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Winner of the National Book Award, this bestseller describes army life in Hawaii on the eve of Pearl Harbor.
"The publishers believe that the appearance of this novel is of comparable importance to the publication of This Side of Paradise or Look Homeward, Angel. For like the first novels of Fitzgerald and Wolfe, From Here to Eternity introduces a writer who will take a commanding place in American literature. The events of the novel occur in Hawaii...
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Just eighteen, beautiful and intelligent, Yola Beauharnais lives a blessed Fairy tale life at her magnificent family castle on the Loire.
Then her grandmother announces that she has been, promised in marriage by her late beloved father to the Marquis de Montereau. Yola is appalled. She has heard of the Marquis, who, although handsome and sophisticated, has a reputation in Paris as a rake, socialite and 'ladykiller'. How could she possibly marry such...
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While staying at Lady Merrill's French Riviera villa, flame haired and beautiful American heiress Nevada van Arden passes her time by casually breaking the hearts of her many ardent suitors – particularly that of young David, Lord Merrill.
When his uncle, intrepid explorer and diplomat Tyrone Strome, overhears her cruel humiliation of his lovelorn nephew, he resolves to teach this 'vixen' a lesson – and save David from his misery.
Tyrone Strome...
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Although Chandra's father Professor Barnard Wardell is the world's most distinguished Sanskrit scholar, his earnings are barely enough to support him, his daughter and their faithful servant Ellen.
So, when the dashing Lord Damon Frome invites him on a highly paid expedition to Nepal it is a Godsend. But, having spent much of his advance, the Professor is struck down by a heart attack. So, to the fury of the woman-hating Lord Frome, demure young Chandra...
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Renowned for his lavish lifestyle and a roving eye, Valient, Viscount Ockley, is completely bowled over by heiress, Niobe Barrington. But, it's not just for her dazzling beauty that he pursues he with such ardor, for although he lives like a King, it's all on credit. In reality he's all but, bankrupt and only, by marrying into money can he hope to restore his ruined house to its former glory.
But, Niobe's father, Sir Aylmer, won't hear of it and arranges...
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The Duke of Ravenstock is the most, attractive and elusive bachelor in London, and the most notorious.
His exploits and romantic escapades keep the salons of the Social world buzzing, but never more so than, when he announces that he will marry. His friends soon realize that what has, captured the Duke's heart is the purity and innocence of his intended bride.
The wedding date has been, fixed when the Duke, discovers by accident that his fiancé...
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After her mother died when Serena Staverley was just nine, her father, Sir Giles, indulged his deep passion for gambling, leaving his only child in charge of an impoverished household.
Now a stunningly beautiful young woman, Serena is mortified to hear that her father has been, killed in a duel. Worse still, it seems that he went willingly, even deliberately to his death. But, why?
The appalling answer is, presented by her much-loved cousin Nicholas,...
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Eternal Warrior ; 1
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In the dawn of history, two powerful immortals, Gilad and Aram, are born to a warrior tribe. The tribe is slain, and the brothers part, but the battles never cease for Gilad Anni-Padda, the Eternal Warrior. Gilad befriends the Geomancers, who warn of an approaching doom. In the present, Gilad "Abrams" knows that doom has arrived as Geoff, the Geomancer, whisks him away to the greatest battle of all time: the Unity Conflict!
12) The Hidden evil
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At her father's request and on the instructions of the Royal council, flame-haired young Scottish beauty Sheena McCraggan sails to France to become a companion to the fourteen-year-old Mary Stuart – Mary Queen of Scots – at the court of French King Henri II. Once there, she is to report on the young Queen's intentions and those of the French Court regarding the future of Scotland and specifically whether it will support Mary's rightful accession...
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Now that her beloved father has passed away and the family estate sold off to provide for her future, beautiful young, Zelina Tiverton is somewhat bewildered to find herself living in amid the glamour of London's Social World with her guardian, her Aunt Kathleen. Now her aunt has a greater shock in store, announcing that she is sending Zelina to Russia to stay as Governess with Prince and Princess Volkonsky. Clearly Aunt Kathleen simply wants Zelina...
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The beautiful young Mimosa Shenson is, left alone in the world, penniless and stranded, in Tunisia after her father dies, from a snakebite while visiting the partially, excavated archaeological site of Thuburbo Maius.
Whatever can she do?
The answer appears to be in a chance reading of a local newspaper reporting that her cousin Minerva, who has been living a grand Villa near Tunis, but has suddenly, disappeared and is, feared kidnapped for her large...
15) A song of love
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Beautiful widowed mother Lady Susi Sherington faces a terrible dilemma. Although she is deeply in love with the dashing, Jean, the Comte de Girone, her friend the Duchesse Lorraine d'Aubergue, insists she must shun him because, "he is a heartbreaker". What's more he needs a bride rich enough to support Castle Girone, the most imposing in Provence and the real love of his life. And thanks to the punitive will of her late (and much older) husband she...
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Handsome, noble Lord Alistair McDonon's gay life, as a denizen of London's Beau Monde far, far away from his Scottish roots, comes to a sudden and abrupt end.
When the tragic news, arrives that his two brothers have, drowned at sea, he is, summoned to Scotland by his estranged father, not only, to take up his title of the Marquis of Kildonon and position, of heir to the Chieftainship of the Clan, but also to marry, Lady Morag McNain, in order to unite...
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In the economic collapse that follows the Napoleonic Wars, retired Ambassador, Sir Horace Lambourn, and his family are all but bankrupt and cannot meet their ever mounting bills.
Suddenly, though, a last minute rescue appears in the form of the request for the hand in marriage of Sir Horace's beautiful daughter, Camilla, from none other than His Serene Highness the Prince of Meldenstein.
Sir Horace is cock-a-hoop, especially when he learns of the...
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Is He Her Mortal Enemy...
Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more precious than gold. Though Shalotts are renowned assassins, a curse held over Shay lands her on the slave auction block, where her fate is uncertain...
Or The Man Who Will Risk All...
Viper, the beguiling chief of a deadly vampire clan, can't explain his longing to possess
...20) Eternals
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"The Eternals, a super-race, are now scattered and forgetful of their powers and immortality, living mortal human lives of supreme normalcy. Meanwhile their age-old enemies, the Deviants, stalk the earth with nefarious intentions, and at least one of the super-duper-race Celestials (who created both Deviants and Eternals eons ago) may be returning to Earth. The source of all this forgetfulness and strife appears to be the eternally 11-year-old Sprite,...
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