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Suspense And Sensibility

By: Carrie Bebris

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Forge: 2005

Seller ID: 0112283

ISBN: 0765305097

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Picks)

By: Carson McCullers

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Mariner: 2000

Seller ID: 0016462

ISBN: 0618526412

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane...
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Branded Bride

By: Carter A Vaughan

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ace Books: 1962

Seller ID: 0019608

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

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Cambridge

By: Caryl Phillips

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Vintage Books: 1993

Seller ID: 0088336

ISBN: 0679736891

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Paint The Wind

By: Cathy Spellman

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dell: 1989

Seller ID: 0001687

ISBN: 0440208130

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

A Silver Lining

By: Catrin Collier

Price: $6.99

Publisher: Orion: 2006

Seller ID: 0125806

ISBN: 1407234307

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

Beggars And Choosers

By: Catrin Collier

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Orion: 2003

Seller ID: 0140765

ISBN: 0752859234

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

In Pontypridd and the Rhondda in 1905, coal is king and the families who sunk the first collieries are rich. None is wealthier or more generous a benefactor than Harry Watkin Jones. His daughter Sali is about to marry her childhood sweetheart, but tragedy follows tragedy, and four years later Sali is a penniless outcast, fleeing from a violent husband and struggling to support herself and her son in a difficult world. Sali finds work in the home of family of colliers, and here she and her son find the warmth and love missing from their lives for so long. But unrest and violence have come to th...
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Great Maria

By: Cecelia Holland

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Sourcebooks: 2010

Seller ID: 0139078

ISBN: 1402244460

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

Courage of a king, Strength of a knight, Heart of a woman

"A literary phenomenon."
-New York Times

Her father is a robber baron...

Her husband has grand ambitions and a quick temper...

She will become...the Great Maria.

A lush portrait of the eleventh century that leaves out none of its harshest nature, Great Maria is Cecelia Holland at her most evocative. A mere fourteen years old, strong-willed Maria is betrothed to Richard. Theirs is a marriage of conflict, yet one that grows over the year...
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Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press: 1997

Seller ID: 0013213

ISBN: 0871136791

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature.

Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the ...
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Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Vintage Canada: 1998

Seller ID: 0078101

ISBN: 0679309454

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Winner of the 1997 National Book Award
A New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year
Charles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land, a place where savagery coexists with splendour and human beings contend with the inhuman solitude of the wilderness. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek ...
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An Impartial Witness

By: Charles Todd

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Harper: 2010

Seller ID: 0130528

ISBN: 0061791792

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

"Todd's novels are known for compelling plotting with a thoughtful whodunit aspect, rich characterization, evocative prose, and haunting atmosphere."
--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Readers who can't get enough of Jacqueline Winspear's] Maisie Dobbs...are bound to be caught up in the adventures of Bess Crawford."
--New York Times Book Review

To great critical acclaim, author Charles Todd introduced protagonist Bess Crawford in A Duty to the Dead. The dedicated World War I nurse returns in An Impartial Witness, and finds herself in grave ...
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A Fine Summer's Day

By: Charles Todd

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Morrow: 2015

Seller ID: 0134539

ISBN: 0062237128

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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A Lonely Death

By: Charles Todd

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Willaim Morrow: 2011

Seller ID: 0140441

ISBN: 0061726192

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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Seattle

By: Charlotte Paul

Price: $4.00

Publisher: NAL: 1987

Seller ID: 0003079

ISBN: 0451146441

Binding: MassMarket Paperback

Condition: Good

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The Lifeboat

By: Charlotte Rogan

Price: $8.25

Publisher: Reagan: 2013

Seller ID: 0109710

ISBN: 0316185914

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

The sinking of an ocean liner leaves a newly married woman battling for survival in this powerful debut novel.
Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.
In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside his own safety, Henry secures Grace a place in a lifeboat, which the survivors quickly realize is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.

As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace recollects the unorthodox way she...
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The Code Of Love

By: Cheryl Sawyer

Price: $9.25

Publisher: Signet: 2006

Seller ID: 0109666

ISBN: 0451218388

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

To Sir Gideon Landor, an English naval prisoner, Delphine Dalgleish is a Parisian trifle, as pretty-and as useless-as a porcelain doll, who would think nothing of turning him over to the French legion. To Delphine Dalgleish, he's an ice-cool double agent whom she despises for his treachery.
But these two are about to find out how wrong first impressions can be. In the midst of the Peninsular War, Sir Gideon has orders to crack the Grand Paris Cypher, a code created for Napoleon. Meanwhile the emperor himself sends Delphine on a delicate espionage mission to London. Gideon and Delphine may...
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The Rossetti Letter

By: Christi Phillips

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Pocket: 2007

Seller ID: 0135871

ISBN: 1416527389

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

In this captivating debut, Christi Phillips blends fact and fiction, suspense and sensuality into a vibrant, richly imagined novel in which a modern historian uncovers a courtesan's secret role in a shocking conspiracy of seventeenth-century Venice.

Claire Donovan always dreamed of visiting Venice, though not as a chaperone for a surly teenager. But she can't pass up this chance to complete her Ph.D. thesis on Alessandra Rossetti, a mysterious courtesan who wrote a secret letter to the Venetian Council warning of a Spanish plot to overthrow the Venetian Republic in 1618. Claire views Ales...
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A Kiss From Maddalena

By: Christopher Castellani

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill: 2003

Seller ID: 0140647

ISBN: 1565123891

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Best Of Men

By: Claire Letemendia

Price: $7.99

Publisher: M&S: 2009

Seller ID: 0096419

ISBN: 0771052707

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very good

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Josefina's Sin

By: Claudia H Long

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Atria: 2011

Seller ID: 0108698

ISBN: 145161067X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very good

A thrilling and passionate debut about a sheltered landowner's wife whose life is turned upside down when she visits the royal court in seventeenth-century Mexico.

When Josefina accepts an invitation from the Marquessa to come stay and socialize with the intellectual and cultural elite in her royal court, she is overwhelmed by the Court's complicated world. She finds herself having to fight off aggressive advances from the Marquessa's husband, but is ultimately unable to stay true to her marriage vows when she becomes involved in a secret affair with the local bishop that leaves her...
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Category: Historical Fiction