Quills - Her Wicked Hero/The Unconventional Maiden/Seduced By Her Highland Warrior

Quills - Her Wicked Hero/The Unconventional Maiden/Seduced By Her Highland Warrior
Author: Michelle Willingham
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146081147X

The Unconventional Maiden by June Francis After her father's murder, headstrong Beth Llewellyn finds herself under the reluctant guardianship of Sir Gawain Raventon. Already chafing against the constraints put upon her sex under Henry VIII's rule, Beth knows Gawain will have his own opinion about her unconventional attitude to marriage! Working with Gawain to solve the mystery of her father's death, Beth starts to realise that perhaps marriage to the right man –– in whose arms she feels so safe –– will bring a happiness she's never dared imagine... Seduced By Her Highland Warrior by Michelle Willingham Alex MacKinloch is chief of his clan and, in these dark times of unrest, he has united his people. But the void between him and his wife is proving a much harder challenge. When Alex discovers Laren has been keeping secrets, his thinly veiled frustration can no longer be contained. The pleasures of the marital bed seem long–forgotten to Laren. Yet her warrior husband is looking at her with increasingly hungry eyes. This powerful highlander has seduction on his mind and his wife in his sights!

Seven Gothic Tales

Seven Gothic Tales
Author: Isak Dinesen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1934
Genre: Danish fiction
ISBN: 9780394604961

Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. Here are seven exquisite tales combining the keen psychological insight characteristic of the modern short story with the haunting mystery of the nineteenth-century Gothic tale, in the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Handbook to Life in the Aztec World

Handbook to Life in the Aztec World
Author: Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195330838

Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.

Rob Roy

Rob Roy
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 686
Release: 1872
Genre:
ISBN:

Life After Life

Life After Life
Author: Kate Atkinson
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0552779687

WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.