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Sharpe is now an officer in Sir Arthur Wellesly's army that is seeking to end the Mahratta War. Sharpe, just risen from the ranks , discovers that his fellow officers are not welcoming. Unsure of his authority and uncomfortable in the mess, he is failing, and his failure seems assured when he is relegated to a tedious job in the baggage train. There, Sharpe discovers a treason has been conjured up by his oldest and worst enemy.
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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. ...[An] account of the chaotic...
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He was a mighty Scottish warrior who lived in a world bound by ancient laws and timeless magic. But no immortal powers could prepare the laird of Castle Brodie for the lovely accursed lass who stood before him ... When Lisa felt the earth move under her feet, the fiercely independent 21st-century woman never dreamed she was falling into another century. But the powerful, naked warrior who stood glaring down at her was only too real ... and too dangerously...
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As Peony, the 5-year-old daughter of the wealthy Chen family, approaches an arranged marriage, she commits an unthinkable breach of etiquette when she accidentally comes upon a man who has entered the family garden. Unusually for a girl of her time, Peony has been educated and revels in studying "The Peony Pavilion", a real opera published in 1598, as the repercussions of the meeting unfold. The novels plot mirrors that of the opera, and eternal themes...
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