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“samuel shellabarger”

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  • Prince of Foxes

    The Best-Selling Historical Epic

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    Set in the early 1500s in Renaissance Italy this novel is the story of Andrea Orsini, a peasant boy who rises far and becomes a secret agent for Cesare Borgia, who entrusts him with the most delicate political, military and romantic missions, Orson Welles was cast as Borgia, Tyronne Power as Orsini in the film version. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Captain From Castile

    The Best-Selling Historical Epic

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    A new edition of the mid-20th century popular classic of a Spanish nobleman who accompanies Cortez to conquer Mexico. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Kings Cavalier

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    A young Frenchman and a young Englishwoman are caught in the wild plots and counterplots surrounding the Bourbon conspiracy against Francis I in 16th century France. Complete with rich pageantry, a jealousy-maddened king, an evil nobleman, Sire Francois the Sorcerer, wolf hounds and mad gallops across the French countryside, master story teller and scholar, Samuel Shellabarger has once again ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Lord Vanity

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    “But when nothing spiritual remains, what is left to man but the worship of vanity? Lord Vanity rules our present world.”Richard Morandi (also known as Richard Hammond) is the illegitimate son of an English lord who lives in Venice with his ballerina mother. He makes his living as an actor and musician, but when he stabs a Venetian of greater rank in self-defense – an act considered both cowardly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Chevalier Bayard

    A Study in Fading Chivalry

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    A Study in Fading Chivalry by a Professor of History at Princeton University.Pierre Bayard belonged to a generation of men so fully absorbed in the sport of war that decades of their lives were often spent in battle following the whims of kings whom they believed acted on their behalf in an evil world. Their ideals were few and clear: duty, the service of honor, and the responsibility of noblesse ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Grief Before Night

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    To every man, joy and grief before night.~Old Norse proverbCount and Countess Falke of Falkenborg are deeply in debt and are about to lose the ancient but respectably shabby family castle when they meet Patricia Morier, a wealthy American heiress, who feels a tingle along her veins when she first sets eyes on the passionate and masterful Count and instantly falls in love. Since the Count doesn't ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Token

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    The last gift given Lady Blanche from her beloved father as a token of his love was a silver girdle – “wrought with figures men and beasts” – to be worn by one who knows lonely sorrow and the pain of toil, but also granting the strength to endure and the right of lordship. Lady Blanche dons the silver girdle after discovering that her new husband, Count Raoul de Roche-Bernard, has not been true to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Black Gale

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    Jacklin Baron, an artist of great talent, temperament, and beauty, marries an older man of character and refinement never suspecting that the real love of her life, restless and hungry as the sea, would appear on a trip to Paris and awaken her heart, challenging the path she's chosen and changing her life forever. Published in 1929, this early romance written by renown biographer and novelist, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Graveyard Watch

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    In underworld parlance, the period between midnight and four in the morning.“A little blarney is the lubricant of life.”Patrick Connelly, a rookie cop with an irreverent attitude and a swell Irish brogue, gets a tough assignment to get the goods on a big dope ring in spite of a doubting chief who believes he's giving the case to an ignoramus with no self-control. Connelly's orders land him on the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Tolbecken

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    For five generations, dating from 1753, the ancestral home of the Tolbecken family had grown and the land had dwindled; the house had become a mansion and the land a town block. By the end of the 19th century, not only the land, but the fortune of the Tolbecken family was diminishing, and, fiber by fiber, the roots were snapping, as the tree that supported their old life began toppling toward the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • While Murder Waits

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    "Well, well, it's very mystifying. But then, murders ought to be like that, oughtn't they?"The reefs, lonely, vast, and menacing, made a thunderous sound as the surf rose and fell ― a cry that mounted “ shriek upon shriek, as of some tortured devil, lifting and quavering and dying away.” “That's them,” residents of Clearport would say. “Hear 'em? The Five Sisters.”Retired sea captain George M. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Lord Chesterfield and His World

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    Lord Chesterfield was an immortal of his age, synonymous with the art of gracious living and representative of his world at its best in point of culture, international relations, and the social arts. Yet, today's literary world knows him through an extraordinary collection of letters to his illegitimate son―letters of admonition, encouragement and advice, often two thousand words long, revolving ... Read more

    $8.99 USD