Allison: 1539 books

Darcy’s secret longing for a woman who will not have him. Elizabeth’s determination to marry for love, and not money. An epic battle of wills…who will win and who will wed? Five years ago, Darcy prevented Lizzy from eloping with their mutual childhood friend Wickham. Heartbroken and infuriated,...

Jilted by her near-beau in England, Florence Southam travels to the exotic new world of the Saskatchewan Prairies, both to attend the wedding of her closest friend and to recover from her recent disappointment. Through Florence’s eyes, the reader encounters a Victorian settlement attempting to mimic...

‘Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema’ explores aspects of gender, race and region in films and television produced in the northern Australian state of Queensland. Drawing on a range of scholarly sources and an extensive filmography, the essays in the book investigate poetics and production...

Germany, 1505 In the dark of night, Katharina von Bora says the bravest good-bye a six-year-old can muster and walks away as the heavy convent gate closes behind her. Though the cold walls offer no comfort, Katharina soon finds herself calling the convent her home. God, her father. This, her...

Five thousand prehistoric world channels open, five TDP core fled in disarray, chaos in the universe.The world are her ruthless, she had, alas, I have ups and downs in the mortal world.Earth, she met a young general, they were going to forever fall of numerous commitments, and finally even his own...

Stained with blood the world.A period of painful memories.

She’s heard all the lines. Now it’s time for the truth! Charlie has to keep pinching herself to believe she’s leaving Australia for a trip to Europe-a generous gift from her family, who know how tough her life has been lately. But the last person Charlie expects to bump into on the plane...

Michael Ashton’s work for Excalibur Securities takes him to some dangerous places. His latest assignment, however, protecting a British company’s gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, looks straightforward and routine. Until he discovers that in the Congo gold may not be as valuable as...

Who killed 1940s screen goddess Gloria Reardon? Her unsolved murder hypnotized the public with its scandalous details and shocked two generations. Avid feminist and aspiring filmmaker, Kate Bloom discovers long lost footage that holds the key to who murdered her grandmother. Legendary movie star,...

In this philosophical parable, a young man copes with death by discovering himself along the shores of a spiritual passageway. As he reminisces about his past, he is faced with incorporeal beings that have the power to either guide or corrupt him. "The Stones" was written when the author was...

A mother, her son, and mania. In this fictionalized memoir, a mother recounts the emotional journey she and her son take when he becomes mentally ill. Jack is known as the Sun King because as a child he resembled the illustrated boy in his mother's deck of tarot cards. Already on the...

Things come to a boiling point for Sydney when her cruel husband verbally attacks her in full view of everyone at their daughters school. Its the final straw! She refuses to take anymore of his abuse. The experience gives her the courage to leave the broken marriage and start a new life for her and...

On desolate Blackheath Moor, made treacherous by swirling mist and ghostly cries, a young woman finds refuge in a mystical churchyard—and in the arms of a handsome stranger. Exiled to her aunt’s home in Cornwall after provoking a London scandal, irrepressible Sophie St. Clair knows that...

In Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties, Celeste DuFrane has it all. Her father’s work with color movie film opens doors that lead to the stardom she’s always aspired to. But after losing her mother, she discovers that half the estate has been left to a woman accused of killing Celeste’s baby...