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  • Author:
    Brontë, Emily
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    On the wild moors of Yorkshire, childhood friends Catherine and Heathcliffe form a passionate bond that threatens all around them. Jealousy, vengefulness, unspeakable cruelty — this is Gothic fiction at its best. Published to mixed...

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    King, Steven
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    From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King...

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    Follett, Ken.
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    Two centuries after the building of the elaborate Gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, its prior finds himself at the center of a web of ambition and revenge that places the city at a crossroad of commerce, medicine, and architecture.

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    Royal, Priscilla
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    It is late summer in the year 1270 and England is as weary as its aging king, Henry III. Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs like smoke over the land. Even in the small priory of Tyndal on...

  • Author:
    Holden, Anthony
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    Holden's portrayal is a racy, incident-packed account of Shakespeare as husband, father, actor, poet and Stratford lad who found subsequent immortality via the stage of Elizabethan London.

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    Eagland, Jane
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    They strip her naked, of everything, undo her whalebone corset, hook by hook. Locked away in Wildthorn Halla madhousethey take her identity. She is now called Lucy Childs. She has no one; she has nothing. But, she is still...

  • Author:
    James, Eloisa
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    Lady Joan can't seem to avoid scandals, but her latest plan could ruin her: to join a theater act in the title role of a prince, in breeches. Viscount Greywick vows that he will keep her safe, and strikes a bargain.

  • Author:
    Harrison, Mike
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    When Eddie receives an early morning call for help, he catches the next plane to Britain. His friend, Dr. Peter Maurice, a renowned psychologist on a UK book tour with his wife Sylvia, has been accused of multiple, brutal murders and is...

  • Author:
    Reid, Stacy
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    Tobias Walcott, the Earl of Blade, has learned it is best to exercise rigid control over his passions and emotions in all that he does. Uncaring that it makes him seem cool and aloof to most in the ton, he is content with his desire to...

  • Author:
    Malliet, G. M.
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    Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. But this new-found serenity...

  • Author:
    Edwards, Roberta
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    A life in the wild! Jane Goodall, born in London, England, always loved animals and wanted to study them in their natural habitats. So at age twenty-six, off she went to Africa! Goodall's up-close observations of chimpanzees changed...

  • Author:
    Anderson, Kirsten
    Summary:

    How does a little boy from the London suburbs named Reginald Kenneth Dwight grow up to become one of the biggest pop stars of all time? A lot of talent and a lot of personality! Elton John, as he would later call himself, started...

  • Author:
    FRANCIS, Dick
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    An entertaining story combining horse racing, detection, suspense and a sensitive study of human relationships. Ex-jockey, Sid Halley, is a victim of his own success, overworked and stretched to do all the jobs he is offered, even with...

  • Author:
    Quinn, Julia
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    Michael Stirling and his cousin John, the Earl of Kilmartin, are as close as brothers. However, Michael is secretly in love with John's wife Francesca Bridgerton. When John suddenly dies, Michael is wracked with guilt and pain....

  • Author:
    Unsworth, Cathi
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    Named one of the Best Crime Books of the Year by the Guardian , Weirdo is an atmospheric thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder in a 1980s seaside town and the private investigator who reopens the case to discover that she...

  • Author:
    Curtis, Rosie
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    Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don't kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned...

  • Author:
    Todd, Charles
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    Charles Todd brings his classic mystery series to a new level of intensity and intrigue. The year is 1919, and Ian Rutledge is a fragile yet courageous former soldier searching for his place in a post-war world. Now a Scotland Yard...

  • Author:
    Whellams, David
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    In the debut mystery featuring veteran Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, what seems like a simple domestic crime turns out to be a series of murders ravaging a peaceful English coastal community.

    The semi–retired Cammon...

  • Author:
    Anna, Threes, Fasting, Barbara
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    India, 1995. Charlotte Bridgwater lives with her father, a former British general, and just one loyal servant in a stately old mansion in the town of Rampur. Money is scarce and the once grand estate is crumbling. In a desperate bid to...

  • Author:
    Cousins, Dave
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    Things could be going better for Oz. He’s just moved miles from all his friends. A prank at his new school puts him in the crosshairs of “Psycho” Isobel Skinner, a bully who also happens to be his mum’s new best friend. And he’s driven...

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