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  A Class Inherited - A sweeping...

  Susie Murphy

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  An extraordinary bequest alters their fate… 
  In the winter of 1846, Cormac and Bridget receive two letters that will change their lives forever. Lord Bewley has died and left Bewley Hall to Cormac, while potato blight has struck the Oakleigh Estate, driving the tenants to appeal to Bridget for help. With their world turned upside down, they decide to leave America and cross the Atlantic to meet the challenges of their pressing responsibilities. 
  As for their daughter Emily, she faces a choice of her own: will she go with her family or stay in America for her art...and for Rory? 
  Heading towards new horizons, they must all strive to re-establish themselves while hampered by distrust and prejudice on multiple fronts. When separation once again plunges a member of the family into grave danger, will they be able to distinguish friend from foe? 
  A Class Inherited is the sixth book in Susie Murphy's historical fiction series A Matter of Class. The story continues in the seventh book, A Class Liberated. 
  Find out more at www.susiemurphywrites.com.

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  The Whispering Women - A...

  Trish MacEnulty

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  Can two women get the lowdown on high society?In 1913, a society writer and a former lady's maid join forces to find the truth and avenge the wrongful death of a friend.Louisa Delafield and Ellen Malloy didn't ask to be thrown together to bring the truth to light, but the unlikely pair navigate a soul-crushing class system to challenge the levers of power that control New York City's upper- and lower-classes alike.After Ellen witnesses the death of a fellow servant under suspicious circumstances, Louisa, a society columnist, vows to help her find the truth and turn her journalistic talent to a greater purpose.Our heroes find that their closest allies and those they trust turn out to be the very forces working to keep them in the dark. Will they overcome the odds? They'll face kidnappers, a sex trafficking ring, and a corrupt system determined to keep the truth at bay.Was change possible in 1913?

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  Forbidden Gold

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  The Yucatan jungle hides a world of secrets... of wealth, love, and fate. Daredevil pilot Kurt Reid is about to fly into the heart of it in search of his destiny — and gold. It's an adventure as daring and dangerous as any undertaken by Indiana Jones. Thanks to his grandfather's dying wish, his entire inheritance hangs on his finding one particular gold nugget. Before it's over, he'll either land on a Mayan sacrificial altar or in the arms of his sexy co-pilot Joy. One way or another, things are heating up fast. Journey into the heart of darkness in the Mexican rain forest as the audio version of Forbidden Gold takes you to a place where the glitter of gold makes passions seethe.

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  Five Hours To Freedom

  Carlos Cabezas López

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  Zaragoza, March 5, 1838. Before dawn, the city sleeps. Within hours, it will burn. 
  Joaquín Espés was once a soldier. Now he is only a blacksmith-a widower, a father, a man trying to bury the ghosts of war beneath the steady rhythm of his hammer. But when Carlist forces launch a surprise attack on Zaragoza, his past returns with brutal force. His former comrade Ramón gives him an impossible ultimatum: betray the city or watch his young son die. 
  With only five hours to decide, Joaquín must choose between loyalty to his people and love for his child. 
  As cannon fire shatters the silence and the streets run red, the blacksmith forges a desperate plan-one that may save his son, doom his city, or condemn him forever. In the chaos of betrayal and resistance, Zaragoza fights back with legendary courage, and ordinary men and women become heroes. But history does not always remember the men who act in the shadows. 
  Five Hours to Freedom is a powerful historical novel inspired by the real events of the Cincomarzada of 1838. It is a story of fatherhood and sacrifice, of moral conflict and impossible choices, and of the heavy price of survival. Because sometimes freedom is not won by heroes in the light-but by those willing to break the iron in the dark.

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  Thuvia Maid of Mars

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  In this novel the focus shifts from John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and Dejah Thoris of Helium, protagonists of the first three books in the series, to their son, Carthoris, prince of Helium, and Thuvia, princess of Ptarth. Helium and Ptarth are both prominent Barsoomian city state/empires, and both Carthoris and Thuvia were secondary characters in the previous two books. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of...

  Lord Dunsany

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  Lord Dunsany was the progenitor of modern fantasy fiction. From Tolkein to Gaiman, from Le Guin to Moorcock, his words inspired an entire genre of modern dark fantasy.A fun adventure in a Spain that never was, in the vein of Dumas and Stevenson, with more than a taste of Cervantes. Don Rodriguez is a young nobleman who is banished from the family castle, and must set out with his rapier and mandolin to win his own estate, and perhaps even a bride. Along with his trusty servant Morano, he journeys far into the heart of the mythical Shadow Valley. Echoes of The Princess Bride resonate throughout. “How to describe this book? It's a pretty problem. As might a child, after dashing off to play on a bright summer morning—hours splashing in the river, exploring the forests, duelling with sticks against the Infidel (or the child next door if the Infidel be not available), winning a week's pocket-money at marbles and losing it again—as such a child, when asked "what did you do today?" simply shrugs and replies "oh, nothing much"; just so should I feel, dear Reader, were I to attempt to pin down the precise qualities of this book for you. It doesn't wash. And yet I must make the attempt. I can say this much: this is a book to be approached lightly. The magic Lord Dunsany weaves is delicate, and you may raise an eyebrow and start to protest that you know the history of Spain, and the events he relates cannot possibly have taken place in the manner he describes. Moreover the characters in his story are surely stereotypes, mere caricatures, and no such people can possibly have walked those dusty roads, and even if they did they cannot have subsisted merely on bacon. Not possible, you say. But when you read of Morano's noble frying pan, of bacon cooked beneath the stars and eaten at the wayfarer's green table, you might find that you believe in Bacon after all.” [Iain, Goodreads]

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