical adventure. 
   
  A wild land. A lethal fanatic. A violent revolt. 
  Northumbria, AD 794. 
  Those who rule the seas, rule the land. None know the truth of this more than the Vikings. To compete with the sea-faring, violent raiders, the king of Northumbria orders the construction of his own longships under the command of oath-sworn Norseman, Runolf. 
   
  When the Northern sea wolves attack for the second year, the king sends cleric turned warrior, Hunlaf, on a mission across the Whale Road to persuade the king of Rogaland into an alliance. But Runolf and Hunlaf have other plans; old scores to settle, kin to seek out, and a heretical tome to find in the wild lands of the Norse. 
   
  Their voyage takes them into the centre of a violent uprising. A slave has broken free of his captors, and, with religious fervour, he is leading his fanatical followers on a rampage – burning all in his path. 
   
  Hunlaf must brave the Norse wilderness, and overcome deadly foes to stop this madman. To fail would see too many die...

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