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"She was the small-town southern beauty transformed into a Hollywood love goddess. He was the legendary crooner whose voice transfixed the world. They were Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra. Separately they were irresistible; together they were an explosive combination. Ava's star is rising just as Frank's career--and public image as a family man--is taking a hit. Gone are the days of the screaming bobbysoxers and chart-topping hits. Ava, however, finds...
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Nero novels volume 1
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Berkley Books
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"In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman--or child. As a boy, Nero's royal heritage becomes a threat to his very life, first when the mad emperor Caligula tries to drown him, then when his great aunt attempts to secure her own son's inheritance. Faced with shocking acts of treachery, young Nero is dealt a harsh lesson: it is better to be cruel than dead. While Nero idealizes the artistic and athletic principles of...
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St. Martin's Press
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A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her scandalous transformation into a Jazz Age celebrity in the literary party scenes of New York, Paris, and the French Riviera.
84) A king's ransom
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Lionheart comes the dramatic sequel, telling of the last dangerous years of Richard, Couer de Lion's life. This long-anticipated sequel to the national bestseller Lionheart is a vivid and heart-wrenching story of the last event-filled years in the life of Richard, Coeur de Lion. Taken captive by the Holy Roman Emperor while en route home-in violation of the papal decree protecting all crusaders-he was...
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Vagrant Press
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One glimpse of the photo and you realize, for all her smile's shyness, she must've been one tough cookie. But, beneath her iconic resilience, who was Maud Lewis? Against all odds, Maud Lewis rose above these constraints - and this is where you'll find the Maud speaking her mind from beyond the grave, freed of the stigmas of gender, poverty, and disability that marked her life and shaped her art.
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Atria Books
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The son of England's most famous author, Edward Dickens, is sent to Australia to make something of himself--or at least fail out of the public eye--where he works hard to prove to his parents and himself that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness.
88) Freud's mistress
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Published by G. P. Putnams Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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"A historical novel about a French botanist's search for a mysterious woman who escaped from slavery in Senegal"--
Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman's Maram. The key to this mysterious woman's identity is Adanson's unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret...
90) Ninth witness
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A.D. chronicles volume 9
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Tyndale House Publishers
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English
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Two groups of Jewish believers take the dangerous path to Jerusalem--an old woman escorting two young orphans to grant their father's last wish and a rabbi leading his students to Passover and bar mitzvahs.
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In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s. From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and already a famous model and actress, she moved from London to a palace in Marrakesh, with her husband Paul Getty, the famous oil heir. There she presided over a swirling ex-pat scene filled with music, art, free...
92) The chaperone
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"A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"-- Publisher.
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Sisi novels volume 1
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Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
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English
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A fictionalized account of the little-known and tumultuous love story of "Sisi," the Austro-Hungarian Empress and captivating wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, offers a glimpse into the intriguing royal family, shedding new light on the Hapsburg Empire.
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"Rosalind Franklin knows if she just takes one more X-ray picture--one more after thousands--she can unlock the building blocks of life. Never again will she have to listen to her colleagues complain about her, especially Maurice Wilkins who'd rather conspire about genetics with James Watson and Francis Crick than work alongside her. Then it finally happens--the double helix structure of DNA reveals itself to her with perfect clarity. But what happens...
96) Lords of the bow
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Conqueror volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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The second in the bestselling new Conqueror series on Genghis Khan, it is a wonderful, epic story which Conn Iggulden brings brilliantly to life. The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming but finally, triumphantly, Temujin of the Wolves, Genghis Khan, is given the full accolade of the overall leader and their oaths. Now he can begin to meld all the previously warring people into one army, one nation. But the task Genghis...
98) Second touch
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A.D. chronicles volume 2
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Tyndale House Publishers
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English
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In first-century Jerusalem, Peniel, a once blind begger, and the lepers in the Valley of Mak'ob are all looking for Yeshua, who has gone to Galilee, while Caiaphas and Herod are trying to find a way to arrest him.
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