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  El Cid: The Lord of Valencia -...

  Griff Hosker

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  Sent into exile once more Don Rodrigo de Vivar has just Will Redbeard and two warriors for companions. Over the next years, he creates the legend of El Cid defeating enemy after enemy. Fighting overwhelming odds, he succeeds every time until, at last, he has his fiefdom of Valencia. This is the final chronicle in the series and details the last eighteen years of the life of the man known as El Cid. Although this is the last in the series it is a stand-alone book. Forget the film and listen to the reality of the man who was the greatest knight of his age; some would say, any age!

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  Crisis of Conscience

  Mary Withall

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  When Dr. Hugh Beaton dies of pneumonia, his son Ian decides to leave his new position in Edinburgh to take over his father's medical practice on Eisdalsa. As July 1948 approaches, the remote self-sufficient community of Eisdalsa in Argyll anticipates great changes in the provision of its health services. While it is generally agreed the proposals will be for the common good, the Beaton doctors are faced with significant career changes which threaten the unity of this close knit family.

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  The Song of Peterloo -...

  Carolyn O'Brien

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  Inspired by the true story of the Peterloo Massacre. 
  Manchester 1819. Prices are high and wages are low, but as the poor become poorer, the rich are alarmed by their calls for reform. 
  Mill-worker Nancy Kay struggles to support her ailing mother and sensitive son. Desperate to provide for them, she is inspired to join the growing agitation. But, as she risks everything to attend a great assembly on St Peter’s Field, Nancy is unaware the day will go down in history, not as a triumph but as tragedy; the Peterloo massacre. 
  This is one woman’s story of belief in change, pieced together by her family and friends and the two men who share her momentous summer. A story of hope, and sacrifice, and above all, courage. 
  'Vivid, gripping and so evocative' Dr Janette Martin 
  'A compelling account of this fateful day in British political history' The Historical Novel Society 
  'Moving and beautifully written' Emma Darwin 
  'Lyrical, earthy and compelling' Brian Keaney 
  'A powerful, heartfelt story' James Wilson 
  'A heroine not just for 1819 but 2019 too' Dr Jacqueline Riding, Historian, Curator and Author 
  'This moving tale will bring history alive' Julie Barham, Northernreader

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  Never Trust a Rebel

  Sarah Mallory

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  When an exiled Englishman returns from Paris to look after a beautiful young ward, he is tempted into a forbidden affair in this historical romance. 
   
  England, 1756. Ten years ago, Drew Castlemain fled England, disowned by his family and branded a traitor. So returning to escort his new ward, Elyse Salforde, to her husband-to-be is not only frustrating, it’s downright dangerous! 
   
  Drew is honor-bound to protect Elyse, but when he discovers she is beautiful, intelligent and far too spirited for her own good, that’s easier said than done! Drew is in no position to offer her anything, but when every touch is forbidden yet oh-so-delicious, he won’t be able to fight temptation for long . . .

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  Beyond Passing - The Further...

  Nella Larsen

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  Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing is hailed today as a significant literary work of Harlem Renaissance, though for several decades it, like all of her works, was out of print. As history rights a wrong and recommits Larsen’s name to memory, it is beneficial to look at the other writings she published over her short career, collected here in Beyond Passing: The Further Writings of Nella Larsen. Contained within are her autobiographical novel Quicksand, and three short stories “Freedom,” “The Wrong Man,” and “Sanctuary.” 
  With a growing number of titles under its Magna Releases banner, CSRC Storytelling promotes and provides positivity, power and presence in print, restoring literary classics across genres and making them newly accessible to modern readers. This edition of Nella Larsen’s Passing is a CSRC Storytelling Magna Release.

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  Appointment with Death - A...

  Agatha Christie

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  The unstoppable Hercule Poirot finds himself in the Middle East with only one day to solve a murder in the classic Agatha Christie mystery, Appointment with Death. 
    
  Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. 
    
  With only twenty-four hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: “You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?” Mrs. Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met. . . .

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