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When Tieney Caulder is sent to the New World by her father to stake a claim for her family, she is shocked to discover that her sweetheart, Robert Dunbar, has promised to marry a dying widow and take care of her children in exchange for her land. In the course of their struggles, both learn much about themselves and about their faith.

A fictional account of the desperate efforts to break the Nazis' Enigma code takes place in a British railway town, where the task is complicated by the disappearance of a pivotal cryptographer.

The cinder path from the Northumberland farmhouse symbolised defeat for Charlie Macfell. People saw him as a born loser, who always got the dirty end of the stick. At the root of it were boyhood humiliations by his brutal father, but was that all there was to Charlie? Then an opportunity emerged for him to display his inner strengths and integrity and to give the lie to those who thought him of no account. 1993.

The time is 1947. Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, has settled in America. Stingo, a 22 year-old aspiring writer from Virginia, is drawn to Sophie and Nathan--a madly romantic couple whose instability and flamboyance utterly capture his imagination. The deeper Stingo sinks into these people's lives, the more he learns that each harbors terrible secrets.

The setting is the bleak coastline of Newfoundland and the protagonist is Fabian Bass, an artistic type who paints birds when he is not building boats. Forced by his parents to abandon the woman he loves in order to marry a cousin, he revenges himself by murdering his mother's lover.

An extraordinary, epic novel set during the French Revolution, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. A spellbinding, epic novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists.

This is the story of Philip Kent. The illegitimate son of a British nobleman who was denied his heritage, he embraces the ideals of the fledgling nation of America-and takes up arms against his father's homeland.

The courageous, spirited Mary Queen of Scots tells her own story--from her youth as a young girl married to the invalid young King of France to her short reign as Queen of Scotland and her tragic imprisonment by her ruthless, merciless cousin Queen Elizabeth.

In the tradition of the great Castlereagh coaches came the greatest, the grandest, most luxurious passenger liner ever to grace the seas.On her maiden voyage from England to Australia she more than lived up to expectations. But disaster lurked in her wake and inevitably overtook her when two mortal enemies came face to face and forever bloodied her name.