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  The Bluestocking's Secret...

  M.M. Wakeford

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  Sarah Cranshaw has never been like other young ladies. 
  While her neighbours gossip over teacups, she's memorising train timetables and losing herself in the stars through her telescope. The village has a name for women like her — bluestocking — and Sarah wears it without complaint. Her only secret is a more tender one: a years-long, hopeless obsession with the charming, unattainable Mr Templeton. She knows nothing will ever come of it. She simply can't seem to stop. 
  Then Benjamin Stanton arrives in England, and an unlikely friendship is born — one that deepens into a years-long written correspondence. Across an ocean and the silence of war, their letters become something rare and precious, filled with the kind of intimate secrets neither could share with anyone else. Something neither of them has ever dared to name. 
  But when Benjamin returns from war, broken by what he has witnessed, a single letter from Sarah pierces his heart. Because Mr Templeton has finally begun to notice her. It is then that Benjamin realises a truth he has hidden from himself all these years — Sarah is destined to marry no one but himself. 
  Will he be in time? 
  A slow-burn friends-to-lovers romance set in Victorian England and Civil War-era America, with a spicy finale. 
  The Bluestocking's Secret Obsession is the third novel in The Stanton Legacy series. Each book features its own hero, heroine and HEA, but the series is best enjoyed in order. Open door / steamy romance. 
  "I couldn't sleep because I couldn't put it down… an intoxicating tale of falling in love" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — Goodreads 
  Tropes: slow burn • friends to lovers • love triangle • grumpy sunshine • Victorian romance • Civil War romance • historical romance • steamy romance

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  American Reckoning An (The John...

  John Stonehouse

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  The John Whicher books can be enjoyed in any order.Book #5 of the bestselling John Whicher novels ★★★★★ 
  Memphis, Tn. In the dead of night the perimeter of a prison is breached. USMS are charged with capturing the violent offenders who’ve escaped. Meanwhile, criminal investigator John Whicher seeks a troubled minor missing in rural West Texas. But is there some connection between two seemingly separate events? 
  In An American Reckoning, Whicher is pulled into a complex, tangled and deadly case...

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  The Naval Treaty - Sherlock Holmes

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Naval Treaty", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" 19th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
  Dr. Watson receives a letter, which he then refers to Holmes, from an old schoolmate, now a Foreign Office employee from Woking who has had an important naval treaty stolen from his office. It disappeared while Mr. Percy Phelps had stepped out of his office momentarily late in the evening to see about some coffee that he had ordered. His office has two entrances, each joined by a stairway to a single landing. The commissionaire kept watch at the main entrance. There was no-one watching at the side entrance. Phelps also knew that his fiancée's brother was in town and that he might drop by. Phelps was alone in the office.

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  The Flowering of the Strange...

  HG Wells

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  Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’.  
  The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and Wells didn’t display much literary interest until, in 1874, he accidentally broke his leg and was left to recover in bed, largely entertained by the library books his father regularly brought him. Through these Wells found he could escape the boredom and misery of his bed and convalescence by exploring the new worlds he encountered in these books.  
  From these humble beginnings began a career that was, after several delays, to be seen as one of the most brilliant of modern English writers.    
  Able to write comfortably in a number of genres he was especially applauded for his science fiction works such as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds but his forays into the social conditions of the times, with classics such as Kipps, were almost as commercially successful.  His short stories are miniature masterpieces many of which bring new and incredible ideas of science fiction to the edge of present day science fact.  Wells also received four nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature 
  Despite a strong and lasting second marriage his affairs with other women also brought the complications of fathering other children.  His writings and work against fascism, as well as the promotion of socialism, brought him into increasing doubts with and opposition to religion.  His writings on what the world could be in works, such as A Modern Utopia, are thought provoking as well as being plausible, especially when viewed from the distressing times they were written in. 
  His diabetic condition pushed him to create what is now the largest Diabetes charity in the United Kingdom.  Wells even found the time to run twice for Parliament. 
  It was a long, distinguished and powerfully successful career by the time he died, aged 79, on August 13th, 1946.

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  Stories for Vlad: Volume 2 -...

  Geo Mihalache

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  Do you want to enjoy the silence in the car and at home? Well, try the stories in the series "Stories for Vlad" 
  In this volume: 
  Pic and Miron on the 'great adventure' - the tomcats go to the forest and return hungry and scared at home after a series of adventures; 
  Tarzanica and the Walnut Tree - the puppy helps a small walnut tree to get out from under a pile of twigs; 
  The Walnut Tree and the Beetle - the disappointment of the walnut tree that loses its leaves for the first time; 
  The Beetle and Winter - the dream of a small green beetle; 
  Pic Locked in the Cellar - the adventure of the curious cat who remains locked in the cellar; 
  Pic, Miron and the New Kitten - in the grandparents' house there is a new kitten that Pic treats at first as a competitor. 
  I invite you to find other stories in the series. 
  Love, 
  Geo

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  The Pinkerton Matchmaker

  Christine Sterling, Marianne...

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  Pairing prospective lady Pinkerton detectives with rough and ready agents? What could possibly go wrong? 
  Head of the Denver Pinkerton office, Archie Gordon, has been tasked with hiring female agents. 
  The problem? They need to be trained by existing agents while solving cases. Alone and unchaperoned. In 1871. 
  The solution? Have each pair marry temporarily, for the duration of the case. If Archie can convince his reluctant agents and the even more reluctant women to agree, that is. 
  One thing is certain, it won't be dull. And the couples might even find love on the road to adventure. If they don't kill each other first. 
  This is a sweet romance that ends on a cliffhanger leading into the rest of the Pinkerton Matchmaker series.

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