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  • The captive brides collection : 9 stories of great challenges overcome through great love
    Author:
    AlLee, Jennifer
    Summary:

    Love Brings Freedom in 9 Historical Romances Journey along as nine historical women are about to make their escape from some of life's greatest challenges. Can their captive hearts be freed to dream, to dare, to love'Love's Labours...
  • The camel of destruction
    Author:
    Pearce, Michael
    Summary:

    Cairo, 1910. Captain Owen, The Mamur Zapt, is the head of Egypt's Political CID in the heyday of British Rule. He is ultimately responsible for law and order in the Khedive's Cairo. When the rules, whether obvious or hidden,...
  • The book of lost friends : a novel
    Author:
    Wingate, Lisa
    Summary:

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new historical novel: the dramatic story of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post–Civil War South, and of a modern-day...
  • The ashland trilogy shadow of ashland, a witness to life, and st. patrick's bed
    Author:
    Green, Terence M.
    Summary:

    This family saga that travels through time-from modern Toronto to Depression-era Kentucky-and explores how the ghosts of the past shape our history. Every family has its stories: joys and losses, hopes and regrets. For the family that...
  • Sin killer
    Author:
    McMurtry, Larry
    Summary:

    The beloved author of Terms of Endearment (RB# 90067), Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry presents Sin Killer, the first installment of a major four-volume series. Set in the 1830s, Sin Killer traces the perilous voyage of the...
  • Ruined stones by the author of the guardian stones
    Author:
    Reed, Eric
    Summary:

    Surviving the 1941 Blitz and the predator in her small Shropshire village, policeman's daughter Grace Baxter moves to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Situated on the northern bank of the River Tyne, the ancient northeast city developed around...
  • Revival : resurrecting the Process Church of the Final Judgement
    Author:
    Bainbridge, William Sims
    Summary:

    Who is seeking to destroy all esoteric religious movements, starting with The Process Church of the Final Judgement' The Process was the most fascinating innovative cult of the 1960s, then vanished for four decades before being...
  • Paving the new road
    Author:
    Gentill, Sulari
    Summary:

    It's 1933. No less than Europe, Britain, or America, Australia contends with the Left, mostly Communists but also Socialists, and a rising Right, Fascists. Rowland Sinclair, bohemian younger son of the wealthy, influential,...
  • Murder in Morningside Heights
    Author:
    Thompson, Victoria
    Summary:

    In the latest from the bestselling author of Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue, former police sergeant Frank Malloy and his wife adjust to life in New York high society as they investigate a death in the field of higher learning... After...
  • Murder between the lines
    Author:
    Vatsal, Radha
    Summary:

    "I really and truly could not put it down...'atsal succeeds once again!"-Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times-bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Rhys Bowen, Murder Between the...
  • Mood indigo
    Author:
    Ifkovic, Ed.
    Summary:

    She was 1932 Broadway's newest sensation. Then she was murdered. Three years after the Crash that ushered in the Great Depression, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright Edna Ferber finds herself a guest at Noel Coward...
  • Miles off course
    Author:
    Gentill, Sulari
    Summary:

    "Norman Lindsay is a complete and utter bastard!" With this curse heaped upon the renowned real-life Australian artist and cartoonist, Miles Off Course gets underway. It is early in 1933, and wealthy bohemian Rowland Sinclair...
  • Magic lessons : the prequel to practical magic
    Author:
    Hoffman, Alice
    Summary:

    In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men...
  • Madman
    Author:
    Groot, Tracy
    Summary:

    If there is a way into madness, logic says there is a way out. Logic says. Tallis, a philosopher's servant, is sent to a Greek academy in Palestine only to discover that it has silently, ominously, disappeared. No one will tell him...
  • Loving Luther
    Author:
    Pittman, Allison
    Summary:

    Germany, 1505In the dark of night, Katharina von Bora says the bravest good-bye a six-year-old can muster and walks away as the heavy convent gate closes behind her.Though the cold walls offer no comfort, Katharina soon finds herself...
  • Lord of the Privateers
    Author:
    Laurens, Stephanie
    Summary:

    Royd Frobisher, in the final leg of the mission his brothers have begun, is pressured into taking along his emotional nemesis, Isobel Carmichael. Neither expects what awaits as they set sail aboard Royd's ship for the jungle rescue...
  • Last bus to wisdom : a novel
    Author:
    Doig, Ivan
    Summary:

    Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But...
  • Lady cop makes trouble
    Author:
    Stewart, Amy
    Summary:

    The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating, feisty, and unforgettable Kopp sisters. After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl...
  • Labyrinth of the spirits : a novel
    Author:
    Ruiz Zafón, Carlos
    Summary:

    Alicia Gris, with the help of the Sempere family, uncovers one of the most shocking conspiracies in all Spanish history: the mysterious disappearance of Spain's Minister of Culture, Mauricio Valls. Her search uncovers a tangled web...
  • Jerzy a novel
    Author:
    Charyn, Jerome
    Summary:

    "Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature." -Michael Chabon "One of our finest writers." -Jonathan Lethem "One of our most intriguing fiction writers." -O, The Oprah...

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