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  The Ideal Bride

  Stephanie Laurens

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  Michael Anstruther-Wetherby is a man destined for power. Except that Michael, for all his political skill and intelligence, lacks the most important element of success: a wife.  
  So he goes searching for his ideal bride, a gently bred, well-managed young lady. Michael discovers such a paragon, but finds a formidable obstacle in his path, the young lady's beautiful, strong-minded aunt, Caroline Sutcliffe. Caro has lived through an unhappy political marriage, and wants nothing of the sort for her niece, especially as the young woman has already lost her heart to another. 
  Caro and the younger woman hatch a plot -- Caro will demonstrate why an inexperienced young lady is not the bride for him. In deflecting Michael's matrimonial attentions away from her niece, Caro unwittingly focuses them on herself. And then it is Michael's turn to be persuasive, a task that requires every ounce of his seductive charm. 
  A series of mysterious and dangerous accidents befall Caro -- it becomes clear that an assailant has stepped in with his or her own idea for Caro's future -- one that could even involve murder. Before Caro can become Michael's ideal bride, they must race to uncover the unknown's identity before all hope of what they long for, and wish for, is destroyed.

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  The Sergeant Frank Hardy...

  Wendy M. Wilson

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  FROM NEW ZEALAND: THREE ATMOSPHERIC AND ENGAGING HISTORICAL MYSTERIES IN ONE SET 
  In late nineteenth century New Zealand, Sergeant Frank Hardy, ex British soldier from the 57th Regiment, battles for survival and for his own life as he carves out a new existence for himself and his family in the prehistoric but stunningly beautiful bush. An "atmospheric and engaging" series. 
  This three-book anthology (box set) includes, in chronological order:Not the Faintest Trace: When two settlers vanish, Sergeant Hardy is asked to investigate. But his own life and the life of a young Danish woman are soon as risk when a mysterious warrior tries to kill them.Recalled to Life: After he awakes in an underground prison with his memory compromised by chloroform, Sergeant Hardy struggles to remember what has happened. When he is saved by a natural disaster he must hide from the law while his friends search for the truth. A Dark and Painful Mystery: A man leaves home looking for work and does not return. At the same time, a murder occurs in the dense bush. Was the missing man involved in the murder? Sergeant Hardy investigates these real-life events,

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  3 Christmas Stories -...

  Willa Cather, Lucy Ward...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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  Salammbô

  Gustave Flaubert

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  After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammbô. In this volume, Flaubert describes in detail the Mercenary Revolt and the fight of the Mercenaries against the all-powerful Carthage, the theft of the magical Zaimph and the love and hate between the Carthaginian princess Salammbô and the fiercest leader of the Mercenaries, Matho. (Summary by Carolin)

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  My Ántonia

  Willa Cather

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  A study of one of the most beloved and strong heroines in the history of American literature.
   
  Part of the great western migration of the late 1800s, Ántonia Shimerda and her Bohemian family settle in Nebraska to start a new life on the Great Plains. Jim Burden, a child just a couple of years older than Ántonia, travels the same route from the east and becomes, with his grandparents, the Shimerdas’ nearest neighbor. Jim becomes Ántonia’s tutor and good friend, and ultimately he chooses to write down her story. Here is a grounded portrait of one woman’s life on the desolate American prairie as the 19th century turns to the 20th and a sweeping take on what it can mean to be American through hardship.

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  Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross

  Florence Morse Kingsley

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  This is a unique sequel to the book Titus: A Comrade of the Cross written in a very different style, though none the less memorable, full of excitement and suspense! The author combines several stories together with great skill and ease, creating tension, making you wonder how things can play out until the very climax is reached. A blind girl and her brother just barely surviving in Egypt, threatened by the slave trade, almost without hope, one day hear about miracles happening in Jerusalem. They fly for their lives, hoping against hope and when they finally get there they find themselves at the foot of the cross. Is it too late? Was all their suffering for nothing? (Summary by Fiddlesticks)

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