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The epic and monumental love story Paullina Simons began with her adored international bestseller The Bronze Horseman comes to a breathtaking conclusion. The Summer Garden is the third volume in Simons's magnificent trilogy—a Russian Thorn Birds—which follows a love that survived the terrible siege of Leningrad during World War Two, a heartbreaking separation and a glorious reunion in America, only to be supremely tested by the hatred,...
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"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin...
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Harry Clifton, now a bestselling novelist, his wife Emma, their son Sebastian, and orphaned Jessica make a new life for themselves. But Emma's brother Giles' fiancée may be after his fortune and title. And Sebastian, though bright, has a hard time resisting temptation. It all comes to a head when a new villain is uncovered, a face from the past with grudges against both Harry and Giles.
4) Ogród letni
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Jest rok 1946. Tatiana i Aleksander chca wreszcie zyc jak normalna rodzina. Przytloczeni bagazem tragicznych wspomnien, nie potrafia juz cieszyc sie soba. Przemierzaja Ameryke mieszkalnym samochodem, uciekajac przed demonami przeszlosci i ,,zimna wojna". O Aleksandra, bylego radzieckiego oficera, pytaja juz w Waszyngtonie, a Anthony - ich ukochany syn - pójdzie niebawem na wojne w Wietnamie... Czesc trzecia: losy Tatiany, Aleksandra i ich syna Anthony'ego,...
5) Heartlight
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Heartlight is the story of Bradley's greatest champion of good, Colin MacLaren, as he carries the banner of Light through the second half of the twentieth century. Ghostbuster, exorcist, student and teacher of the mystic arts, Colin meets Claire Moffat, who becomes his dearest friend, when he rescues her from a cult bent on human sacrifice.
The leader of that cult, Toller Hasloch, becomes one of Colin's greatest enemies. Working behind the scenes...