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The outlaw who became a folk hero for her courage and her daring escape by sea: "An epic story of love and liberty" (Elizabeth Cobbs, bestselling author of The Tubman Command) Jenny Gwyn is a survivor. Faced with destitution after the death of her father, she becomes a highwaywoman to support her impoverished family. One fatal mistake leads to her arrest, and the king's justice demands her death. But rather than beg for mercy, Jenny condemns t...

A modern retelling of The Golden Bowl by Henry James for fans of Sally Rooney and Kate Atkinson. From their grand mansion on the Upper East Side to their magical private island in Long Island Sound, everything points to the Woodford family as being perfect and idyllic. Why, then, is there such tension in the air? Enter Federico, a penniless Italian prince who is about to marry Emily Woodford, the only child of the family's widowed patriarch, H...

A spellbinding novel of the hunter and the hunted, defiance and survival, for fans of Jennifer McMahon and Simone St. James In a climate-ravaged town in the remote Utah desert, a house remodels itself, a cemetery is rearranged, and an ancient valley is suddenly haunted by a glimmering visitor. Called in to "clean" the unwanted dead, ghost hunter Philip Pratt finds himself in territory at once familiar and unfamiliar, stalking the spirit of Emm...

The nearest thing to an autobiography Irving has written . . . worth saving and savoring."-Seattle Times Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving's candid memoir of his twin careers in writing and wrestling. The award-winning author of best-selling novels from The World According to Garp to In One Person and Avenue of Mysteries, Irving began writing when he was fourteen, t...

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For fans of Hillary Mantel, Maggie O'Farrell, and Emma Donoghue, a devastating novel of love, intrigue, and community in a time of sickness that remade the world.Fourteenth-century Europe. The Black Death has killed half the known world, andin an isolated convent, a small group of nuns spends their days in work, austerity, and devotion, chanting the hours of the liturgy. But their community is threatened. Rumors of heresy and a scandalous Book...

Now in paperback, compelling historical fiction by the author of The Promise: "Part love story, part religious explication, part mystery . . . A journey you won't forget."-Houston ChronicleThe Glovemaker was a finalist for the Western Writers of America's 2020 Spur Awards for Historical Novel and for the 2019 Association for Mormon Letters Awards for Novel. In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seve...

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Now in paperback-bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly tacit...

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Imagine having the power and wisdom to embrace your life's learned lessons. What better way to make your imagination a reality than through music? From this 90-day devotional, you will learn to engage your interest and love for music while embracing the love of God in your life and enhancing your spiritual journey. This book inhabits daily illustrations of four commandments inviting you to take ownership of your own love life, rectify your own...

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For Readers of Paul Kalanithi's​ When Breath Becomes Air, an Intensive Care Doctor Reveals How Everyday Emotions Are Taken to Extremes in the ICU Dr. Aoife Abbey takes us beyond the medical perspective to see the humanity at work inside our hospitals through the eyes of doctors and nurses as they witness and experience the full spectrum of human emotion with every shift. It is their responsibility to mitigate the grief of a family in mourning,...

For Fans of Alexander Chee's best-selling novel, The Queen of the Night and opera fans everywhere. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of 19th century Europe, An Unofficial Marriage dramatizes the equally tumultuous real-life love affair of two great artists-the famous Russian author, Ivan Turgenev, and the celebrated French opera singer, Pauline Viardot. From the moment he encounters her on the St. Petersburg stage, Ivan falls c...

Trapped in the haunted corridors of his own mind, Arjen Staufen struggles to make sense of a future, dystopian world that's been devastatingly altered by his sinful actions centuries in the past.Forty years after the Devil seized his body and soul, Arjen is mysteriously freed from demonic possession only to find himself ruling the medieval world as god-emperor, both living deity of a global religion and lord over all earthly kingdoms. Arjen's ...

¿¿Seventeen-year-old Arjen Staufen is only trying to outlast a freezing Alaskan winter when he receives a vague, demanding letter from eight centuries prior. It's from William. He's in trouble, and he needs Arjen's help. But going back in time again means nothing less than a detour through hell.Reunited with the lovely demoness Anarkyra, Arjen winds up in Rome, AD 1277 - just in time for the assassination of the pope, which sparks an unholy in...

Now available again, the first book in Robin Maxwell's acclaimed Elizabethan Quartet: "Wonderfully juicy . . . Maxwell brings all of bloody Tudor England vividly to life" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). One was queen for a thousand days, one for over forty years. Both were passionate, headstrong women, loved and hated by Henry VIII. Yet until the discovery of the secret diary, Anne Boleyn and her daughter, Elizabeth I, had never really me...

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