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  The Temptation and Downfall of...

  Peter Klein

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  A married vicar with a passion for a young single woman, a bitter publican, a Peeping Tom, a resentful church warden: our human frailties are still much as they always have been.
  Over three hundred years ago, the Reverend Robert Foulkes arrived as the new incumbent at the wealthy parish of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire. Charismatic, 'exceedingly followed and admired', he set off a chain of events which led to his hanging at Tyburn in 1679.
  What irrational impulse could have brought a man of the Church to such a squalid end? Historian Peter Klein has pieced together remarkable documentary evidence which shows a village seething with jealousies, covetousness and sexual intrigue. Their eloquent new vicar was the catalyst for the moving and powerful tragedy that followed.
  Awaiting execution, in Newgate gaol, Foulkes wrote his confessional pamphlet, An Alarme for Sinners, which was an immediate C17th best-seller.
  Today the ancient church of Stanton Lacy still stands and there inscribed on a wall plaque, along with other less notorious vicars, is the name of Reverend Robert Foulkes and the dates he served there. In this remarkable book, Peter Klein unfolds the full story of Robert Foulkes for the first time.
  From the scaffold, Foulkes addressed the crowd: 'You may in me see what sin is, and what it will end in.'
  A true story "more real than any historical novel - more moving, more evocative, more human." John Fowles

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  Death at Brighton Pavilion

  Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley

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  When Captain Gabriel Lacey finds himself standing over a dead body in Brighton Pavilion, bloody sword in hand and no memory of how he got there, he immediately fears he is a murderer. 
  The dead man is Colonel Hamilton Isherwood, a man Lacey clashed with after the battle of Salamanca in Spain seven years before. As Lacey tries to piece together the events of the previous night, he discovers he’d promised to help a Quaker gentleman find his missing son, and that the Society of Friends might know far more about his strange night out than anyone else. 
  With the help of Brewster, Grenville, and his wife, Lacey races to save himself from arrest, even it means bringing to light painful scandals from his own past.

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  Master and Man

  Leo Tolstoy

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  A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town quickly 'for business'. They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The master's peasant soon finds himself about to die from hypothermia. The master leaves him on the horse to stubbornly try to find the road. When he returns, he attains a spiritual/moral revelation, and Tolstoy once again repeats one of his famous themes: that the only true happiness in life is found by living for others. (Wikipedia)

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  Her Little Secret His Hidden Heir

  Heidi Betts

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  Heidi Betts is a USA Today best-selling author with a talent for penning deeply passionate romances. In Her Little Secret, His Hidden Heir, millionaire Marcus Keller is pleasantly surprised to run into Vanessa, his ravishing ex-wife, but he’s shocked to discover the son she’s been keeping from him. He’s determined to play a part in his son’s life, but while Vanessa expects it to be strictly business, Marcus entertains a secret agenda -- winning Vanessa back for good.

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  Charleston

  Alexandra Ripley

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  As a child, Elizabeth Tradd witnessed the horror of war and as a young girl, she learned the worst that men can do. As a woman, she discovers the breathtaking excitement that comes to but a lucky few. Here is the story of a Charleston family and the courage, love, and passion that bind them to each other and their vibrant South Carolina city. From the final years of the Civil War and Reconstruction to the beginnings of the ragtime era, this is the story of an extraordinary family'             s courage, commitment, and unassailable love.

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  Eddie's Bastard - A Novel

  William Kowalski

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  "Eddie's Bastard" is William Amos Mann IV, known as Billy -- the son of a heroic pilot killed in Vietnam and an unknown woman. The last in a line of proud, individualistic Irish-American men, Billy is discovered in a basket at the door of the dilapidated mansion where his bitter, hard-drinking grandfather, Thomas Mann, has exiled himself. Astonished and moved by the arrival of his unexpected progeny, Thomas sets out to raise the boy himself -- on a diet of love, fried baloney, and the fascinating lore of their shared heritage. Listening to his sets out to capture the stories on paper. He is a Mann, Grandpa reminds him daily, and thus destined for greatness. Through the tales of his ancestors, his own experiences, and the unforgettable characters who enhance and enliven his adolescence, Billy learns of bravery and cowardice, of life and death, of the heart's capacity for love and for unremitting hatred, eventually grasping the meaning of family and history and their power to shape destiny. Steeped in imagery and threaded with lyricism, Eddie's Bastard is a novel of discovery, of a young man's emergence into the world, and the endless possibilities it offers.

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