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The Crimson Petal and the White

 

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When the Lion Feeds

by Wilbur Smith

Sean Courtney goes to South Africa in the late 19th century to begin farming.
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Dirty White Boys

by Stephen Hunter

They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary--three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them.... Lamar Pye is prince of …
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Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots …
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The Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett

"Original hardcover edition published by William Morrow and Company Inc.; previously published in a Plume edition"--T.p. verso.
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World Without End

by Ken Follett

#1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in …
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Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of …
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The Meaning of Night: A Confession

by Michael Cox

The atmosphere of Bleak House, the sensuous thrill of Perfume, and the mystery of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell all combine in a story of …
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Lonesome Dove

by Larry McMurtry

Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with …
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Kane and Abel

by Jeffrey Archer

William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless polish immigrant-born on the same day near the …
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The Girl Next Door

by Jack Ketchum

Special Leisure movie tie-in edition. A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel …
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As meat loves salt

 

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Aztec

by Gary Jennings

The epic tale of an Aztec survivor of the Spanish conquest and his times as a warrior, scribe, travelling merchant, confidant of Motecuhzoma II, and …
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Forever Amber

by Kathleen Winsor

The adventures of Amber St. Clare, the willful and beautiful illegitimate daughter of noble parents who was raised on a farm by people she knew …
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Beach Music

 

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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

Ignatius Reilly, the hero, is a grotesque Gargantua, in violent revolt against the entire 20th century and what he takes to be the manifold excesses …
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The Heaven Tree Trilogy

by Edith Pargeter

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