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Omslagsbild för The Profiteers
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The Profiteers

First published in 1921, ‘The Profiteers’ by E. Phillips Oppenheim gives an intriguing glimpse into the mood at the start of the roaring twenties. A mysterious thriller revolving a ...


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The Red Badge of Courage

There comes a time in the course of a battle when a soldier leaves his fate in the hands of the Gods of war. He carries on with the battle at hand, the only way he knows how - figh ...


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The Holladay Case

The life of a law clerk at a New York firm is hectic. It can only be made more so by the addition of a murder trial. Alongside his job at Graham & Royce, Lester has a front-row sea ...


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Dutch Courage and Other Stories

Their planned adventure to Yosemite had become all that Gus Lafee and Hazard Van talked about, so it is needless to say that they were devastated to discover that somebody had ‘sco ...


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The Faith of Men and Other Stories

Mammoths have been extinct for thousands of years. So what do you do when an insanely talented hunter and storyteller describes how he just killed one? Thomas Stevens is a skillful ...


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Månbadarna

Fred är sjuk i tuberkulos och har inte långt kvar att leva. Just därför vill han utnyttja sina sista år på bästa sätt. Han vill hitta kärleken. När han lyckas bli utskriven från sa ...


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Den blåögda lögnen

I sex års tid har Filip Collin undgått den svenska lagens långa arm genom att leva i London under sitt numera inarbetade alias: professor Pelotard. Än så länge har allt gått enligt ...


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Genomskådad

Mamma blev så himmelens rädd när hon fick se mig bakom tant Gustafsons rygg att jag förstod att jag hört något jag inte skulle höra. Nu trodde jag mig fått klarhet över alla gåtor. ...


Omslagsbild för Ilias
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Ilias

Eletään Troijan sodan loppuaikoja. Sota syttyi, kun kreikkalainen kaunotar Helena hylkäsi oman kansansa ja karkasi troijalaisen prinssin matkaan. Jumalat ovat ennustaneet, että Kre ...


Omslagsbild för Odysseia
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Odysseia

Troijan sota on päättynyt. Sotapäällikkö ja Ithakan kuningas Odysseian on aika suunnata kohti kotia ja Kreikkaa vaimonsa Penelopen ja poikansa Telemakhosin luokse. Odysseian kotima ...


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The House of the Laird

When Karen was travelling on the night train to Edinburgh only half-recovered from pneumonia, she was lucky to have Iain Mackenzie swoop in. Taking her to his home in the Highlands ...


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Hotel Stardust

When Commander Roger Merlin offers to buy Eve’s inheritance, Treloan Manor in Georgia, the answer is strictly no. She has not even set eyes of the place yet, and she has different ...


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Heart Specialist

Dr. Leon Daudet is a famous Parisian doctor specializing in the heart. One day he meets a young English girl, Valentine, who is spending only a few months in Paris. The doctor find ...


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Four Roads to Windrush

Lindsay is very fond of the hotel she works in and which was once her family home. Yet when a new and difficult owner arrives, the place is no longer what it once was. The only thi ...


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Dear Tiberius

Lucy Nolan was charged with taking care of the invalid daughter of the cold and distant Sir John, whom Lucy names Tiberius. She is very fond of the daughter, Miranda, and thus Lucy ...


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Castle Thunderbird

When Noel’s uncle dies, she begins to look for employment. Her wishes are granted when she becomes the companion of a teenage girl, in a stunning Austria castle, no less. The maste ...


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Carpet of Dreams

Peta is 19 years old and what you would call a free spirit, taking after her upbringing. When she is orphaned, she is placed in the care of her stepfather’s younger brother. Not ha ...


Omslagsbild för The Last Trail
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The Last Trail

The US frontier was a lawless place. Self-appointed ‘border-men’ helped keep the peace. Battle-scarred and solitary, they tended to shoot first and ask questions later. One such ma ...


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The Spirit of the Border

The Ohio Frontier of the late 1700s. It’s where two worlds met; native Americans to the west, white settlers to the east. Into this unpredictable region come brothers Jim and Joe D ...


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Betty Zane

For his first novel, Zane Grey looked back at the extraordinary life of his ancestor Betty Zane—a heroine of the American Revolutionary War. Betty Zane lived her life on the fronti ...


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The Border Legion

Joan Randle is riding the Idaho trail when she’s taken hostage by a bandit gang. Their leader is the ruthless Jack Kells. And Joan’s situation is about to go from bad to worse. For ...


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The Day of the Beast

When WW1 soldier Darren Lane returns home, he’s shocked by what he finds. Underage drinking, jazz music, gambling; all signs that the Roaring Twenties are just around the corner. B ...


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The Lives and Deeds of our Self-made Men

First published in 1872, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘The Lives and Deeds of our Self-Made Men’ is a collection of sketches and biographies which focuses on well-known American figures ...


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Our Charley and What to do with Him

A biographical book, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘Our Charley and What to do With Him’ is based on her own brother Charles Edward Beecher - a wild, tempestuous child, and the youngest ...


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Woodstock

Witchcraft and revolution collide in Walter Scott’s thrilling "Woodstock".King Charles I has been beheaded, and the English Civil War is finally over. His son, Charles Stuart, must ...