Long Way Homeby Lynn Austin[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW In this portrait of war and its aftermath, a young woman searches for the truth her childhood friend won't discuss after returning from World War II, revealing a story of courage, friendship, and faith.Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience as a medic in Europe that he can barely function. When he attempts the unthinkable, his parents check him into the VA hospital. Peggy determines to help the Barnetts unravel what might have happened to send their son over the edge. She starts by contacting Jimmy's war buddies, trying to identify the mysterious woman in the photo they find in Jimmy's belongings.Seven years earlier, sensing the rising tide against her people, Gisela Wolff and her family flee Germany aboard the passenger ship St. Louis, bound for Havana, Cuba. Gisela meets Sam Shapiro on board and the two fall quickly in love. But
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Love Always, Christmasby Karen Schaler[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW From Karen Schaler, the three-time Emmy Award?winning writer of Netflix sensation A Christmas Prince and Hallmark?s Christmas Camp, the movie and novel, comes a sparkling new Christmas romance filled with humor, heart, and hope.Libby is planning to spend the holidays alone until a mysterious Christmas card takes her on a life-changing journey where she discovers a family she didn?t know she had and a love she was never expecting to find?Libby Larson?s Christmas wish is to get the holidays over as fast as possible. After losing her mom, her only family, she?s bah humbugging Christmas, while desperately trying to save her childhood Seattle home.But when Libby finds a twenty-year-old unopened Christmas card addressed to her mom, what she discovers inside takes her to the snowy mountain town of Holly Peak.As family secrets start to unravel, Libby must rely on Holly Peak?s handsome town manager, Adam Thompson, to help her find answers while reluctantly participating in the town?s quirky
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Anathemby Neal Stephenson[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outside?the Extramuros?for the last of the terrible times was long, long ago.Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fraas and suurs prepare to venture beyond the concent's gates?at the same time opening them wide to welcome the curious "extras" in. During his
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The Great Fireby Shirley Hazzard[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett "is brilliant and dazzling..."The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself.In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim
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Time After Timeby Lisa Grunwald[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, sweeps readers from the 1920s to World War II and beyond, in the spirit of The Time Traveler?s Wife and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.On a clear December morning in 1937, at the famous gold clock in Grand Central Terminal, Joe Reynolds, a hardworking railroad man from Queens, meets a vibrant young woman who seems mysteriously out of place. Nora Lansing is a Manhattan socialite whose flapper clothing, pearl earrings, and talk of the Roaring Twenties don?t seem to match the bleak mood of Depression-era New York. Captivated by Nora from her first electric touch, Joe despairs when he tries to walk her home and she disappears. Finding her again?and again?will become the focus of his love and his life.Nora, an aspiring artist and fiercely independent, is shocked to find she?s somehow been trapped, her presence in the terminal governed by rules she cannot fathom. It isn?t until she meets
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Honor Thyselfby Danielle Steel[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW A world-renowned actress falls victim to a terrifying explosion in Paris--and begins a courageous journey of survival, memory, and self-discovery in Danielle Steel's mesmerizing new novel.Carole Barber has come to Paris, with its rain-slick slate roofs and winding streets, to work on her novel--and to find herself after a lifetime in the spotlight. A legend of film and stage, Carole has set a standard of beauty and grace, devoting herself to her family and causes around the world. But on this cool November evening, as her taxi speeds into a tunnel just past the Louvre, a fiery instant of terror shatters hundreds of lives--and leaves Carole alone, unconscious and unidentified in a Paris emergency room.At the Ritz, they wonder where their famous, incognito guest has gone. From California to London, Carole's friends and family begin to make inquiries. Then comes a moment of shock as they all realize that Carole is far from home and fighting for her life.In the days that follow, the
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Wuthering Heights: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastinby Emily Bront?[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW Gems of literature in a luxurious and unique design by Marjolein Bastin.The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of a timeless classic, Wuthering Heights, the story of Heathcliff and Catherine. Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin?s series adds elaborately designed ephemera, such as?four-color maps, letters, family trees, and sheet music. Whether an ideal gift for an Austen or Bront? devotee or a treat to yourself, the Marjolein Bastin Classics Series, as a set or individually purchased,?is perfect for anyone who feels a connection to these enduring literary gems.
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Crimson Summer (Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest FBI #2)by Heather Graham[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW
They're not going down without a fight.
When FDLE special agent Amy Larson discovers a small horse figurine amid the bloody aftermath of a gang massacre in the Everglades, she recognizes it immediately. The toy is the calling card of the apocalypse cult that Amy and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, have been investigating, and it can only mean one thing: this wasn't an isolated skirmish--it was the beginning of a war.As tensions between rival gangs rise, so does the body count, and Amy and Hunter's investigation leads them to a violent, far-right extremist group who are in no hurry to quell the civil unrest. With a deadly puppet master working to silence their every lead, it's a race against the clock to figure out who's been pulling the strings and put a stop to the escalating cartel turf war before the Everglades run red.
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers?featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische? It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and gift-worthy hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet by superstar type designer Jessica Hische, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's film?Moonrise Kingdom?to Penguin's own bestsellers?Committed?andRules of Civility. A collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, ?the series design encompasses foil-stamped paper-over-board cases in a rainbow-hued spectrum across all twenty-six book spines and a decorative stain on all three paper edges. Penguin Drop Caps debuts with an ?A? for Jane Austen?s?Pride and Prejudice, a ?B? for Charlotte Bront?s?Jane Eyre, and a ?C? for Willa Cather?s?My ?ntonia, and continues with more classics
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An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7)by Deanna Raybourn[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau Stoker are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch. He has a personal request on behalf of his goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. After years of traveling the world, her eldest brother, Jonathan, heir to Hathaway Hall, was believed to have been killed in the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa a few years before.But now a man matching Jonathan's description and carrying his possessions has arrived at Hathaway Hall with no memory of his identity or where he has been. Could this man truly be Jonathan, back from the dead? Or is he a devious impostor, determined to gain ownership over the family's most valuable possessions--a legendary parure of priceless Rajasthani jewels? It's a
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All Is Brightby RaeAnne Thayne[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW "[Thayne] engages the reader's heart and emotions, inspiring hope and the belief that miracles?are?possible." ?Debbie Macomber, #1?New York Times?bestselling authorReturn to Hope?s Crossing this Christmas in New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne?s latest heartwarming story of matchmaking at the holidays!Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father?s firm who takes on her most challenging client in Mason Tucker. The former pro baseball player is still healing from the physical and emotional scars after a plane crash left him a wheelchair-using single dad, and he?s determined not to let anyone breach his emotional defenses.?Sage knows her work on Mason?s new home in Hope?s Crossing is her best work yet, and she won?t let her grumpy client prevent her from showcasing her work personally.With Sage?s gift for taking broken things and making them better, the matchmaking talent of the quirky locals and a generous sprinkling of Christmas cheer, Mason doesn?t
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All Is Brightby RaeAnne Thayne[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW "[Thayne] engages the reader's heart and emotions, inspiring hope and the belief that miracles?are?possible." ?Debbie Macomber, #1?New York Times?bestselling authorReturn to Hope?s Crossing this Christmas in New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne?s latest heartwarming story of matchmaking at the holidays!Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father?s firm who takes on her most challenging client in Mason Tucker. The former pro baseball player is still healing from the physical and emotional scars after a plane crash left him a wheelchair-using single dad, and he?s determined not to let anyone breach his emotional defenses.?Sage knows her work on Mason?s new home in Hope?s Crossing is her best work yet, and she won?t let her grumpy client prevent her from showcasing her work personally.With Sage?s gift for taking broken things and making them better, the matchmaking talent of the quirky locals and a generous sprinkling of Christmas cheer, Mason doesn?t
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