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  1492

  Mary Johnston

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  The year is 1492 — and the world is about to change forever. 
   
  Jayme de Marchena is a man living in the shadows. Of Jewish heritage in an Spain consumed by the Inquisition, he walks a razor's edge between survival and ruin. When the noose of suspicion tightens, a desperate gamble takes him aboard the fleet of a visionary Genoese captain named Christopher Columbus — and into the unknown waters of the Atlantic Ocean. 
   
  What follows is an epic voyage of discovery, danger, and moral reckoning. From the intrigues of the Spanish court to the raw wonder of the New World, Jayme witnesses the birth of a new age — and the terrible human cost that comes with it. Mary Johnston gives Columbus's sailors their own voice, and through Jayme's kabbalistic eyes, the journey takes on a mystical depth rarely found in tales of exploration. 
   
  First published in 1922 and released in England as Admiral of the Ocean-Sea, 1492 is a richly imagined historical novel by one of America's most celebrated bestselling authors. Johnston — whose novel To Have and to Hold sold over half a million copies — brings her consummate storytelling to history's most pivotal year, crafting a narrative that is at once a rousing sea adventure and a profound meditation on faith, freedom, and the courage to sail beyond the edge of the known world. 
   
  This is history as you've never heard it — from the deck of the Santa María, in a voice that history almost forgot.

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  The Sands of Atlantis - The...

  Lex Faulkner

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  The next BRAND NEW, gripping, high-octane Ethan Frost archaeological thriller from Lex Faulkner 
  A lost city in the Arabian dunes. The promise of eternal life. A deadly race to find a magical relic. 
  When an ancient clay tablet points the way to the legendary lost city of Ubar - known to many as the Atlantis of the Sands – and with it a mythical relic rumoured to hold power over life and death, former Delta Force operator Ethan Frost and his elite team are thrust into a deadly race to find and secure the site. 
  However, a ruthless Saudi royal advisor obsessed with finding the ancient source of eternal life, and a corrupt intelligence officer protecting a lethal conspiracy, will stop at nothing to claim the prize first. 
  From high-speed car chases through Riyadh to blistering firefights deep inside subterranean temples, Ethan and his team must survive a treacherous gauntlet of modern mercenaries and collapsing ruins – not to mention a huge, destructive sandstorm set to bury everything and everyone in its path. 
  The Arabian myths are real. But in the deadliest desert on Earth, uncovering their secrets might mean being entombed with them forever. 
  Praise for Lex Faulkner: 
  "A thrilling action-adventure packed with twists and turns right up to its breathtaking end." - Bestselling author Rob Jones 
  'A rip roaring adventure! Bit of science, ancient history and general gung ho. Loved it!' Reader Review 
  'Very excting! Lex must put a lot of research into these novels that span many diverse geographic locations and different cultures.' Reader Review 
  'Better than Bond!' Reader Review 
  'Fast paced action with a historical twist.' Reader Review

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  Duke of Pryde

  Mariah Stone

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  A marriage of convenience forces a powerful duke to choose between his ferocious pride and love that melts his icy heart. 
  Reputation is everything in the ton. And no one's is more pristine than Constantine Buccleigh, Duke of Pryde's. But when a blackmailer threatens to expose his devastating secret and have him lose everything, he’s forced to marry Miss Modesty Fairchild, a woman far below his station. 
  A budding archeologist, Modesty would rather dig in the dirt than host a gala. But a deathbed promise has left her the guardian of an orphaned baby. She’ll do anything to protect her little ward…even marry the heartless duke who made the most offensive proposal in the history of womenkind. 
  Lonely in Pryde’s elegant Mayfair home, she despises the cold, unyielding duke who expects her to become his perfect duchess. She loathes his arrogance. He resents her defiance. But as dance lessons and etiquette tutorials force them together, Modesty refuses to shrink beneath his iron control. And with every act of rebellion, she shatters his carefully crafted armor, revealing the lonely, broken man beneath. 
  Glimpsing the tender heart beneath her husband’s haughty exterior, Modesty dreams of a loving future. 
  But a villain in the shadows plots Pryde’s downfall. And as the Seven Dukes of Sin hunt for clues, the blackmailer raises the stakes. 
  Faced with a dreadful choice, will Constantine sacrifice his pride and his title for the wife and child he has come to treasure? 
  Read by the award-winning narrator, Audie finalist, and Earphones for excellence in narration winner, Shane East, and Justine Eyre, a classically trained actor and narrator has been honored to receive a coveted Audie Award and multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards.

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  This I Promise

  Kam R Johnson

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.    Hunter is about to witness an event that may change his future forever, if he even has one... 
  The massive westward expansion needed beef, and so the American cowboy had to deliver.  
  The promise of land and gold drove thousands in that direction, people from all over the world. 
  With little or no law enforcement in vast areas, people could choose the extreme side of morality. 
  A few, in comparison, walked its razor edge. 
  Historical fiction, action, and exciting!  Was in the newspaper. "Contains sound effects!"

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  The Holiday Group - A sweet...

  E M Delafield

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  Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture, and more commonly known as E M Delafield, was born in Steyning, Sussex on 9th June 1890.   
   
  Raised in the fading years of the Victorian era with its Empire and strict moral codes Delafield, not yet married at twenty-one, joined a French religious order, in Belgium, but soon decided that this was a totally wrong choice for her.   
   
  Her next challenge was her work during the horror of the First World War.  Delafield decided to take up a position as a nurse in a Voluntary Aid Detachment in Exeter.  It was whilst here that she managed to write her first novel, ‘Zella Sees Herself’.   
   
  With the end of the war new opportunities were sought and she now took up a position for the South-West Region of the Ministry of National Service in Bristol.  With it came enough time to write two more novels: ‘The War Workers’ (1918) and ‘The Pelicans’ (1918).   
   
  On 17th July 1919, she married Colonel Arthur Paul Dashwood, OBE, an engineer responsible for building the massive docks at Hong Kong Harbour.  The marriage produced two children; Lionel and Rosamund.  That same year her fourth novel, ‘Consequences’, was published.   
   
  The couple spent their early years in Malaya but returned to England to live in Croyle, an old house in Kentisbeare, Devon.  Delafield continued to collect responsibilities and organise whatever she could.  At the initial meeting of the Kentisbeare Women's Institute, Delafield was unanimously elected president, and also became a Justice of the Peace, raised the children and, of course, continued to write her best-selling novels.   
   
  Her greatest work is undoubtedly the largely autobiographical ‘Diary of a Provincial Lady’, which is a simply structured journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman, living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s.  It spawned several best-selling sequels.  Her works also includes stage and radio plays, film scripts and short stories.  
   
  After the death of her son in 1940, her health began to markedly decline.    
   
  E M Delafield died on 2nd December 1943 after collapsing whilst giving a lecture in Oxford.  She was 53.

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  3 Stories About Deadly Feuds - A...

  Saki Saki, Bret Harte, J Y Ackerman

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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. 
   
   
  01 - 3 Stories About Deadly Feuds 
  02 - The Interlopers by Saki 
  03 - The Iliad of Sandy Bar by Bret Harte 
  04 - The Miniature by J Y Ackerman

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