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My Lord John
- Author: Georgette Heyer
- Genre: Historical fiction
John, Duke of Bedford, grew to manhood fighting for his father, King Henry IV of England, on the wild and lawless Northern Marches. He was a prince of the royal blood, loyal, strong, and the greatest ally that his brother – the future Henry V – was to have. Filled with the clash of bitter rivalries and deadly power struggles, this is Georgette Heyer’s last and most ambitious novel, bringing to life a character and a period she found irresistibly attractive.
Love Takes Wing
- Author: Janette Oke
- Genre: Historical fiction
(Love Comes Softly #7) EDITORIAL REVIEW: Book 7 of the bestselling Love Comes Softly series. Belinda Davis had trained as a nurse to assist her older brother, Doctor Luke. But as time goes by and she sees those she's grown up with getting married and settling into their own lives, Belinda becomes restless. What had seemed exciting and fresh becomes dull and routine. When she meets an elderly woman who needs nursing care, Belinda jumps at the invitation to go to Boston—a large, "civilized" city with cultural opportunities she’s never even dreamed of in her little prairie town. But in spite of financial security and countless new experiences, Belinda finds herself restless, lonely, and empty inside.
Requiem
- Author: Robyn Young
- Genre: Historical fiction
The Temple has forged an alliance with Will's enemy, King Edward of England, vowing to help him wage war on Scotland. This pact against his homeland strikes at the core of Will's faith and allegiances, while his growing estrangement from his daughter, Rose, leads her into a dangerous affair.
Sacred Hearts
- Author: Sarah Dunant
- Genre: Historical fiction
This novel opens with the newest novice sixteen-year-old former noble, Serafina. More rebellious teen then a dutiful daughter, Serafina is too expensive and too much of a liability to marry off, so she is passed over in favor of her younger sister, and forced to take the veil. (This practice Dunant notes is very common though cruel). Serafina is highly valued to the convent both for her beautiful singing voice, and the generous dowry her family has promised. However the only vow Serfina makes is to herself--promising to escape at her earliest opportunity.
Serafina is contrasted with Zuana, a once defiant and now compliant nun. Zuana takes Serafina under her wing to try and ease Serafina's transition from court to convent. Both women soon become embroiled in the shifting alliances of the convent and rapidly changing religious atmosphere which could forever alter Santa Caterina as they know it.
Zaidee : a romance 3
- Author: Oliphant, Mrs., 1828-1897
- Genre: Historical fiction
"Originally published in Blackwood's magazine."
Patty Blossom
- Author: Wells Carolyn
- Genre: Historical fiction
Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey. After finishing school she worked as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association. Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of charades. Her next publications were The Jingle Book and The Story of Betty (1899), followed by a book of verse entitled Idle Idyls (1900). After 1900, Wells wrote numerous novels and collections of poetry. She wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. According to her autobiography, The Rest of My Life (1937), around 1910 she heard one of Anna Katherine Green's mystery novels being read aloud and was immediately captivated by the unravelling of the puzzle. From that point onward, she devoted herself to the mystery genre. Among her most famous works are: Patty at Home (1904), Marjorie's Busy Days (1906), The Gold Bag (1911), Marjorie's Maytime (1911), Marjorie at Seacote (1912), Patty Blossom (1917), Vicky Van (1918) and Patty and Azalea (1919). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The Piano Teacher
- Author: Janice Y. K. Lee
- Genre: Historical fiction
The Piano Teacher is laced with intrigue concerning a hoard of Chinese artifacts called the Crown Collection that went missing during the war. But it is a question, who will be the loves—Claire, with her blond and familiar femininity, English rose to Trudy's exotic scorpion"—and the unsparing way Lee unravels them."
green apple harvest
- Author: sheila kaye smith
- Genre: Historical fiction
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on libraryshelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to makethe world's books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for thecopyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domainbook is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright termhas expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country tocountry. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing awealth of history, culture and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume may appearin this file - a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to alibrary and finally to you. Google Book Search has digitized millions of physical books and made themavailable online at http://books.google.com. The digitization at the most basic level is based on page images of thephysical books. To make this book available as an ePub formated file we havetaken those page images and extracted the text using Optical CharacterRecognition (or OCR for short) technology. The extraction of text from pageimages is a difficult engineering task. Smudges on the physical books' pages,fancy fonts, old fonts, torn pages, etc. can all lead to errors in theextracted text. Imperfect OCR is only the first challenge in the ultimate goalof moving from collections of page images to extracted-text based books. Ourcomputer algorithms also have to automatically determine the structure of thebook (what are the headers and footers, where images are placed, whether textis verse or prose, and so forth). Getting this right allows us to render thebook in a way that follows the format of the original book. Despite our best ...
Zaidee : a romance 2
- Author: Oliphant, Mrs., 1828-1897
- Genre: Historical fiction
"Originally published in Blackwood's magazine."