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With her dying breath, Mary of Guise entrusts a silver casket containing explosive secret papers to the young Scottish heiress, Rinette Leslie. She makes Rinette promise to keep the casket hidden and only to give it to Mary, Queen of Scots, on her way home from France to ascend the throne.

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Edward the Second's first act on coming to the throne is to recall Piers Gaveston from exile, and the new king's devotion to the shrewd and avaricious young man soon becomes a scandal.

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Vreeland's third novel focuses on the courageous Canadian painter Emily Carr, who blazed a path for modern women by overcoming the confines of Victorian culture. Carr traveled through native villages and wilderness of British Columbia in the early 1900s, often alone, on a quest to paint totem poles and other artifacts before the indigenous traditions died out and the poles were destroyed or sold.

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A captivating, rich historical novel set in eighteenth-century London

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In 1947, Elisabeth Mander's German nephew comes to stay: Stefan Landau, her dead sister's teenage son, whom she hates and loves before she's even set eyes on him. Orphaned by the war and traumatised by the last, vicious battles of the Hitler Youth, Stefan brings with him to England only a few meagre possessions.

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In its truest sense, The Ghost of Put-In-Bay is a story of redemption. "Old Joe" Stachowiak, an alcoholic dying of cancer, returns to his favorite place on earth to live out his final days. As the summer goes by, he meets and gradually befriends some workers on the island who help him to rediscover the meaning in his life.

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Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Auschwitz. Jakb Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks.

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Entrancing, compelling, and beautifully writtena fabulous novel, bursting with integrity and authenticity, vividly eboking the court of Elizabeth II feel I know the characters and was mesmerised by their story. This is the historical novel as literary fiction and damned good literary fiction at that. Alison Weir

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The final volume in Vidal's celebrated and bestselling series of "American Chronicle" novels is a unique pageant of the American experience from the U.S. entry in World War II to the end of the Korean War. A "New York Times" Notable Book.

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Opening in 1939, this novel spans 50 years and depicts the central character's life as a political emigre in a run down part of London. He is invited to return to his home city by the renascent nationalist movement where he learns the price of remaining an "innocent" in history.

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The news of Henry III's death reached his son Edward on the long road home from the Holy Land.

Through all the years of his reign, through stark personal tragedy and chill forebodings as his son grew into a weak, corrupted price, Edward I strove to weld a nation united from England, Scotland and Wales.

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If there ever was a time when the Empire required a male heir it was now.

In the opulent royal palace of Murat III, on the shores of Constantinople, midwife Hannah Levi is charged with ensuring the Sultans harem provides him with a male heir.

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From the award-winning author of the Native American classic "Fools Crow", a richly crafted novel of cultural crossing that is a triumph of historical imagination. Charging Elk, an Oglala Sioux, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and journeys from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the back streets of 19th-century Marseille.

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The voices of three generations of Appalachian mountain folk recount their family's saga of settling Kentucky - from the impenetrable wilderness of 1771, through the 1816 building of roads, to the creation of a turnpike over the mountains in 1845.

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On a stormy night in 1813, a doctor is called to the aid of two prostitutes in childbirth.

As he tells the story of Hercules' bizarre and colourful life, which leads him from the bordello of his birth to a travelling freak show and then a Jesuit monastery and an asylum, Vallgren paints a magical picture of nineteenth-century Europe.

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An atmospheric debut about a woman who discovers the century-old remains of a murder victim on her family's Scottish estate plunging her into an investigation of its mysterious former occupants.

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The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but winds up disgraced and discarded.

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A charming, whip-smart and funny tale, full of heart and spirit, of one young woman's coming of age both on and off the stage in seventeenth-century England.

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"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Shaye Arehart Books"--T.p. verso.