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Heart of the Blue Ridge  |
Heart of the Blue Ridge
Mountain moonshine is part of life for Zeke Higgins. But when he betrays the moonshiners to the revenue agents, he angers many. Leaving the mountains is his only prayer, but in his absence, his sweetheart Plutina is kidnapped. Her rescue will require Zeke to return to the hills of home. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Promise  |
The Promise
In 1746 eight-year-old Colleen Stuart was more than the playmate of ten-year-old Jonathan Rodes -- she was his best friend. She could do anything a boy could do and best of all, she could play jokes on the adults without getting caught. Jonathan assumed they would always be together, but no sooner had his father told him the secret of the jewels, than his world collapsed. The King's men executed his father, his ailing mother died and he found himself painfully separated from Colleen. For years he remembered his promise to find her, but it seemed a hopeless task until one day an odd letter arrived. Category: Historical Romance |
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Portrait of a Lady Volume II  |
Portrait of a Lady Volume II
Beautiful, outspoken American Isabel Archer travels to her wealthy Aunt Touchett in Europe with a plan to marry. Not lacking for gentlemanly suitors, Isabel rejects several offers before falling for the overwhelmingly charming Gilbert Osmond, a man who consumes her, body and soul. Category: Historical Romance |
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Portrait of a Lady Volume I |
Portrait of a Lady Volume I
Beautiful, outspoken American Isabel Archer travels to her wealthy Aunt Touchett in Europe with a plan to marry. Not lacking for gentlemanly suitors, Isabel rejects several offers before falling for the overwhelmingly charming Gilbert Osmond, a man who consumes her, body and soul. Category: Historical Romance |
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Return of the Native  |
Return of the Native
Clym Yeobright is a rising star in Egdon Heath, idealistic, intellectual and ambitious. Until, that is, he encounters Eustacia Vye, a wild and free-spirited woman he cannot resist. Eustacia has a complicated romantic past that haunts the pair in their struggle to be together. Category: Historical Romance |
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O Pioneers!  |
O Pioneers!
The Bergson family struggles to hang on to the family farms in Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century. Especially Alexandra, a strong-willed young woman who makes the farms prosper. Now, childhood friend Carl Linstrum showers her with unexpected attention. Does he want her love or her land? Categories: Historical Romance, Western Romance |
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The House of Mirth  |
The House of Mirth
At 29, Lily Bart is looking for the perfect husband. Not lacking for suitors, Lily entertains a series of wealthy, passionate men, from gamblers to yachtsmen. Yet she finds none offer the connection she feels with lawyer Lawrence Selden, who lacks wealth, but offers love. Category: Historical Romance |
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Ann Veronica  |
Ann Veronica
The passionate and headstrong Ann Veronica Stanley refuses to let her father's restrictions curtail her choices in life. Escaping the London suburbs and making her own way amidst intellectuals and academics, she finds freedom is complicated when she falls in love with a married man. Category: Historical Romance |
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Bardelys the Magnificent  |
Bardelys the Magnificent
Gambling his estate, Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, Marquis de Bardelys, wagers he can win the heart of a beautiful heiress in Languedoc. His pursuit is challenged by the politics of France during the reign of Louis XIII, and he must survive battles and charges of treason while wooing the girl. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Ink-Stain  |
The Ink-Stain
Fabien Jean Jacques Mouillard, barrister, is well schooled in the academic subjects, with law and arts degrees. But what will this scholarly man make of affairs of the heart? When he meets Mademoiselle Jeanne, he realizes there is more to learn in the world than in the library. Category: Historical Romance |
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A Room With A View  |
A Room With A View
On tour in Italy, young Lucy is overwhelmed by her feelings for a stranger staying at her hotel. Lucy is supposed to marry her proper suitor, Cecil, but she is overcome with attraction to the witty George Emerson, who opens to her an unconventional and freethinking world. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Age of Innocence  |
The Age of Innocence
Settled comfortably in the highest social circles of New York City in the 1870s, Newland Archer prepares to marry his social equal, May Welland, when he meets her beautiful, exotic cousin. Countess Ellen Olenska, back from Europe, has Newland reconsidering the rules he has lived by for so long. Category: Historical Romance |
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Uarda  |
Uarda
The historical romances of Georg Ebers made ancient Egypt into a popular romantic setting. In this volume, Uarda is a young girl presumed to be of low birth. She is visiting the city of the dead when she is injured by a daughter of Rameses, setting in motion the adventures that will reveal her true Category: Historical Romance |
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Love Among The Chickens  |
Love Among The Chickens
Jeremy Garnet, author, takes his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge up on his offer of a holiday. He is astonished to find his vacation taking place on a chicken farm, and even more astonished to find himself falling in love with a girl living there. Categories: Humor, Historical Romance |
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Little Dorrit  |
Little Dorrit
Money changes everything. It is an age-old story told with great passion in the case of Amy, or Little Dorrit. The girl starts life in a debtors prison, but falls in love with the wealthy Arthur. Fortunes are lost, discovered, hidden, and found again before Amy and Arthur can reunite. Category: Historical Romance |
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Letters of Two Brides  |
Letters of Two Brides
When two young women escape from their convent school to be wed, their lives change tremendously. Louise and Renee become Madames Gaston and lEstorade, and exchange letters describing the changes. Over the next seventeen years, they share the passions and betrayals of married life. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Mysteries of Udolpho |
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Often considered the first Gothic romance novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho follows Emily St. Aubert as she recovers from the death of her father, faces supernatural forces in a ghostly castle, and confronts the plotting of an Italian brigand. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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A Sicilian Romance  |
A Sicilian Romance
The northern shores of Sicily, all ruins and castles, is the setting for the story of the fallen house of Mazzini. Mixing the possibility of the supernatural with the psychological, the story follows the extraordinary struggles of heroes and heroines fighting mysterious villains. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Princess of Cleves |
The Princess of Cleves
Mademoiselle de Chartres is a young lady of fifteen at the court of Henry II of France, looking for a marriage match. Her mother suggests the unremarkable Prince de Cleves, and soon the girl is wed. Only after the wedding, does she meets the charming Duc de Nemours, and the spark of love is ignited. Category: Historical Romance |
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Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded |
Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded
Pamela Andrews is a pious young girl, a waiting-maid in Bedfordshire. When the master of the house makes advances on her, Pamela resists, and writes to her parents for moral advice. Her letters show her persistence in protecting her virtue, for which she is richly rewarded in the end. Categories: Historical Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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Tess of the dUrbervilles  |
Tess of the dUrbervilles
Tess, beautiful but poor, finds she is related to the dUrbervilles of Norman aristocracy. This news brings her to the relentless attentions of Alec dUrberville, and the righteous affections of Angel Clare. She loves Angel, but fears their union cannot survive the secrets she has kept. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Rainbow  |
The Rainbow
The prequel to Women in Love, The Rainbow follows three generations of one family, the Brangwens, and the sexual dynamics and relationships of the family members. Though considered tame today, The Rainbow was banned in Britain for its frank look at sensual desires. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Eternal City  |
The Eternal City
The heroic love Roma has for her husband, Rossi, knows no bounds in this dramatic romance set in the politically charged city of Rome at the turn to the 20th century. While she will do anything for Rossi, can Rosa also help her city end the tyranny of the unscrupulous Baron? Category: Historical Romance |
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Madame Bovary  |
Madame Bovary
Emma expects all the passion, wealth, and beautiful things that come with high society when she marries Charles Bovary. When her romantic view of the world clashes with her new country life, she seeks excitement outside her marriage, living in the ecstasy of extremes. Category: Historical Romance |
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Fair Margaret  |
Fair Margaret
Margaret Donne is young, full of life, and on her way to a spectacular singing career. Her would-be suitor, Edmund Lushington, on the other hand, is a quiet, serious man. Margaret dismisses his attentions until she enters the dramatic world of the stage and realizes she desperately needs his help. Category: Historical Romance |
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His Hour |
His Hour
Beautiful young English widow Tamara Loraine is on an Egyptian tour when she meets Russian Prince Gritzko Milaslavski. She finds him fascinating and is eager to see him again in Moscow. The charismatic Prince returns her feelings, but his passion is tinged with a danger Tamara has not foreseen. Category: Historical Romance |
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Vanity Fair  |
Vanity Fair
Quick-witted but poor Becky Sharp, and simple-minded but rich Amelia Sedley leave the shelter of school and find themselves embroiled in mismatched marriages, secret loves, and relentless social climbing in 19th-century England. Becky in particular will stop at nothing to secure her future. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders  |
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
The exploits of the character Moll Flanders are pure legend. Here Daniel Defoe describes the English woman in America, following her many marriages, her prostitution, and her thievery. Her raunchy romps lead to repentance and the possibility of reuniting with her soul mate. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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French and Oriental Love in a Harem |
French and Oriental Love in a Harem
Exploring the secrets of passion in a Turkish harem is endlessly exciting, but can it also be the path to true love? This romantic, erotic story makes the impossible seem both exotic and inevitable in a setting of incredible Oriental splendor. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Great Expectations  |
Great Expectations
Romance, mystery, and morality play equal parts in this classic. Young Pip overcomes hardships with the help of a mysterious benefactor, but nobody can save him from the torment of loving the beautiful Estella. Reared by the bitter Miss Havisham, Estella learns not to trust love, even true love. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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North and South  |
North and South
Margaret Hale, a southern socialite, clashes with mill owner John Thornton when she moves to industrial northern England. In spite of her sympathy for the workers, Thornton is smitten with Margaret, who rejects his marriage proposal. Only when he withdraws his affections does Margaret reconsider. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Princess Zara  |
Princess Zara
Czarist Russia is a grim place for Princess Zara de Echeveria. She has little hope in her heart until she finds herself falling for a professional spy. Dan Derrington and the Princess Zara must travel the stormy seas between New York to St. Petersburg to meet as fate intends. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Jewel Weed |
Jewel Weed
Described as shimmering, iridescent and ethereal, Lena Quincy is a beautiful young woman with romantic dreams of becoming a writer. She looks to an older man, Richard Percival, to help her achieve her dreams, but real life marriage parts ways with her childish fantasies. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Sanine |
Sanine
A smart, powerful, attractive man, Sanine indulges his every lust and longing, regardless of the consequences. The young Russian man is not concerned with morality, but with enjoying every pleasure available during the last years of the oppressive Romanov regime. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Kenilworth  |
Kenilworth
The secret marriage of the Earl of Leicester has tragic consequences in this historical romance. The ambitious Earl loves his wife Amy, but hides his marriage from Queen Elizabeth I in hopes of gaining political power. When the truth is revealed, it may be too late for the young couple. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Hearts and Masks  |
Hearts and Masks
Twenty-year-old Alice takes on a new identity to fight her boredom while living at the country estate of her uncle. Along comes a famous author, also hiding his true identity. When the two meet at a masquerade ball, who will be the first to raise the mask and reveal the truth? Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Man and Maid |
Man and Maid
Written with the intimacy of a journal, Man and Maid follows the passionate, tragic, and often amusing love affair of secretary Alathea and her boss, Sir Nicholas Thormonde. Each denies attraction to the other until another woman enters the picture, forcing them to play their cards. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) |
The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
The humble Nevill Tyson inherits the position of country gentleman and doesn't quite know how to fill the role. His marriage to Mollie Wilcox only complicates matters, especially when a friend of Nevill falls in love with the new Mrs. Tyson. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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When a Man Marries  |
When a Man Marries
Newly divorced from his wife of just a year, Jim is expecting a visit from his wealthy aunt, who knows nothing of his failed marriage. He goes to great, often comic, lengths to hide any hints of scandal from his aunt, who might withdraw the financial support on which the young artist depends. Categories: Humor, Romance, Historical Romance |
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The House of the Seven Gables  |
The House of the Seven Gables
Pyncheon House, a 19th-century New England mansion, is beset with problems. Accusations of witchcraft are in the air, and a relative is soon to return from prison. But here comes the country cousin Phoebe, to raise their spirits and embark on a romance with the mysterious lodger Holgrave. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance |
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The Scarlet Letter |
The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynn carries with her a mark signifying adultery, a true sin in 17th century Puritan Boston. The red letter A on her clothing brings public shame, but she will not name the father of her daughter, Pearl, no matter the threat to her own reputation and her life. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance |
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The Heart |
The Heart
Master Wingfield, a tutor, is besotted with the young, feisty Mistress Mary Cavendish in this 17th century romance. He has been entranced by her charm and beauty since he was a lad of fourteen, and years later he is also taken with her courage in defending the family tobacco farm. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Indian Summer |
Indian Summer
Theodore Colville returns to Florence, the city of his heartbreak twenty years earlier. Now a middle-aged man, he encounters former flame Lina Bowen, her daughter Effie and their friend, the young and beautiful Imogene Graham, who develops a crush on him. Which way will he turn? Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Ishmael, or In The Depths  |
Ishmael, or In The Depths
Originally a serialized novel, Ishmael follows a man born poor, presumed illegitimate, yet possessed of great inner strengths. In this 19th century rags-to-riches story, Ishmael has many adventures and romances on his rise to the top. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Daughter of the Commandant |
The Daughter of the Commandant
Russian 17-year-old Pyotr Grinyov is sent into military service during the Pugachev Rebellion of the 1770s. His service does not go as planned, especially after he meets Masha Mironov and falls in love. The passionate Pyotr risks duels and the scorn of father Mironov to win her love in return. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Dear Enemy  |
Dear Enemy
Judy Abbott has come a long way from the orphanage where she grew up in this sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs. She reaches back through time to help childhood friend Sallie McBride improve conditions for the children living there now, but romantic entanglements may foil their plans. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Daddy Long Legs  |
Daddy Long Legs
From an orphanage to college, Jerusha, or Judy, Abbott hopes to continue her education, but has no funds. When an anonymous benefactor offers to finance her studies, Judy accepts. Her witty letters to this generous man may bring her closer to knowing his identity than she expects. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Daughter of an Empress |
The Daughter of an Empress
Opening on a scene of execution, and involving the dramas of Empresses, Counts and Countesses, this historical romance takes us into the realms of Russian royalty. The Empress Anna is dead and her successor is unclear. Princess Elizabeth is named to the post, but many stand in her way. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Dangerous Days  |
Dangerous Days
The passionate beginnings of World War I tear apart a group of lifelong friends. In the center of the group is ambitious businessman Clayton Spenser. Clayton finds that to win the woman he loves, he must risk any chance of security and safety. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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A Daughter of Fife |
A Daughter of Fife
Maggie, a simple Scottish fisher-girl, finds herself pursued by a passionate young artist in this romantic story. While Maggie breaks with the family fishing tradition with Allen, her brother David also leaves the nets behind for a very different career. The next generation will be different. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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