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  Skull River

  Pip Fioretti

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  In a fading gold town, the seams of violence run deep. 
   
  'I was like a man washed ashore on an island, half mad and only my warrant card and blood-soaked uniform to vouch for me. But I had to act as if I knew what the hell to do.' 
   
  In Autumn of 1912, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins arrives at his new post in the fading gold town of Colley, NSW. On his first day, he is ambushed by a hidden gunman, his junior officer is killed before his eyes, and he escapes back to town to find the police station burning to the ground. Someone has it in for the mounted troopers. 
  A traumatised veteran of the Boer War, and a stranger to Colley, Hawkins is deeply shaken and ill-equipped to solve the case. But with only green troopers and a drunken, incompetent detective available to hunt down the murderer, he is forced to take the lead. Soon he finds that Colley hides a lot more than gold beneath its surface, for anyone who knows where to dig. 
  In Skull River, Gus Hawkins returns for a gripping and immersive hunt through a small town at the edge of a troubled empire. With black humour, Fioretti weaves a story that's both a cracking murder mystery and a razor-sharp portrayal of a country on the verge of transformation.

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  Merchant's Tale The: Book...

  Alexander Pike

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  In a world where fortunes rise and fall with the shifting tides of ambition, The Merchant's Tale tells the riveting story of a man who dares to chase wealth, honor, and redemption. Amid bustling marketplaces and treacherous courts, one merchant must navigate betrayal, sacrifice, and the high price of dreams. Richly textured and emotionally resonant, this captivating journey explores the resilience, cunning, and heart required to forge a legacy in an unforgiving world.

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  Ali Pacha

  Alexandre Dumas

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  "Ali Pacha" by Alexandre Dumas is a vivid historical tale of power, ambition, and betrayal set in the Ottoman Empire. The story follows Ali Pacha of Ioannina, a ruthless and cunning ruler who rises to prominence through strategic alliances and brutal force. Dumas explores his complex character, portraying him as both a visionary leader and a tyrant driven by greed and paranoia. As Ali’s quest for dominance unfolds, themes of loyalty, revenge, and cultural conflict come to the fore. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue and war, the novel delves into the tension between tradition and modernity. A gripping blend of drama and history, it reflects on the cost of power and the fragility of legacy in a turbulent era.

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  Nothing Left to Fear from Hell

  Alan Warner

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  Shortlisted for The Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize and The Highland Book Prize 
   
   
   
  A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure . . . 
   
   
   
  In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through the islands and mountains of the Hebrides. His name is Charles Edward Stuart: better known today as Bonnie Prince Charlie. He had come to the country to take the throne. Now he is leaving in exile and abject defeat. 
   
   
   
  In prose that is by turns poetic, comic, macabre, haunting, and humane, multi- award-winning author Alan Warner traces the frantic last journey through Scotland of a man who history will come to define for his failure.

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  Sunny Gale--A Novel

  Jamie Lisa Forbes

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  2025 Will Rogers Medallion Recipient--historical fiction 
  Listed in Best Indie Books of 2024--Kirkus Reviews 
  Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist 
  Feathered Quill Book Awards Finalist 
  It's 1895 and fourteen year old Hannah Brandt struggles with the harsh realities of life on a new Nebraska homestead. Her imagination is captured by a wild filly that she ultimately loses, but the door to her destiny opens. Three years later she enters the first Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo, where she wins a relay race and begins a quest to tackle the ultimate horse sport, saddle bronc riding. She takes a new name, Sunny Gale, and pursues a career in rodeo, much to the disgust of her young husband and Victorian-era mother. With every move, she defies convention as the drive to compete takes over her life, leaving everything else behind, including husbands and children. Sunny Gale is a story of the social mores of the early 20th century  and of a woman determined to wrest free of them no matter how high the personal cost or where her choices will lead.

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  The Murder at the Vicarage - A...

  Anonym

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  The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide. 
  Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death. 
   
  Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing land-owner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone--even in the vicar--wishes he were dead. And very soon he is--shot in the head in the vicar's own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer. 
   

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