![]() ![]() Could this modest, unassuming beauty be the ideal bride he seeks for Richard? Show book ![]() Like manna from heaven, a beautiful young grey-eyed waif calls to him for help for her ailing father as he rides through his estate. With Richard at death’s door, the Duke is determined that he shall find a more suitable young beauty to mend his broken heart to marry him and thwart Lady Delyth’s scheming ways. To the Duke’s horror, Richard’s heart is bewitched by society siren and acclaimed beauty Lady Delyth Maulden – and disaster turns to tragedy when Richard finds his beloved in the arms of another, shoots him and turns his gun on himself. To continue the family line, he is counting on his cousin and heir presumptive Richard to marry well and produce a son. ![]() Imperious, handsome and gallant in battle, the Duke of Kingswood has stolen the hearts of many society Belles – but he is ‘a block of ice which nobody can melt’, determined never to marry. The Duke & The Preachers Daughter Barbara Cartland ![]()
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![]() Upon the sands of the arena, Mia finds new allies, bitter rivals, and more questions about her strange affinity for the shadows. When it is announced that Consul Scaeva and Cardinal Duomo will be making a rare public appearance at the conclusion of the grand games in Godsgrave, Mia defies the Church and sells herself into slavery for a chance to fulfil the promise she made on the day she lost everything. But after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia begins to suspect the motives of the Red Church itself. Her position is precarious, and she’s still no closer to exacting revenge for the brutal death of her family. Mia Corvere, destroyer of empires, has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church ministry do not believe she has earned it. ![]() A ruthless young assassin continues her journey for revenge in this new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Widely heralded as a “masterful” ( Washington Post) and “essential” ( Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide ( New York Times Book Review). Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year ![]() Paperback | 368 pages | Publication Date: May 1, 2018 ![]() ![]() He charts the remarkable rise of modern medical science - the emergence of specialties such as anatomy, physiology, neurology, and bacteriology - as well as the accompanying development of wider medical practice at the bedside, in the hospital, and in the ambitious public health systems of the twentieth century. ![]() "Roy Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, and he shows how our need to understand where diseases come from and what we can do to control them has - perhaps above all elseinspired developments in medicine through the ages. ![]() |