The Dead Travel Fast
The Dead Travel Fast

Author: Deanna Raybourn

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-08-15

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1459248074

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A husband, a family, a comfortable life: Theodora Lestrange lives in terror of it all With a modest inheritance and the three gowns that comprise her entire wardrobe, Theodora leaves Edinburgh—and a disappointed suitor—far behind. She is bound for Rumania, where tales of vampires are still whispered, to visit an old friend and write the book that will bring her true independence. She arrives at a magnificent, decaying castle in the Carpathians, replete with eccentric inhabitants: the ailing dowager; the troubled steward; her own fearful friend, Cosmina. But all are outstripped in dark glamour by the castle's master, Count Andrei Dragulescu. Bewildering and bewitching in equal measure, the brooding nobleman ignites Theodora's imagination and awakens passions in her that she can neither deny nor conceal. His allure is superlative, his dominion over the superstitious town, absolute—Theodora may simply be one more person under his sway. Before her sojourn is ended—or her novel completed—Theodora will have encountered things as strange and terrible as they are seductive. For obsession can prove fatal…and she is in danger of falling prey to more than desire.

Lone Star Baby Scandal
Lone Star Baby Scandal

Author: Lauren Canan

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2017-07-01

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1489242651

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One night changes everything... It's bad enough that straitlaced Sophie Prescott fell for her boss Clay Everett's charms the night of Royal's masked ball – now she's pregnant with his baby! Too bad the former rodeo star turned billionaire entrepreneur's emotional defences are impregnable, and Sophie doesn't stand a chance of breaking through. With a blackmailer hounding the town's A–list, their secret could be the next to be revealed. But there might be an even bigger surprise in store – that maybe, just maybe, Sophie has discovered the chink in Clay's armour...

Tears of a Tiger
Tears of a Tiger

Author: Sharon M. Draper

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1442489138

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The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.

Albion's Seed
Albion's Seed

Author: David Hackett Fischer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1991-03-14

Total Pages: 981

ISBN-13: 019974369X

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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

One Night With The Texan
One Night With The Texan

Author: Lauren Canan

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1489233784

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From one–night fling...to the real thing? For wealthy real estate CEO Cole Masters, a weekend in New Orleans means meeting a beautiful woman and blowing off steam. No names, no strings. So months later when the same woman shows up on his doorstep, it's a shocker. Even worse, she's an archaeologist with a court order to access his property–and mess up his business plan. And yet he's still wild about her. For Tallie Finley, this mission is both professional and personal, and Cole could prove too tempting a distraction. Will her efforts to uncover her family legacy be derailed...especially when she discovers she's expecting? One Night with the Texan is part of the Masters of Texas series.

Redeeming The Billionaire Seal
Redeeming The Billionaire Seal

Author: Lauren Canan

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1489213562

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Can a billionaire SEAL find love in the arms of a hometown girl? When navy SEAL Chance Masters returns to his Texas ranch, he can't wait for his next assignment. Civilian life doesn't suit him anymore. But then he runs into Holly Anderson. The young girl he remembers is all grown up and raising her baby niece. Soon Chance gets close to Holly and the child–too close. The situation sends up red flags; it feels like family. After what he's seen in the line of duty, Chance can't let himself get attached. But will Holly teach him that you can come home again?

The Half Has Never Been Told
The Half Has Never Been Told

Author: Edward E Baptist

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 0465097685

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A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.

Texas! Sage
Texas! Sage

Author: Sandra Brown

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0553804057

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He was everything she despised in a man. So why couldn't she stay out of his arms? This had to be the worst night of Sage Tyler's life. First her fiancé jilts her. Then she has to fly home with Harlan Boyd, the arrogant, drop-dead gorgeous stranger who overheard every word of that humiliating episode—and enjoyed it! All Sage wants is for this sexy, no-account drifter to keep his distance—and keep her broken engagement a secret. But Harlan Boyd has desires of his own... She was the most beautiful, exciting, unpredictable woman Harlan had ever met, and he could barely keep his hands off of her. Yet he tried to stay away, tried to remember that Sage Tyler needed a man who'd convince her of her own worth, not a man who'd be moving on. Then Sage's family business, the Tyler Drilling Company, came under the threat of ruin, and Sage and Harlan suddenly found themselves fighting side by side to save it... in quarters too close to keep passion at bay. Can spoiled, headstrong Sage find love with a man who seems so easy to get and so hard to keep?