The Taking of Jemima Boone

The Taking of Jemima Boone

Matthew Pearl

Literature & Fiction / Historical Fiction

"A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front." — Pulitzer Prize–winning author Stacy SchiffA Goodreads Most Anticipated Book In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone's daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air.A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimated native lands and resources....
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Warchild

Warchild

Blaze Ward

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Historical Fiction

When a deal with a new contact goes bad, Tessa and Constanz find themselves prisoners. Then an old friend of Wyatt's turns out to be behind their kidnapping. And the blackmail. Then the bank robbery. Maybe a shootout before everything gets settled. If it can. Book Seven of the Last Stand, a shiny, new space western science fiction adventure series full of bright characters, messy worlds, and all manner of ethical conundrums. Start first with Lost Dreams and then continue on and pick up the rest of this series!
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A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice

A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice

Rebecca Connolly

Romance / Historical Fiction

Based on the remarkable true story of the Carpathia—the only ship and her legendary captain who answered the distress call of the sinking Titanic. Just after midnight on April 15, 1912, the passenger steamship Carpathia receives a distress signal from the largest passenger liner ever built, RMS Titanic, which is on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York. Captain Arthur Rostron is awakened to an enormous maritime emergency with little information to guide his actions in answering the call for help. Is the dire threat to the unsinkable Titanic accurate? His ship is more than four hours away; will Carpathia hold together if pushed to never-before-tested speeds? What if his ship also strikes an iceberg? How many of Titanic's 2,200 passengers will the Carpathia be able to accommodate? And with the freezing temperatures, will there be any survivors by the time the Carpathia...
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Fighter

Fighter

Len Deighton

Thriller / Historical Fiction / Mystery

Summer, 1940: western Europe has been conquered, and all that stands between Hitler and the invasion of England is the matter of air supremacy. And the RAF... Hitler's top-secret Directive No. 16, July 1940: 'The English air force must be beaten down to such an extent, that it can no longer muster any power of attack worth mentioning against the German advance.' 'Fighter' is Len Deighton's thrilling history of the ensuing Battle of Britain -- the aerial combat between the RAF and the Luftwaffe that was fought over the summer of 1940. Ex-RAF pilot Deighton has written a balanced study of strategies and tactics that also expertly recounts the development of the aeroplanes that fought each other in the skies -- the Spitfires and Messerschmitts -- and of radar. Behind the strategies and tactics, and in the cockpits of the aeroplanes, are the men brought vividly to life by Deighton's skill as a novelist.
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Tempted by His Secret Cinderella

Tempted by His Secret Cinderella

Bronwyn Scott

Romance / Historical Fiction

He's falling for a princess...But she's a commoner!An Allied at the Altar story. A wild scheme to secure a patron for her father's play finds Elidh Easton at a house party dressed as Italian royalty! But Elidh catches the eye of their dashing host, Sutton Keynes, who has four weeks to find a noble bride. He'd never look twice at her normally—poor, plain and untitled—but in the moment, it's easy to imagine they have a future!Allied at the Altar miniseriesBook 1 — A Marriage Deal with the ViscountBook 2 — One Night with the MajorBook 3 — Tempted by His Secret CinderellaBook 4 — Captivated by Her Convenient Husband"Emotional depth, passion and a heroine and hero who epitomise the enterprise of this era."— Jane Hunt on A Marriage Deal with the Viscount"A brilliantly written,...
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Intrigue a la Mode

Intrigue a la Mode

Regina Jennings

Historical Fiction / Romance / Religion & Spirituality

Willow finds herself drawn to the hotel's new busboy, Graham, but little does she know he's a railroad heir working undercover to track down criminals using his trains. As he sets out to find the truth, another truth soon becomes equally urgent—will the Harvey Girl he has come to love care for the railroad heir as much as she cared for the lowly busboy?
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Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters

M. L. Bullock

Mystery / Paranormal / Historical Fiction

Carrie Jo has a secret—she dreams about the past. The handsome and wealthy Ashland Stuart has hired her to uncover the history and the secrets of Seven Sisters, an aging antebellum mansion in sultry downtown Mobile, Alabama. A series of dreams, an untimely death and the betrayal of someone she loves lead her back in time to uncover the truth about a missing young heiress and a web of secrets. Will Carrie Jo slip into the shadows of Seven Sisters, following in the ghostly footsteps of the lost young woman, or can she solve this tragic mystery and find her own happiness? Praise for Seven Sisters: "Southern ghost storytelling at its finest!" -Southern Reading Circle "Perfect blend of spookiness without the gore." -K. Barr The Seven Sisters Series Book 1: Seven Sisters Book 2: Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters Book 3: Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters Book 4: The Stars that Fell Book 5: The Stars We Walked Upon (Coming in February 2016) **
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Beautiful Tempest

Beautiful Tempest

Johanna Lindsey

Romance / Historical Fiction / Fantasy

1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey now reveals the tempestuous story of Jacqueline Malory whose furious desire for revenge leads to a confrontation with the handsome pirate who abducted her—and sparks a much steamier kind of desire. For the first time, James Malory and his Anderson in-laws agree on something: It’s payback time for the culprit who kidnapped James and Georgina’s beloved daughter Jack from her American debutante party and whisked her away to the Caribbean, no matter that she escaped unscathed. James figured out who masterminded the dastardly plot and is leading a fleet of ships to the West Indies to deliver some Malory-style retribution. More interested in revenge than in finding a husband during her first London Season, Jack is furious that her father left her behind. Then an intriguing stranger leads her and her older brother Jeremy to her mysterious abductor. But instead of capturing him, the Malory siblings wind up as his “ guests” on a ship sailing away from England. As Jack re-engages in a battle of wills with her all too attentive captor, she realizes he is no ordinary pirate, perhaps no pirate at all, but a nobleman determined to settle a score that dates back to the days when her father was known as Captain Hawk—and what endangers her most is the increasingly passionate attraction they feel for each other.
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