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1) Vagabonds
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From "a born storyteller," a nineteenth-century British family saga about a woman reunited with her husband, who goes in search of her estranged daughter (Times & Citizen).
1885. Ex-convict Emma Grady has returned to her hometown of Blackburn and been reunited with her lover, Marlow. Now married, with a beautiful home, loving husband and wonderful son, she is still haunted by the past, unable to forget the cruelty of her uncle Caleb Crowther,...
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Ben's whole world changes when his father dies and his brother returns convinced he stands to inherit a small fortune. When Jacob realizes Ben will inherit everything, he is beside himself in rage and commits a terrible deed that threatens to destroy everything Ben and his wife hold dear. Some descriptions of sex. 2002.
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When Sophie's life-long friend Riba faces the challenge of caring for her gravely ill daughter, Riba pins all of her hopes on alternative methods of treatment. Sophie is torn between her loyalty to Riba, and her fears that Zelda will not get the help she needs. To complicate matters more, Sophie and Riba's husband find themselves drawn to eachother. Time is running out for everyone. 2002.
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Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives, a subject of enduring fascination.
The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended.
But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's...
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The scandalous, bohemian Garman sisters were famous for their passion for the arts, defiance of convention, and the power to turn heads and break hearts. Kathleen, an artist's model and aspiring pianist, was the lover of sculptor Jacob Epstein; Mary married poet Roy Campbell; and Lorna became the lover of poet Laurie Lee and of painter Lucian Freud. The sisters sidelined their own artistic talents, material comforts - even their own children - to...
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