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Bakers Dozen: Creative Writing Workbook  |
Bakers Dozen: Creative Writing Workbook
This introductory creative writing workbook is designed to get the reader to think, but most of all to write. Work all the exercises, or just a few. It has creative writing tips and briefly covers the basics of fiction writing, short stories and poetry writing including examples of Haiku poetry. Categories: Poetry, Other Non-fiction |
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Far from the Madding Crowd  |
Far from the Madding Crowd
Gabriel Oak, a shepherd, falls in love with Bathsheba, a vain young beauty who refuses to give up her independence to marry him and she moves away. Years later he finds her again and becomes a victim of unrequited love as Bathsheba moves through life with several eligible suitors. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Cardinals Snuff-box  |
The Cardinals Snuff-box
English novelist Peter Marchdale settles in to do some writing in a quiet villa in the Italian countryside. His earnest plans are thwarted, however, when he discovers that his landlady is the beautiful young Duchessa di Santangiolo, with whom he has been secretly in love for years. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Marble Faun Volume 1  |
The Marble Faun Volume 1
Enter a fantasy world with characters of mythic proportions. Miriam is an otherworldly beauty and a painter. Donatello, the Count of Monti Beni, may be only half human. Along with sculptor Kenyon and copyist Hilda, the quartet takes us on a romantic trip through 19th century Italy. Categories: Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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The Amulet  |
The Amulet
Ships overflowing with the riches of the world fill the ports of 16th century Antwerp, and provide endless temptation. The action includes an assassination gone wrong, crimes hidden and discovered, and the wooing of a beautiful young woman. Evildoers beware; the righteous have the upper hand in this historical romance novel. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Way Down East - A Romance of New England Life  |
Way Down East - A Romance of New England Life
The Bartletts New England farm seems the perfect place for Anna Moore to hide from her tragic past. And it is, until her secrets are discovered. Turned out into a violent snowstorm, Anna tries to find her way, but must depend on rescue in the form of David Bartlett, who has come to love her during her time on the farm. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Enhanced  |
Enhanced
In this futuristic tale of transgenic beasts and tribulation saints, a teen is one of millions offered the chance for stem cell therapy with DNA by a mystery organization of billionaires - cell therapy that will change the architecture of their bodies forever. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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The Dude Wrangler  |
The Dude Wrangler
The old and the new clash in the halls of The Colonial Inn, where men retired from work in the Old West live beside young women making their own way in the world. It is at The Colonial, with all its history, that Wallie first meets Helene, and generations of family feuds come roaring to life. Category: Western Romance |
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The Chaplet of Pearls  |
The Chaplet of Pearls
Imagine a world of weddings arranged for very young children to join their families for political purposes. In 16th-century France, we join a tale of just such a baby-marriage. King Henri II presides over the union of two very young children, among the religious feuds of the times. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Bones in London  |
Bones in London
Bones is back in the second story of The Lieutenant Bones series. A mischievous businessman, Bones seems to have every financial schemer in London coming after him, but somehow he always comes out on top. Humor and romance follow Bones as well, as he makes his way through the underworld of London moneymakers. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romantic Suspense |
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Best Washing Machines and Dishwashers |
Best Washing Machines and Dishwashers
It is easy to pick the best washing machine or dishwasher. You can quickly discover the recommended washing machines and dishwashers for a variety of washing needs. Learn the features to look for and which features and models are available from the major appliance manufacturers throughout the world. Categories: Home & Garden, Other Non-fiction |
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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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Lunaria: The Sunless Isle  |
Lunaria: The Sunless Isle
Ashlyn lives in a beautiful, elfin haven but she has the chance to travel to a place known only as a myth. From the moment Ashlyn departs from home, a journey begins that can only end with the complete transformation of Lunaria. Category: Other Fiction |
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The Ayrshire Legatees  |
The Ayrshire Legatees
Scottish minister Dr. Zachariah Pringle and his family travel to London, and they have plenty to write home about. Innocent of urban ways, the Pringles observations reveal the social realities of London life in eye-opening letters to their relatives back home. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Regency Romance |
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Graustark  |
Graustark
An arranged marriage awaits Princess Yetive and Prince Lorenz when the prince is mysteriously murdered. The accused assassin is none other than the true love of the Princess, American Grenfall Lorry. To avoid execution and marry the Princess, Lorry must clear his name with the royalty of Graustark. Categories: Historical Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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Afterwards  |
Afterwards
The scene opens just before dawn in the darkness of a desert Temple. Hiding, a young woman and a doctor await discovery. Will they be found by friends or foes? What have they seen in the Temple? This page-turner keeps you guessing as romance mingles with murder and the mysteries grow ever deeper. Category: Romantic Suspense |
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After the Storm |
After the Storm
Opposites attract and repel in this tale of love, marriage and understanding. The beautiful, adventurous Irene Delancy and the ambitious, intellectual Hartley Emerson wed early, but require some life lessons to fully understand themselves and each other. Their trials over the years sometimes threaten, but ultimately strengthen their lifelong bond. Categories: Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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Muse Power: How Recreational Music Making Heals Depression and Other Symptoms of Modern Culture  |
Muse Power: How Recreational Music Making Heals Depression and Other Symptoms of Modern Culture
Making music together can help our culture heal and builds community by providing a powerful and unique model. This easy-to-read guide explores the modernization of music and how that has affected everyday people. Categories: Education, Entertainment, Other Non-fiction |
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The Mockingbirds Ballad |
The Mockingbirds Ballad
History and romantic stories weave through this fascinating tale of life in the 1800s for a girl farrier (blacksmith) and her twin after being forced from their family by the Blood Law. She joins Wheelers Army of Tennessee horse mounted soldiers as one of the few women in the Civil War. Travel the Cherokee homeland in Georgia in the 1840s to the fever-ridden jungles of Cuba in 1898. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction |
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Scaramouche  |
Scaramouche
A young aristocrat finds himself in the middle of battles romantic and revolutionary as the French Revolution begins. He embraces every role that comes his way: the theater's Scaramouche, a clever lawyer, a cutthroat politician, a skilled swordsman, and a passionate lover. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Honourable Mr. Tawnish  |
The Honourable Mr. Tawnish
A fashionable London gentleman, Horatio Tawnish seeks the hand of the daughter of Sir John Chester, who has nothing but disdain for Mr. Tawnish. Tawnish must overcome his reputation as an effeminate dandy if he is to win the woman he loves. Categories: Historical Romance, Regency Romance |
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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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Desperate Remedies  |
Desperate Remedies
Cytherea, a lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, realizes that the man she loves is already engaged to another woman. She becomes influenced by Miss Aldclyffe's manipulative steward Manston, and quickly becomes involved in romance, blackmail and murder. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Pagan Madonna  |
The Pagan Madonna
Jane Norman, a Red Cross nurse from America, comes to Shanghai by chance, under the spell of fate. In China and on the sea, Jane wears beautiful beads with a mysterious past that captures the attention of romantic rivals and plotting pirates alike, taking Jane on the adventure of her life. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Big Money  |
Big Money
In this poignant tale of romance and money, Richard and Marie Jordan are an average suburban middle-class family. They have the American dream--a happy marriage, two kids, a house, two cars, plenty of credit cards, and lots of debit. Faced with the threat of losing their main source of income, Marie decides to take a chance on playing the lottery. When she wins, Richard and Marie find out exactly how much things change when faced with more wealth than they ever dreamed of, and more predators than they could ever imagine. Categories: Romance, Contemporary Romance |
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Cranford  |
Cranford
How would a Victorian English town fare if it were inhabited almost solely by unmarried or widowed women? What would happen to the few men who dared to venture into the very female world of Cranford? Miss Matty Jenkyns and her friends will take care of him, one way or another, in this wry tale. Category: Historical Romance |
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Tales For A Dark and Rainy Night |
Tales For A Dark and Rainy Night
A collection of scary, very short stories perfect for those moments when you crave a thrill, want to read a free scary story and time is at a premium. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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The Black Moth  |
The Black Moth
Who is the mysterious man who foils the kidnapping of the beautiful Diana Beauleigh by the nefarious Duke of Andover? He is Jack Carstares, disgraced oldest son of the Earl Wyncham, living a secret life. Jack suffers an injury while rescuing Diana, and must hide with her family if he is to recover. Category: Romantic Suspense |
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The Green Mummy  |
The Green Mummy
Professor Braddock finds a mummy swathed in green bandages, with a mysterious note attached, and a treasure inside. It appears to be a royal Egyptian mummy, and uncovering its secrets sets off dramatic twists and turns for the professor and everyone around him. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romantic Suspense |
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The Last Woman  |
The Last Woman
Is twenty million dollars too high a price for love, or too low? Patricia Langdon ponders this when her father makes the outrageous proposal that she marry rich Roderick Duncan and thus solve her family's financial woes. To get Patricia, Roderick is not above bribery, or even murder if necessary. Category: Romantic Suspense |
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Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 3  |
Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 3
An endless and relentless flow of suitors comes to woo beautiful young heiress Cecilia Beverly. Her challenge is to sort them out, which means uncovering the true story of each. She finds love gone wrong, mistaken identities, and family scandals before she locates true husband material. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Finding  |
The Finding
Mystery and action kick up when a land deal gone bad is another case to solve for a newspaper man passing through town looking to relax. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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Varney the Vampire  |
Varney the Vampire
Sir Francis Varney has an unusual interest in the Bannerworth family, and their daughter Flora. He simply cannot help himself; as a vampire he feeds on her vitality. Varney is a good man, though. Almost as strong as his unquenchable thirst is his desire to save himself and spare his victims. Category: Vampire Romance |
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Brandon of the Engineers  |
Brandon of the Engineers
Building bridges is a specialty for civil engineer Lieutenant Richard Brandon, and he is confident of his path. Aiming for the rank of Captain and eventual marriage to his socially-appropriate match, Helen Massie, Brandon seems to be well on his way. He has not planned, however, on the arrival of wanderer Clare Kenwardine and all she will mean to the changing course of his life. Army intrigue and stolen secrets set the stage for the tumultuous relationship between Brandon and Clare. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Lena Rivers |
Lena Rivers
Lena's mother dies in childbirth, leaving her to be raised by her relatives in Kentucky. An animal lover, high tempered and beautiful, Lena learns a surprising secret about her mother and the man that wants to adopt her. She creates her own life and finds love. The book was a best seller and became a stage play in 1914, starring screen star Beulah Poynter. The book was also made into a movie in 1932 staring Charlotte Henry. Category: Romance |
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The Hostage |
The Hostage
A sequel to the Senator's Vote. Amanda sits out a mission because she could possibly be pregnant. But when her husband Keith is taken as a hostage for terrorist negotiations, it becomes a race against the clock to find him and stop the attack. Can he be saved in time or will she lose everything? Category: Contemporary Romance |
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The Queen of Hearts  |
The Queen of Hearts
Griffith and his older brothers live a quiet life in an old country house, until Jessie, nearly 21, comes to stay. When Griffith gets word that his son will return from sea to declare his love for Jessie, the brothers spin tales to keep the heiress entertained until the sailor arrives. Category: Historical Romance |
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Cabin Fever |
Cabin Fever
Bud Moore enters into a partnership with a prospector in the Western wilderness and looks forward to a life of adventure and fortune. Little does he know how much soul-searching will go on in the cabin they share, especially when a child enters their lives and changes their destinies. Categories: Romance, Western Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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Flag Of Bones - The Journey of the Dragon Wynd - Volume 1 - The Shallows |
Flag Of Bones - The Journey of the Dragon Wynd - Volume 1 - The Shallows
Pirate Captain Jalen Shenn swore himself to the End of the World to keep himself from being hung. Now, twenty years later, that promise comes back to him, and he finds himself racing the Empire to Deep water. With nothing left to return to, the question is whether he will once again Hang bones and tempt the noose. Category: Other Fiction |
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A Study in Scarlet  |
A Study in Scarlet
Sherlock Holmes makes his debut in the mystery of a corpse found in a run-down, abandoned house. He encounters a strange clue, the word RACHE written in blood on the wall near the body. Only the astute mind of Mr. Holmes can make sense of such a cryptic clue. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romantic Suspense |
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The Captain of the Kansas |
The Captain of the Kansas
High-class passengers on a voyage from Chile to England must overcome sabotage, Indian attacks, and stormy seas under the guidance of the gallant Captain Courtenay in this romantic adventure. All must rise to the occasion, fighting cannibals, surviving shipwreck, or navigating ship-board romance. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Great Chain on Urantia |
The Great Chain on Urantia
A baby boy covered in fur is left at a monastery in Bhutan, an Asian country that honors the yeti. He survives an invasion by the Chinese cavalry and escapes. Follow his life to Canada while he struggles with his identity, finds his mother and uses physics to challenge space and time. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Spirituality, Other Fiction |
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The Lighted Match  |
The Lighted Match
Traveling in disguise, a beautiful princess travels through the United States and finds herself falling in love with an American man. Though bound to another across the water, she struggles to free herself to be with her true love in America. Categories: Romance, Western, Western Romance |
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The City of Delight  |
The City of Delight
The dramas of a nation form the backdrop for the drama of love in The City of Delight. The colorful crowds of Jerusalem bring Jews, Persians and Romans together to confront their differences. The tension in the air only adds to the desperate passion of young love. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Count Hannibal  |
Count Hannibal
The ruthless Count Hannibal falls in love with a beautiful noblewoman, Clotilde de Vrillac, in this adventure-packed historical romance. Dueling lovers and escaped prisoners mark the way to the Huguenot lady, in Paris at the Court of Charles IX. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Street of Seven Stars  |
The Street of Seven Stars
Violin student Harmony Wells is alone in Vienna when her funds dry up. When she meets a medical resident who offers the frugal solution of sharing a household, she accepts. Even with an older woman joining them for propriety, the unusual living arrangements cause quite a scandal. Category: Historical Romance |
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Lady Audley's Secret  |
Lady Audley's Secret
When wealthy widower Sir Michael Audley meets governess Miss Lucy Graham, he falls for her instantly. Lucy accepts his marriage proposal, never mentioning her missing husband George. Surely he is dead. But if not, Lucy will stop at nothing to cover up her secret past. Category: Romantic Suspense |
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The Call of the Cumberlands  |
The Call of the Cumberlands
A rough, fighting mountaineer, Samson South leaves his family, his sweetheart and the majestic hills of his Kentucky homeland to follow his dream of becoming a painter in the city. His adventures shape him into an educated urban artist, yet he cannot resist the call to return to the Cumberlands. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Long Shadow  |
The Long Shadow
Charming Billy is alone in his meager cabin when the evening wind blows a feminine breeze his way. Flora Bridger takes Billy quite by surprise, appearing on his doorstep with a lame horse, far from her home. His desolate little shack may never be the same again. Category: Western Romance |
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The Bravo of Venice - A Romance |
The Bravo of Venice - A Romance
Evil lurks on the streets of Venice in the form of Abellino, known as The Bravo of Venice. Neapolitan Count Rosalvo may be the man to put an end to the Bravo's evil escapades, if only he can overcome the dark secret he himself is harboring. Into this scene of Gothic horror comes Rosalvo's love, Rosabella, giving the Count another reason to save the city from the wicked Bravo. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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