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In desperate need of an heir, Lord Edward Sandford, Earl of Greenwich, makes an agreement with Lydia Montgomery who insinuates herself into his scientific work and into his heart due to their undeniable chemistry.

Publishers Weekly: This audio edition of Trumbo's classic 1939 novel of war's insanity begins as a bit of a slog because of the lengthy padding at its start. With two introductions, from Cindy Sheehan and Ron Kovic, that attempt to place the novel in the context of more recent armed conflicts in both Iraq and Vietnam, it is the better part of a disc before the book properly begins. Once it does, though, the slog ceases. Trumbo's novel is spine-tingling...

In 1916, disfigured after an avalanche, Sven Ormson leads a solitary life, testing himself against the elements in Svalbard, until an unlikely visitor salves his loneliness, drawing him into a family of fellow castoffs that determines the rest of his life.

To save her sister from falling for rake Quinn Wilde, Venetia Stratham, after publicly jilting her libertine fiancee at the altar and fleeing society, finds herself married to the arrogant yet irresistible lord who is intent on winning her heart.

Emma, a sculptress in Boston 1917, pursues her art while her husband battles on the Western Front and she discovers an unusual calling crafting lifelike masks to restore the scarred and wounded soldiers to the world.

Since he was disfigured in a fire sixteen years ago, recluse Louis Malone has remained hidden from the prying eyes of his neighbors in the small town of Waverly. Across town, Iris Shula, a lonely and unlovely nurse, knows at thirty-seven it is unlikely that her Prince Charming will ever appear. But Iris is about to learn how wrong she is. When Louis accidentally falls out of his second-story window, these two kindred souls are brought together....