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When a stranger buys property on Bennett's Island and drops anchor there in an expensive lobster boat, the locals are suspicious, in this eighth volume of the series. Day-to-day life goes on, but dark undercurrents begin to bubble in these chilly Maine...

The first title in Elizabeth Ogilvies' Lover's Trilogy, The Dawning of the Day follows war widow Philippa Marshall as she carves a life out for herself as a school teacher on rugged Bennett's Island. Underneath the sleepy exterior of the island, Philippa...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596873742Author Pamela SargentFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint Milk and Cookies PressPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 1055g

Here is a remarkable vintage tour-de-force of the Fifties, in which Stuart Benton explores the range of human experience from the sublime to the exotically degrading. Marriage, illicit love, the uneasy relationship between children and parents, business...

This classic novel, written in the midst of the Great Depression, translates the themes of Balzac to a Southern Appalachian setting. Lumpkin traces the path of the McClure family as they move from living as poor bootleggers in the mountains to living in...

Jefferson Square was a multi-million dollar culture center...but there was nothing at all cultural about some of the things that happened there during its grand opening in the Sixties. At the Repertory Theater, a play called Confessional was in...

For the life of me, I don't see how anybody in his right mind would want a berth on a busted down wreck like the Jessie Bill. But then there ain't many people on the Jessie Bill in their right minds [...]My name is Peter Paul Sherman and I'm mud clerk on...

In his inimitable "two track" style of creating a fictional future and flashing back to actual events in recent history, Peter T. King once again places Congressman Sean Cross at the center of international terrorism, this time coming from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590131398Author Broos CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint McBooks PressPublisher McBooks PressWeight(grams) 327g

The old iron-clad Meridian steams south on her last journey under the British flag, on route to her new home in the Chilean Navy. Using the transfer of the ship as cover, Halfhyde and Watkiss are on a covert operation to protect British interests in...

In Andalusia, Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde is sent by the unpredictable Captain Watkiss on a secret mission ashore: to aid the Queen's Messenger who is being pursued by nefarious Spanish agents. But when Halfhyde discovers a plot to kill Queen Victoria...

Spring 1855, the height of the Crimean War, and the siege of the Russian city of Sebastopol continues. In a desperate attempt to cut the Russians' supply line at the Sea of Azoff, the Allies commit 15,000 troops, five batteries of artillery, and...

As the Russian cavalry prepares to launch a full-scale attack to seize Balaclava, the British find themselves in desperate straits. Dangerously outnumbered, they are hoping for reinforcements, but in the meantime they must hold their ground, calling for...

To break the stalemate in the Crimea, the British must search for unlikely help among the self-reliant mountain people of Circassia. Commander Phillip Hazard of HMS Huntress is dispatched with a select handful of his crew to seek out the guerrilla leader...

A powerful novel set against the somber background of Dunkirk and the Blitzkrieg.ReviewsBritish author Jones, who died in 1995, is perhaps best remembered for 14 autobiographical books recounting the seafaring adventures of a one-legged blue-water sailor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573229715Author James McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571782250Author Barnaby ConradFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Council Oak BooksPublisher Council Oak BooksWeight(grams) 571g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568332673Author David E. MorineFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561648030Author Robert N. MacomberFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561648023Author Robert N. MacomberFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 562g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561646241Author Paul VarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561645534Author Don DandreaFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

Seeking to round out the compelling story of the American West, best-selling Lakota author Joseph M. Marshall III brings a new slant to the traditional Western: historical fiction written from the Native American viewpoint. This riveting story takes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501128370Author Tracy ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 454g

Wallis Simpson rocked the British royal family-and indeed society at large-when the twice-divorced American socialite agreed to marry David Windsor, otherwise known as King Edward VIII, forcing his abdication of the throne. This novelization of this...

Robin Lloyd's debut novel opens in Lyme, Connecticut, in the early nineteenth century. Elisha Ely Morgan is a young farm boy who has witnessed firsthand the terror of the War of 1812. Troubled by a tumultuous home life ruled by the fists of their...

This is the story of reluctant Oregon pioneer Jennie Haviland, who must give up study at her academy in New York when her father takes the family west over the Oregon Trail. In Oregon Jennie meets two young men, American mountain man Jake Johnston and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451608304Author Ursula HegiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781409929222Author Thomas Jr DixonFormat PaperbackImprint Dodo PressPublisher Dodo PressWeight(grams) 454g

A work of historical fiction following the prized African elephant who stole the show of the Barnum & Bailey Circus -- and the hearts of people around the world -- exploring exploitation, unrequited love, and the unbreakable bond between living things,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668030622Author A K BlakemoreFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 472g

SHARPE IS BACK. The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series. If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe . . . ...

'Robert Dinsdale mixes history and mythology with great panache . . . Richly textured and with an appropriately labyrinthine plot, this is a book that explores the monster inside man - and vice versa. Book of the Month' Sunday TimesLondon, 1861:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942586463Author Kenneth LindeFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Little Creek PressPublisher Little Creek PressWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534392Author Elizabeth BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 223mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995705746Author Colin McAlpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint David J PublishingPublisher David J Publishing

The Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood—is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in the eighth century and blossomed in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345479358Author Edward RutherfurdFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 743g

A not-so-civil war 1947, and the final bloody chapters of the Chinese Civil War unleash a tidal wave of Red across the nation. Qi Jing and his Communist 9th Brigade are given a near-impossible mission: ford the mighty Yellow River and cut a swathe...

Growing up poor and largely abandoned on the streets of 1920s Chicago, Anna Finnegan has struggled her entire life. Until a talent manager discovers her and brings her into the world of theater. Now years later she's about to start shooting her first...