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As empires rose and fell and mighty kings jostled for power, its glittering radiance never dimmed. It is the "Mountain of Light" - the Kohinoor diamond - and its facets reflect a sweeping story of love, adventure, conquest, and betrayal. Its origins are the stuff of myth, but for centuries this spectacular gem changes hands from one ruler to another in India, Persia, and Afghanistan.

Cora Mae Tipton knows every inch of Shadow Mountain. In the shade of the towering trees, amidst the thickets, streams, and smokehouses, the rhythm of life around her beloved holler hasn’t much changed for generations. Until now. For the first time, electrical power is coming to the rural communities of eastern Kentucky. Cora knows in her heart how much good could come of it. Electrical power means progress. Connection to the outside world. More light. And electricity might just help make her dreams of a life beyond Shadow Mountain come true.

In the summer of 1961, a wall of barbed wire goes up quickly in the dead of night, officially dividing Berlin. Luisa Voigt lives in West Berlin, but her grandmother lives across the border and is now trapped inside the newly isolated communist country of East Germany. Desperate to rescue her grandmother and aware of the many others whose families have been divided, Luisa joins a secret spy network, risking her life to help bring others through a makeshift underground tunnel to West Germany. Their work is dangerous, and not everyone will successfully escape or live to see freedom.

Determined to prove her worth, Meksem fiercely fought to earn her place among the warriors in her Nez Perce camp. When her half-sister is captured by an enemy tribe, she refuses to trust the rescue to anyone else. But her new friends insist on joining her mission, and she battles between relief and frustration at their presence. Especially the white man who peers at her as if he can see through the face of the warrior she struggles so hard to maintain.

This ninth volume of The Flashman Papers, faithfully edited and transcribed by Fraser, finds that Sir Harry Flashman is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty's Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India's Northwest Frontier. Flashy's...

A medieval adventure for young adults, A Tale of Light and Shadow is the story of a boy struggling to become a courageous and honorable man and a girl who is desperately in love with him despite her father's disapproval. The audiobook chronicles the extraordinary tasks their adventure asks of their band of five friends and how those demands can overwhelm and break the bonds of friendship.

Bears clad in flannel, steamy romps, and a town that loves unconditionally. Firefly has a knack for giving you what you need, ready or not. The small town of Firefly Valley is known for their overbearing bingo nights and affinity for pie. It's also known for its growing population of gay burly bears. Once here, you’re part of an extended family that loves with reckless abandon. This boxed set follows three men who never expected to find themselves in a small town. Each story brings them face to face with love that doesn’t always make sense. Yet, it's exactly what they’ve been missing....

When Elizabeth Bennet demands satisfaction for an insult, she never expects Fitzwilliam Darcy to accept. But the proud master of Pemberley arrives at first light with his honor on the line. What follows is the most unconventional courtship in Meryton's history. Darcy’s method? Nine clues that reveal a side of him Elizabeth never imagined—vulnerable, witty, and utterly captivating. With each illustration, her anger transforms into something far more dangerous: fascination.

Her Christmas lanterns save the festival—and catch mountain man Wade's eye. Can she trust his promise of forever? I'm just trying to survive the Christmas festival with my dignity intact. My handmade wooden lanterns aren't exactly flying off the table, my student loans are crushing me, and I'm pretty sure I'm destined to be single forever. At twenty-three, I've never even been kissed—pathetic, right? Then Wade Metcalfe shows up at my booth. He's six feet of pure mountain man perfection, all broad shoulders and blue eyes that make me forget how to breathe. When the festival's pathway ...

Did Jesus really die on the cross? Who was Mary Magdalene? What was her real connection with Jesus? Extensive new information about the secretive Essene mystery schools. It is one of the great tragedies of Western culture that Christianity forgot and eventually denied its Essene roots. Those roots are herein explored from the perspective of past life regression.

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Given the choice between defending Britannia’s frontier against the mighty Sikh army and pleasuring a ravishing maharani in the Court of the Punjab, Flashman knew where he’d rather be. Of course, that was before he found out about the torture chambers or the malevolent influence of the Mountain of Light…

In August 1969, medical student Lizzie Baker sets off on a trip to Woodstock with her boyfriend and two other couples. When their van breaks down outside of Morganton, North Carolina, the group decides to hike up nearby Brown Mountain while they wait for the repairs to be finished. Lizzie's interest in nature prompts her to go on a walk by herself, hoping to get a glimpse of the legendary Brown Mountain Lights. When she unexpectedly encounters one, she naively reaches out to touch it and is thrown back in time to a place and lifestyle she comes to hate.

After years of isolation on top of Hope Mountain, Ilsa Nordegren may finally be ready to leave. Raised to fear the world, Ilsa and her sisters never planned on coming down, but when the Warden family arrived in need, they had to help. And it may cost them everything. Having made his fortune, Mitch Warden returned home and found the family homestead abandoned. In a land grab, a ruthless cattle baron had forced his family to escape up the mountain, and when he follows, the last thing he expects is to fall smitten to a black-haired woman who dresses like Robin Hood. 

Henry Vestin always believed that, despite being a carpenter with no training in swordplay or survival, he could lead Isabelle and his friends to safety. He thought he could defy an emperor and protect Isabelle from harm. He was certain that love and friendship would help them survive. He was wrong.

Although healer/time traveler Lizzie Baker knows the possibility of war looms ahead, she elects to stay in the 21st century, instead of going back 100 years to her time or to the 19th century, where she spent the last five years of her life. The threat of war becomes a reality when Lizzie treats a fatally injured man in Morganton, North Carolina, who tells of the invasion of America by a foreign country.

After six years, time-traveler/healer Lizzie Baker has finally made it back to her time in the 20th century with her husband Jonah, his sister Andrea, her son Joseph and partner Mike, Lizzie’s best friend Abbie, and Belinda and Pearl, the orphans they care for. Upon returning, Lizzie learns her father is suffering from a terminal illness and is determined to spend his remaining days caring for him.

Healer/time traveler Lizzie Baker remains in the mid 21st century, where chaos reigns as a foreign army slowly makes its way toward Brown Mountain, North Carolina. The horror stories told by people fleeing the invaders are frightening and Lizzie’s skills as a healer are in constant demand tending to the sick and injured, never knowing that this itself places her own life in danger.

“A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance.” —John Grisham “Absorbing...Unfolds like a detective novel...The story barrels ahead urgently...Duty, anger, sorrow, conscience and even hope mix together to form the novel’s bracingly intimate ending.” —The Wall Street...

Although Lizzie Baker wants nothing more than to return to her time 110 years in the future, she remains stuck on Brown Mountain, NC, during the time of the Civil War - the bloodiest conflict in American history. An abolitionist, Lizzie lives in a state that has seceded from the Union and finds herself, as a woman of that era, unable to protect slaves being mistreated by their plantation owners, as well as women who suffer at the hands of their husbands, without rights or laws to protect them.

She's just passing through town. He may have to tempt her into staying. When a construction truck pulls into the driveway while I'm walking the dog with a horrific case of bedhead, I don't know what to expect. It's barely daylight. What's going on? The man who steps out of the truck makes me regret not having a scrap of makeup on my face. He's drop-dead gorgeous, plus he's good with dogs. But I'm only in this town as a house sitter. I'll be leaving by the weekend. That means I shouldn't get too involved with this man. As irresistible as he may be. Tangled Lights with the Mountain Man is an ...