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  Dancing with the Enemy

  Diane Armstrong

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  From the bestselling author of The Collaborator comes a compelling story of betrayal, collusion, revenge, and redemption set in German-occupied Jersey during World War II. 
    
  June 1940. `It was a perfect June evening that began with hope and ended in despair.' So begins the journal of Hugh Jackson, a Jersey doctor, whose idyllic world is shattered when Britain abandons the Channel Islands which are invaded by the Germans. Forced to choose between conflicting loyalties, he sends his pregnant wife to England, believing their separation will be brief. It's a fateful decision that will affect every aspect of his life. 
  May 1942. Young Tom Gaskell fumes whenever he sees the hated swastika flying from Fort Regent. Humiliated by Jersey's surrender and ashamed of his mother's fraternisation with the occupiers, Tom forms an audacious plan, not suspecting that it will result in guilt and tragedy. 
  April 2019. Sydney doctor Xanthe Maxwell, traumatised by the suicide of her colleague and burnt out by the relentless pressure of her hospital work, travels to St Helier so she can figure out what to do with her life. But when she finds Hugh Jackson's World War II journal, she is plunged into a violent world of oppression and collusion, but also of passion and resistance. As she reads, she is mystified by her growing sense of connection to the past. Her deepening relationship with academic Daniel Miller helps her understand Jersey's wartime past and determine her own future.  
  By the time this novel reaches its moving climax, the connection between Tom, Xanthe and Hugh Jackson has been revealed in a way none of them could possibly have imagined.

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  All My Sins Remembered

  Peter Brandvold

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  When the big, savage bounty hunter, Ulysses Xavier Lodge comes to town wanting to spark one of Jane Ford's pretty doxies at the San Juan Saloon & Hotel, Jane and two bouncers give the bear-like giant the bum's rush. Incensed, Lodge returns to the parlor house and shoots Jane three times in the chest. 
   
   
   
  Jane and Bloody Joe had been on the outs, their marriage dissolved, but now with Jane's life teetering on the edge, Joe realizes how much he really loves the pretty redhead and what a fool he was to let her go. Enraged and knowing he can do nothing for Jane in town—she's in a deep coma and only time will tell—Joe takes to the vengeance trail, shadowing Lodge high into the Sawatch Range. 
   
   
   
  Bloody Joe has faced some formidable foes, but none like Ulysses Lodge. With a snowstorm bearing down, Joe and Lodge go head-to-head in the high, stormy rocks where an angry wildcat might just have the final say. 
   
   
   
  Meanwhile, Henry McCallister finds himself falling in love with a pretty schoolteacher who is several years his senior. However, Grace Hastings is not whom Henry thought she was, and soon he and his former sweetheart, Molly, find themselves hunting lost treasure and fighting for their own lives.

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  Invasion of the Sea

  Jules Verne, Edward Baxter,...

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  Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers. 
  Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The story raises a host of concerns — environmental, cultural, and political. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war. The ensuing struggle is finally resolved only by a cataclysmic natural event. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar Arthur B. Evans.

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  Emma - Volume 2 - The ultimate...

  Jane Austen

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  A tranquil English village is about to be turned upside down by shocking engagements, mysterious gifts, and dashing new arrivals. 
  In Emma - Volume 2, the quiet social equilibrium of Highbury is thrillingly disrupted. Emma Woodhouse—handsome, clever, and rich—finds her matchmaking supremacy challenged when the enigmatic Jane Fairfax and the charming, long-awaited Frank Churchill finally arrive in town. Even worse, shocking news of Mr. Elton's hasty marriage sends ripples through her social circle, threatening to break her devoted friend Harriet's heart all over again. As winter thaws and invitations to exclusive dinner parties and balls are sent out, Emma begins to unravel a tangled web of secret affections, jealousies, and hidden motives. But amidst the swirling gossip, she might just be blinding herself to the true intentions of those closest to her—including the ever-watchful and intensely rational Mr. Knightley. 
  Why you will love this audiobook:Lovers of Classic Fiction will be utterly swept away by this quintessential Regency era comedy of manners. Rich with razor-sharp social satire, captivating romantic tension, and exquisite witty banter, Austen's masterpiece brilliantly dissects human nature and class dynamics. It is an absolute must-listen for fans of historical fiction, slow-burn love stories, and fierce, flawed heroines who chart their own defiant courses in a rigid patriarchal world. 
  About the Author:Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which famously interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry. Her brilliant use of free indirect speech, biting irony, and profound emotional realism cemented her legacy as one of the greatest and most beloved writers in English literary history.

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  Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

  Agatha Christie

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  A dying man’s bewildering last words pull an inquisitive young man and his beautiful companion into a dangerous web of lethal secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? 
  While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. The man opens his eyes and with his last breath says, ""Why didn't they ask Evans?"" 
  Haunted by those words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger. . .

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  Allapattah

  Patrick D. Smith, Patrick D....

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  Twenty-five-year-old Seminole Toby Tiger lives in despair in the Florida Everglades. He loves the land and everything that exists in the natural world: the deer and egrets, turtles and herons, cypress trees and sawgrass, ponds and marshes, and, most of all, Allapattah, the crocodile. He watches helplessly as the white man imposes his will on the Seminoles, forcing them either to conform or to eke out a living wrestling alligators and carving trinkets for tourists. According to Toby, the whites "destroy all that they touch." Toby refuses to bend to the white man's will and fights back the only way he knows how. He becomes Allapattah, a creature that earns his respect and protection.

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