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Free Air  |
Free Air
Perhaps the original American road trip novel, Free Air follows Claire Boltwood as she travels from New York City to the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century. If Claire can leave behind her upper-class background, she may find herself gaining the love of a down-to-earth man in her new home. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Inspirational Romance |
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Single Parents Cash and Sources Guide  |
Single Parents Cash and Sources Guide
This action-oriented resource guide gives helpful contact information on obtaining financial assistance, finding free help for clothes, food, shelter, baby items, housing and car repairs, and links to groups who are ready to help single parents. Categories: Business & Finance, Self-help, Other Non-fiction |
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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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The Choir Invisible  |
The Choir Invisible
A classic love story with a twist, The Choir Invisible takes us to Kentucky in 1795, where schoolmaster John Gray becomes entranced by the young Amy Falconer. His enchantment leads him to meet her aunt Jessica and the scrupulous Gray falls in love with the married woman. Category: Romance |
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An Ambitious Man  |
An Ambitious Man
Should a man marry for love and passion, or ambition and appearances? And what happens when he makes the wrong choice? Generations of would-be lovers ponder these questions and the secrets beneath them through the eyes of self-made man Preston Cheney, in this story of love and desire. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Blue-Bird Weather |
Blue-Bird Weather
City man meets country woman and sparks fly in this romance novella set on Chesapeake Bay during blue-bird weather, that delightful reprieve from endless winter, also known as the January thaw. Urban gentleman John Marche goes to New England expecting to go duck-hunting, but finds himself hunted by love as well. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Anne Severn and the Fieldings  |
Anne Severn and the Fieldings
Secret romances, mixed messages, and ever-changing relationships abound in this Victorian romance. Anne Severn has lost her mother and is left in the care of the Fieldings. Through her grief, she cannot accept motherly love from her adoptive mother, but in her youth, she may seek more than fraternal love from her new brothers. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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A Rogue's Life  |
A Rogue's Life
An adventure cliffhanger, this tells the story of a grand life in Paris filled with art, friendship, fun and adventures. The many set backs faced by the narrator are met with optimism. It was originally serialized, with the cliffhanger chapter endings leaving the reader looking for the next adventure. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Romantic Suspense |
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The Avalanche |
The Avalanche
All seems perfect when a ship-board romance leads to a quick marriage for a wealthy San Francisco businessman and 19-year old beauty, Helene. Suspicions about Helene's past soon arise, however, and her new groom decides to investigate. Questions of possible infidelity, illegitimacy, and prostitution follow. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Atma - A Romance |
Atma - A Romance
Soaring poetry and exotic Indian locations create a dramatic setting for this story of the Sikhs struggles in the 1840s. Atma Singh must try to regain the sapphire of fate and the honor of his people in this historical novel touched with adventure and romance. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Adventures of Kathlyn |
The Adventures of Kathlyn
A romance cliffhanger tells the story of a young woman who gets captured by a handsome villain and caught up in a search for jewels after traveling to India with her family - the first of several perils she has to endure. The novel was one of the first cliffhanger style novels which was made into a serial-style film. Category: Romance |
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Sir Nigel  |
Sir Nigel
In service to King Edward III, Sir Nigel Loring must prove himself worthy of the hand of his the Lady Mary by performing three deeds in her honor. On his way to the altar, Nigel rescues a woman from dishonor, fights a pirate leader, and battles against the Spanish at sea, among other heroic feats. Category: Historical Romance |
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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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How To Cook Husbands  |
How To Cook Husbands
Relationship advice never goes out of style, as we see in this light, humorous look at the care and management of husbands from over 100 years ago. What happens when one woman follows the recipe for cooking up a husband? The results could be delicious or disastrous. Categories: Humor, Historical Romance |
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The Quest of the Silver Fleece  |
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
Free-spirited Zora is a child of the American South, yet she is in love with Bles, a true Yankee from the North. Their relationship reflects the social and economic clashes of the late 1800s through the lens of the passionate romance of this most unlikely pair. Category: Historical Romance |
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Nell of Shorne Mills  |
Nell of Shorne Mills
The small, rural town of Shorne Mills is not used to strangers. The sudden appearance of an unknown man on horseback changes things in town, and in the life of Nell, who first encounters the man. This romantic novel's alternate title, One Heart's Burden, intimates that strong emotions surely follow the newcomer into town. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Armadale  |
Armadale
A flame-haired villainess is the link between several generations of Armadale men as they attempt to solve the mystery of who is the rightful heir to the Armadale estate in Barbados, West Indies. Miss Lydia Gwilt, beautiful and deadly, may hold the key to their past and thus their future. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Night Land  |
The Night Land
A 17th century gentleman is thrust far into the future by a vision while mourning the loss of his true love. He sees a future world where they will be together again. The future holds a deep darkness, and the pair can communicate only by telepathy as they attempt to escape the Watchers in the night. Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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Susan Lenox, Her Fall and Rise  |
Susan Lenox, Her Fall and Rise
Orphaned at birth, Susan depends on rural relatives who arrange everything, including her marriage. Not inclined to follow the rules, headstrong Susan instead runs away. Relying on a series of questionable men and working a variety of irreputable jobs, Susan makes her way back up in the world. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Magnificent Montez  |
The Magnificent Montez
A story based on the infamous Lola Montez -- dancer, singer, and courtesan in the mid-1840s -- always features her flirtations and indiscretions. But unlike other fictional accounts of her life, The Magnificent Montez suggests that she might have turned to the straight and narrow in the end. Category: Historical Romance |
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An Outback Marriage  |
An Outback Marriage
Welcome to Australian bush in the late 1800s. It's not an easy place for man or woman alone. It's a place where survival and partnership can make a marriage as much as ceremonies and certificates. This romantic novel puts the reader right into the language, culture, and wildness of the Australian outback. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Two Destinies  |
The Two Destinies
George Germaine has built his marriage on the ideal of spiritual love. To bring this ultimate experience to others, he and his wife conduct all manner of seance, trance, and supernatural experiment. Some accuse them of insanity, but is it crazy to aspire to the greatest heights of love? Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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Anna Karenina - Part 4  |
Anna Karenina - Part 4
Anna Karenina is the tragic love story of a woman in love who follows her heart and bears a son with her lover, while she is married to another man. She throws herself in front of an incoming train fearing her lover had lost his love for her. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Daughter of a Magnate  |
The Daughter of a Magnate
An accomplished railroad engineer woos a beautiful heiress to a railroad fortune in this Western romance. The would-be lovers must survive freezing gales, blocked train tracks and driving blizzards in their quest to be together. Categories: Romance, Western, Western Romance |
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The Desert Valley |
The Desert Valley
The search for gold sends a college professor and his daughter on a quest for fortune in the deserts of the American southwest. Along the way, they meet their share of misfortune, however, as they join with a lonely rancher and get caught up in an age-old feud. Category: Western 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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Love Eternal  |
Love Eternal
Timeless passion takes on new dimensions in this romance between two souls bound together regardless of the eras or bodies they inhabit. The physical world limits their union, but changes are at hand to bring them together forever in the spirit realm. Categories: Historical Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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Our Mr. Wrenn  |
Our Mr. Wrenn
A simple New York clerk, Mr. Wrenn receives an inheritance that sets him sailing for adventure. When he leaves for London, he has no idea all he will learn from the free-thinkers he meets on the way, or how his adventure will prepare him to return to the romance that had been waiting all along. Category: 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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The Biker Wore Red |
The Biker Wore Red
Little did Niki know that when a biker entered the store where she worked she would be thrown into the world of magic and paranormal. Category: SciFi & Horror |
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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. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Three Weeks  |
Three Weeks
Upper-class Englishman Paul falls for a stranger at a Swiss resort in this vacation romance extraordinaire. Her mysteries include intimations of royal duties awaiting her back home. When she must return to her Slavic homeland, she carries with her more than memories of Paul; she carries the future. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Sign of the Four  |
The Sign of the Four
Miss Mary Morstan comes to detective Sherlock Homes for help solving the mystery of the disappearance of her father. Every year since her father vanished, Miss Morstan has received a valuable pearl from an anonymous gift-giver. Who sends the pearls, and why? Category: Romantic Suspense |
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Lorraine, A Romance  |
Lorraine, A Romance
Lorraine is the twofold tale of a young woman and her country. Lorraine is coming of age during dramatic years of war in France. Her growth, conflicts, and eventual renewal are reflected in the struggle of a country fighting for its independence. France, and Lorraine, will never be the same. Category: Historical Romance |
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Jane Cable  |
Jane Cable
A railroad man and his wife feel their marriage is beyond salvation when an orphan unexpectedly enters their lives. Caring for their new daughter gives them renewed hope and motivation, until Jane grows up. Then, Jane's hidden history comes back to haunt her, her fiance and her adoptive parents. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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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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The Woman Who Did  |
The Woman Who Did
This controversial love story was written in 1895 as part of a series about feminist subjects. It is the story of a very independent woman who is a teacher in London. She falls in love with a lawyer and convinces him that they should live together. She becomes pregnant but her lawyer lover dies. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Havoc  |
Havoc
Secret plots and forbidden alliances lie behind the politics leading to WWI, and not just between Germany, Russia and Austria. Romantic relationships play a surprising role in the English move to split Russia away from the alliance. What is said behind closed doors sometimes comes out in the open. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Black Tulip  |
The Black Tulip
Flowers for the lady? When Cornelius van Baerle seeks to grow a rare black tulip he takes the notion to a new height. Originally grown for its beauty, the black blossom is worth a fortune in a contest held in the Netherlands. For Cornelius, the promise of wealth pales before his love for Rosa. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Spiritual Dictionary |
Spiritual Dictionary
This book provides Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism definitions as well as information on many of the terms used in other philosophies, spiritual circles and religions world-wide. Categories: Spirituality, Other Non-fiction |
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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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Tempest and Sunshine  |
Tempest and Sunshine
This first book by Mary Jane Holmes, written in 1854, was set in the pre civil-war south. It follows two sisters - the blond Fanny and the dark-haired Julia - as they struggle through life and romance. One is superficially more beautiful, but is selfish and cold-hearted, while the second sister is less beautiful but is warm and giving. Categories: Romance, 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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The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows  |
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
Emotionally and physically stranded, Captain Tom Lingard finds himself, his English yacht, and his passengers at the mercy of a dishonorable Malayan prince and his subjects. Only one woman understands the dilemma facing the captain -- to save his white passengers, or sacrifice them to the natives. Category: Romantic Suspense |
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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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The Daughter of the Chieftain  |
The Daughter of the Chieftain
A band of Iroquois warriors hold hostage Linna, the young daughter of Delaware Chieftain, Omas. Omas is never far behind as the bandits run with the girl. The kidnappers may be fierce, but Omas, the young Ben Ripley, and Linna herself are clever. Categories: Romance, Western 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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Black Bartlemys Treasure  |
Black Bartlemys Treasure
Broken by years of slavery at sea and the death of his father, Martin Conisby returns to England seeking revenge. Once home, he is swept into adventures, from saving the beautiful Lady Jane Brandon from kidnapping to following the trail to treasure said to have been left by pirate Black Bartelmy. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Mistress Wilding  |
Mistress Wilding
The charming Anthony Wilding pursues a young lady who is suspicious of his reputation as a rogue. This same rogue spirit leads him to help the Duke of Monmouth rise up against King James. While foes oppose his every move, the chivalrous Wilding may yet succeed in politics and passion. 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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