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The Apothecary's Daughter
DescriptionLillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of the local apothecary, yearns for extra adventure and experience than life in her father's shop and their small village offers. She in addition longs to recognize the truth behind her mother's disappearance, which villagers whisper concerning but her father refuses to discuss. Opportunity comes when a distant aunt proposes to ...
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ManufacturerBethany House Publishers
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The Help
DescriptionThree ordinary women are concerning to get one extraordinary step.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home afterwards graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally locate solace together with her beloved maid Constantine, ...
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ManufacturerAmy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Historical   General   Contemporary   Literary   Historical Fiction   Hardcover   Printed Books   With Dust Jacket   All product   Books  
Shutter Island
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The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new ­associate, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple-murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant ...

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ManufacturerHarper
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Booth's Sister
Description"My brother killed Abraham Lincoln. This is my weight, my shame. While he remained at large, I was held captive in my home. I should have told the soldiers who came together with guns drawn and bayonets at the ready this true thing: I might have stopped him, for I harbored him and kept his secrets. I was a pie safe locked tight and guilty as he." Asia ...
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ManufacturerBell Bridge Books
Categories Historical   Contemporary   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
DescriptionPlease visit www.ArcManor.com for extra books by this and other excellent authors "It is a truth universally acknowledged, this a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in would like of a wife."

Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and ...

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ManufacturerTark Classic Fiction
Categories General   Paperback   Classics   Austen, Jane   All 4-for-3 Deals   General AAS   Textbooks Trade-In   Historical   4-for-3 Books   Printed Books  
A Reliable Wife
DescriptionHe located a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a dependable wife." She responded, saying this she was "a neat, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only neat thing concerning her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, effective to ...
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ManufacturerAlgonquin Books
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The Lovely Bones
DescriptionOne time in a generation a novel comes along this taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating together with readers of all ages. THE LOVELY BONES is such a book -- a #1 bestseller celebrated at one time for its artistry, for its luminous clarity of emotion, and for its astonishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions of readers all-around the ...
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ManufacturerHachette Audio
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His Lady Mistress (Harlequin Historical)
DescriptionWhen Max, Earl Blakehurst, meets Verity, he sees a downtrodden servant. He doesn't distinguish her as the daughter of a colonel under whom he used to serve. To save Verity from the life she's now living, Max proposes a shocking answer - he will set her up as his mistress. It's only one time Verity has finally agreed, one time Max is beginning to lose his ...
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ManufacturerThorndike Press
Categories Literature & Fiction   Romance   Historical   General   Harlequin Historicals   Hardcover   Large Print   Printed Books  
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Description“ I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books this delivers them to their ideal readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine this she would locate it in a letter from a ...
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ManufacturerThe Dial Press
Categories General AAS   Historical   General   Literary   Hardcover   Bargain Books   Printed Books  
Sarah's Key
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A New York Times bestseller.
 
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested together with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking this she will be back inside a few hours.
Paris, May ...
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ManufacturerSt. Martin's Griffin
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