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  Raiders of the Rockies...

  B.N. Rundell

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  AUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING BUCKSKIN CHRONICLES SERIES TAKES US ON AN EPIC JOURNEY IN BOOK FIVE OF THE STONECROFT SAGA. 
  By any measure, they would be considered old-timers in the mountains of the uncharted territory. Land that had been known as French Louisiana and Spanish Colonial Louisiana, was largely unexplored. The two old-timers were young men that had spent the last two years in that uncharted territory and had taken women from the Shoshone people as their brides. But their long-held dream and goal was to discover and explore the vast lands of the western wilderness and they set out to do just that. 
  But when renegade Coureur des bois of the Hudson’s Bay Company and trappers of the Northwest company decide to abandon the fur companies and seek their fortune by raiding the native villages, the two young friends and their women stand in their way. 
  The life and death struggle will bathe the wilderness in the blood of both raiders and explorers, and the screams of the tortured will echo through the canyons of the wilds.

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  Behind a Mask

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Jean Muir is young, charming, and talented. As she diligently works as the Governess of young Bella Coventry, the men of the house seem to fall about her, won over by her charm and mysterious air. But is she really all that she seems...?Writted by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women in 1866, and considered a masterpiece in the genre.Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  Emma - Volume Two

  Jane Austen

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  The second volume of this classic novel by Jane Austen wonderfully narrated by Penny Wyatt-Gold. Penny has the perfect voice to bring all the author's characters to life in a way that will enthrall and entertain.

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  The Complete Works of Edith Wharton

  Edith Wharton

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  Step Behind the Velvet Curtains of the Gilded Age.
  
  Edith Wharton was the ultimate insider of New York's high society, and her writing serves as both a dazzling portrait and a biting critique of that vanished world. This comprehensive collection brings together her entire literary output, offering a masterclass in the tension between individual passion and the rigid expectations of the social elite.
  
  Inside this monumental collection, you will discover:
  
  The Architecture of Manners: Detailed explorations of the unwritten rules, scandals, and social maneuvers that governed the aristocratic families of Old New York.
  
  Psychological Realism: Deeply moving character studies of men and women trapped by circumstance, duty, or the crushing weight of public opinion.
  
  Sharp Social Satire: Brilliantly witty observations of the "nouveau riche" and the shifting cultural landscape of the early 20th century.
  
  Ghost Stories and Short Fiction: Experience Wharton's range beyond social drama, including her celebrated, atmospheric tales of the supernatural and psychological suspense.
  
  Wharton's prose is celebrated for its elegance, precision, and unflinching honesty. Whether she is detailing a tragic romance or a subtle social snub, her work remains a powerful testament to the human struggle for freedom within the confines of tradition. This volume is an essential cornerstone for any library of American literature, historical fiction, and classic realism.
  
  Experience the elegance and the irony of a legendary era. Buy "The Complete Works of Edith Wharton" today.

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  Anathema - From their pens to...

  Alexander Kuprin

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  Alexander Kuprin was born in Narovchat, Penza in Russia on 7th September 1870. 
  At 3 his Father died and he and mother moved to Moscow. By 10 he was enrolled at the Second Moscow Military High School and there his interest in literature began. The Alexander Military Academy followed and two years later he was a sub-lieutenant and posted to an Infantry Regiment for a further four years. 
  Despite his duties he was a now a keen writer and published his first short story at this time. His military duties also garnered him experiences for his breakthrough work ‘The Duel’.  Leaving the military he left for Kiev to work for local newspapers.  He continued to publish both stories and novels and by 1901 he was in St Petersburg becoming part of a group that included Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Maxim Gorky and Leonid Andreyev.  
  In the years that followed further controversial works and acclaim followed.  His comments on the regime meant he was also put under secret police surveillance.   
  As World War I erupted, Kuprin opened a military hospital but was then given command of an infantry company in Finland. He was soon discharged on grounds of ill health.  
  The October Revolution saw him praise Lenin, but he warned that the Bolsheviks threatened Russian culture and might cause further widespread suffering to the peasants.  As Civil War raged he took his family to Helsinki and then on to Paris. 
  Exile saw his talents decline further and his succumbing to alcoholism. He became lonely and withdrawn. The family's poverty increased his malaise.   
  In May 1937, the Kuprin’s returned to Moscow.  He now saw his work published but wrote almost nothing new.  In 1938 his health rapidly deteriorated.  Already suffering from a kidney problems and sclerosis, he had now developed cancer of the oesophagus.  
  Alexander Kuprin died on 25th August 1938.

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  The End of the Affair

  Graham Greene

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  Graham Greene’s masterful novel of love and betrayal in World War II London is “undeniably a major work of art” (The New Yorker).   Maurice Bendrix, a writer in Clapham during the Blitz, develops an acquaintance with Sarah Miles, the bored, beautiful wife of a dull civil servant named Henry. Maurice claims it’s to divine a character for his novel-in-progress. That’s the first deception. What he really wants is Sarah, and what Sarah needs is a man with passion. So begins a series of reckless trysts doomed by Maurice’s increasing romantic demands and Sarah’s tortured sense of guilt. Then, after Maurice miraculously survives a bombing, Sarah ends the affair—quickly, absolutely, and without explanation. It’s only when Maurice crosses paths with Sarah’s husband that he discovers the fallout of their duplicity—and it’s more unexpected than Maurice, Henry, or Sarah herself could have imagined.   Adapted for film in both 1956 and 1999, Greene’s novel of all that inspires love—and all that poisons it—is “singularly moving and beautiful” (Evelyn Waugh).

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