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Fiction about the conquistador experience in the New World . . . can't possibly get better than Allende's treatment of the subject in her latest ... More

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This vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its ... More

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With fifteen-century Spain rent with intrigue and threatened by civil war, Isabella became the pawn of her ambitious, half-crazed mother and a ... More

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Includes a reader's guide and an excerpt from Days of splendor, days of sorrow: a novel of Marie Antoinette.

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The Director is Ingmar Bergman; the time is 1961; and the setting is the shooting of "Winter Light," a film about how his life would have been, had ... More

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"Breathe the Sky" is a fresh and provocative portrait of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart, whose courage and charisma have dazzled millions.

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In 1906, with a freshly minted Ph.D. in Physics in hand, Lise Meitner faces a future with no prospects, but undeterred by the rampant sexism of the ... More

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The story of Queen Isabella, who sought revenge on her husband Edward II, and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer, who masterminded the invasion that ... More

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A scholarship to the czar's medical school was fifteen-year-old Alexander Kowal's escape from life as a peasant, farming the land of his ancestors. ... More

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Memories of an Eastern Sky is an intriguing original fiction based on a true story that chronicles the extraordinary and disturbing life experiences ... More

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Prudenza, an innocent convent-educated adolescent, the trophy bride of a silk merchant - subjected to increasing cruelty and harsh treatment at his ... More

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No Paved Road To Freedom is a gripping and emotional story that humanizes the impact of communist occupation in Romania after World War II. It is ... More

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This is the story of one of the most cited yet lesser known Tlatoanis of the pre-Hispanic era. Antonio Guadarrama recreates the life-threatening and ... More

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Heidish presents a brilliant novel about a woman achiever, overcomer, and heroine whose charge was "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the ... More

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In 1866, Samuel L. Clemens was "lost" in Hawai'i. On assignment to the Sandwich Islands, the journalist who would become Mark Twain suddenly stopped ... More

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This is a story about the Peacock family, a family as old as Chicago. Born in 1837, the city and family grew side by side, undergoing tremendous ... More

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"Kivuli cha Sakawa," (Sakawa's Ghost) written in Kiswahili, chronicles one of Africa's legendary heroes who was at the forefront in the battle ... More

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In the year 1399, Welsh nobleman Owain Glyndwr is living out a peaceful gentleman's life in the Dee Valley of Wales with his wife Margaret and their ... More

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From a pretty tall fish tale (of Moby Dick proportions) to a steamboat race down the mighty Mississippi, No Sweat serves up a delectable course of ... More

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Set in the turbulent Middle East, The Third Temple is a suspenseful chronicle of the lives of an aviation family, seen through the eyes of several ... More

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'So if I was on the edge of reason, who was to blame? I for not disciplining my boisterous thoughts, or my husband for pushing me beyond the limits ... More

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Penned in 1929, this autobiographical novel narrates the experiences of a young poet from Oxford vacationing in Germany. Addressing themes such as ... More

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