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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman, as well as the romantic entanglements of her four …
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The Oracle Glass
by Judith Merkle Riley
"Open the pages, and out comes a whiff of brimstone, as The Oracle Glass transports you to the Paris of kings and witches, on a …
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A Vision of Light
by Judith Merkle Riley
In 1355, Margaret of Ashbury depends on renegade friar Brother Gregory to record her life story and state of Mystic Union, and he is forced …
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Mara, Daughter of the Nile
by Eloise McGraw
The adventures of an ingenious Egyptian slave girl who undertakes a dangerous assignment as a spy in the royal palace of Thebes, in the days …
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The Queen's Man
by Sharon Kay Penman
In England in 1193, a dying man gives Justin de Quincy a letter that reveals if Richard Lionheart is living or dead.
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Frenchman's Creek
by Daphne Du Maurier
During the reign of Charles II, a rebellious noblewoman abandons her Cornwall estate to sail with her pirate lover
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Eaters of the Dead
by Michael Crichton
A 10th century Arab diplomat is kidnapped by Vikings and forced to confront the ultimate horror ....
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Red Branch
by Morgan Llywelyn
"Powerful . . . A lusty, poetic and legendary world based on Ireland's mythical warrior-hero Cuchulain." The New York Times Book Review In a land …
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Angel Trumpet
by Ann McMillan
An officer returns to his plantation in 1861 Virginia to find his family butchered. The servants? Fears of a slave uprising haunt the countryside. White …
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Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte
‘The name of governess, I soon found, was a mere mockery … my pupils had no more notion of obedience than a wild, unbroken colt’ …
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and the obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature, and includes a section …
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King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
"The Most Amazing Book Ever Written!" So declared the posters plastered all over London by the publisher when H. Rider Haggard's novel appeared in 1885.
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Banners of Gold
by Pamela Kaufman
The sequel to Kaufman's bestseller "Shield of Three Lions" picks up with Alix of Wanthwaite in over her head in royal intrigue. When Eleanor of …
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Forever Amber
by Kathleen Winsor
The adventures of Amber St. Clare, the willful and beautiful illegitimate daughter of noble parents who was raised on a farm by people she knew …