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Product: Spy Another Day (The King's Rogues Book 3)
Description: He is a dangerous man. And his darkness runs deep…

Book 3 is now available in The King's Rogues series. Read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited!

Reduced to genteel poverty following the closure of the family’s Cornish tin mine, Alexandra Gedding and her twin are saved from the wrath of angry, unpaid workers by the timely intervention of a secretive stranger.

David Manston, the disgraced Baron of Carreg, lives as a hermit in a clifftop cottage, his true identity unknown to everyone in the village – just as he prefers. His offer of mediation was to be a one-time act of kindness, but it does not stop Allie trying to pry into his past nor lessen his own attraction to the beautiful gentlewoman.

In the midst of strange happenings at the rundown mine, a figure emerges from Allie’s childhood – her notorious godmother, Lady Abigail, who possesses the means to lay bare David Manston’s darkest secret…

Will the truth bring Allie into his arms, or drive her away for good?

The King's Rogues

Book 1 - Live and Let Spy
Book 2 - Spyfall
Book 3 - Spy Another Day
Book 4 - Father's Day (Xmas Novella)
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Product: Gormenghast Trilogy (3 Book Series)
Description: From Book 1: As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent to power.Inside of Gormenghast, all events are predetermined by complex rituals, the origins of which are lost in time. The castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit corridors. Dreamlike and macabre, Peake's extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction.
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Product: The Apostles: A Look At Life Through The Lives Of God's Servants (Sonlight On)
Description: This is a practical look at the lives of the Apostles. While these men were afforded the great privilege of being chosen by Christ, they are not without flaws and failures. The author has moved the truth about these men from our intellect into our daily lives. In his own unique style, Dr. Sanders has given us an insight into the lives of each of the Apostles that excels all other literary works.
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Product: The First Barbarian Slave: When Truth Meets Falsehood
Description: The example of truth and falsehood is like the example of gold and gold plated; one appears to be like the other but under certain circumstances only one resists corrosion.

Those who oppose the gods of the "accepted society" were considered barbarous. Such a thought only gives birth to tyrannical ideologies. After the Four Moon War, the Makeneans became the property of the Golden Race Army and all religious books were burnt. Freedom became a myth for all but a few.

Rofurmer, the last rightful king, patiently waits for the bright star in the north to reach a spear’s height from the horizon. Clinging on to what may seem to be an illusion, he hopes that the army would honour their truce. Is he a fool to trust a race that has no moral compass? What would you say to a man who chooses falsehood over truth? — Or a man who would rather befriend an enemy than accept defeat? Nevertheless, drowning men always clutch onto straws.
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Product: Courage of Ansgar: A Windflower Saga Novella (The Windflower Saga Book 21)
Description: "Courage of Ansgar" is included in the Windflower Saga collection titled "The Far Haven Treasury" which received a gold medal in Romance Fiction from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Book Awards.

"Courage of Ansgar" is a romantic historical fantasy based on a character mentioned in the epic fantasy novel "Far Haven: A Quest for Certitude. A Fight for Justice." (Part III of the Windflower Saga trilogy). It takes place in a historical fantasy setting and follows the life of a member of the royal mixed-race/indigenous Ansgar family of Kimbria as she is asked to participate in an introduction of four young noblewomen to the new King of Kimbria as candidates for his hand in marriage.
Twenty-one-year-old Kerys of Ansgar is a young woman with a lot on her mind. She's in her last year of studies at University, and it's exam preparation week. She's VERY concerned about where she'll go and what she'll do, once she's finished at school. Just ask her roommates, Emilia and Ronny; or her Uncle John and Aunt Johanna, who raised her after she was orphaned as a child. But one thing that is definitely NOT on her mind is spending this week at the Royal Palace along with three other young women of ducal rank, competing for the position of the queen consort of Kimbria. She enjoys riding her tall mare at a fast pace and she's a good sprinter, but this is one race she has no interest in running let alone winning. No. Let it go to one of the others. The last thing she wants to do this week is to marry a stranger, especially when she is far more attracted to the king's cousin than to the king. This is a sweet romance story that becomes a political conspiracy adventure before it's over as the lives of the royal family and the prime minister are endangered and Kimbria faces a world on the brink of war.
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Product: The Gathering Storm
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Product: Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Description: “An exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor Age’s most complex and controversial figures.” —Alison Weir

Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII’s right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of his second wife, Anne Boleyn; and was fatally accused of trying to usurp the king himself. In this engrossing biography, acclaimed British historian Tracy Borman reveals a different side to one of history’s most notorious characters: that of a caring husband and father, a fiercely loyal servant and friend, and a revolutionary who was key in transforming medieval England into a modern state.

Thomas Cromwell was at the heart of the most momentous events of his time—from funding the translation and dissemination of the first vernacular Bible to legitimizing Anne Boleyn as queen—and wielded immense power over both church and state. The impact of his seismic political, religious, and social reforms can still be felt today. Grounded in excellent primary source research, Thomas Cromwell gives an inside look at a monarchy that has captured the Western imagination for centuries and tells the story of a controversial and enigmatic man who forever changed the shape of his country.

“An intelligent, sympathetic, and well researched biography.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Borman unravels the story of Cromwell’s rise to power skillfully . . . If you want the inside story of Thomas Cromwell . . . this is the book for you.” —The Weekly Standard

“An engrossing biography. . . . A fine rags-to-riches-to-executioner’s-block story of a major figure of the English Reformation.” —Kirkus Reviews

“An insightful biography of a much-maligned historical figure.” —Booklist
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Product: Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
Description: Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this biography of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, is “a stunning achievement” (The Sunday Times, London), and “a masterly work of Tudor history that is engrossing, sympathetic, suspenseful, and illuminating” (Charlotte Gordon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography).
On the morning of July 28, 1540, a teenager named Catherine Howard began her reign as queen of an England simmering with rebellion and terrifying uncertainty. Sixteen months later, she would follow her cousin Anne Boleyn to the scaffold, having been convicted of adultery and high treason.

The broad outlines of Catherine’s career might be familiar, but her story up until now has been incomplete. Unlike previous biographies, which portray her as a naïve victim of an ambitious family, Gareth Russell’s “excellent account puts the oft-ignored Catherine in her proper historical context” (Daily Mail, London) and sheds new light on her rise and downfall by showing her in her context, a milieu that includes the aristocrats and, most critically, the servants who surrounded her and who, in the end, conspired against her. By illuminating Catherine’s entwined upstairs/downstairs world as well as societal tensions beyond the palace walls, Russell offers a fascinating portrayal of court life in the sixteenth century and a fresh analysis of the forces beyond Catherine’s control that led to her execution.

Including a forgotten text of Catherine’s confession in her own words, color illustrations, family tree, map, and extensive notes, Young and Damned and Fair is “a gripping account of a young woman’s future destroyed by forces beyond her control…an important and timely book” (Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire). This account changes our understanding of one of history’s most famous women while telling the compelling and very human story of complex individuals attempting to survive in a dangerous age.
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Product: The Agincourt Bride
Description: The best-selling novel about the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty. ‘A bewitching first novel…alive with historical detail’ Good Housekeeping.

Her beauty fuelled a war.
Her courage captured a king.
Her passion would launch the Tudor dynasty.

When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles VI of France. Her young charge is the princess, Catherine de Valois, caught up in the turbulence and chaos of life at court.

Mette and the child forge a bond, one that transcends Mette’s lowly position.
But as Catherine approaches womanhood, her unique position seals her fate as a pawn between two powerful dynasties. Her brother, The Dauphin and the dark and sinister, Duke of Burgundy will both use Catherine to further the cause of France.

Catherine is powerless to stop them, but with the French defeat at the Battle of Agincourt, the tables turn and suddenly her currency has never been higher. But can Mette protect Catherine from forces at court who seek to harm her or will her loyalty to Catherine place her in even greater danger?
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Product: Global Peace and the Rise of Antichrist
Description: The answer may shock you. A drama so intense that the entire universe will feel its power is unfolding—yet at the same time, the prospects for world peace and safety have never seemed brighter. Could this be the peace that leads to the end of human history? So many predictions about the end of the world have proved false that even Christians are affected by a what-difference-does-it-make attitude. But someday, while people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, centuries-old prophecies are today's headlines. Is the world on the verge of receiving a new savior who will lead an unsuspecting global community to destruction—or is the Antichrist merely an outdated bit of biblical imagery? Noted researcher and author Dave Hunt provides the solid scriptural outlook on current events that you've been waiting for. Global Peace will give you the answers you need to make sense of world events and awaken your resolve to prepare for what lies ahead.
In this timely reprint of Dave Hunt’s classic 1990 work, the author holds a remarkably steady balance between history and biblical prophecy that has withstood the test of time. The Bible declares that one-world government and universal New Age religion are coming. When we take God’s Word seriously, says noted author and cult expert Dave Hunt, ‘a door swings open to fascinating new insights...provided only that we take into consideration certain factors that most ‘experts’ on the future—both Christian and nonchristian—have overlooked.’ Readers will gain valuable insight for today—and tomorrow—from this fascinating perspective.
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Product: Gifted Hands
Brand: GOODING,CUBA JR.
Factory sealed DVD
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Product: One night With the King, The Call of Destiny, A Dark Prince Rises: the Complete Screenplay
Description: One night With the King, The Call of Destiny, A Dark Prince Rises: the Complete Screenplay (View amazon detail page) ASIN: B000BUWYA8
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Product: The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa
Brand: Square Fish
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Product: Rise of the Servant Kings: What the Bible Says About Being a Man
Brand: Multnomah
Color: Multicolor
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Product: Holy Bible, King James Version
Brand: imusti
Larger print.
Words of Christ in red lettering.
Pew bible - handy size.
Sturdy binding.
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Product: The Majestic Life of Queen Elizabeth II
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