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A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more
...Cozy crime meets women's historical fiction in the Rum Runners' Chronicles.
She left criminal life behind. Will her new business venture send her to sleep with the fishes?
Florida Coast, 1932. Edith Duffy might be grieving her gangster husband's death, but she's no damsel in distress. Leaving the sordid world of Philadelphia bootlegging, she settles in a small town outside Miami and buys a speakeasy.
...This box set includes:
THE REASONS FOR MARRIAGE (A Lester Family Novel)
By #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens
Lenore Lester is perfectly content with her quiet country life, but the notoriously...
6) Ruth
Fans of social realism will appreciate the surprisingly nuanced and multi-faceted perspective on Victorian era morals and mores offered in Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's sweeping novel Ruth. The story follows the fortune of Ruth, an orphan who is tricked into an intimate relationship with an aristocrat who later abandons her when she is pregnant with his child. Ruth, distraught, struggles with the social strictures that paint her as an irredeemable
...7) Fairy Debt
"I knew it would all end in tears the moment I saw the hat."
In this short comedic fairytale New York Times bestselling author and ALA Alex Award winner Gail Carriger doles out tea-saturated prose and food-driven biting wit suitable for a younger audience.
Cups is a fairy with a problem. She can't grow wings because she is under a death promise to a local king. So she takes service at the castle as the Least Jester
A highland rogue - Edmund MacGregor will do anything to save Scotland from English rule—even kidnap Lady Amelia Bell for ransom. As the daughter of a duke and the chancellor's betrothed, she's the perfect pawn in this game. But from the moment he first lays eyes on his spirited captive, he can't resist stealing a kiss. An adventurous lady - Lady Amelia's duty is to marry well, but that hasn't stopped her from fantasizing about true love.
...Namely, her husband.
But Jackson barely notices. He's too busy putting out his own fires. As the new chief...
11) No Safe Harbor
New York City, 1897. She came to America searching for her brother. Instead all she's found is a web of danger. Cara Hamilton had thought her brother to be dead. Now, clutching his letter, she leaves Ireland for America, desperate to find him. Her search leads her to a houseful of curious strangers, and one man who claims to be a friend -- Rourke Walsh. Despite her brother's warning, Cara trusts Rourke, revealing her purpose in coming to New York.
...Lady Felicity's ability to read people's emotions by touching them is more than she can handle, so she seeks out inventor and rake Ewen Ives.
...Later in her career, Patricia Wentworth created the beloved mystery series featuring stalwart amateur sleuth Miss Silver. In this, her first novel, Wentworth spins a gripping tale about a doomed pair of lovers whose tragic story unfurls against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Whether you're a mystery fan, a lover of historical fiction, or a little bit of both, A Marriage Under the Terror deserves a spot on your must-read list.
Lady Leila Staines is desperate to discover her own magical talent so she seeks out the scientific Dunstan Ives, a man accused of murder, and the one person who can
..."Patricia Rice is a master storyteller."
-Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author of Never Less than a Lady
Magic is her birthright...
The daughter of one of the strongest magical lineages, Ninian Malcom Siddons is a powerful witch. Determined to only use her magic for good, she lives a simple, solitary life as a healer in her village, where she meets Drogo.
A man of science doesn't
...Her Scandalous Painting Ruined His Reputation
Lady Lucinda Malcolm Pembroke's paintings have been known to cause trouble, but never quite like this. Somehow she's painted the perfect likeness of a man she's never met and depicted him as a murderer! She never would have displayed the painting—for all London to see—if she'd suspected her subject was real. Fleeing the scandal, Lucinda escapes to a remote cottage and assumes a
...The only book that Mark Twain ever wrote in collaboration with another author, The Gilded Age is a novel that viciously and hilariously satirizes the greed, materialism, and corruption that characterized much of upper-class America in the nineteenth century. The title term—inspired by a line in Shakespeare's King John—has become synonymous with the excess of the era.
19) One Big Open Sky
1879, Mississippi. Young dreamer Lettie may have her head in the stars, but her body is on a covered wagon heading westward. Her father, Thomas, promises that Nebraska will be everything the family needs: an opportunity...
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