Accidentally Family

Accidentally Family

Sasha Summers

Romance / Historical Fiction / Science Fiction & Fantasy

And the hits just keep coming… Life for Felicity, and her teen children, is finally back on track. After her divorce, she wasn’t sure if her sweet family would ever be the same. But things are good––right up until her ex and his girlfriend are in a fatal car crash, leaving Felicity to care for their toddler son. She is determined to weather this storm with a little help from her best friend, Graham. How did she never notice how helpful and kind he was? Graham is still recovering from his wife’s death years ago and trying to help his teen daughter get her life back on track. Who is he kidding? His life is in shambles. His daughter hates him. And the one person he can talk to, Felicity, is going through her own private hell. But when Felicity suggests they join forces and help each other, he’s all in. Neither of them was looking for “the one,” but the universe is funny that way. Too bad the timing couldn’t be worse...
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Indésirable

Indésirable

Courtney Quick

Mystery / Historical / Historical Fiction

A 13th Century girl wants to be seen by the Father who wished she died in her Mother's place.*This is the new 2nd edition of the original "Andy The Spider" This book is written for Lower Middle Grade, Ages 7-10* Andy the spider is not good at weaving strong webs, so he often depends on his sister, Emily, who spins great webs for food. When Emily is kidnapped by Harry, a mean owl who is feared by everyone in the forest, Andy must summon all his bravery to rescue his sister. However, it turns out Emily is not the only creature in danger from Harry. In a continually-twisting plot, Andy enlists the help of new friends, including squirrels, owls, caterpillars and even humans, all of whom must join forces to bring Harry’s bullying to an end.
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Day Of The Dead - A Viking Tale

Day Of The Dead - A Viking Tale

Petteri Hannila

Fantasy / Historical Fiction / Science Fiction

Day of the dead is an action-packed short story that touches the story depicted in the novel Fargoer. This time, the focus is turned towards Vikings and their gloom-filled world.As gods gamble and dance with destiny, mortal fates are trampled without a second thought. Ambjorn and his wife Jofrid must face theirs, when the peace of their home village is suddenly shattered. They have to throw themselves into a game in which every move carries high consequence. Is it possible to win when playing against forces beyond your own comprehension? Day of the dead is an action-packed short story that touches the story depicted in the novel Fargoer. This time, the focus is turned towards Vikings and their gloom-filled world.
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Hitching the Pitcher (A Belltown Six Pack Novel)

Hitching the Pitcher (A Belltown Six Pack Novel)

Rebecca Connolly

Romance / Historical Fiction

Sawyer Bennett has a secret. A risky thing, being one of the popular Belltown Six Pack, a group of six guys from the same college baseball team, all of whom got drafted and now play in the Major Leagues. Between the media frenzy over them and his bond with the guys, his secret has to stay carefully hidden if he wants it to stay that way. He needs to focus on his pitching and let everything else fall away. Running into his former college girlfriend wasn’t supposed to happen. Falling for her again wasn’t supposed to happen. Confessing his secret to her was definitely not supposed to happen. But the harder he falls for Erica Moore, the more important his secret—and she—becomes.
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A Green Desire

A Green Desire

Anton Myrer

Fiction / Historical / Historical Fiction

"A brilliant novel. . . . It will not only captivate you; it will break your heart." —Detroit NewsAn absorbing saga that consumes an American century, spanning decades of splendor, struggle, upheaval, and war by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Once An Eagle.Two brothers, as different as night and day: one, charming and ruthless, buys his way into Harvard, Wall Street, and high society; the other brother remains by his mother's side and makes his way to the top without the influence of money or prestige.Raised in separate worlds, these brothers are bound by a bitter rivalry for riches and power, but mostly, for the exciting, wildly captivating woman they fight all their lives to possess, a woman whose passion for one destroys her love for the other.This is a page-turning story of innocent dreams and green desire corrupted by gilded temptation.
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The Vision

The Vision

Heather Graham

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Historical Fiction

The gift of sight comes at a dangerous price When Deep Down Salvage begins the hunt for the "Josephine Marie, " it seems like any other dive...until Genevieve Wallace sees the vision of a dead woman in the water, her vacant eyes boring into Genevieve's very soul. Terrified and confused by what she saw, Genevieve is haunted by the memory, but no one -- including her diving partner Thor Thompson -- believes her. When a dead woman washes up on shore, everyone assumes this is Genevieve's "vision," but Genevieve knows the truth: the dead woman is "not" the ghost she saw but another victim of the same brutal killer. Sensing that the threat of death is coming closer, she and Thor are forced to acknowledge that some things can't be explained, but simply "are." Somehow they have to link a violent past with a present-day mystery or risk losing themselves in an abyss of terror.
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Highlander's Lionheart (Beasts 0f The Highlands Book 1)

Highlander's Lionheart (Beasts 0f The Highlands Book 1)

Alisa Adams

Romance / Historical Fiction / Fiction

Freedom or duty? Which would you choose?Four Scots orphans flee their home of Castle Fionnaghall to escape the wicked schemes of their mad uncle... The eldest sister, Godet Ross, believes their best chance of survival lies in her childhood betrothal to the neighbouring Laird's son -- Gordon MacDonnell. A sudden spark ignites when their eyes meet!Since youth, Godet has blossomed into a buxom beauty and Gordon has risen to become a burly and fearsome warrior. Unbeknownst to Godet, however, Gordon has been promised to another: Lady Bridga MacTavish. Fearing for their safety from their brutish uncle, Gordon allows the Ross sisters to seek refuge in his castle, much to Bridga's chagrin. Their uncle Mungan isn't so easy to thwart, however. He plans to marry Godet and seize Fionnaghall for himself once and for all and he believes no one can stop him-- not even Laird Gordon MacDonell.Confined by their circumstances, the heated connection between the fiery Godet and the indomitable Gordon continues to flourish despite the chaos surrounding them. When they are offered the help of the most unlikely of allies, will Gordon and Godet finally have any hope of being able to break free from the chains that bind them?
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Charming the Shortstop

Charming the Shortstop

Heather B. Moore

Historical Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance

He’s not looking. She’s been burned. But sparks fly, and they decide to go on a date. Just this once. When professional baseball player Axel Diaz travels back to Belltown University for a friend’s wedding, he’s not planning on bringing a date. Until he meets Brighton West, the flight attendant who he can’t get off his mind. Although dubbed “Cold Axe” by some of his female fans, Axel asks Brighton to be his date to the wedding, all the while wondering why of all times and places he is breaking his no-dating streak. But the more he gets to know Brighton, the more he realizes she may be the one woman who can melt his cold heart.
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A Pirate's Love

A Pirate's Love

Johanna Lindsey

Romance / Historical Fiction / Fantasy

Sun-Blazed Beaches With languid tropical breezes caressing her breathtakingly beautiful face, Bettina Verlaine stood before the mast, sailing westward to fulfill a promise her heart never made--marriage to a Count her eyes had never beheld. Then in a moment of swashbuckling courage, the pirate Tristan swept her away and the spell of his passion was cast over her heart forever. But many days--and fiery nights--must pass before their love could flower into that fragile blossom a woman gives to only one man.
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Wessex Tales: "For Viviana's Wedding" (Story 16)

Wessex Tales: "For Viviana's Wedding" (Story 16)

Robert Fripp

Historical Fiction / Nonfiction / Biography

Viviana de Eskelling was the last in the family line of the Norman Schelins. Her family had held Okeford for 200 years. A single woman (a woman sole) was disadvantaged in law. So around 1287 Viviana married Bartholomew Turberville, taking Okeford into the Turberville estates. (Thomas Hardy tweaked 'Turberville' into 'D'Urberville'.) In Okeford, villagers prepare for their lady’s wedding.After two hundred years of isolation, the colonists of Capicua, a fertile super-earth orbiting Gliese 667C, are suddenly faced with an unknown and hostile military force.Oblivious to the impending invasion, Toni Miura joins Capicua's decrepit armed forces in a bid to escape domestic troubles, aiming for the privilege of driving the Hammerhead, a bipedal mobile suit which is the epitome of his planet's ailing warrior spirit.With the arrival of the earthborn invaders, Toni's unqualified platoon, brimming with misfits and plagued by internal differences, is suddenly thrown into the midst of battle. Abandoned by their seniors in the course of their mission, Toni and the remnants of his unit become lost in a world which, owing to the nature of its orbit, suffers periodically from planet-wide hurricane conditions.So begins a race against time, where a handful of cadets will be forced to outmaneuver a pursuing enemy in the boondocks of a turbulent planet, all the while seeking to deliver an odd but important Bavarian prisoner-of-war to their headquarters."Comparisons to Heinlein's Starship Troopers are justified. Fans of hard Military Science Fiction, salute your new commander!" - D. B. Rose"Much better than expected! I can barely wait for the next installment. Very interesting world building, good extrapolation of current technological warfare!" - RAZVAN ANDREI
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So Long, See You Tomorrow

So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell

Fiction / Historical / Historical Fiction

In rural Illinois, two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent’s misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime’s regret. This Orange Inheritance Edition of So Long, See You Tomorrow is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. Vintage Classics asked the winners of the Orange Prize for Fiction which books they would pass onto the next generation and why. Ann Patchett chose So Long, See You Tomorrow. "The novel comes from a place so deep inside the human soul that I cannot imagine a time its wisdom would not feel fresh and applicable."--Ann Patchett
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Sleeper’s Castle

Sleeper’s Castle

Barbara Erskine

Literature & Fiction / Historical Fiction

Two women, centuries apart. One endless nightmare tearing Wales apart – and only they can stop it. Sunday Times bestselling author Barbara Erskine returns to Hay in the year that marks the 30th anniversary of her sensational debut bestseller, Lady of Hay. Hay-On-Wye, 1400 – War is brewing in the Welsh borders, Catrin is on the brink of womanhood and falling in love for the first time. Her father is a soothsayer, playing a dangerous game playing on the mixed loyalties and furious rivalries between welsh princes and English lords. For two hundred years, the Welsh people have lain under the English yoke, dreaming of independence. And finally it looks as though the charismatic Owain Glyndwr may be the man legend tralks of. In the walls of Sleeper’s Castle, Catrin finds herself caught in the middle of a doomed war as she is called upon to foretell Wales’s destiny… And what she sees, is blood and war coming closer… Hay, 2015. Miranda has moved to Sleeper’s Castle to escape and grieve. Slowly she feels herself coming to life in the solitude of the mountains. But every time she closes her eyes her dreams become more vivid. And she makes a connection with a young girl, who’s screaming, who’s reaching out… who only Miranda can help. Is she losing herself to time?
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