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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...

2) Death of kings: a novel

Author

Cornwell, Bernard

Series

Saxon stories (Bernard Cornwell) volume 6
Last kingdom volume 6
The Warrior Chronicles

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

The fate of a young nation rests in the hands of a reluctant warrior in the thrilling sixth volume of the New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series. Following the intrigue and action of The Burning Land and Sword Song, this latest chapter in Bernard Cornwell's epic saga of England is a gripping tale of divided loyalties and mounting chaos. At a crucial moment in time, as Alfred the Great lays dying, the fate of all--Angles, Saxons, and Vikings...

3) A reliable wife

Author

Goolrick, Robert

Language

English

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Description

Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who has answered his advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, but her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, then slowly poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow....

4) The edge of desire: a Bastion Club novel

Author

Series

Bastion Club volume 7

Language

English

Formats

Description

In the special edition of #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens' The Edge of Desire, receive a free bonus excerpt from her new book, The Lady Risks All, available wherever books are sold September 25th!

In The Edge of Desire, they proved their bravery fighting for His Majesty's Secret Service and were rewarded with brides of great beauty and breeding. But one member of the Bastion Club has remained a bachelor . . . until

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5) It's in his kiss

Author

Quinn, Julia

Series

Bridgerton series volume 7

Language

English

Formats

Description

"Meet Our Hero. Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past and the key to his future. The problem is—it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. Meet Our Heroine. All the town agreed: there was no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. She's fiendishly...

6) Where the heart leads

Author

Series

Casebook of Barnaby Adair volume 1
Cynster novel volume 16

Language

English

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Description

Penelope Ashford, Portia Cynster's younger sister, has grown up with every advantage --wealth, position, and beauty. Yet Penelope is anything but a typical ton miss --forceful, willful and blunt to a fault, she has for years devoted her considerable energy and intelligence to directing an institution caring for the forgotten orphans of London's streets. But now her charges are mysteriously disappearing. Desperate, Penelope turns to the one man she...

7) A gentleman's honor

Author

Series

Bastion Club volume 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

The Season has yet to begin, and the second member of the Bastion Club, tall, handsome Anthony Blake, Viscount Torrington, is already a target for every matchmaking mama in London. None of their flighty daughters can fix his interest, but a certain lady does...

Alicia is living a deception. Desperation has caused the determined but penniless lady to boldly launch her ravishing younger sister into the ton and have her make a spectacular match.

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8) What price love?

Author

Series

Cynster novels volume 13

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

Enter the unforgettable world of New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens, creator of the phenomenal Cynster family. This amazing clan — and their friends — is a bold, powerful group of men who let nothing stand in their way when it comes to matters of the heart. And in this, Stephanie Laurens's newest novel, a passionate man and a daring woman confront the ultimate question. . . .

What Price Love?

There is nothing

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9) The help

Author

Stockett, Kathryn

Language

English

Formats

Description

In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. But, suddenly, three women, Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter, realize that they are suffocating within the lines. Aibileen is a black maid, raising her seventeenth white child. Her best friend, Minny, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi. And Skeeter Phelan is just back from college, a white woman with a degree but, to her mother's chagrin, no ring on her finger. With the civil rights...

10) Mastered by love

Author

Series

Bastion Club volume 8

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

The men of the Bastion Club have proven their bravery by secretly fighting for their country. Now their leader, Dalziel, faces that most dangerous of all missions: finding a bride

11) The thorn birds

Author

McCullough, Colleen

Series

Gramercy modern classics

Language

English

Formats

Description

The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of this century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station owned by his autocratic and childless older sister; and it ends more than half a century later, when the only survivor of the third generation, the brilliant actress Justine O'Neill, sets a course of life and love halfway...

12) On the way to the wedding

Author

Quinn, Julia

Series

Bridgerton series volume 8

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened. Except ... She wasn't the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers...

13) World without end

Author

Follett, Ken

Series

Pillars of the Earth volume 2
Kingsbridge volume 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

Two centuries after the building of the elaborate Gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, its prior finds himself at the center of a web of ambition and revenge that places the city at a crossroad of commerce, medicine, and architecture.

14) Shogun: a novel of Japan

Author

Clavell, James

Series

Asian saga volume 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power.
Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell's masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose...

15) One perfect rose

Author

Putney, Mary Jo

Series

Fallen angels volume 7

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

A New York Times bestselling novel

Can a woman with a past and a man with no future find lasting love?

Stephen Kenyon, Duke of Ashburton, has always taken the duties of his rank seriously—until a doctor's grim diagnosis sends him running from his world of privilege. Traveling incognito, he yearns to experience life to the fullest in what time he has left. When Stephen rescues a drowning child, he is drawn

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16) Before we were yours: a novel

Author

Wingate, Lisa

Language

English

Formats

Description

"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...

17) It happened one autumn

Author

Kleypas, Lisa

Series

Wallflower series volume 2
Wallflowers volume 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

Fiercely independent American Lillian Bowman, in London to find a husband, matches wits with the insufferable, snobbish, and irresistible Marcus, Lord Westcliff, society's most eligible bachelor.

18) The measure of a heart

Author

Oke, Janette

Series

Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 6

Language

English

Formats

Description

Shy, sensitive, and a bit self-conscious, Anna Trent is the oldest daughter of a family of seven. When a young pastor asks Anna to marry him, she agrees despite her feelings of not meeting all the criteria for a minister's wife and feeling guilty about leaving her mother with all the work. Anna must discover that in the sight of the Lord, she truly is "a woman of worth."

19) A lord apart

Author

Ashford, Jane

Series

Way to a lord's heart volume 2

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Formats

Description

"After his parents' sudden death, Daniel Frith, Viscount Whitfield, is struggling to unravel a web of chaotic family records. He is astonished to learn his father's will contains a mysterious legacy: a house left to a complete stranger. He knows nothing about the beautiful Penelope Pendleton and he's not sure he wants to...until she turns out to be a whiz at all those nasty tasks involved in estate administration... Penelope has no idea why Rose...

20) The surgeon's daughter

Author

Blake, Audrey

Language

English

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