Kenji Kobayashi is a decorated intelligence officer during World War II. Recently assigned to a battleship in the Pacific, Kenji fears that he may no longer see Japan again. Worried that his twin brother Tomoyuki may have fallen during a battle in the South Pacific, he briefly prays to a makeshift altar he has created in the cramped officers cabin he has been secretly stowed into. Only a handful of officers and military brass are aware he is on this ship, so his prayers, like his actions, may...
To Kiss a Count (Harlequin Historical, #997) (Mills & Boon Historical)
by Amanda McCabe
Her dashing nobleman... Leaving exotic Sicily behind, and with it her heart, Thalia Chase returns to England to visit her sister - and to try and forget the enigmatic Italian Count di Fabrizzi. She's shocked to suddenly see him in Bath - and in the company of a suspected thief! His determined lady... Marco, Count di Fabrizzi, is on a dangerous mission and doesn't need the beautiful Lady Chase hindering his progress. B...
"When a young woman rejoins a colorful group of traveling players as a replacement for her magician husband, who was lost in an explosion, her precarious state imperils the entire troupe. The Second Magician's Tale--a novel set in the 1970s and bookended by mirroring calamities--is a story of loss, obsession, and escape"--P. [4] of cover.
This story begins where Patrick O'Brian's devoted fans would want it to, with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. But the time is the 1930s, and the protagonist a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just died. In the company of his rough seafaring uncle and an elderly English cousin, an eminent archaeologist, Derrick sets off in search of ancient treasures in central Asia. Along the way they encounter a charismatic Chinese bandit and a host of bad...
Joyas de la Revolucion (Joyas de la Revolucion, #1)
by Am Montes De Oca
Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle (Lives of Mayfair Witches, Books 1-3)
by Anne Rice
Recueil de Rapports Sur l'Etat Des Lettres Et Les Progres Des Sciences En France
by J D Guigniaut
