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It’s hard to be a drunken idiot when the world keeps burning down around you. Cairn, the charming-yet-utterly-irresponsible heir to the Uskarrion throne, is all too happy to toss the crown aside. But an invasion, conspiracy, and rise of a terrifying villain result in his untimely death. Then, Cairn reawakens. It's a decade earlier, and he's in his childhood body. But he remembers everything...there's much to accomplish. First, however, he'd really love to stop himself from dying.

He was 15 when he killed his first man. Before his murderous ways ended, Hardin killed 42 men in cold blood - one, the legend goes, because he snored too loudly. From then on, John Wesley Hardin stayed true to his calling, killing man after man after man, spending most of his life being pursued by both local lawmen and federal troops.

City of Time and Magic sees Xanthe face her greatest challenges yet. She must choose from three treasures that sing to her; a beautiful writing slope, a mourning brooch of heartbreaking detail, and a gorgeous gem-set hat pin. All call her, but the wrong one could take her on a mission other than that which she must address first, and the stakes could not be higher. Xanthe must follow the treasure that will take her to him if he is not to be lost forever.

"I'm going to die a hundred years before I was born...." The handwritten note was in a dusty trunk that sat in a cave untouched for 150 years. What did the words mean? When journalist Ray Burton finds the trunk near the Arizona ghost town of Hollow Rock, his life changes in an instant. Something in the trunk shouldn’t be there. This begins a dangerous journey of discovery bordering on the impossible. A discovery that will affect the past, the present, and the future.

In 1672, Sarah Solart Poole Good and Ann Carr Putnam begin life on seemingly equal footing—both daughters of well-off families in colonial Massachusetts. But as the years pass, their fortunes diverge. Sarah’s life spirals into poverty, homelessness, and mental distress. Ann marries into wealth and stability, becoming the wife of Thomas Putnam, the Younger, heir to one of Salem Village’s most powerful families. Yet even privilege cannot shield the Putnams from misfortune. Thomas is disinherited in favor of his younger brother, and Ann’s expected inheritance proves meager.

Eureka: The Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe By Tim Simpson He was America’s first true master of the macabre—yet his own life was a story more mysterious than any he ever wrote. From the shadowed streets of Richmond to the rain-slick alleys of Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe walks again in this sweeping historical novel that blurs the line between genius and madness, love and obsession, life and death.

It starts with a shipwreck following a magical storm at sea. Horace, a soldier from the West, had joined the Great Crusade against the heathens of Akeshia after the deaths of his wife and son from plague. When he washes ashore, he finds himself at the mercy of the very people he was sent to kill, who speak a language and have a culture and customs he doesn't even begin to understand. Not long after, Horace is pressed into service as a house slave. But this doesn't last.

Would the actions of someone born two hundred years ago affect the lives of those today? Writer Ellie Fuller was about to find out as she sifted through the journals, letters and keepsakes of Liza Marchant, who had been a close friend and business associate of the Fuller family; and as she wrote about her, Ellie began to sense all the magic of that bygone age. Was Liza the scarlet woman that she had been labelled or was she someone who had many twists and turns in her life, one who subsequently became an inspiration to those around her and continued to do so from beyond the grave?

Paris, June 1940. The Nazi occupation of Paris begins. Detective Eddie Giral - a survivor of the last World War - watches helplessly on as his world changes forever. But there is something he still has control over. Finding whoever is responsible for four murdered refugees: the unwanted dead, forgotten amid the headlines. To do so, he must tread carefully between the Occupation and the Resistance, all the while becoming whoever he must be to survive in this new and terrible order descending on his home.

Imagine you’ve been lovers with someone you know - in another lifetime.... While Ginger struggles to make her own way in the cutthroat world of high fashion, she meets the handsome and charismatic Grant Robinson...a man on a mission of his own.... As the two team up on a billion-dollar venture amidst the glitz of New York, London, and Paris, they...tumble into a steamy love affair and quickly discover they've been lovers in wartime Europe. You’ll enjoy this steamy past life romance, because true love lives forever.

175 n. Chr., Vinolanda, Britannien: Die sarmatische Kavallerie wurde bei der Donauschlacht von den römischen Legionen zerschlagen. Nun muss sich Kai, ihr stolzester Krieger, das Überleben seines Volkes mit dem Versprechen erkaufen, Rom zu dienen. Obwohl die Sarmaten unter der Schmach der Niederlage leiden, sind sie bereit, für Kaiser Marc Aurel zu kämpfen und zu sterben. Aus ihrer Heimat verbannt, sollen sie sich auf dem Eisernen Weg bis zum Rand des Römischen Reiches begeben.

A Rocky Mountain winter has left Breck reeling from the carnage unleashed by bloodthirsty trapper Judd Carnahan - and readying a quest for vengeance as ruthless as their prey. It gets even deadlier when Carnahan lays siege to a trading post on the Yellowstone River. He’s left the owner dead and kidnapped a pretty hostage who can turn a nice profit once he puts her to work. Following his trail takes Breck clean to Santa Fe, where Carnahan’s set up a brothel bursting with hardened beauties, a saloon for cutthroats and thieves....

If during the day we can only see one star the sun and look up and see the stars in the night sky in summer, the north star, the southern cross, Ursa major, Polaris. Then the Earth revolves around the sun and is 180 degrees from where it was and now winter. Should it not be that we are unable to see the universe that we were looking at in summer because we can't see past the sun? Would we not be looking out into the night sky in the total opposite direction?

Deep within an old southern mansion, Tyler Harrington seeks refuge from his troubles. He bought the house with the hope that the crumbling porch, warped roof, and peeling paint would be a therapeutic distraction from his recent breakup and heartache. He is not aware of his ancestral connection to the house, or of the hidden room, that leads to a life of new friends, love, and a treasure that connects him to a legacy predating the Civil War. His newfound passion for life and love fabricates a treasure that transcends time.

In the future we as a people will be going through many strange and conflicting changes. We will be traveling and living in space and under water. We will have an even better network of communications and transportation but we will still need to have a vacation and to relax from this antiseptic new environment. People will need an escape and most people dream of the future and the past, because no one romanticizes about their own time.

Exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, Breck Wallace tries to make a new home in St. Louis, even tries his hand at romance, but some men are too wild to settle down. Breck is soon back on the trail, where a vicious gang of trappers, after his goods, picks up his scent and begins to dog his every step, until Breck’s only choice is to bed down for the winter with a tribe of friendly Indians. In the frigid, brutal cold of a Rocky Mountain winter, he hopes to find peace...but death is not done with Breck Wallace.

1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes, Golgotha has come through many nightmarish trials, but now an army of 32 outlaws, lunatics, serial killers, and cannibals are converging on the town, drawn by a grisly relic that dates back to the Donner Party...and the dawn of humanity.

München, 1913/14: Nachdem die beiden Schwestern wieder nach München zurückgekehrt sind, versuchen sie sich ein Leben in der Großstadt aufzubauen. Elsa hat sich mit ihrer Sattlerwerkstatt etabliert, doch ihr ehemaliger Schwiegervater versucht immer wieder ihre Geschäfte zu sabotieren. Als sie Thomas Maierhöfer, einen jungen Ingenieur, kennenlernt, findet Elsa in ihm einen unerwarteten Verbündeten.

On the trail to Hangtree, a gang of bandits give chase to a teenage gunslinger. Young Bill is bracing for the end when the crack of a Winchester scatters the bandits. Sam Heller, Hangtree lawman, has saved another life. And Bill will beg Heller to save one more.... Bill rode in from East Texas, where Cullen Baker, the original quick-draw artist, fights a life-and-death battle with a corrupt robber baron for control of the Torrent River. Bill came seeking help from Cullen’s old pal, Johnny Cross, who agrees to ride east to lend a bullet or two.

1900. Pour les enfants Courchesne, ce nouveau siècle s’amorce avec un bien triste événement : le décès de leur mère Élise. Après le deuil, la vie reprend doucement pour Georgiana, Guillaume, Denise, Francesca et Vianney, désormais mariés et presque tous en famille. La jeune Victoire, elle, demeure tourmentée par son passé et les circonstances de son adoption alors qu’elle n’avait que sept ans.