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Enthusiastically embraced by critics, readers, and booksellers across the country, this powerful novel of obsession and betrayal is now available in paperback. When a photographer researches a legendary crime that took place a century earlier, she immerses herself in the details of the case--and finds herself caught in the grip of an uncontrollable emotion.

East Lynne (Broadview Literary Texts)

by Henry Wood

East Lynne is the story of Lady Isabel Carlyle, beautiful, refined, and young, who leaves her respectable husband and her infant children to elope with a suitor. Bearing their illegitimate child after he has deserted her, she then returns in disguise to become a governess in the household of her husband and his new wife. The runaway bestseller of the 1860s, East Lynne brought Wood success, celebrity, and... (more)

Mrs. Jeffries and the Best Laid Plans

by Emily Brightwell

A friendless old miser, banker Lawrence Boyd, is found dead at home. Called to the scene, Inspector Witherspoon is lucky to have Mrs. Jeffries's help-since the list of suspects includes just about everyone Boyd's ever met.

Playing Period Plays

by Lyn Oxenford

Mrs. Jeffries Pleads Her Case (Victorian Mysteries)

Mrs. Jeffries Pleads Her Case (Victorian Mysteries)

by Emily Brightwell

When a magistrate rules Harlan Westover's death a suicide, something smells fishy. Amidst a sea of unanswered questions, the clever Mrs. Jeffries wants to get to the bottom of it-and make sure someone doesn't stage another "suicide"...

Mrs. Jeffries Holds the Trump

by Emily Brightwell

Mrs. Jeffries must swim upstream to catch a killer. Successful local Michael Provost had no enemies, yet he was found dead off the Chelsea Vestry Wharf. With the help of her staff, Mrs. Jeffries dives into an investigation that leads to an earlier crime—and even more questions.

THE ART OF CEZANNEPaul) Nathaniel Harris Cezanne

THE ART OF CEZANNE

by Paul) Nathaniel Harris Cezanne

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes “the Golden Dustman.” Charles Dickens’s last complete... (more)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only 'repentance, justice and mercy' will prevent... (more)

The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

THE HISTORIAN A Novel by Elizabeth Kostova. Stated 1st Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Little, Brown & Co. 2005.

The Grand Ellipse

by Paula Volsky

Paula Volsky, author of The White Tribunal , returns with a spectacular saga of adventure and intrigue, romance and rebellion — beginning with a wondrous discovery that could forever alter the fate of the free world.... In the modern, civilized republic of Vonahr, the need for magic seems a thing of the past. But soon the Vonahrish will find that magic is their only hope — for an imperialistic race of fanatics,... (more)

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Matthew Sweet.Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue.

The Mayor of CastorbridgeThomas Hardy

The Mayor of Castorbridge

by Thomas Hardy

Important work of Thomas Haedy written in 1886

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings , by Washington Irving , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from... (more)

The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy: Book 3

In the Coils of the Snake

by Clare B. Dunkle

Clare Dunkle’s acclaimed fantasy trilogy— now available in paperback For thousands of years, young women have been vanishing from Hallow Hill, never to be seen again. Now Kate and Emily have moved there with no idea of the land’s dreadful heritage—until Marak decides to tell them himself. Marak is a powerful magician who claims to be the goblin king, and he has very specific plans for the two new girls who... (more)

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The Weight of Water

by Anita Shreve

East Lynne (Broadview Literary Texts)

by Henry Wood

Mrs. Jeffries and the Best Laid Plans

by Emily Brightwell

Playing Period Plays

by Lyn Oxenford

Mrs. Jeffries Pleads Her Case (Victorian Mysteries)

by Emily Brightwell

Mrs. Jeffries Holds the Trump

by Emily Brightwell

THE ART OF CEZANNE

by Paul) Nathaniel Harris Cezanne

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

The Grand Ellipse

by Paula Volsky

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

The Mayor of Castorbridge

by Thomas Hardy

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Washington Irving

In the Coils of the Snake

by Clare B. Dunkle