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The Wicked Baron is the first in the Blackhaven Brides series, set in a newly fashionable spa town on the beautiful Cumbrian coast, where the great and the bad of visiting Regency society turn local life upside down.Orphan Gillie Muir makes ends meet by holding genteel card parties for friends and visitors to the newly fashionable spa town of Blackhaven. But when Lord Wickenden, known as the Wicked Baron, makes her a shocking proposal, her world is turned upside down.Jaded and bored, Lord Wickenden has his own reasons for joining the house party at Braithwaite Castle. One of them is to oblige an ex-mistress by detaching her son from the local gaming den hussy who has ensnared him. But, confronted by Gillie's unexpected charm and innocence, Wickenden abandons his original plan of simply taking her for himself. Instead, he becomes embroiled in her bizarre problems, which include saving her reputation and her life, keeping the Watch away from her card parties, and hiding an injured smuggler who was once kind to her.The infuriating and devastating Wickenden soon has Gillie's heart in a spin. But when she discovers he means to fight a duel over her - and everyone knows the wicked baron never misses - she'll go to any length to save his life and his soul. Even elope with another man.
The complete screenplay and credits with dozens of photos from the 1998 film. A carnival! A wonderland! A weekend with nine Friday nights! Terry Gilliam's lavish dreams are beyond those of mere mortals. a Harlan Ellison
The daring air aces of World War I faced more than the enemy when they took to the sky - they faced the odds. Their chances of being hit were high; the odds of their hitting the enemy were low. One pilot, French Captain Albert Moris, reported 400 hits to his aircraft in his 253 hours of flying, more than a hit per hour. Even the most maneuverable of the British fighters, the Sopwith Camel, lost as many machines as its pilots shot down. Pilots flying Camels rang up 1,294 victories, but 1,500 machines were lost to accidents and enemy fire, and many Camel pilots died within weeks of entering combat. Was it luck or skill that sustained the Red Baron, the German ace who flew, fought, and thrived until he was finally shot down in April 1918? ""Gunning for the Red Baron"" gives the lowdown on why it was so hard to score a hit, what qualities helped the aces succeed, and the weapons and planes that were celebrated in the ""air war to end wars."" Most basically, this richly illustrated book explains why aim was so notoriously bad. Drawing on his army service at the Ballistics Research Lab, data from London's Public Records Office, and careful study of Great War technology, author Leon Bennett analyzes combat sequences, the arts of aerial gunnery, and the weapons themselves. His detailed insight into the mechanics of air warfare allows him to reach some startling conclusions about one of the enduring controversies of World War I: what finally brought the Red Baron down.
The Red Baron's Autobiography
Manfred Von Richthofen
International Alliance Pro-Publishing
2010
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Sequel to Boots for the Gentleman Steamcraft and Sorcery: Book Two Former archivist Reg Whitney, expert thief Querry Knotte, and the clockwork boy known as Frolic are fugitives from Halcyon living on a small island. While Reg is content to lead a safe and settled life, there is trouble in paradise: Querry is bored, and Frolic can't help but ponder his own existence. When Querry and Frolic get caught breaking into Baron Starling's villa, all three men are bamboozled into accompanying the baron on a quest for arcane knowledge. But their jungle destination holds more danger than anyone on the expedition expects. Reg knows their crew is made up of criminals—the kind who can't be trusted—which puts a strain on the trio. He's certain the baron and the mercenary Jean-Andre, are hiding something that puts them all in danger. Querry and the baron grow close, leaving Reg and Frolic feeling alienated. Frolic's friendship with a fey servant just strains the trio's dynamic further. Even if Reg, Querry, and Frolic survive the quest, their relationship will never be the same.
Growing up in isolation in Cornwall, Tamsin Penrose looks forward to the one month each year that she spends in an idyllic seaside town with her best friends. She's shocked to receive a letter from her reclusive father informing her of a potential groom-they've never even discussed marriage and she rather expected to be a spinster. But she's met a charming, if serious, baron and now she's dreaming of a romantic, wedded life.During his annual trip to a friend's seaside estate, broody Isaac Deverell, Baron Droxford finds himself in an objectionable situation: socializing with a group of ladies over several days. He is not prepared for the storm of cheerfulness that is Miss Penrose, nor can he deny that she makes him feel...good.Because Isaac is an unheroic rogue with a devastatingly sinful secret, he should flee this delightful ray of sunshine. However, he can't keep his distance, and when her overzealous suitor arrives and won't take no for an answer, Isaac protects her in a scandalously public fashion. Now he can't run from her. Can these attracted opposites find a happy ever after, or will the past destroy their chance?
Opposites attract and sparks fly when the vivacious Arabella falls for a baron who lives under the shadow of a scandalous family secret. Arabella Latham is a free spirit who longs to feel the spark of true love, but few men can match her passion for Shakespeare or her zest for life. Though her prospects seem slim, Arabella knows she can always count on the handsome but stoic Lord Henry Northcott, dubbed "The Brooding Baron" by the ton, to be willing to engage in intelligent conversation and even share a congenial dance with her at almost every ball. His quiet demeanor is the opposite of her vivacious personality, and she finds herself drawn to him, despite their differences. Lord Northcott has quietly admired Arabella for years, grateful that his friendship with her brother has allowed him to share in her company. But he knows he cannot pursue a romantic relationship with any woman--let alone someone as bright and beautiful as Arabella--because of the shadow that an old family scandal has cast over his life. He has vowed to preserve what is left of his family's reputation by holding himself above reproach apart from society and focusing the majority of his efforts at Parliament. But Arabella is determined to show Lord Northcott that life is meant to be enjoyed, and she sets out to see what is behind the walls the Brooding Baron has built around himself. Could the spark of true love be enough to drive away the shadows holding Henry back?
No one knows much about the Baron, but one whisper in that cultured accent is enough to set even the most hardened of men shaking in their boots.
Leda Wroth is atoning for the crimes of her past in her new life as a lady's companion, mentor, and fixer for those seeking love. But finding a wife for the Mad Baron is a task that will defeat even clever, capable Leda, for what woman would want a man-titled or not-rumored to have killed his first wife?Leda will stay in her comfortable establishment in Bath, thank you. Until a ghost comes in search of her-a ghost determined to expose the secrets Leda has kept hidden for eight long years.Jack Burnham, Baron Brancaster of Holme Hall, isn't mad-he doesn't think. But he does need a governess for his daughter, and Leda Wroth seems the woman to help him, even if he suspects she's running away from something. Even if she raises longings for a life he knows he can't have.But how can Jack convince Leda she's safe with him when Holme Hall holds secrets of its own? For more than one betrayal haunts the windy cliffs of Norfolk where the mad baron's wife died. And while Jack might try desperately to shield Leda from the mistakes of his own past, he can't protect her from the ghosts in hers, which are hellbent on taking away everything she's come to love.
Miss Cecilia Richards wants to marry for true love. Henry Neil, Baron of Neil, wants to spend all his days writing. After sharing a romantic dance at a masquerade, will fate bring them back together?Cecilia is entering her third Season, refusing to give up the hope that her true love is still out there. Emboldened by her mask, Cecilia puts on a spectacular pianoforte performance at an illustrious masquerade. She is whisked away to the dance floor by the most incredible man she's ever met-a fellow passionate artist. Unfortunately, he slips out of reach before she can learn his name. Instead, she must accompany the cold and aloof Lord Neil through London as his best friend courts her sister.Henry just wants to stay at home writing his beloved adventure novels. But when his best friend drags him to the annual welcome masquerade, Henry dances with an incredibly talented pianoforte player. She surprises him with her artistic insights, but they part without exchanging identities. And much to Henry's dismay, his friend decides to court a beautiful young lady-and asks Henry to accompany them with her older sister, Miss Cecilia Richards.Can Cecilia and Henry learn that they have far more in common than they think? Will they realize that they could be each other's missing pieces?
Bound to the Baron: A Bwwm Second Chance Royal Romance
Gigi Thomas
Independently Published
2018
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Why settle for a billionaire, when you can be Royal?For five years, one decision has haunted Baron Caden Hargrove. But, Caden knows that he can never be with the woman he loves. He'd accepted that long ago; at least, he thought he had. Just one look at her, and his barely submerged feelings immediately gush to the surface and engulf his senses.Hot, dark, and strong like a cup of the finest coffee, she stood with surprise in her eyes and an adorable child in her arms, a child with features uncannily similar to his own. Now, the Baron must decide which is more terrifying: losing his second chance to have the one woman he knows he's meant to be with and the family he desperately wants or finally telling her the truth and admitting why he left in the first place. Will love prevail? Or will secrets continue to keep them apart?When her former love is unexpectedly thrown back into her life, Kenya Morris realizes her long denied feelings were not buried as deep as she'd thought. He is as charming and, annoyingly, even sexier than when he first loved...and suddenly left her, broken and alone. Well, he didn't leave her quite as "alone" as she'd first thought, and Kenya refuses to fall for Caden again. She'd worked too hard to succeed in her career and be a good mother to be made a fool twice. But, their chemistry is still undeniable, their desire for each other more palpable, and Caden hadn't lost his ability to stoke the fires of her emotions like a furnace-master. Can she risk trusting him again when it's not just her heart that might be broken this time? Her mind says to run as far away from him as fast as she can. But, will Kenya's heart decide that there's more than one thing that makes her...Bound to the Baron? ***Welcome to the Royal Revels series This first book is a full length (approximately 65,000 words), standalone story No cliffhangers HEA ***This story contains a few steamy scenes that might just set you on Fire As such, it is intended for a mature audience.
The Old English Baron (1777). By: Clara Reeve: The Old English Baron is a gothic novel inspired by Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
Clara Reeve
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 - 3 December 1807) was an English novelist, best known for her Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1777).She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, The Progress of Romance (1785). Her first work was a translation from Latin, then an unusual language for a woman to learn............. The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under this title in 1778, although it had anonymously appeared in 1777 under its original name of The Champion of Virtue, before Samuel Richardson's daughter, Mrs Bridgen, had edited it for her. Apart from typographical errors, the revision was trifling. Miss Reeve noted in the 1778 preface that "This Story is the literary offspring of The Castle of Otranto, written upon the same plan, with a design to unite the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient Romance and modern Novel, at the same time it assumes a character and manner of its own, that differs from both; it is distinguished by the appellation of a Gothic Story, being a picture of Gothic times and manners." Originally Miss Reeve presented the story, as Walpole had done before her, as an old manuscript she had merely discovered and transcribed. Under Mrs Bridgen's auspices this fiction was removed from the preface, but more subtle textual references to its authenticity were allowed to remain. These included the claim that the four-year interval was a lacuna in the manuscript, where the original author was supposed to have left off and a "more modern hand" continued the manuscript; there are many subsequent breaches in the narrative where the original was supposed to have been defaced by damp.The Oxford World's Classics edition notes that it was a major influence in the development of Gothic fiction.It was dramatized in 1799 as Edmond, Orphan of the Castle. Plot The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that Arthur Lord Lovel, the friend of his youth, is dead. His cousin Walter Lord Lovel had succeeded to the estate, and sold the family castle to the baron, Fitz-Owen. Among the baron's household were his two sons and daughter Emma, several young gentlemen relations being educated with the sons, and Edmund Twyford, the son of a peasant, who had been brought to live with them. When Sir Philip saw him, he took an immediate liking to him, being struck by his resemblance to his lost friend. The Knight proposing to take him into his own family, being childless, Edmund preferred to remain with the baron, receiving however an assurance that if ever he was in need of it, Sir Philip would renew his offer. The narrative then oversteps the interval of four years. By his manifestly superior nature and qualities Edmund had attracted the enmity of his benefactor's nephews, and the coldness of Sir Robert, the eldest son. William, his younger brother, is his staunch friend however, and Edmund is in love with the Lady Emma...................
Souvenirs du baron de Barante
Prosper de Barante
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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J'avais quitt l' cole polytechnique depuis quelque temps d j . J'allais avoir vingt ans, et, malgr le besoin que mon p re avait de moi, il ne voulait pas retarder mon entr e dans une carri re. Nous ne pens mes plus aux affaires trang res; c'e t t une s paration trop longue. M. Chaptal, ministre de l'int rieur, avait eu de bons rapports avec lui et j' tais le camarade de son fils. Je fus plac comme surnum raire dans la division administrative. J' tudiais le droit tout en m'occupant de la besogne routini re du bureau; je cherchais me faire des id es g n rales de l gislation et d' conomie politique. Je voyais souvent les anciens amis de mon p re. M. de Narbonne, qui avait t fort li avec lui, m'accueillait avec la bont et la gr ce qui le rendaient si aimable. Il demeurait dans une petite maison, rue Roqu pine, avec la vicomtesse de Laval. Apr s l'avoir quitt e un instant, il tait revenu elle pour ne plus l'abandonner. Sa femme vivait Trieste, avec la duchesse de Narbonne, sa m re...
When Elsinore Cosgrove escapes a ballroom in search of adventure, she has no idea it will lead to a hasty marriage. The youngest daughter of a duke, all she wants is to make her own choices. Now she's engaged to an infuriating, handsome Scottish baron who doesn't even know her name Using all her feminine wiles, along with advice gleaned from a training guide for hunting hounds, Elsinore is determined to mold her baron into the husband she wants.Quin Graham is a man with many secrets. If another scandal can be avoided with a sham marriage, so be it. Only his fianc