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The ConvalescentThe Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia . . . and also, somehow, the story of ten thousand years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner...
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The Course of HonourIn ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite--a senator, had to follow what was known as The Course of Honor. This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a slave,...
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The Children's Block: A Novel Based on the True Story of an Auschwitz SurvivorA literary event that tells story of five hundred children who lived in the Czech Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau between September 1943 and June 1944. We lived on a bunk built for four but in times of overcrowding, it slept seven and at times...
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The Complete Dr. Thorndyke - Volume IX: The Stoneware Monkey Mr. Polton Explains and The Jacob Street MysteryVolume IX contains the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1938, 1940, and 1942, respectively. With each subsequent narrative, Thorndyke's skills and abilities grown and amaze. The Stoneware Monkey - A young doctor's encounter with a modern sculptor opens the door...
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The Fires of EdgarvilleTracing the evolution of a small Oregon lumber town and its connection to the Japanese internment during World War II, THE FIRES OF EDGARVILLE is a spellbinding story told with authentic detail and unexpected humor. Craig Danner's second novel is fast-paced and unflinching in...
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The Chronicles of Iona: Island-Pilgrim"Island-Pilgrim", the third novel in the acclaimed historical-fiction series "The Chronicles of Iona" (named to "Kirkus Reviews'" Best of 2012; and Silver Prize Winner, "ForeWord Reviews" 2012 Book of the Year Awards, Historical Fiction), continues the story of the two men who laid the...
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The Commandant of LubizecAfter the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, they quickly began persecuting anyone who was Jewish. Millions were shoved into ghettos and forced to live under the swastika. Death camps were built and something called "Operation Reinhard" was set into motion. Its goal? To murder...
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The Deluge - Vol. I. - An Historical Novel Of Poland, Sweden And RussiaThis vintage book contains the first volume of Henryk Sienkiewicz's 1893 historical novel, "The Deluge". Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (1846 - 1916) was a Polish novelist, journalist, and Nobel Prize laureate. He is most famous for his fantastic historical novels, namely the international...
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The Case of Miss Elliott: The Teahouse Detective: Volume 2More classic cosy mysteries from the author of The Scarlet PimpernelEvery crime has its perpetrator, and every puzzle its solution.In the corner of the ABC teashop on Norfolk Street, Polly Burton of the Evening Observer sets down her morning paper, filled with news of...
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The Butler Did It Every Chance He Got: A Dreadfully Funny Murder MysteryIn 1906 two carriages arrive at Oddsen End, the estate of Lord and Lady Pilkington, each bearing an orphaned infant girl. In the first, Houndstooth, the butler, arrives with Pandora, daughter of the Pilkington's oldest son. Her parents died in Africa. In the second...
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That Time May CeaseWhen the violent arrest of an innocent apprentice sparks a riot in Southwark during the summer of 1592, more lies behind it than a simple grievance. Increasing poverty, vagrancy, and crime in a restless London compel a nervous Privy Council to close the playhouses,...
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The Changing Wind: A Classic Western NovelAN ENGAGING AND INSIGHTFUL WESTERN ADVENTURE. He was called White Buffalo, and he would be the greatest medicine man the People had ever known. The spirit of the ancient gods beat in him like a savage drum - a mystical power as old as...
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Raoul, tu me caches quelque chosePendant la Première Guerre mondiale, le jeune Raoul Denonville trouve refuge dans la forêt entourant River Valley, dans le Moyen-Nord ontarien. Il y passera l'essentiel de sa vie à piéger des animaux sur sa ligne de trappe et à bûcher dans les camps, un...
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The Fortune of the Rougons: Les Rougon-Macquart: La Fortune des RougonThe Fortune of the Rougons, originally published in 1871, is the first novel in mile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom become the central figures...
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The Fire by NightThe International Bestselller!A powerful and evocative debut novel about two American military nurses during World War II that illuminates the unsung heroism of women who risked their lives in the fight--a riveting saga of friendship, valor, sacrifice, and survival combining the grit and selflessness...
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The Devil's Bookkeepers Book 3: The Noose ClosesThe End is Near..."What Anne Frank's Diary did to put a face to the plight of Dutch Jews in WWII, The Devil's Bookkeepers does for the Jew in the Lodz ghetto." - Rita Boehm, Author of Missing on Maple Street and Motivational Speaker.This is...
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The Accidental SuffragistIt's 1912, and protagonist Helen Fox is a factory worker living in New York's tenements. When tragedy strikes in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Helen is seduced by the Suffragist cause and is soon immersed, working alongside famous activists. As Helen's involvement with the...
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The Eclectic: The Life and Times of Dr. Wallace W. WheatA collaboration between Eclectic Medical Publications and the author, this book looks at the roots of today's naturopathic medicine. At the turn of the 20th Century, modern medicine was still in its infancy and medical practice was hotly debated. Wallace W. Wheat is a...
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The Arnolfini Art MysteriesDASHING & CLEVER, Armand Arnolfini confronts a dazzling array of art thieves, forgers, and ruthless murderers in this riveting collection of mysterious short stories.Arnolfini's manhunts take him from New York to Italy, Belgium, Germany and beyond in his quest to unravel a series of...
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The Angel in the Glass'A thought-provoking plot, and an affecting and powerful conclusion make this one of Clare's best' - Booklist Starred Review Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner uncovers dark secrets in his small Devon village in the second of this intriguing historical mystery series. June, 1604. When the...
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