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Tags: 1950-1969

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  A Case of Need

  by Michael Crichton, Jeffery Hudson

  A Case of Need is Michael Crichton's award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare-and explode-when a surgical operation tragically ends in death, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic oath? Or cold-blooded murder?
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  Endless Night

  by Agatha Christie

  Michael Rogers' dream is to have a wonderful house in the country-and a beautiful woman he can live 'happy ever after' with. With marriage to gorgeous and fabulously wealthy Ellie, the purchase of Gipsy's Acre and the opportunity to build his wonderful house, the dream seemingly turns to reality for Michael. But does Gipsy's Acre harbour a dark past?
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  Another View

  by Rosamunde Pilcher

  When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people's lives and loves, tenderly laid open for... (more)
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  Mount Vernon Love Story

  A Novel of George and Martha Washington

  by Mary Higgins Clark

  Also published as: Aspire to the Heavens In Mount Vernon Love Story -- famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark's long-out-of-print first novel -- the bestselling author reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the "father of our country" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining. Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical... (more)
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  If Morning Ever Comes

  by Anne Tyler

  "A triumph." HARPERS Ben Joe Hawkes is a worrier. Raised by his mother, grandmother, and a flock of busy sisters, he's always felt the outsider. When he learns that one of his sisters has left her husband, he heads for home and back into the confusion of childhood memories and unforseen love.... From the Paperback edition.
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  Gift from the Sea

  by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  In time for the holiday season--in an appropriate and enticing new format, and with a striking new jacket--a spectacular hardcover reissue of one of the most beloved books of our time. Since it was first published in 1955, Gift from the Sea has enlightened and offered solace to readers on subjects from love and marriage to peace and contentment.
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  Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest

  by Ann McGovern

  Ten adventures of the legendary outlaw who, with his band, vowed to bring woe to both the greedy rich and those without mercy, and to help the innocent and good-hearted.
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  Peyton Place

  by Grace Metalious

  When Grace Metalious's debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in 1956, it quickly soared to the top of the bestseller lists. A landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, Peyton Place spawned a successful feature film and a long-running television series-the first prime-time soap opera. Contemporary readers of Peyton Place will be... (more)
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  Rosemary's Baby: Book 1

  Rosemary's Baby

  by Ira Levin

  A young couple who move into a Manhattan apartment are approached by their elderly neighbors, who want to be their friends.
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  The Ivy Tree

  by Mary Stewart

  Mary Grey has nothing to look forward to except a future as colorless as her name. So if she looks, walks, and smiles so much like the glamorous missing heiress Annabel Winslow, why not be her for a little while? Because fairy tales do not come true...and someone wants Annabel to stay missing.
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  Irving Stone: Biographical Novels

  The President's Lady

  A Novel about Rachel and Andrew Jackson

  by Irving Stone

  In this acclaimed biographical novel, Irving Stone brings to life the tender and poignant love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson. "Beyond any doubt one of the great romances of all time." -- The Saturday Review of Literature
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  Mary Anne

  by Daphne du Maurier

  Master storyteller Daphne du Maurier evokes the rise and fall of one of her most unforgettable characters.An ambitious, stunning, and seductive young woman, Mary Anne finds the single most rewarding way to rise above her miserable cockney world: she will become the mistress to a royal duke. In doing so, she provokes a scandal that rocks Regency England. Mary Anne glitters with sex, scandal, corruption,... (more)
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  My Cousin Rachel

  by Daphne du Maurier

  Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries - and there he dies suddenly. In almost no time at all, the new widow -... (more)
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  Call in the Night

  by Susan Howatch

  “Please come, Claire. I’ m in such terrible trouble… ” From half way around the world, American Clare Sullivan obeys a desperate summons from her glamorous sister Gina and flies to Paris. But when she arrives, there’s no sign of Gina. Her sister’s trail leads Claire to London and to Garth Cooper, a boyfriend of Gina’s, who seems to have a secret to hide. As time passes, Claire begins to understand that Gina’s... (more)
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  A Summer Bird-cage

  by Margaret Drabble

  Two sisters: beautiful, sophisticated Louise and attractive, witty and intelligent Sarah who has always felt left behind. Then Louise marries the wealthy but unappealing novelist Stephen Halifax, and Sarah, recently graduated from Oxford, is thrown back into family affairs. As Louise enters a high-profile world of glamour, parties and gossip columns, Sarah, drifting in London with her degree and new-found freedom,... (more)
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  Tudor Saga: Book 10

  The Spanish Bridegroom

  by Jean Plaidy

  Power-hungry monarch, cold-blooded murderer, obsessive monster - who could love such a man? Set against the glittering courts of sixteenth-century Europe, the Spain of the dreaded Inquisition, and the tortured England of Bloody Mary, For a Queen's Love is the story of Philip II of Spain - and of the women who loved him as a husband and father. Philip was a dark and troubled man, who, like many royals, had been... (more)
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  Bride of Moat House (Prev. Published as 'No Question of Murder')

  by Norah Lofts

  Originally published under the nom de plume Peter Curtis and under the titles Dead March in Three Keys (London: Davis, 1940) and No Question of Murder (New York: Doubleday, 1959).
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  Suffolk House: Book 3

  The House at Sunset

  by Norah Lofts

  Spanning a period from the eighteenth century to the mid 1950s, this is the impressive concluding volume in Norah Lofts' 'House' trilogy. A period in history is brought alive through the perspectives of seven characters who tell the story. Felicity Hatton's life in 1740s London and Mary Crisp's experience of the First World War are two of the tales.
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  The Deadly Gift

  by Norah Lofts

  Original Title: Afternoon of an Autocrat Pyramid Books Publishing
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  To the Devil a Daughter

  by Dennis Wheatley

  With An Introduction by Anthony Lejeune Why did the solitary girl leave her rented house on the French Riviera only for short walks at night? Why was she so frightened? Why did animals shrink away from her? The girl herself didn't know, and was certainly not aware of the terrible appointment which had been made for her long ago and was now drawing close. Molly Fountain, the tough-minded Englishwoman... (more)