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21) Doctor Zhivago
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English
Description
A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning epic banned in the Soviet Union until 1988 traces the interpersonal challenges of a poet and physician during the Russian Revolution, in an edition that seeks to restore Paternak's original rhythms, tone and precision.
22) Tidelands
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Series
Fairmile novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
1648, England is in the grip of civil war, and an herbalist seeking to escape an abusive relationship is targeted by witchcraft mania in her tidelands community.
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Language
English
Description
Against the electrifying backdrop of the 1960s, Danielle Steel unveils the gripping chronicle of a young woman discovering a passion for justice and of the unsung heroes she encounters on her quest to fight the good fight. Encompassing the remarkable people the protagonist, Meredith, meets, the historic events she witnesses, and the sacrifices she must make, this is the story of a woman changing her world as she herself is changed by it.
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards...
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Series
Outlander novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After being presumed dead, Jamie Fraser returns to find that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitmate son has discovered who is father is, and his nephew has decided to marry a Quaker.
26) Trespasses
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Cushla, living a quiet life with her mother near Belfast, finds herself caught between allegiance to her community and unsanctioned love when her affair with a married, Protestant barrister, who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members, threatens everything and everyone she most wants to protect.
29) A column of fire
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A half-century love affair between a man in service to Elizabeth I and a woman on the opposing side of England's religious divide is challenged by violent ideological power shifts, torn loyalties and the queen's circle of spies.
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English
Description
The finest novel of the Civil War, and one of the greatest battle stories ever told
The question of courage enters Henry Fleming’s mind the moment he dons the blue uniform of the Union Army. But his first firefight reveals the emptiness of words such as bravery and fear. Pinned in by his comrades, he can only fire his rifle like a cog in a machine. There is no chance to run.
Then comes the true test....
The question of courage enters Henry Fleming’s mind the moment he dons the blue uniform of the Union Army. But his first firefight reveals the emptiness of words such as bravery and fear. Pinned in by his comrades, he can only fire his rifle like a cog in a machine. There is no chance to run.
Then comes the true test....
32) Titans
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Language
English
Description
A privileged heiress to a sprawling Fort Worth cattle ranch and a sweet-natured farm boy from north Texas are drawn together by an unexpected connection during the sweeping oil boom changes of the early twentieth century.
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Series
Fairmile novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Tidelands finds 17th-century London warehouse owner Alinor reuniting with a man from her past while reaching out to her brother in war-torn New England for proof of her son's survival.
36) Live by night
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Series
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English
Description
In 1926, during Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba, where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.
37) Cold mountain
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English
Description
A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South
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Series
Novels of the Civil War volume 2
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English
Description
Presents a first installment in a trilogy inspired by the Siege of Vicksburg that follows Ulysses S. Grant's successful crossing of the Mississippi in May 1863 and his reluctant decision to surround Confederate soldiers and citizens in a ring of Federal entrenchments to starve them into surrendering.
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond underground and orchestrate escapes from the infamous Confederate Libby Prison.
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English
Description
Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial.
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