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  • The Only Thing Necessary The Only Thing Necessary
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    The Only Thing Necessary

    Three slaves run away from a cotton plantation to seek freedom in British territory. The best bounty hunters money can buy are hired and horrendous punishments await the returned fugitives. The outcome should be oh-so predictable. Yet no one can foresee...
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  • Cailin Sgiathanach Cailin Sgiathanach
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    Cailin Sgiathanach

    B' i Cailin Sgiathanach, no Faodalach na h-Abaid an treas nobhail a sgrìobhadh anns a' Ghàidhlig. Nochd i an toiseach sa bhliadhna 1923, agus cha do dh'fhoillsicheadh nobhail Ghàidhlig eile gu ceann còrr is dà fhichead bliadhna. Tha i, mar sin, na puing...
    $36.00

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  • Keziah's Song Keziah's Song
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    Keziah's Song

    The Greek empire. A Jewish rebellion. A musically gifted girl strives to overcome the brutal siege of a contested land.Maccabean Israel, 135 BCE. Judean orphan Keziah has been traumatized by a savage war. As the Greek empire invades Jerusalem with battle...
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  • Diemens Diemens
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    Diemens

    'I am George Baggs, wrenched from the cradle of my birthing and flung across the sea to this infernal place at the mercy of a pitiless wind ... a place where the western winds howl ceaselessly and rain pours down in sheets from the maw of a black sky...
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  • The Memory of Blood The Memory of Blood
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    The Memory of Blood

    1811: As Britain stands on the brink of great change, Mina is far from home. Stolen and put to dangerous work, she longs to return to her family and farm. Instead, when one of her friends is killed, Mina finds herself risking everything on a perilous...
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  • An Inessential Liaison An Inessential Liaison
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    An Inessential Liaison

    Falling for a German officer in Occupied Normandy in 1943 was not in Élodie Duchamp's wildest dreams. When she learns that her beloved brother Félix is working with the French Resistance, it becomes apparent that the dangers are heightened for them both...
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  • A Duke Once Lost A Duke Once Lost
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    A Duke Once Lost

    A lovelorn lady ...Eleven years ago, Lady Amelia Prescott was jilted on the night of her planned elopement, and the man who betrayed her disappeared from England with nothing more than a letter of farewell. Ever since, she has focused her attention on...
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  • Great Water, Big Sea Great Water, Big Sea
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    Great Water, Big Sea

    In 1855, when Tuva agrees to marry Isak Nilsson-a man she hardly knows-she fears this will be her life's only adventure. When her new husband gifts her passage on a ship bound for America as a wedding present, it changes the course of her entire future...
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  • The Rise of Riverstone The Rise of Riverstone
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    The Rise of Riverstone

    She was forced to watch her world burn.They should have killed her when they had the chance.Praed is a country of vast prairies and looming mountains where the elite make their homes along a mighty river. For hundreds of years, to wear the crown is to...
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  • The Watchmaker 2 The Watchmaker 2
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    The Watchmaker 2

     The Saga Continues as ten years have passed, and the Watchmaker and his family are now settled into their thriving new jewelry business, in the heart of New York City's jewelry district. Despite their emotional anguish, they manage to somehow move...
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  • Gone To Dallas Gone To Dallas
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    Gone To Dallas

    Sara's husband was a disappointment in life, but she had to admit he was a handsome corpse.Climb aboard an 1856 Dallas-bound wagon train and join a plucky female protagonist for the journey of a lifetime in Laurie Moore-Moore's richly entertaining new...
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  • Blue Sky Gone Blue Sky Gone
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    Blue Sky Gone

    Audrey Moretti always knew she wanted to be a police officer, but she never expected it would take her on the most harrowing venture of her life-the search for her sister on September 11th, 2001...Audrey has made it to the final weeks of the police...
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  • The Land of God The Land of God
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    The Land of God

    Pain. His sister's screams. And a beautiful face in the jeering crowd. When Henri of Maron woke, he had only a few memories of his brutal flogging, but he knew the world had changed. He had changed.Now, as he grapples with the fallout from his...
    $27.00

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  • The Prisoner's Apprentice The Prisoner's Apprentice
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    The Prisoner's Apprentice

    Clever boy. Genius serial killer. True story.Ithaca, NY, 1846. As a weakling in a frontier-toughened town, young Albert Jarvis is relentlessly denied his only desire-a hint of love from his stone-hearted Pa. Then a captivating stranger, accused of...
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  • Beardstown Beardstown
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    Beardstown

    When Americans created civilization from wilderness, there were those who followed the rules and those who created their own-an enduring conflict between liberty and virtue that formed a new land.Five years have passed since the death of the Shawnee...
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  • Sarah's Secrets Sarah's Secrets
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    Sarah's Secrets

    How can a person stand by when something ominous is about to happen to their family?Sarah is a master storyteller. She retells the story you thought you knew with personal anecdotes and a riveting narrative. She brings to life in the 21st century a...
    $21.00

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  • Sailing Toward the Tempest Sailing Toward the Tempest
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    Sailing Toward the Tempest

    "Ride with British Naval Captain Joseph Duncan as he sails the Atlantic in search of enemy French ships while battling treacherous waters, mercurial weather, and ever-shifting winds. Set in 1795, this nautical tale is filled with fierce sea conflicts,...
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  • A Future of Her Own A Future of Her Own
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    A Future of Her Own

    "Ramona steps into college life bright-eyed and hopeful, but she soon discovers the outrageous restrictions of 1960s' society and collegiate life limit women like her, and she decides to fight back. We watch Ramona grow into a brave, moraled young woman...
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  • The Summer Soldiers The Summer Soldiers
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    The Summer Soldiers

    George Washington crossing the Delaware. Tom Paine reading, "These are the times that try men's souls." Nathan Hale's defiant cry, "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." And the Declaration of Independence proclaims the birth of a...
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  • The Vatican Ruby The Vatican Ruby
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    The Vatican Ruby

    The Vatican Ruby is a gripping story of determination. Determination to uncover the mystery surrounding rare and valuable Vatican relics stolen in 1812. A treasure eventually hidden and abandoned in the wilderness of a wild and mostly unexplored...
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  • Ho'kwat Ho'kwat
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    Ho'kwat

    In the present day, an aging Englishman named John Williams endeavors to write his memoirs. He recalls storms at sea, rousing battles, and mysterious encounters with whales, occurring in the early 1800s.
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  • A Feeling in the Bones A Feeling in the Bones
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    A Feeling in the Bones

    Geoffrey, Alfred's heir, and Denis, King of the Kingdom Across the Southern Sea. Two young men soon to come of age. One, having doubts as he comes to grips with the enormity of what his future holds; the other, eager to end the regency and rule in his...
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  • Elizabeth's Journey Home Elizabeth's Journey Home
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    Elizabeth's Journey Home

    In the 1800s as an English lady, Elizabeth lives a calm and sheltered life with her brother, David, and her sister, Jessica. The family estate includes several homes, many horses to ride, and a noble lifestyle. Yet, Elizabeth burns with a desire to visit...
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  • The Avenging Sword of Mê-Linh The Avenging Sword of Mê-Linh
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    The Avenging Sword of Mê-Linh

    This Vietnamese drama/play written in verse depicts the history of Trung Träc (Zheng Ce) - later known as Queen TRUNG - and her sister's armed revolt against the Chinese Han Dynasty in the year 40 A.D., during its second invasion of Giao Chi (Jiaozhi)...
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  • A Shining Path A Shining Path
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    A Shining Path

    Most women convicts sent to Australia in the early 1800s were forced into a life of servitude, where they are not only skivvies, but were mistresses of their employers as well.How did Peggy escape this fate and become a schoolteacher instead?Peggy was...
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  • Blue Skies of El Dorado Blue Skies of El Dorado
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    Blue Skies of El Dorado

    Blue Skies of El Dorado tells the poignant Civil War love story of Obadiah Bradford and his beautiful slave of mixed blood, Penelope. Their tale began in the first book of the series, Dark Clouds over Alabama.To escape the stigma of hate and prejudice,...
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  • Akridos Akridos
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    Akridos

    Akridos of Paliki is a soldier in the army of Alexander the Great. Because of his record, his bravery and his resourcefulness he is a member of the 'oligoi' -- 'The Few' -- the elite group of men who are specially selected for dangerous and daring tasks...
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  • The Fair and The Castle The Fair and The Castle
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    The Fair and The Castle

    After being chased through the halls of an elite hotel by akiller, aspiring architect Neddy Suidek must cope withpost traumatic stress. As she tries to move on and land adream position working for Daniel Burnham, the architectmasterminding the World's...
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  • Illusion of Control Illusion of Control
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    Illusion of Control

    Illusion of Control is the second book in the 'Illusion' series, following Illusion of Consent. These books highlight strong Christian women helping other women find success and happiness in a broken society. With the support and financial backing of her...
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  • Hepburn's Necklace Hepburn's Necklace
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    Hepburn's Necklace

    A vintage necklace. A long-hidden secret. A second chance for love.When costume designer Ariana Ricci leaves her groom at the altar, she seeks solace at the Palm Springs home of her great-aunt, a Texas-born Hollywood legend who began her career as an...
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  • Three Sisters of Stanhavon Castle Three Sisters of Stanhavon Castle
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    Three Sisters of Stanhavon Castle

    Three sisters have been raised by their loving Uncle Rupert, the Marquis of Stanhavon, since the death of their parents. Though Stanhavon Castle is a crumbling ruin and the war left the family coffers practically empty, the Marquis raised the girls with...
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  • Goodbye Danube Goodbye Danube
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    Goodbye Danube

    In October 1956, The Young College Age Citizens Of Budapest Hungary Begin A Revolution To Rid Their Country Of A Communist Regime. Benci Benedeck, His Wife Irene, And Their Four Children Become A Part Of That Revolution By Leading Friends, And Neighbors...
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  • Dreaming on Paper Dreaming on Paper
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    Dreaming on Paper

    DREAMING on PAPER chronicles the life of a Cuban a author mentored by Ernest Hemingway. Mendo is jailed as a dissident, and thereafter struggles for decades to find the manuscript he wrote after witnessing the Bay of Pigs invasion. Mendo’s family...
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  • Comanche Conflict Comanche Conflict
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    Comanche Conflict

    BULLETS, BLOOD, DEATH AND VENGEANCE FILLED THE VALLEY AS BITTER ENEMIES CLASHED.Gabe and company spent the winter with the Mouache Ute but the buffalo hunt was watched by a hunting party of Yaparuhka Comanche. That hunting party soon became a raiding...
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  • CHURCHILL'S REVELATION CHURCHILL'S REVELATION
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    CHURCHILL'S REVELATION

    The stage is set in Rommel is Dead, the first book in the Conditional Surrender Trilogy for an altered WW2 history and a changed world. Beginning at the end of 1941 on land, sea and in the air familiar WW2 battles are fought with different leadership,...
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  • A TIME FOR SHADOWS A TIME FOR SHADOWS
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    A TIME FOR SHADOWS

    Wanting to "make a difference," young Iris Amory joins the Red Cross as a nurse and finds herself serving in a hospital over in France during World War I.Iris gets her heart broken open -- once or twice (at least) -- by it all and is...
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    Bronxland

    Paul Wolfenthal is a peculiar thirteen-year-old kid grappling with the absurdities of his young Bronx life, circa 1960. He visits the dead, hears voices in his head, despises Richard Nixon, is infatuated with his Marilyn Monroe look-alike math teacher,...
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  • Marginal Enemies Marginal Enemies
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    Marginal Enemies

    Two boys grow up during World War II, Gerard in New England, Morgen in Berlin. They live parallel lives: their families experience similar changes, similar suffering. The world says they are enemies. What makes an enemy? Why are people designated as...
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  • As Far As You Can As Far As You Can
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    As Far As You Can

    David Fiensy has spent the last thirty years publishing twelve volumes, doing archaeological field work, and teaching about first-century-AD Israel-the exotic, fascinating, and violent time period that serves as the background to the study of the New...
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  • All Roads Lead to Hell All Roads Lead to Hell
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    All Roads Lead to Hell

    Estranged son of a politically prominent father, Everett Dahlgren Boyd dealt with the issues of the day both as a civilian and then as a Union soldier in an artillery battery during the Civil War.
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    LIZZY

    Millie Elizabeth Monroe McKeever was fondly known to family and friends as Lizzy.She grew up during the trials and tribulations of a divided America during the 1860s. She was thrown into adulthood with the tragic loss of her mother and was transformed...
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  • Once Upon a Zombie Once Upon a Zombie
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    Once Upon a Zombie

    Unexplainablenews.com is reporting strange phenomena in cemeteries in Scotland, Germany, Italy, and America. Only one individual knows what's happening—and why! This person also knows the one girl who can prevent an unspeakable and imminent...
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Historical Fiction Books | Buy Historical Novels & New Releases Online at BookLoop

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