| In the Time of the Butterflies | Alvaraz, Julia Alveraz | F Alvaraz |
An account of the Mirabel sisters in the last days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.
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| Year of Wonders: a Novel of the Plague | Brooks, Geraldine | F Brooks |
Anna Frith--vicar's maid-- is faced with the loss of her family, the disintegration of her local community, and an illicit love as she confronts the horrors of the plague in 17th century England.
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| The Good Earth | Buck, Pearl S. | F Buck |
The story of an honest Chinese farmer and his wife as they struggle with the sweeping changes of the 20th century.
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| O Pioneers! | Cather, Willa | F Cather |
The daughter of an immigrant farmer finds that devotion to the land sustains her against the suffering on the prairie.
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| Girl with a Pearl Earring | Chevalier, Tracy | F Chevalier |
A poor 17th century girl becomes a model for painter Johannes Vermeer while working as a servant in his home.
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| The Last of the Mohicans | Cooper, James Fenimore | F Cooper |
A man severs all relations with a society he can no longer agree with during the French and Indian War.
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| The Archer’s Tale | Cornwell, Bernard | F Cornwell |
A young archer in King Edward III’s army undertakes a quest for the Holy Grail.
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| The Silver Chalice | Costain, Thomas B. | F Costain |
Recounts the story of Basil, a young silversmith, who is commissioned by the apostle Luke to fashion a holder for the cup Jesus used at the Last Supper.
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| Into the Wilderness | Donati, Sara | F Donati |
An Englishwoman comes to the American frontier and unexpectedly falls in love.
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| Pillars of the Earth | Follett, Ken | F Follett |
Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent cathedral with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.
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| Lieutenant Hornblower | Forester, C.S. | F Forester |
This novel follows the lanky and laconic young man who distinguishes himself in his first independent command.
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| Cold Mountain | Frazier, Charles | F Frazier |
After Inman escapes from a war hospital in 1864 and starts walking to Cold Mountain, Ada struggles to save her mountain farm with the help of Ruby, an illiterate but efficient farmer.
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| The Sweet Trade | Garrett, Elizabeth | F Garrett |
Follows the exploits and adventures of two notorious female pirates--Anne Bonny and Mary Read.
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| The Glass Palace | Ghosh, Amitav | F Ghosh |
Unable to forget the girl he befriended during the British invasion of Burma in 1885, Rajkumar goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forests.
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| Night of the Fox | Higgins, Jack | F Higgins |
Three impostors pose as Germans in German-occupied Jersey after a wounded American soldier, who knows about the impending Normandy invasion, washes onto shore.
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| North and South | Jakes, John | F Jakes |
George Hazard of Pennsylvania and Orry Main of South Carolina meet in 1842 on their way to West Point, and from that time the lives and fortunes of their two families are inextricably linked.
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| Enemy Women | Jiles, Paulette | F Jiles |
The challenges of a young woman during the Civil War.
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| The Golden Tulip | Laker, Rosalind | F Laker |
Set in the heyday of the great 17th-century Dutch artists, The Golden Tulip is a historical romance fraught with political intrigue.
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| A Conspiracy of Paper | Liss, David | F Liss |
An outsider in eighteenth-century London, Jewish pugilist and hired thug Benjamin Weaver prowls the city’s mean streets tracking down debtors and thieves.
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| How Green Was My Valley | Llewellyn, Richard | F Llewelly |
A man looks back on his childhood in a small Welsh mining town.
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| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Orczy, Baroness | F Orczy |
Sir Percy Blakeney leads titled Englishmen in assisting the escape of royalty threatened during the terrors of the French Revolution.
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| The Killer Angels | Shaara, Michael | F Shaara |
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought for two dreams – freedom and a way of life.
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| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Shaffer, Mary Ann | F Shaffer |
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about a special book club born as an alibi during German occupation.
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| The Jungle | Sinclair, Upton | F Sinclair |
A vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory.
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| An Untamed Land | Snelling, Lauraine | F Snelling |
The Bjorklund family comes through New York from Norway to North Dakota, where they struggle to create a farm through a difficult first winter.
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| The Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | F Steinbeck |
A story about American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the 1930s.
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| The Agony and the Ecstasy: a novel of Michelangelo | Stone, Irving | F Stone |
An engrossing tale of Michelangelo--his work in the 15th and early 16th centuries for the pope and others, & the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
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| Follow the River | Thom, James Alexander | F Thom |
After being captured in an Indian raid in 1755, Mary Draper Ingles follows the Ohio River for 1,000 miles to return home to Virginia by herself.
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| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Twain, Mark | F Twain |
The adventures of a young boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi on a raft.
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| 1876: A Novel | Vidal, Gore | F Vidal |
Charles Schuyler, journalist, concentrates on the scandals in Washington D.C. during the centennial year.
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| The Book Thief | Zusak, Markus | F Zusak |
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family, the Jewish man they are hiding and their neighbors.
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| The Spice Box | Temple, Lou Jane | MYSTERY Temple |
Fleeing the Irish potato famine to build a new life in New York City, Bridget takes a job as a cook for the wealthy, powerful Isaac Gold, but her first day ends in tragedy when she stumbles upon the body of her employer's youngest son.
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