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Harlequins are lost souls, so loved by the devil that he would not take them to hell, but left them to roam the earth. In French, the word is hellequin – the name given to the English archers who crossed the Channel to lay waste the towns and countryside.In the fourteenth century the English were just beginning to discover their national identity, and one of the strongest elements of this was the …
This special edition Ebook features exclusive extra content by the author, with an extended Historical Note and two contemporary accounts of the Battle of Poitiers.Go with God and Fight like the Devil.The Hundred Years War rages on and the bloodiest battles are yet to be fought. Across France, towns are closing their gates, the crops are burning and the country stands alert to danger. The English …
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce.But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent…
The second book in Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series on the American Civil War.Nathanial Starbuck is a Copperhead: a northerner fighting for the rebel South in America’s Civil War.Expelled from the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must travel a hard road before he can rejoin his comrades. He must join the shadowy war of betrayal and espionage, where nothing is certain and no one can be trusted. Star…
Книга приурочена к 75-летию Великой Победы. В каждом рассказе – судьба человека. От матери, уберёгшей единственного сына, до Русалки, помогавшей разведчикам, от ночного духа Летавицы до единственной оставшейся жительницы — хранителя взвода красноармейцев, от девушки-санитарки, вытащившей из кровавого ада нашего бойца и немца, до Крыничницы, пришедшей на помощь раненому красноармейцу, от глухонемог…
Автору книги «Герой Днепра» Александру Чебыкину исполнилось всего 10 лет, когда началась Великая Отечественная война. Годы лихолетья навсегда остались в памяти впечатлительного и наблюдательного подростка. В основу сборника повестей и рассказов автора легли личные воспоминания, а также встречи с фронтовиками, совершившими подвиг во славу Отечества. Повествования от первого лица подкупает своей иск…
An Indecent Proposal.Bluestocking darling and secret scribe Lady Lucy MacMorlan has no interest in marriage. Putting herself second to a man is definitely not for her. Instead, she makes a profit from matchmaking others and her clandestine love letters are the hushed talk of Scottish society.Except now her talent is causing distress—one of Lucy’s more provocative letters has just cost Robert, Marq…
This year, Becca Timm knows the number one item on her Christmas wish list—getting over Denny Cutler. Three years ago, Denny broke her heart before heading off to war. It's time she got over her silly high-school relationship and moved on. So she takes matters into her own hands and heads up to Virgin River, the rugged little mountain town that Denny calls home, as an uninvited guest on her brothe…
Soldier Mike Nichols has come to Sweetness, Georgia, for one reason: to get help for his troubled black Lab, a decorated rescue dog, at the town's new military dog training facility. He doesn't expect to be referred to dog groomer Lacey Lovejoy instead!Straitlaced Mike and free-spirited Lacey couldn't be more different. Yet the longer he works with Lacey, the more his attraction to her grows. They…
Celebrate the holidays with this magical Swift River Valley novella from New York Times bestselling author Carla NeggersWhen fashion designer Alexandra Rankin Hunt is asked to create the dresses for Olivia Frost's Christmas wedding in tiny Knights Bridge, Massachusetts, she jumps at the chance. She's certain she'll never get to design one for herself–not with her history of falling for the wrong m…
THROUGH THE SHADOWLANDS: Where the touch of silver was Protection, Power and Peril… UNWILLINGLY ENTWINED… There is more danger than usual in the Otherworld of the Sidhe and the mortal world of the Shadowlands. An unlikely group of conspirators–both mortal and Sidhe–plot to overthrow both thrones. They'd stolen the silver caul that protected the borders between the realms–and set into motion a peri…
Striving to save the Aurelian Empire, Valeria reached for too much power too quickly and a darkness rooted inside her.Unable to confess the truth, Valeria turns to Kerrec, her former mentor, one of the elite Riders from the Mountain, home of the gods. But Kerrec, too, is deeply wounded and his darkness may be even deeper than hers–and he is refusing to face it. Until his weakness nearly destroys t…
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence …
He was her first love…Now she’ll risk all to save him.Celeste Fournier once gave her innocence to the man she loved. Years later that same man, Major Summerley Shayborne, is in Paris—and in danger! Celeste’s world has changed beyond recognition, but she knows she must help Shay flee. Yet their scorching reunion makes her wish she could reclaim something of herself…to be the girl she was…the girl t…
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked City: a story of love and intrigue that travels from Kennedy-era Manhattan to World War I Europe…Fresh from college, irrepressible Vivian Schuyler defies her wealthy Fifth Avenue family to work at cut-throat Metropolitan magazine. But this is 1964, and the editor dismisses her…until a parcel lands on Vivian’s Greenwich Village doorstep that …