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The Laird
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Juliana Garnett |
She is the enemy of his clan, the friend of his foe, and the most beautiful prisoner he has ever seen. She is Judith Lindsay, the brazen young beauty who's bound by blood and honor to her beloved Eng… |
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The Horsemasters
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Joan Wolf |
In the lush green valleys of southern France, long before the mists of time, one special tribe among the Kindred is ruled by the Priestess Arika. But a feared change is coming, for the distant thunde… |
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The Poisoned Serpent
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Joan Wolf |
In 12th-century England, a civil war rages, pitting knight against knight. Against this superbly rendered backdrop, murder most foul is committed, when a nobleman dies under mysterious circumstances,… |
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Forever Amber
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Kathleen Winsor |
Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16-year-old Amber St. Clare manages, by using her wits, beauty, and courage, to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve … |
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Dom Casmurro
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Margaret Jull Costa,Robin Patterson,Anne-Marie Quint,0,Machado de Assis,John A. Gledson,João Adolfo Hansen |
"At last, a new translation of Machado's masterpiece that is complete (unlike Scott-Buccleuch's 1992 version - see HLAS 54:5078 - which omitted key chapters) and highly readable. Gledson produces a m… |
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Capitaine Fracasse
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Théophile Gautier |
Sur le revers d'une de ces collines decharnees qui bossuent les Landes, entre Dax et Mont-de-Marsan, s'elevait, sous le regne de Louis XIII, une de ces gentilhommieres si communes en Gascogne, et que… |
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Benim Adım Kırmızı
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Orhan Pamuk |
My Name Is Red (Turkish: Benim Adım Kırmızı) is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001. The novel, concerning miniaturists in the Ottoman Empire of… |
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Past continuous
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Khải Nguyẽ̂n,Nguyẽ̂n, Khải. |
"Nguyen Khai's documentary novel, Past Continuous, published in the early 1980s before the "doi moi" policy was introduced, gives a fascinating inside view of North Vietnamese views and strategies du… |
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White-Jacket
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Herman Melville |
In the year 1843 I shipped as Ordinary seaman on
board of a United States frigate, then lying in a harbour
of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for
more than a year, I was disc… |
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The great fire
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Shirley Hazzard |
In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn from their past, to dream again. Some will ful… |
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Office of innocence
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Thomas Keneally |
Thomas Keneally is a writer of extraordinary range: from Schindler's List to The Great Shame his storytelling has engaged millions of readers. Now, after a brief departure into non-fiction, he is ba… |
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Arnie Jacobson |
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on The Count of Monte Cristo takes you into a rollicking yarn of … |
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Schindler's list
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Thomas Keneally |
Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction
Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profitee… |
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The Grafton girls
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Annie Groves |
The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. A unique bond is formed as the hostilities take… |
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells |
The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu… |
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The marrying kind
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Elizabeth Cadell |
Vintage Cadell! With her unsurpassed ability to weave together romance, suspense and a cast of unforgettable characters. Elizabeth Cadell has, in this her newest novel gently spun her most heartwarmi… |
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The glass-blowers
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Daphne du Maurier |
'Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape … |
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Ramage and the renegades
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Dudley Pope |
The Treaty of Amiens is signed and Nelson's navy languishes in port. Ramage is at home on half pay and suspects Napoleon will yet break the terms of the treaty. He is then given secret Admiralty orde… |
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The fountain overflows
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Rebecca West |
This is a story about the Aubrey family, seen through the eyes of one of the daughters (Rose). Mr. Aubrey, a journalist, is hopeless with financial things, and so the family exists in genteel povert… |
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Haggard's Inheritance
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Christopher Nicole |
Following the sudden suicide of his father, Roger Haggard has assumed the position of head of the family and become one of the most rich and powerful men in the country, His new position, and the hel… |
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