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1966: Standing on the rugged Cornish coast, Hallows Abbey can be a lonely place for the boys boarding there. For Theresa, however, it offers an escape from her father's long shadow. 2025: With her own children having just left home, Amanda's emotions are in turmoil when she arrives at the isolated school where her husband is to be Deputy Head. When she learns of the school's tragic history, in which a group of boys went out on a boat trip and disappeared, she becomes obsessed with finding out what happened.

In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two families in this thirteenth book in the beloved mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd. Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield...

A family secret. A century of heartache . . . The Girl on the Cliff is an evocative, moving story of family, loss and hope, from Lucinda Riley, the international bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series. After a devastating loss, Grania Ryan flees her life as an artist in New York and...

Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator of the book and his brother, Otho, live in an ancient house carved out of the great marble cliffs that overlook the Marina, a great and beautiful lake that is surrounded by a peaceable land of ancient cities and temples and flourishing vineyards.

1885. Adria Fontaine has been sent to recover goods her father pirated on the Great Lakes during the war. But when she arrives at Foxglove Manor - a stone house on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior - Adria senses wickedness hovering over the property. The mistress of Foxglove is an eccentric and seemingly cruel old woman who has filled her house with dangerous secrets, ones that may cost Adria her life.

Winter, 1923. It’s nearly Christmas and Lady Eleanor Swift has received a rather strange letter from an old friend of her uncle. Mr Godfrey Cunliffe has asked her to stay in Cornwall for the holidays–but only because he believes his gardener is trying to poison him! With not a moment to waste Eleanor hurries down to his picturesque manor house with her butler Clifford and handsome beau Detective Hugh Seldon. But they arrive too late to stop the crime…

Two men were brave enough to tell the truth about what awaited the Hebrews in Canaan. This is their story. From the slave pits of Egypt to the efforts of an 85-year-old Caleb as he drives out the last of the giants, Shadow of the Mountain: Exodus is a vivid portrait of two of God's chosen champions and a meditation on masculine mentorship and the challenges and blessings of growing older.

The third title in Beverley Watt's Shackleford Legacies series.

Gemeinsam mit ihrem Vater begibt sich Lucy auf eine Forschungsexpedition: In den Tiefen des mexikanischen Urwalds suchen sie nach einer alten Aztekenstadt. Ein Fluch soll über der Stadt und ihrem Schatz liegen - und tatsächlich beginnen unheimliche Erscheinungen die Expedition heimzusuchen. Aber auch der gefährliche Gangster Doc Bones und seine skrupellosen Gefolgsleute haben es auf den Schatz abgesehen. Für Lucy beginnt das große Abenteuer und eine harte Bewährungsprobe.

Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to the fleet as a galley-slave, while his family is imprisoned and the family goods confiscated. When Ben-Hur saves the fleet captain from drowning after his ship is sunk in a fight with pirates, that officer adopts him as son and heir.

Reno Gates and Will Morgan have completed a trip around Wyoming and are headed for Salt Lake City. There, they meet Marshal Garett Coleman, who asks them to escort Eva Mayes to Sacramento for a trial. Faye Gilson, Eva's best friend, is also with her.

Reno Gates and Will Morgan are on the trail again, this time going to the Pacific Ocean that Will wanted to see. Along the way, they stop at a trailside store where a blonde-haired girl gets Will's attention. She and her family are headed to Oregon by wagon. After seeing the ocean, Reno takes Will up to Oregon to visit a good friend of Reno's. Along the way, they have to deal with men who want to rob them, a town intent on hanging a Black man, and the deaths of that blonde-haired girl and her family.

Here is a medieval Celtic fantasy full of deadly deceptions, with twists and turns to be savored. First Light delves into a tumultuous era in the Highlands of Eire. Will the ancient rituals of Una, the Mystic of the Swamp, succeed in coaxing the mighty spirits to protect Lady Fiona from the secrets of the grave? The Mertins twins recreate the earthy, crude qualities of medieval castle life.

Reno and Will team up with John Tailer Bishop to find his wife, Angelina. She receives a mysterious letter, tells Bishop she has to go to Antelope Spring in Arizona Territory to help her aunt, then disappears. When Bishop finds out she doesn't have an aunt in Antelope Spring, he sets out to find her. Along the way, he runs into Reno and Will. The three of them find out Angelina doesn't get on a stagecoach to Antelope Spring when she is supposed to. From there, they trail her to an outlaw town where the main man is looking for his 'first lady'.