The Proud Viscount

The Proud Viscount

Laura Matthews

Laura Matthews

Lady Jane still grieved for her lost love, the warm and sympathetic Richard. Stephen Rossmere couldn’t hold a candle to him; the viscount was proud and withdrawn, though oddly compelling. Lady Jane had no intention of marrying her aunt’s godson just because he was in need of an heiress to restore the family estate. Lord Rossmere had no plans for marrying, either, until faced with the alarming situation concerning Lady Jane’s sister. But what were a lady who knew what she wanted and a man determined to maintain his dignity to do with each other once the danger passed? Regency Romance by Laura Matthews; originally published by Signet
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The Covenant

The Covenant

James Michener

James Michener

SUMMARY: Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal.
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Doomsday Warrior 12 - Death American Style

Doomsday Warrior 12 - Death American Style

Ryder Stacy

Ryder Stacy

FREEDOM’S CHALLENGE Russia’s nuclear first strike against an unprepared United States has turned the land of the free into the home of brutal hordes of Soviet invaders intent on enslaving all who survived the atomic holocaust. But out of the radioactive rubble emerges a heroic leader of American rebels who choose to fight for freedom’s cause or die in the attempt. He is the ultimate soldier of survival, the Doomsday Warrior himself, Ted Rockson. After years of hard-fought resistance against the hated Red oppressor, Rockson’s band of Freefighters have forced the highest authority in Moscow to convene a peace conference in the ruins of Washington, D.C. But the renegade leader of the KGB, Colonel Killov, has other plans. If his insurgent terror-commandos capture the Russian Missile Carrier anchored in the Potomac River, Killov’s maniacal dream of world domination—and the destruction once and for all of his greatest enemy, Ted Rockson—will be within his grasp. Once again the clouds of deadly radiation will drift across the ravaged land. America’s last and only hope for peace and freedom is the . . . DOOMSADAY WARRIOR
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Yvain

Yvain

Chretien de Troyes

Chretien de Troyes

The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems.Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien's major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing,...
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Dover Beach

Dover Beach

Richard Bowker

Richard Bowker

In an America sad and broken by a "limited" nuclear war, no one has much use for a would-be private eye like Wally Sands. No one, that is, except for Dr. Charles Winfield, an eccentric scientist who believes he was cloned from a prominent biochemist as part of a top-secret project undertaken before the war.
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Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold

Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold

Jack L. Chalker

Jack L. Chalker

omewhere, from among the four human settled worlds of the Warden Diamond, hostile aliens were spying on Earth. But no agent could be sent to investigate and report back. All trips to the Warden worlds were one-way. There a microscopic symbiont called the warden bug invaded all life forms, after which life became impossible outside the Warden system. Sitting on a freighter in the "safe" zone of the solar system, the Confederacy's best agent receives reports tightbeamed from former criminals imprinted with his mind. The Federation's put their greatest mind, who happen to be male, into the female body of operative Qwin Zhang. Objective - Find the Lord of the planet who is working with the enemy aliens and try to take control. Cereberu's symbiont threw in a little twist. It makes common the mind exchange of the person you sleep near. Lordship and immortality may make duty to the federation difficult.
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William Carries On (Just William, Book 24)

William Carries On (Just William, Book 24)

Richmal Crompton

Children's

William Brown wants to do his bit for world peace - after all, sweets and cream buns are in such terribly short supply during war time! The trouble is, William Brown is not known for his tact and diplomacy! When William tries to reconcile two quarrelsome neighbours, they prove strangely immune to all his efforts. And with Violet Elizabeth, William's own arch enemy, lending a hand, the road to peace seems very rocky indeed.
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King of the Castle

King of the Castle

Heather Graham

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Historical Fiction

Available for the first time in e-book! Rediscover this classic tale of romantic suspense by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.Back in Ireland for the first time since the mysterious death of her husband, Kit McHennessey finds herself haunted by the unanswered questions from that night. Justin O'Niall, the man who comforted her through the tragedy eight years ago, is as darkly compelling now as he was then. And while she is passionately drawn to him, she is also certain she cannot trust him. Kit must uncover the deadly truths she once fled in order to confront the danger that threatens their future.Originally published in 1987
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The Doubtful Marriage

The Doubtful Marriage

Betty Neels

Betty Neels

"I SHALL NOT INSULT YOUR INTELLIGENCE BY SAYING THAT I LOVE YOU!"When Rauwerd van Kempler proposed to Tilly, he made it clear that their marriage was strictly a union of convenience. The marriage would bring him a wife who would run his home and partner him on social occasions, and Tilly would have the security of a roof over her head and a man who could be depended upon not to make passionate love to her. But suddenly Tilly wasn't so sure that was all she wanted from him....
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Wingman w-1

Wingman w-1

Mack Maloney

Mack Maloney

The first book in the bestselling, action-packed Wingman Series: With America in ashes, and lawlessness threatening to rule land, air, and sea, one pilot stands poised to pull his nation back from the brink of all-out anarchy The Big War started in Western Europe with a Soviet nerve gas attack that laid waste to France, Germany, and Spain. The world’s democracies fought back, and pilots like Hawk Hunter led the charge — tearing across the flaming wreckage of the continent at supersonic speeds. They pushed the Russians back and just when victory was in sight, a traitor at the highest level of government turned off America’s missile defense system, and Soviet nukes rained from the sky. Two years after the nuclear holocaust, Hunter gets a message to report to his old commander. America is in pieces: Pirates rule the skies, and an airborne armada is plotting to attack Football City (formerly known as St. Louis). The armada is made up of criminals flying state-of-the-art jets, and even though the government can only offer Hunter his old F-16, he will do whatever it takes to reclaim his ravaged homeland. Wingman is the first book of the Wingman series, which also includes The Circle War and The Lucifer Crusade .
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