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Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape his mothers matchmaking Vincent Hunt Viscount Darleigh flees to a remote country village. But even there another marital trap is sprung. So when Miss Sophia Frys intervention on his behalf finds her unceremoniously booted from her guardians home Vincent is compelled to act. He may have been blinded in battle but he can see a solution to both their problems: marriage. At first quiet unassuming Sophia rejects Vincents proposal. But...
3) The escape
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"After surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper is struggling to move on, his body and spirit in need of a healing touch. Never does Ben imagine that hope will come in the form of a beautiful woman who has seen her own share of suffering. After the lingering death of her husband, Samantha McKay is at the mercy of her oppressive in-laws--until she plots an escape to distant Wales to claim a house she has inherited. Being a gentleman, Ben...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
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Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower), has been stationed in Portugal and is awaiting his new contact. He does not expect to be paired with a woman--especially not the legendary Pink Carnation. All of Portugal believes that the royal family departed for Brazil just before the French troops marched into Lisbon. Only the English government knows that mad seventy-three-year-old...
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Language
English
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In a dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world. --from publisher descriptioin
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Series
Poldark family novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
When Ross Poldark undertakes a government assignment to access the strength of Bonapartist sentiment in Bourbon, France, he and his beloved wife, Demelza, are swept into a giddy Parisian social whirl, belying the ominous threat of war. Meanwhile, young Jeremy Poldark, a lieutenant in the British army, and his bride enjoy a carefree honeymoon in Brussels. As fate and fortune conspire to reunite the Poldarks on the bloodiest of battlefields, life among...
11) Napoleon: a life
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 764 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of Napoleon, revealing the true man behind the legend. The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski...
12) Rifleman Dodd
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Language
English
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Cut off from his regiment by enemy forces pursuing his British comrades in retreat, Rifleman Matthew Dodd commits himself to fighting his way back to friendly lines. Dodd's simple, unyielding devotion to his duties as a soldier exemplifies core values - honor, courage and commitment - which all Marines are expected to demonstrate. He never thinks in terms of surrender. He doesn't just escape and evade - he continues to perform as a rifleman, killing...
13) Empire of ivory
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Series
Temeraire volume 4
Language
English
Description
Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, as an epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the dragons' ranks. Only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected and must stand as the only means of airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties. As Bonaparte's dragons harrow Britain's ships, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, take wing to Africa in search of a cure for the deadly contagion.
16) Tejas country
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
17) Love and death
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Boris Grushenko, a timid soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, becomes entangled in a plot to assassinate Napoleon and after a hilarious confrontation with the Angel of Death finds himself facing a firing squad.
18) Berezina
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
177 pages : maps ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The retreat of Napoleon's Grande Armée from Russia culminated, after a humiliating loss, with the crossing of the River Berezina, a word that henceforth became synonymous with unmitigated disaster for the French and national pride for the Russians. Two hundred years after this battle, Sylvain Tesson and his friends retrace Napoleon's retreat, along the way reflecting on the lessons of history, the meaning of defeat, and the realities of contemporary...
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