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  My Margaret Your Toshie

  Keith Adamson

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  A novel based on the intertwined lives of Margaret MacDonald & Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
  
  War has broken out and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is in self-imposed exile from his native Glasgow, painting wildflowers in watercolour in a sleepy Suffolk village.
  
  As a man from 'foreign parts', however, he falls prey to the suspicions of apprehensive villagers, even finding himself accused of spying. With tensions running high, it is his wife Margaret who comes to the rescue by engineering their escape to Chelsea. There they find themselves in a burgeoning artistic scene where old friends encourage them to seek out a completely new life in a rather different part of the world.
  
  Will this be the turning point? Can Margaret's continuing love and support be just the leverage Charles needs to reinvent himself as an artist?

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  Fifteen Wild Decembers

  Karen Powell

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  SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023 
   
   
   
  A SUNDAY TIMES' BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF 2023  
   
   
   
  Isolated from society, Emily Brontë and her siblings spend their days inventing elaborate fictional realms or roaming the wild moors above their family home in Yorkshire. When the time comes for them to venture out into the world to earn a living, each of them struggles to adapt, but for Emily the change is catastrophic. Torn from the landscape to which she has become so passionately bound, she is simply unable to function. 
   
    
    
  To the outside world, Emily Brontë appears taciturn and unexceptional, but beneath the surface her mind is in a creative ferment. A violent phenomenon is about to burst forth that will fuse her imaginary world with the landscape of her beloved Yorkshire and change the literary world forever. 
   
   
   
  Fifteen Wild Decembers is the dazzling second novel from a writer who has been compared to Shirley Hazzard and Graham Greene, and whose first novel was described as "utterly stunning," "mesmerizing," and hailed as "a masterpiece."

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  Colonial Brazil and Bounty...

  Lucas Weber

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  When their home in Cape Verde is attacked and burned by Sir Francis Drake in the 16th century, Tontorix and Diaecus decide to travel on a galleon to explore the New World. Upon arriving in colonial Brazil, the two ancient Celts build a new home for themselves, but are forced to flee when the Dutch arrive to attack and occupy Portuguese settlements. They escape into the wilderness and take up residence in Palmares, a community of runaway slaves who are continuously hunted by the Europeans looking to re-enslave them. 
  As the centuries pass, they encounter and adapt to new technologies and scientific discoveries that greatly alter the world around them. 
  In the 19th century, they embark on a mission to bring two murderers to justice for a large bounty, and their relentless pursuit of the outlaws takes them across the vast and beautiful North American frontier. Years later, when everything they hold dear is threatened, they are forced into a final and epic conflict.

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  Bilingual Book English Spanish...

  Ariel Sanders

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  🔥 A Revolutionary Tale of Vengeance, Justice, and the Masks We Wear 
  They came in the night, wearing porcelain masks. By dawn, the aristocracy trembled. 
  Paris, 1788—A city on the edge of revolution, where the elite feast while the people starve. 
  When the Duke of Montreuil is found brutally dismembered in his locked bedchamber, Police Chief Émile Vaudrin faces an impossible case. No forced entry. No witnesses. Only a chilling message written in blood: "The Debt is Paid." 
  As more nobles fall to the masked killers known only as The Syndicate, Vaudrin is caught between duty and morality. These aren't random murders—they're executions. Each victim hides unspeakable crimes behind their powdered wigs and silk finery. 
  Vaudrin's investigation leads him into the labyrinthine catacombs beneath Paris, where he discovers the truth is more terrifying than any ghost story. The Syndicate is no supernatural force—they're something far more dangerous: ordinary people driven to extraordinary measures. 
  As revolution brews above ground, Vaudrin faces an impossible choice. Join the law he's sworn to uphold, or the vigilantes who bring a darker kind of justice? 
  "For the people. The debt is paid." 
  ⭐ Why you’ll love this book: 
  ✅ Edge-of-your-seat suspense that will keep you reading until dawn 
  ✅ Perfect for English & Spanish learners—read in both languages! 
  ✅ Morally complex characters who blur the lines between hero and villain 
  ✅ A meticulously researched historical setting on the powder keg of revolution 
  ✅ Gothic atmosphere and theatrical horror that rivals Phantom of the Opera 
  ✅ The perfect blend of historical fiction, psychological thriller, and revenge tale 
  🩸 Some debts can only be paid in blood. 
  📖 Get your copy today and discover why justice wears a mask.

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  A Witch's Den - A look into the...

  Helena Blavatsky

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  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, often known as Madame Blavatsky, was born on 12th August 1831 into an aristocratic family in present day Dnipro in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.  She was the younger sister of the writer Vera Zhelikhovsky. 
   
  Much of Blavatsky’s life story relies on her own memories which changed much during her lifetime and therefore parts of it are unreliable.  What appears to be certain is that much of her life was lived first on family travels and postings and then on her journeys in an effort to further her own self-education and quest for knowledge. 
   
  As a teenager she developed an interest in Western esotericism and from there she claimed many travels including a trip to India where she encountered a group of spiritual adepts, the ‘Masters of the Ancient Wisdom’, who sent her to Shigatse, Tibet, where they trained her to develop a deeper understanding of the synthesis of religion, philosophy, and science.  
   
  By the early 1870s, Blavatsky was involved in the Spiritualist movement, which was then popular both in Britain and abroad, even though she argued against its main tenet that those ‘contacted’ were the spirits of the dead.  
   
  She moved to the United States in 1873 and became close to the journalist Henry Steel Olcott who helped her gain public attention as a spirit medium and then also became an adherent to her principles.   
   
  In 1875 in New York City she co-founded the Theosophical Society and two years later published ‘Isis Unveiled’, a book outlining her Theosophical world-view from its ancient roots to the modern day.  Her work was even more popular in Asia than elsewhere and is said to have influenced both Ghandi and Nehru amongst many others.  
   
  In 1880, she and Olcott moved to India, where the Society was allied to a Hindu reform movement.  That same year she converted to Buddhism.  However, she was often plagued with accusations of fraudulent paranormal phenomena.  
   
  With her health failing she returned to London and published ‘The Secret Doctrine’, her commentary on claimed ancient Tibetan manuscripts, and other books.  
   
  Helena Blavatsky died in London of influenza during the global pandemic on 8th May 1891.  She was 59.

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  Soul of the Matter

  Michael A. Kroll

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  This story follows the odyssey of Harrison Ovitz, a quick-witted, ice cream guzzling, pot smoking, classical music-loving fund raiser for an organization dedicated to preventing child abuse. Late one night, a terrifying chance encounter with a man on the San Francisco Bay Bridge – Soul Man – leaves Harrison haunted and obsessed. As his search for answers leads him closer to the truth, he unexpectedly uncovers some from his own past.

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