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  The Broken Statue

  Margaret Lukas

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  Omaha, 1905: During the gilded age, when women live subjugated to men, eighteen-year-old Bridget prides herself on having earned acceptance to medical school.When her father is murdered, a crime that does not interest the law because he was half Native American, she risks her plans to become a doctor, determined to avenge his murder.Bridget's quest thrusts her into a world of seedy men and glitzy women in one of Omaha's most opulent brothels. There, she finds herself the prey rather than the hunter.If she is to survive, she must keep the reclusive madam's shocking secrets, learn to trust her heart's yearning for the man who befriends her, and embrace her complicated alliance with a community of notorious women considered society's lowest.

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  Fragments of a Woman

  Emma Venables

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  Five women, trapped by duty, fighting to survive…Gentle Ingrid puts her life at risk when she tries to save her beloved daughter from her husband's zealous beliefs.Liesel, a lesbian, marries a gay man in hopes that they can feign the ideal marriage and, in doing so, protect each other from persecution.Lovesick Greta, spurned by Liesel and lost, joins the Resistance, then disappears.Gisela, a prostitute once contentedly in control of her own destiny, is incarcerated at Ravensbrück, where she must fight for a future she cannot yet imagine.While Lore, craving a life beyond Berlin, wifedom and motherhood, steps down a dark and dangerous path.Exploring themes of motherhood, identity, trauma, fascism, and survival, Fragments of a Woman offers a nuanced and heartbreaking exploration of what it meant to be a woman living under National Socialist rule.

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  When All Hell Broke Loose

  J. A. Johnstone, William W....

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  Two legends of the American West, Preacher and MacCallister have always fought for justice. Even when all parties were guilty. When all hope was lost. And when all the killing started . . . 
   
   
   
  WHEN ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE 
   
   
   
  It's one of the great mysteries of the Old West. The unexplained disappearance of a hunting party of Prussian nobles who entered the American wilderness—and never returned. Now, years later, the Prussian government demands an explanation. In response, the US Army hires Preacher and Jamie MacCallister to join their search party—along with a band of Prussian soldiers led by the sinister Baron Adalwolf von Kuhner. Some believe it's a hopeless mission, that the original party was slaughtered by the Blackfeet. Others think there may be survivors, most likely women held captive as slaves. But it doesn't take Preacher and MacCallister long to learn the horrible truth . . . 
   
   
   
  This is no rescue mission. It's a massacre in the making. And when the hunters become the hunted, all hell breaks loose . . .

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  The Heartbreaker

  Rexanne Becnel

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  A rake seeks to mend his ways, but his new governess could quickly unravel that plan, in this Regency romance by the bestselling author of The Bridemaker. After returning home from adventures in the Orient, James Lindford, Viscount Farley, causes quite a stir in London society. The viscount’s womanizing past has caught up with him, and he decides he must take his illegitimate children into his household to raise. Doing the right thing, unfortunately, costs him both his fiancée and his political aspirations. With the gossip hounds soon on the prowl, he escapes to the calm of his country estate. But between his rowdy children and the beautiful woman next door, James is not about to get any peace. Phoebe Churchill’s quiet life of raising her niece and tending to her cottage is quickly upended upon the arrival of her new neighbor. When she discovers his daughter is stealing from her, James entreats her to be the children’s governess. It is a job Phoebe accepts with great caution. Though she yearns for the viscount’s kiss, she cannot ignore her mother’s warning—that all men are lustful creatures not to be trusted . . . Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series!Praise for the Matchmaker Series “[A] sensual roller coaster of a book.” —Booklist on The Heartbreaker “Becnel gives us true insight into the human spirit and does not stint on creating the ideal atmosphere and recreating the era to near perfection.” —RT Book Reviews on The Matchmaker “Sparkling romance . . . Playful in tone and rich in character, this book is fun, breezy entertainment.” —Publishers Weekly on The Bridemaker

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  Trenches Of Despair - The Story...

  Christopher Allen

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  "Trenches of Despair" tells the devastating story of the Thompson quadruplets—Billy, John, George, and Thomas—four identical brothers from London's East End who lie about their age to enlist in World War I, transforming from eager volunteers into casualties of the war's brutal machinery. 
  In the summer of 1914, the seventeen-year-old brothers live in a cramped terraced house on Whitmore Street, each with distinct personalities despite their identical appearance. Billy is the natural leader, John the artistic dreamer, George the cheerful entertainer, and Thomas the man of quiet faith. Each has found love—Billy with neighbor Edith Hartwell, John with intellectual Mary Whitfield, George with baker's daughter Florence Meadows, and Thomas with gentle Annie Clarke. 
  When war breaks out, social pressure mounts through the white feather campaign, where women distribute symbols of cowardice to men not in uniform. The brothers face impossible choices between family duty and national service, ultimately enlisting together after being publicly shamed. Their working-class background contrasts sharply with their upper-class officers, highlighting the war's class divisions. 
  After training at Aldershot, they deploy to France in early 1915, experiencing their first taste of trench warfare's horror. The Christmas Truce of 1914 becomes a pivotal moment when they meet German soldiers in No Man's Land, sharing songs, photographs, and discovering their enemies' humanity—making the resumption of killing infinitely more tragic. 
  The brothers survive the early battles, but the war's grinding attrition begins taking its toll. John, the sensitive artist, dies first at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, cut down by a sniper while trying to help wounded comrades. His death devastates the family and his sweetheart Mary, who never recovers from the loss. 
  Thomas, the man of faith, sacrifices himself at Passchendaele in 1917, charging a German machine gun position to save his section.

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  Gunslinger: Killer's Choice

  A.W. Hart

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  FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE FAST-PACED AVENGING ANGELS SERIES COMES THE THIRD BOOK IN A NEW HEART-POUNDING WESTERN ADVENTURE! 
   
   
   
  An ostensibly simple, but hazardous job of delivering some much-needed nitroglycerin components to a burgeoning railroad town in the Arizona Territory proves problematic for the trio of River Hicks, Connor Mack and his twin sister, Abby. 
   
   
   
  Along the way they rescue a Chinese man on the verge of being lynched by a pack of crooked deputies. Moved by the Chinese man's tale of his quest to free his beautiful fiancée from the savage grip of human traffickers, they are surprised and dismayed to find the girl is being held in the town of Woodman, which is their own destination. 
   
   
   
  The town is run by a brutal, self-aggrandizing strongman who has taken over and renamed the town after himself. This self-anointed Duke also has ties to a mysterious financial backer who, unbeknownst to everyone, has enlisted an unscrupulous Pinkerton detective and a professional killer, known as The Regulator, to track down and kill Hicks, Connor, and Abby. 
   
   
   
  All trails unite in the dusty streets of the small, Arizona town where Hicks, Connor, and Abby come face to face with the vicious array of killers for a final showdown they soon realize has become a killer's choice.

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