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  A Struggle for Rome

  Felix Dahn

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  Felix Dahn was a nineteenth century German Professor of Jurisprudence, as well as a historian, novelist and poet, who was greatly admired by his academic contemporaries for his grasp of the historical detail of the periods about which he wrote. He has been well served by this magisterial translation, which at last makes this astonishingly rich novel available to the modern English reader. This is a story - perhaps the story - of the clash between two great civilizations of the sixth century of the Common Era, when the Roman Empire had crumbled into dust; the struggle for Rome, and for Italy, between the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium, ruled by Justinian, and the Gothic warrior tribes who had captured Italy under their legendary king Theodoric. We see this epoch through the eyes of different personalities at the centre of these events which shook the world as they knew it; most are historical figures and some are imaginary but typical; Justinian and his beautiful and scheming wife, Theodora; the great commander Belisarius, immortalised by Robert Graves; Totila and Teias, two Gothic kings, one as bold and bright as the sun and the other as black as night; and Cethegus, the Prefect of Rome and the last of the Romans, whose cold and calculating nature runs through the book like a steel thread, who will stop at nothing to regain the ancient city, and who, in the end, fails and redeems his many crimes with a hero's death. Firmly based on historical fact and contemporary sources, A Struggle for Rome is one of the great historical novels of the world.

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  The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

  Peter Ackroyd

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  If your tastes run to Victorian mysteries and murder, you’ll enjoy Peter Ackroyd’s special blending of fact and fiction in this magnificent recreation of the bizarre murders that rocked Victorian England. Drawing on surviving police records and court transcripts, Ackroyd paints a fascinating portrait of a savage murderer, the terror that rippled across London, and the innocent woman charged with the crimes.

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  Highland Fire

  Elizabeth Thornton

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  A bold Scottish beauty meets her match in this breathtaking Regency romance from the USA Today–bestselling author of Scarlet Angel.   Disguised as a boy, Caitlin rides out with the rebels to attack the English laird who dares to call himself chief of her beloved clan. But the bronzed, golden-haired hero of Waterloo is more of a man than the tempestuous Scottish innocent has bargained for.   Enflamed by Caitlin’s stormy beauty, wild spirit, and wicked tongue, Lord Randal swears to tame her—in and out of his bed. Now, as the dark secrets of the past fan the embers of an ancient blood feud to raging fury, Caitlin finds herself trapped in wedlock, her heart held captive by this bold and virile invader whose searing kisses set her soul aflame with an unexpected and unconquerable love. Together, they dare danger and destiny for an unforgettable passion.   “A joy to read!” —RT Book Reviews   “I consider Elizabeth Thornton a major find.” —Mary Balogh, New York Times–bestselling author of Someone to Wed  

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  The Elusive Ancestor

  Patricia Shannon

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  The Elusive AncestorA vicious civil war is savaging the country, threatening to destroy the very fabric of civilization.Families are torn apart.Brother is pitted against brother, and father against son, as America is divided into two regions.  North and South.Young William McPherson wants no part of, what seems to him, a futile and senseless war, so he escapes.The Elusive AncestorFollow along as Will McPherson makes his way across 1861 America from Virginia, to a new life in Oregon.Now go with Danny McPherson, a hundred and forty years later, as he searches for this ancestor, whose story has been lost in time.

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  The Unwitting

  Ellen Feldman

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  Betrayal comes in many forms ...At the height of the Cold War, words are weapons and secrecy reigns. These are challenging times to be a writer and a wife, as Nell Benjamin knows only too well. One bright November day in 1963, the dazzling young president arrives in Texas and Nell receives a phonecall that overturns the world as she knows it. In the shocking aftermath, whilst America mourns, Nell must come to terms with both a tragedy and a betrayal that shatters every illusion of the man she thought she knew better than anyone else. Resonant, illuminating and utterly absorbing, The Unwitting is about the lies we tell, the secrets we keep and the power of both truth and love.

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  Blessing in Disguise

  Lauraine Snelling

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  The Bjorklund family has received word that Augusta Bjorklund is on her way from Norway to join them in North Dakota. When the train arrives in the town of Blessing with no Augusta aboard, the worried family hopes that she will be on the train in the morning. However, only her trunk arrives, so Bridget Bjorklund insists that Hjelmer, Augusta's brother, go find her.Augusta, after discovering that her intended bridegroom had married someone else, decided to leave her broken heart in Norway and start a new life in America. But knowing no English, Augusta misunderstands a ticket agent's directions in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the harried confusion, she boards the wrong train. When she arrives at the end of the line, she is met by a handsome young rancher, Kane Moyer, waiting for his Norwegian mail-order bride . . .

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