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  The Sacco Gang

  Andrea Camilleri

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  The award-winning author’s “vivid historical novel based on the true story of the five Sacco brothers” who fought fascism and the mafia in 1920s Sicily (Publishers Weekly).  Sicily, 1920s. As socialists who run successful farms and businesses, the Sacco brothers are a prime target of the local Mafia’s extortion racket. When their father receives an anonymous letter demanding protection money, he goes to the police. But what can they do with such a complaint? No one in the village has ever dared denounce the Mafia before.   From that moment on, the Sacco brothers must defend themselves as they face an escalating war against the Mafia, corrupt police, and fascist leaders who declare the Saccos a gang of bandits. Facing violent attacks and false accusations, they become fugitives who can trust no one in their battle for freedom.   “A twisted morality tale worthy of the wild west.” —The Guardian

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  The Loss Of Some Detail

  Mandi Martin

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  Forget all you know, for all you know might well be false. That is how is often seems to asylum worker James Grey as he tends to the patients abandoned to Oculus Mentis, an austere asylum lost to the world. His day to day quite literally forgettable. Until now. Slowly the world around him starts to change. Plagued by lucid dreams, a haunting drawing and visions of a pleading female he feels his mind is dissolving. Aided by the enigmatic Silas and silent Marianne he seeks to solve the mysteries that are tormenting him.

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  The Gleam in the North - The...

  D. K. Broster

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  The Gleam in the North – a sequel to The Flight of the HeronSet six years after the bloody conflict of Culloden, The Gleam in the North sees Ewen Cameron living back in his ancestral home in the Highlands with his beautiful wife Alison and their two small sons.   They are delighted by a surprise visit from Alison’s brother Hector, on leave from his regiment in France.But Hector’s visit is not all it seems.  He is on a secret mission for the young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie, but before he can deliver a vital coded letter to a fellow Jacobite, he is attacked on a lonely Highland road and left for dead.  After regaining consciousness, he discovers that the incriminating letter is missing.  Who has stolen it and why?  And how did they know he was carrying it?Meanwhile, Ewen’s kinsman, Doctor Archibald Cameron, has returned to the Highlands to seek further financial support for the Jacobite cause, knowingly putting himself and anyone associated with him in mortal danger.  A notorious supporter of Bonnie Prince Charlie, he is an outlaw in his own country and the English Army are determined to find and arrest him for treason – for which the penalty is death.Ewen is once again swept up into a thrilling adventure as he attempts to save his cousin Archie and to unravel the mystery regarding Hector’s stolen letter.   Could the two be connected?But who can he really trust, when it seems certain that there is a spy working for the English Government within his own trusted circle of family and friends?With action, historical adventure and lyrical descriptions of the Scottish Highlands, The Gleam in the North is sure to appeal to fans of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series and Peter May’s Lewis trilogy.

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  The Fun Factory

  Chris England

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  The Fun Factory is set in the golden decade before the Great War, when the music halls were the people's entertainment, before radio, television or cinema, and bigger than all of them. Arthur Dandoe is a gifted young comedian trying to make his way within the prestigious Fred Karno theatre company. Determined to thwart him at any cost is another ruthlessly ambitious performer - one Charlie Chaplin. Things turn even nastier when Arthur and Charlie both fall for the same girl, the irresistibly alluring Tilly Beckett. One of the two rivals is destined to become the most celebrated man on the planet, with more girls than he can shake his famous stick at. The other. . . well, you'll just have to read this book - his book. It could have been so different.

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  The Midnight Requiem

  Rachel Lawson

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  A rich lord falls the victim to a robbery by a novice highwayman, who is caught with evidence to the highwayman the Ghost's identity being him. He must outwit judge Thomas Gregory, the thief-taker, and get back the evidence before he can arrest him. The evidence is a manuscript with the song of the Ghost it is written in the Ghost's own hand, it is called the midnight requiem.  Songs written with Suno Ai

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  Buckskin Brigades

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  It’s 1806 and the United States is pushing westward. Now, one white man raised by Indians - Yellow Hair - undertakes a treacherous adventure across the uncharted wilderness. Experience a panoramic journey across the pages of American history - in this thrilling story of a proud, courageous man pushed to the limits of endurance...and of a country on the threshold of a bloody conflict that will change it forever.A Galaxy Press audio production.

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