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Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo  |
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
This thriller brings the mysterious Mademoiselle into contact with a seemingly unstoppable super criminal known only as The Sparrow. The high society world of Mademoiselle may be the unlikely undoing of the underworld operative who has eluded the best detectives in Europe. Category: 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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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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Bride of Lammermoor  |
Bride of Lammermoor
Truly star-crossed lovers, Edgar and Lucy are desperate to be together, even though their families are sworn enemies. Their misfortune starts in Ravenswood, where Edgar is Master and Lucy's father William Ashton is the sworn enemy of the realm. The villainous Lady Ashton schemes to keep the lovers apart, even as they fight for a wedding to celebrate their love. The story is said to be based on the true tale of the tragic Dalrymple family. Category: Romance |
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At Last  |
At Last
All of her matches turn out well in the long run, claims lifelong matchmaker, Mrs. Rachel Sutton. Unfortunately, the path to happily-ever-after is full of twists and turns that she cannot predict. Featuring the mercurial, mystical Rosa, the road to wedded bliss is a challenge for more than one couple in this romantic novel. Categories: Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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Annie Kilburn |
Annie Kilburn
Returning from Italy to Massachusetts in the late 1800s, Annie Kilburn takes on the social causes of her time in this American Realist novel. As she works on the behalf of sick children, she ultimately becomes emotionally attached to her charges, as well as the Unitarian minister who advises her. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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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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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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A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 2  |
A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 2
This is an exciting tale of London and revolutionary Paris in the 18th century. Three men are obsessed over one woman, Lucie Manette. The twists and turns in the plot capture the harshness of the French Revolution, honorable sacrifice and loves lost and gained. Category: Other Fiction |
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Catfish Charlie |
Catfish Charlie
This is the compelling story of a man who spilled his blood in war and came home to a war that raged in his mind. There is a great rivalry in Texas between the University of Texas and Texas A. and M. Returned Korean War hero, Jim Crawford thought enough of Texas A. and M. that he gave his life so his son could attend the school that would make him a man. Category: Other Fiction |
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Three Strikes - You Are Dead  |
Three Strikes - You Are Dead
How do you manage a baseball team that is in the middle of a heated pennant and is also being stalked by a serial killer? Beachcombers manager is finding out. Utility outfielder Rico Valley is the first victim of the serial killer. By mid season, three of his teammates have also become victims. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction |
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Spiritual Dictionary - Definitions for the Soulful Seeker of Religions, Spirituality, and Enlightenment |
Spiritual Dictionary - Definitions for the Soulful Seeker of Religions, Spirituality, and Enlightenment
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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Child of Storm  |
Child of Storm
Allen Quatermain is back, in Zululand, Africa. Attracted to Mameena, Child of the Storm, Quatermain does not trust her. And when she pleads guilty to witchcraft, who can blame him? The punishment is death, but Mameena has one last wish that Allen must contend with. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Villette  |
Villette
Lucy Snowe escapes tragedy at home for the apparent safety of teaching at a boarding school in the city of Villette. Many challenges await, including learning French, untangling mistaken identities, grappling with ghosts, and reluctantly falling in love with her own headmaster. Category: Historical 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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The Blithedale Romance |
The Blithedale Romance
When the exotic Zenobia and gentle Priscilla both fall in love with social reformer Hollingsworth, personal philosophies and passions are explored, discarded, and re-examined. Based on his own experience in communal living at Brook Farm, Hawthorne has poet Miles Coverdale tell the story. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Englishwomans Love-Letters  |
Englishwomans Love-Letters
Absence may truly make the heart grow fonder. Presented as love letters from an anonymous Englishwoman to her far-away lover, this is the story of a passionate courtship and its tragic end. The formality of the letters only serves to underline the raw passion that hides between the lines. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Annette - The Metis Spy  |
Annette - The Metis Spy
As an innocent young girl in the prairies of the North-West Territories, Annette is rescued from near-drowning by a stranger who is a hero to her, but an enemy to her people. Annette's loyalties are sorely tested by her attraction to her savior Captain Stephens amidst the intense battles between the French and the native Metis people. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Beth Norvell  |
Beth Norvell
The clear air of the Colorado mountains cannot stop the complicated and somewhat scandalous love triangles that Beth Norvell finds herself involved in. The lead performer in a traveling play, Beth brings something new to the Western town that attracts all sorts of attention. Category: Western Romance |
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Aikenside  |
Aikenside
This is a love story and the story of lives of the young, poor, rich and religious in a small village. A handsome young doctor who starts his practice in the village and quickly gets swept up in the lives of a wealthy landowner in the village, a young school teacher, a poor young school girl and a group of townspeople who seem to find great joy in keeping track of the actions of their neighbors. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Shades of Deception  |
Shades of Deception
A collection of ten fictional short stories about how ordinary citizens who are sophisticated, successful and financially smart fall prey to insightful predators that use love, romance, lust and money as embellishments to destroy lives. Category: Contemporary Romance |
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Mavericks  |
Mavericks
Our hero is a rustler, who earns the ire of the early settlers of the Old West with his plundering and pillaging of their settlements. There is one woman who sees something else in this maverick; will his charm be enough to overcome his reputation and win her heart? Category: Western Romance |
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At Loves Cost |
At Loves Cost
It takes ages to build up a house and a family, but one man can knock it down. Sons and daughters fight for love amidst family pressures from all sides. Would-be couples must make heart-wrenching decisions about family reputations and expectations in this sentimental story. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Bacillus of Beauty  |
The Bacillus of Beauty
What if you could be the most beautiful woman in existence? When a teacher offers this incredible gift to a bright young student from the country, it will change her life, relationships, and self forever. Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 1  |
The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 1
Dumas takes us to the Mediterranean during the early 1800s in this sweeping story that has remained popular through the centuries. Exiled Edmond Dantes re-invents himself as the Count of the island of Monte Cristo, leading him on a twisting trail of fortunes found, loves lost and redemption reached. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Heir of Redclyffe  |
The Heir of Redclyffe
Guy Morville struggles against the evils of the world in this Victorian romance. Guy fights the demons that come along with a 19th century inheritance, title, and education, as well as his explosive temper. His love for his gentle wife Amy sees him through the fight for redemption. Category: Inspirational 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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The Drums of Jeopardy  |
The Drums of Jeopardy
A young dancer with the Royal Ballet dies an untimely death after parting from her lover, the Prince. On her body is the legendary Drums of Jeopardy necklace. Seeking revenge, her mad scientist father sends the drum charms from the necklace to members of the royal family as omens of impending doom. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romantic Suspense |
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The Gringos: A Story of the Old California Days in 1849  |
The Gringos: A Story of the Old California Days in 1849
When a Mexican senorita takes a blue-eyed gringo as a lover in the Old West, rumors are rampant. She is bold, sending notes roses through her maid, and the whispers grow louder. The passion of the duels fought over this union is equalled only by what passes between the two unlikely lovers. Category: Western Romance |
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Confession  |
Confession
Edward Clifford has a passionate love for his wife, Julia, yet he suspects her of entertaining the affections of a visitor, William Edgarton. Edgarton is indeed pressing himself upon Julia, but Edward's suspicions are, for Julia's part, more in his mind than in reality. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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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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Anna Karenina - Part 2  |
Anna Karenina - Part 2
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. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Whispering Smith  |
Whispering Smith
The man nicknamed Whispering Smith is a steel-hard railroad detective in the old West. When a friend is fired from the railroad and turns to train-wrecking, he must go after him. The chase gets complicated when Smith meets, and falls for, the wife of his quarry. Category: Western Romance |
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A Romance of Two Worlds |
A Romance of Two Worlds
A young pianist suffers a debilitating depression until she meets artist and mystic Rafello Cellini, who provides a potion that brings her divine visions. Her journey to the light continues with her guardian angel, Heliobas, who shows her the secrets of human destiny. Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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A Princess of Mars |
A Princess of Mars
All is fair in love and war, even on Mars. In this romantic adventure, Burroughs takes us to his fantastical world on Mars, where American John Carter must battle the 15-foot tall Green Men of Mars in order to win the heart of a beautiful woman. Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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Cashel Byrons Profession  |
Cashel Byrons Profession
An English schoolboy rebels, running to Australia to become a prizefighter. He returns to England a young man who catches the eye of heiress Lydia Carew. Lydia can't stay away from Cashel despite the difference in their social positions; she marries him, and discovers in his past countless secrets. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Anna the Adventuress |
Anna the Adventuress
It's a case of mistaken identity when Annabel Pellissier leads Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is her sister Anna. Annabel takes on the flirtatious personality of her sister, a deception that becomes very complicated when the sisters both come to live in London. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Agony Column  |
The Agony Column
An American visiting London innocently checks the personal ads, known as the agony column, and soon finds himself entangled in a murder mystery and a love affair. Part mystery, part romance, this novel was also made into a silent film in 1930 under the title The Second Floor. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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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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Marie: A Story of Russian Love  |
Marie: A Story of Russian Love
Written soon after the author was married, Marie tells the story of life and love on the Russian plains. The steppes come to life as well as the love affair of Marie and Peter. Presented as a memoir by Peter, the story follows his sometimes harrowing quest to become husband to Marie Martinoff. Category: Historical Romance |
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Resurrection  |
Resurrection
This epic romance novel tells the story of Russian society and justice from the depths of prison cells to the palaces of the rich. It centers on the story of a prince who discovers that the prostitute on trial is the woman he had loved and abandoned many years before when she was a young servant. His guilt motivates him to appeal for her release. This story of human redemption denounces the government, the church and the judicial system. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Awakening of Helena Richie  |
The Awakening of Helena Richie
First published in serial form, The Awakening of Helena Richie features Deland's fictional 19th century village of Old Chester, Pennsylvania. Helena must fight for love amidst a tangle of marriage, divorce, and family secrets. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Monk  |
The Monk
Raised in a monastery, Ambrosio becomes a charismatic monk who seems above all scandal. The devil will tempt him, though, in the form of Matilda, a wanton woman who enters his flock disguised as a boy. Categories: Historical Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal 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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Martin Conisby  |
Martin Conisby
Martin Conisby has drifted away from his true love in the conclusion to Black Bartelmy's Treasure. His need to avenge his father's death carries him to a pirate-filled sea, the Central American jungles, and many a chivalric battle. He needs to find his way back home, to his love, and to himself. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Valley of the Silent Men |
The Valley of the Silent Men
Canadian trapper Sergeant Kent turns from hunter to hunted when he is wrongly accused of murder. He flees along the cold Northern rivers with a mysterious girl who laughs at him but hides her own secrets. Together they make their way through the wilds to the Valley of Silent Men. Categories: Romantic Suspense, Western Romance |
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Ziska, The Problem of a Wicked Soul  |
Ziska, The Problem of a Wicked Soul
In the land of the pyramids, Princess Ziska enchants tourists from Europe looking for an exotic escape. Three men are drawn to her, never guessing her motives involve finding among them the reincarnated Araxes, a great Egyptian warrior and lover. Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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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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Jude the Obsure |
Jude the Obsure
This romance novel was the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, published in 1895. Jude Fawley, a village stonemason, dreams of becoming a scholar but finds himself struggling through several romances. He finds love but faces social ostracization, a wayward child, murdered children, and religious guilt. Category: Romance |
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The Professor |
The Professor
The hero of the book turns down a clerical job to take a teaching position in Belgium. He becomes entangled with a sensuous, manipulative woman but has affection for another woman who is a teacher and pupil at his school. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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