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Outrageous RegencyLords and Ladies!THE SHOCKING LORD STANDONRumours fly that Gareth Morant, Earl of Standon, is to be wed. He cannot deny them, but he won’t be forced into marriage. So encountering a governess in scandalising circumstances, Gareth demands her help—to make him ineligible. He wants to create a stir and will educate the prim Miss Jessica Gifford in the courtesan’s arts. But Gareth ha…
THE CAPTAIN AND THE COMMONER Ever since her father tried to sell her as a mistress to the highest bidder, Eleanor Massie has chosen to live in poverty. Her world changes overnight when Captain Oliver Worthy shows up at her struggling inn. Despite herself, Eleanor is drawn to her handsome guest…Oliver only planned to stay in Plymouth long enough to report back to Eleanor’s father on his estranged d…
THE CAPTAIN AND THE COMMONER Ever since her father tried to sell her as a mistress to the highest bidder, Eleanor Massie has chosen to live in poverty. Her world changes overnight when Captain Oliver Worthy shows up at her struggling inn. Despite herself, Eleanor is drawn to her handsome guest…Oliver only planned to stay in Plymouth long enough to report back to Eleanor’s father on his estranged d…
Книга, которая легла в основу культового фильма Стивена Спилберга с Леонардо Ди Каприо и Томом Хэнксом в главных ролях теперь и в аудиоформате! Поймай меня, если сможешь. Реальные приключения самого неуловимого мошенника за всю историю преступлений. Фрэнка Абигнейла называли одним из самых хитроумнейших блинопеков, кидал, кукольников и ломщиков, мошенником такого калибра, что запросто тянул на пре…
Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesLord Leo Aikenhead – renowned rake, skilled seducer and expert spy – has finally met his match. For opera singer Sophie Pietre may have the voice of an angel, but she will be no man’s st…
Honourable Knave Lady Elizabeth of Averette comes face-to-face with Finn – an outlaw with more honour than most knights – when he rescues her from a brutal abductor.In return Lizette agrees to help him find his brother by posing as Finn’s wife. Dishonourable Proposal Lizette hasn’t bargained on sharing a bed with her rugged knave as part of the deal.Now it’s her honour that could be compromised… S…
This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Slovak women. The seven life stories, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day, expose the often cruel political history of Slovakia through the eyes of prominent women whose acts and deeds on behalf of their fellow citizens remain unforgotten in the Slovak collective mind. The…
A young widow puts her sexy suitors to the test in New York Times best–selling author Julia London's scintillating return to the idyllic Scottish Highlands.Widowed and forced to remarry in three years' time or forfeit her son's inheritance, Daisy Bristol, Lady Chatwick, has plenty of suitors vying for her hand…and her fortune. But a letter from a long-lost love sends Daisy and her young son to her…
A knight to protect her – this YuletideBy order of the English King, Alice of Swaffham searches London nobility for the traitor dealing information to the Scots. Little does she know that the mysterious spy she seeks is the man she once loved and thought she’d lost forever…If Hugh of Shoebury felt unworthy of Alice before, as the Half-Thistle spy, he can never claim her heart. Now he must fight no…
В книге Марка Курлански скромная треска становится главным персонажем мировой истории. Ради трески европейцы начали пересекать Атлантику – и именно благодаря треске столь дальние плавания стали возможны. Из-за трески велись войны и начинались революции, она служила основой рациона целых народов, от нее зависели экономики разных стран, и колонизация Северной Америки произошла во многом благодаря ей…
Эта книга – о жизни и смерти, о радости и горе, о дружбе и любви, страданиях и несчастьях; о прошлом, которого не вернуть. Выжившей в революционном водовороте героине романа предстоит пройти через годы тяжелых испытаний, голода и страха. Лишившаяся всего, она решает стать орудием возмездия, пусть даже ценой собственной жизни. Константинополь, Берлин, Париж; вновь революционная Москва первых лет но…
A SCANDALOUS SECRET! Having run away from home to avoid an unwanted betrothal, Lady Elizabeth Copeland must keep her disguise as an elderly lady’s companion at all times. Even when she’s called upon to nurse the lady’s nephew – who rather infuriatingly happens to be the most incredible-looking man she’s ever seen…Elizabeth yearns to break out of Betsy’s drab dresses to reveal that she’s of the sam…
He left to save his family…Now he’s back!Nicholas of Mei Solis once swore to do anything to protect his home—he even went away to fight for it. That meant leaving beautiful Matilda too. Now Nicholas has returned briefly, to lay to rest the ghosts of his past. But one look at Matilda, now widowed and with child, changes everything. Suddenly Nicholas is compelled to stay…and to take back the future …
Провозглашение эры индивидуализма требует особенно пристального внимания и критического осмысления либеральных ценностей Запада, прежде всего апологетики прав человека, снятия табу морально-нравственного и религиозного характера. Как известно, основным вектором англосаксонской глобализации как идеологического проекта является полная десакрализация культурного пространства. Секуляризация мир-сознан…
Генеалогия, алгоритм поиска родословной, практические советы и рекомендации, автофикшн, философия времени, путешествие по городам и пяти странам, во времени и пространстве… Можно ли это уместить в одну книгу? Можно, если это родословный детектив-путешествие, вобравший в себя реальные и вымышленные события, которые невозможно отделить друг от друга. Такого вы ещё не читали. Книга, которая писалась …