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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Mary Ann Shaffer
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
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Something Blue
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Emily Giffin
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Something Borrowed" comes a novel that shows how someone with a "perfect life" can lose it all--and then find everything.
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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Audrey Niffenegger
The author of the phenomenally successful novel "The Time Traveler's Wife" returns with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second book set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.
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Lord John and the Private Matter
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Diana Gabaldon
In this historical novel Lord John Grey is shocked to discover that the man engaged to his beloved niece might have an incurable venereal disease. While investigating the man's past, Lord John is also called upon by the crown to investigate the murder of a soldier who may have been a spy. The character of Lord John Grey first appeared in Diana ...
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Old Filth
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Jane Gardam
Old Filth was a 'child of the raj'. His earliest memories are of his amah, a teenage Malay girl - not of his mother who is dead, nor his father who can't cope. But very soon he is torn away from the only person who loves him, and sent to be educated at 'Home', where he is boarded out with strangers...What is the terrible secret that the children ...
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V for Vendetta
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Alan Moore, David Lloyd (Illustrator)
This dark and controversial graphic novel, which features a terrorist as hero (or anti-hero, depending on one's point of view) inspired a 2005 film starring Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman. After a nuclear war devastates the world, England dissolves into chaos, making it ripe for a fascist takeover a few years later. But one man dares to defy the ...
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When Gods Die
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C S Harris
The young wife of an aging marquis is found murdered and wearing a necklace said to have been worn by Druid priestesses--that is, until it was lost with its last owner, Sebastian St. Cyrs mother. Now Sebastian is lured into a dangerous investigation of the marchionesss death--and his mothers uncertain fate.
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Everlasting
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Kathleen E Woodiwiss
The reigning queen of historical romance, Kathleen offers her loyal audience an engrossing, medieval love story that is sure to delight them. Abrielle, a stunningly beautiful young lady dreads the marriage her stepfather has arranged. Desmond is an oafish, grotesque, yet wealthy squire and her greedy stepfather can't see past his wealth. Luckily, ...
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Oliver Twist
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Charles Dickens
Dickens's second novel was a far cry from THE PICKWICK PAPERS, his first. The story of an orphan who flees the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of thieves and prostitutes in London's sleazy underworld, it was a trenchant criticism of England's poor laws. Enacted in the 1830s, these laws provided assistance for the poor only through workhouses ...
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Messenger of Truth
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Jacqueline Winspear
London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a Mayfair gallery, controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nicks twin sister, Georgina isnt convinced, so she seeks out a fellow college graduate, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. Before long the case ...
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Wall and Piece
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Banksy
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and ...
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Slightly Dangerous
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Mary Balogh
This is the final volume in the Bedwyn series, which consists of six Regency-era romances, each dedicated to one of the six noble Bedwyn siblings. The first meeting between the dignified, remote Wulfric Bedwyn, Duke of Bewcastle, and the poor, impetuous widow Christine Derrick, does not go well--she accidentally spills lemonade into his eye as she ...
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Lost
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Gregory Maguire
Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her step-cousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence ...
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Robert Louis Stevenson
In Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmarish, suspenseful, and deeply disturbing novel, Dr. Jekyll experiments with a drug that splits his personality into good and evil elements. Gradually, he loses control of the process and finds himself slipping more and more frequently into the guise of the evil and depraved Hyde. Finally, Hyde is accused of ...
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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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A Prisoner of Birth
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Jeffrey Archer
Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss' daughter, and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public ...
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Romancing Mister Bridgerton
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Julia Quinn
Secretly adoring her best friend's brother from afar, Penelope Featherington feels she knows everything about Colin Bridgerton, called "the most charming man in London" by gossip columnist Lady Whistledown. But when she stumbles upon Colin's deepest secret, she fears she doesn't know him at all.
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I Thee Wed
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Amanda Quick
Emma Greyson is not the world's best lady's companion. Smart, sassy, and beautiful, she is more likely to steal the show than stand demurely in the shadows waiting for her turn to speak or serve. So when the successful--and intuitive--businessman Edison Stokes discovers that someone at a high society gathering is looking for a woman on whom to ...
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Lady Sophias Lover
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Lisa Kleypas
Hoping to snare the unattainable Sir Ross Cannon, Lady Sophia Sydney will do anything--even ruin his reputation to cause a scandal in London. She insinuates herself into his life and even lives in his house. Her presence tempts him beyond all reason. She knows Ross in falling in love with her. But she never counts on falling in love with him.
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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
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Lauren Willig
Eloise Kelly, a smart but slightly fumbling Jimmy Choo-clad American, uncovers the secret history of the Pink Carnation--a tale of espionage, adventure, and romance. And she just might find a hero of her own along the way.
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A Summer to Remember
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Mary Balogh
Viscount Kit Ravensberg and refined Lauren Edgeworth both wish to spend their lives without spouses, so they agree to marry for appearance's sake and then go their separate ways. But Kit falls in love with Lauren, and must convince her to stay married.
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It Happened One Autumn
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Lisa Kleypas
Set in the middle of the 19th century, this historical romance is the second in the Wallflowers series, concerning four young ladies who unite in their determination to find the perfect husband, even though all of them are considered less than perfect potential brides by the cream of English society. In this installment, bullying, somewhat stuffy, ...
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Rick Steves' London
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Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw
Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to visit Lisbon, The Algarve, Salema, Evora, Coimbra, Nazare, and Obidos? With "Rick Steves' Portugal 2006", travelers can experience the best of everything Portugal has to offer - economically and hassle-free. Completely revised and updated, "Rick Steves' Portugal 2006" includes opinionated ...
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Among the Mad
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Jacqueline Winspear
In the thrilling new mystery by the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "An Incomplete Revenge," Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.
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When the Duke Returns
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Eloisa James
The Duchess of Cosway yearns for a man she has never met--her husband--in this fourth installment of the Desperate Duchesses series from a "New York Times"-bestselling author.
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