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belligerent crusader Winston Churchill sassy beauty Scarlett O’Hara intrepid professor Robert Langdon
Belligerent crusader Winston Churchill takes on his arch-nemesis Adolf Hitler in a battle for the hearts, minds, and lands of Europe. Sassy beauty Scarlett O’Hara navigates the troubled waters of the post-Civil war south in a tale of courage, heartbreak, and love.
windswept fields of Canada’s Maritimes moving portrait of a family and country terrifying and exiting ride along the Silk Road
Avowed party princess and socialite Anna Helene Lutz just wasn’t having any of this girls’ week of bohemian glamping and Bacchanalian fests on Sardinia. The seemingly neutral International Tracing Organization stood at the crossroads of the humanitarian reconstruction of war-torn Europe in 1945, but equality is often merely a guise for the nefarious. Squirrelled away from ever-encroaching technology of 2020 London, the Samothrace family avoids all conveniences of modern life, instead scraping by like their ancestors did in the filthy and criminal city of dreadful delight.
Despite their different political views, Churchill and Stalin united in ways unimaginable to wrest Europe from the clench of Nazi tyranny. But should Anna Helene give up her comfortable life to enjoy the bohemian comforts of farming the endless fields of Sardinia with the enchanting Emilio?
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