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Grantchester mysteries volume prequel
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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"The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war London. It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war. Returning to London seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military...
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English
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In a sweeping saga of music and vengeance, the acclaimed author of The Vampire Chronicles draws readers into eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to life the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices win the adulation of royal courts and grand opera...
3) Lacy
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Series
Publisher
Ivy Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Cole Whitehall had asked Lacy Jarrett to wait for him. But after the war, he returned to the rambling Whitehall cattle ranch a changed man, the promise of lasting love replaced by a cold, hard distance. And Lacy yearned to reignite the unquenched passion they'd once shared. Unwittingly compromised into marriage, Cole refused to let Lacy get too close-but still, she longed to learn the secrets the handsome Texan harbored in his heart. Tormented, she...
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English
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In 1942, German subs are dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico to sink U.S. vessels carrying goods and fuel. While taking a late-night walk, Helen Mason--widowed by the war--discovers the near-lifeless body of a German sailor. Enraged at the site of Josef Landermann's uniform, Helen is prepared to leave him to die ... until an unusual phrase, faintly uttered, changes her mind. In The Heart Mender, as a small town prepares itself for the worst the world...
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Sherring Cross series volume 1
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
"Her books are well paced and well-written, filled with strong characters, humor, interesting plots- and of course, romance."
-Cincinnati Enquirer
Wildly unpredictable, the most desirable beauty in the land, Megan Penworthy has set her amorous sights on Ambrose St. James, a man she has never met but has every intention of marrying. And no other suitor will satisfy her, especially not the common, if uncommonly handsome, horse breeder, Devlin Jefferys.
Posing...
11) The animal gazer
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Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Novel inspired by the life of Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916), sculptor. Includes 8 illustrations of his works.
12) Second violin
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Series
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Atlantic Monthly Press Books
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can't believe his luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally-a railway line that takes coffins from...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Description
"In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas -- and a new unrest -- begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs...
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in GONE WITH THE WIND, a work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Taking sharp aim at the romanticized, whitewashed mythology perpetrated by this southern classic, Randall has ingeniously conceived a multilayered, emotionally complex tale of her own - that of Cynara,...
17) The courtship
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Series
Bride series (Catherine Coulter) volume 5
Language
English
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Description
"Helen Mayberry is a big girl--a resolute taskmistress and owner of her own inn. She adores her father, Lord Prith, and has one other true passion in life : finding a mystical treasure that she calls King Edward's lamp. That is, until she meets Spenser Heatherington, Lord Beecham"--Page 4 of cover.
18) Fire the sky
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Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After being fought to a standstill by the courageous Apalachee Nation, Spanish invader Hernando de Soto has changed his tactics. He will employ promises of peace to accomplish what cannot be achieved by violence alone. Lured by a young man's tale of gold and aided by an arrogant princess's treachery, he makes his way through the beautiful southeastern landscape. One by one, the ancient Nations fall victim to his lies as rulers and commoners alike...
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 4
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father--the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe--she...
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