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France, 1212.
Adelina de Polignac is forced into a marriage of convenience to a man she detests. Her true love she cannot have – Geoffrey, her orphaned cousin, now a Benedictine monk whose heart doesn't belong with the church.
When Adelina's father is murdered, she tries to escape her fate by joining the Children's Crusade, but Gabriel of Lyon thwarts her plan.
Gabriel, her father's most merciless knight, will stop at nothing to acquire the Polignac...
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Compassion doesn't feature as a reality in Ruth's life. Compassion is always something that other people have in their hearts and so to Ruth it remains one of life's unsolved mysteries.
'Just one act of kindness can alter your life', her hapless brother once said. But his words meant nothing to Ruth, for when one lives within a fortress of one's own creation, there can be no conqueror.
Once she was happy. Once she even loved somebody and his name...
3) Fool's Gold
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"A love story that won't disappoint."
Australia, 1867
With baby in arms, Anna follows her husband into their new beginning-a hot, dusty gold mining camp called Bitter Creek.
Always dreaming of the hat shop she will have one day, Anna finds new friends in this no-man's land: a Chinese girl, an old American prospector whose son, Sam, often visits.
There's a spark, but she is married and Sam's a wanted man with just cause to hate the district's sergeant.
When...
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Gray's a country kid who finds Boo, a magical critter that came out of the farm's bore.He's cute, he talks, he's great company, but the best thing about Boo is his poo.Yep, Boo is a little diamond factory, and he's been on the surface too long and needs to go home to his family.But home is deep underground.
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In 1911, a young John Shaw from South Carolina had his first taste of flying.In 1926, two years after the plane crash death of his best friend, he attempted a solo flight record in a refitted 1923 Curtiss Jenny. Then, with half the journey completed, his plane was caught in a storm, went down, and for seventeen years he was listed as missing, presumed dead.The Longest Winter is a work of fiction, the tale of one man's life. His story is one of despair...
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'Happily ever after' only belongs in fairy tales, at least that's what Molly has finally realized, even if it's a little too late. She can see it now-how blind she was to the signs, seeing only what she wanted to see, ignoring the warning bells, turning her back on her friends. She thought they were jealous because Tim came into her life; became her focus, her reason for being.
Yes, Tim was everything she thought she always wanted.
Molly did not...
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Nothing much ever happened in Mallen, a small outback Australian town, until 1975 when a teenager was brutally raped and murdered and her body dumped in a swamp. She was deemed a runaway while the townsfolk sighed with relief and the case was closed.
Then the hauntings began.
The swamp that hides her body also holds a deadly secret that the local Aboriginals have known about for a very long time. It's cursed. What lies in there never dies, and one...
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Marie Corelli was a best-selling author whose 30 books were published from 1886 until a year after her death in 1924. Many of these works are still available today.From an abandoned, illegitimate newborn to Queen Victoria's favorite author, this is the story of Minnie Mackay's transformation into Marie Corelli.A lonely child, a lonely woman.Beyond Laughter is a fictional account of Corelli's private life, based on what little fact is known.
9) No Exit
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Sometimes glimpsing the future can be deadly.
US Navy SEAL Kelly Nolan, who commands a small special ops unit, is assigned duty to protect a Presidential candidate during a visit to England. So what has a woman from half the world away seen that makes them seek her out?
Rebecca Miller is an especially gifted psychic. Two years ago she 'read' a US Senator's wife and although Elizabeth Glover's fears about her husband's death were real, Rebecca reassured...
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Some promises are easy to break and harder to forget.
Billy Shaw lives on the edge of nowhere. Half Aleut, half American, he escapes his old life in Alaska for a taste of the real world, the world his father came from, promising his sister and the remaining elders he will return to lead them into a new beginning, a real future.
Just like his American father, flying is in his blood. But unlike his father, he wants more from life. He wants somewhere...
11) A Tear of Blood
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Fact or fiction? Sometimes it's a very fine line.
When Charlie Grayson wrote a story about a vampire, she didn't think it would become a bestseller, nor did she think it would become a movie, especially with Michael Dunne, Hollywood icon, playing her charismatic, troubled vampire, Annarchie.
For Charlie, it's like a dream come true. During the film shoot, she gets to know Michael Dunne, the star, very well: he is just like the Annarchie she wrote...
12) Two For the Show
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Eleven-year-old Cory (Dan Byrd) is a foster child nobody wants. Carlotta (Academy Award-nominee Julie Harris) is an elderly woman the world has forgotten. Based on the novel "The Golden Days"
13) The Hiding Place
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In wartime Holland, the Ten Boom family joins the underground resistance to help save persecuted Jewish families and quietly shelters Jews in their small house---until Nazis discover the ''hiding place.'' When they are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps themselves, they're left with nothing to cling to but their faith. This is the remarkable true story of Corrie and her sister Betsie's endurance of the death camp, and their sure hope that...
14) El Escondite
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La historia verídica de una familia en Holanda que luchó contra la furia Nazi con la única arma que tenían. Amor.
Nominada para un Golden Globe.
15) Stuart Little
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Stuart Little is a mouse in the family of the Frederick C. Littles and is a pleasant character, with a shy manner. His adventure starts when he tries to find his friend, Margalo, a little pretty bird.
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“West with the Night” is a memoir by British-born author, aviator, and equestrian, Beryl Markham. Friend and fellow author Ernest Hemingway once wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins asking: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night?... bloody wonderful work." Markham was one of, if not the first, female bush pilots in Africa, and her memoir details adventures in Kenya with a unique perspective both from the ground and the sky.
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18) Lucifer's Child
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The spellbinding Julie Harris takes us on a magic carpet into the beautiful and haunting world of writer Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen), romantic author and heroine of Out of Africa. Through her fanciful pact with Lucifer, Dinesen becomes a defiant spirit, an eccentric storytelling sorceress-passionate and wickedly witty. Act I opens on New Year's Eve 1958, as Karen Blixen prepares for a three-month visit to the United States. Addressing...
20) The hiding place
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The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland and her family who helped hide Jewish people. The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland & her family who helped hide Jewish people. Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it...