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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
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Jeannette Walls
Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did. So begins the story of Lily Casey. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony to get to her post. She learned to drive a car, fly a plane, and with her husband, managed a vast ranch in ...
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The White Queen
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Philippa Gregory
The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Other Boleyn Girl" presents the first book in a new series set amidst the tumult and intrigue of England's passionate family feud, The War of the Roses.
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Homer & Langley
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E L Doctorow
From "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate" to "The Book of Daniel," Doctorow's novels comprise one of the most substantive achievements of modern American fiction. With "Homer & Langley," the master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.
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The Women
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T Coraghessan Boyle
Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in "The Road to Wellville" and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in "The Inner Circle," Boyle now turns his fictional sights on an even more colorful and outlandish character: Frank Lloyd Wright.
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The Other Queen
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Philippa Gregory
"New York Times"-bestselling author Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines--Mary, Queen of Scots--in a suspense-filled tale of love, ambition, and jealousy.
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Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
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Anne Rice
Anne Rice built her literary reputation through an elaborately constructed Gothic horror mythology of vampires and witches. But now Rice, who has returned to the Catholic faith of her youth, eschews these dark, unholy topics in favor of the sacred, with this first in a series of retellings of the life of Jesus, inspired by the New Testament, ...
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The Secret Scripture
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Sebastian Barry
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told ...
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Loving Frank
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Nancy Horan
"This graceful, assured first novel tells the remarkable story of the long-lived affair between Frank Lloyd Wright, a passionate and impossible figure, and Mamah Cheney, a married woman whom Wright beguiled and led beyond the restraint of convention"--Scott Turow.
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Lincoln
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Gore Vidal
In Gore Vidal's 1988 LINCOLN, the story of the Civil War president is told mostly from John Hay's point of view. The last in Vidal's tetralogy of US political novels (WASHINGTON DC, BURR, and 1876 are the others), LINCOLN provides a nuanced picture of the president universally considered great. Here, Lincoln is very much a calculating politician, ...
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Genghis: Bones of the Hills
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Conn Iggulden
Iggulden's novels are grand historical tales of conquest and vengeance, cruelty and greatness. Now the acclaimed author of "Genghis: Birth of an Empire" delivers a masterful new novel of the mighty Mongol conqueror--as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent.
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Follow the river
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James Alexander Thom
Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary story of a pioneer woman who risked her life to return to ...
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The other Boleyn girl
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Philippa Gregory
Politics and passion are inextricably bound together in this compelling drama. The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society, and what better way to attract the attention of the most powerful in the land than to place their most beautiful young woman at court? But Mary becomes the king's mistress at a time of change. He needs his ...
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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Chuck Palahniuk
In this fictional oral history, Buster RRantS Casey's friends, enemies, admirers, detractors, and relations have their say about him--an evil character who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.
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Drood
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Dan Simmons, M.D
Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens' life, "Drood" explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to his final, unfinished work: "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."
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Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
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Anne Rice
Rice's second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous series on the life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism and concludes with the miracle at Cana. As with "Out of Egypt," this novel is based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.
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The Constant Princess
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Philippa Gregory
Historical novelist Philippa Gregory returns to Tudor England with this tale of the challenge-strewn life of the Spanish Infanta Catalina, who became Queen Katherine, Henry VIII's first wife. Originally married to Henry's older brother, Prince Arthur, she must honor her late husband's memory and deathbed wish by denying the truth of their ...
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Here be dragons
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Sharon Kay Penman
This is an absorbing historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and France, centring on King John of England, younger brother to the brilliant Richard Lionheart, Joanna, his illegitimate but recognised daughter and Llewellyn Ab Iowerth, Prince of Gwynedd, a bitter opponent of English ...
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Unveiled
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Francine Rivers
The first of a five-book series, "Unveiled" is the story of Tamar, one of the unlikely women in the lineage of Jesus. Rivers, the award-winning author of "The Last Sin Eater, " brings the story to life in her trademark style and includes a Bible study and an ancestral chart of Jesus.
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Genghis: Lords of the Bow
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Conn Iggulden
The co-author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Dangerous Book for Boys" delivers a second masterful novel of the mighty Mongol conqueror, following Genghis Khan as he wreaks a path of destruction along China's Great Wall.
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The Lady Elizabeth
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Alison Weir
Following the tremendous success of her first novel, "Innocent Traitor," which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and "New York Times"-bestselling author Weir turns her storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor.
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The autobiography of Henry VIII with notes by his fool, Will Somers.
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Margaret George
In a blend of historical fact and imagination, the author brings to life this most colourful of kings, written from his point of view, but injecting irreverent comments from Will Somers - Henry VIII's confidant and jester.
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Unafraid: Mary
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Francine Rivers
Mary is one of the most revered women in history, but she also was an ordinary woman striving to please God in the same way that women still do today. Readers are sure to gain a new appreciation of the familiar story through Francine's signature style.
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Gods & Kings
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Lynn N Austin
Gods and Kings is the story of King Hezekiah, heir to the throne of King David. When his evil father plots to sacrifice him, Hezekiah's mother, Abijah, searches frantically for a way to save him. But only two men can help her, and neither of them seems trustworthy. In a time and place engulfed by violence, treachery, and infidelity to Yahweh, ...
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Paths of Glory
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Jeffrey Archer
Archer's new epic tells the story of George Mallory, who once told a reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, "because it is there." Not until the last page of Archer's extraordinary novel will readers find out what happened to Mallory.
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Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette
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Sena Jeter Naslund
From the author of "Ahabs Wife" and "Four Spirits" comes her most astonishingwork yet--a portrait of a young queen called Marie Antoinette.
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