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  Highlander: Book 1

  Beyond the Highland Mist

  by Karen Marie Moning

  He would sell his warrior soul to possess her. . . . An alluring laird... He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart—until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland. Captive in a century not her own, entirely too bold, too... (more)
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  Eagle of the Ninth, The

  by Rosemary Sutcliff

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  Montgomery: Book 7

  The Heiress

  by Jude Deveraux

  Jamie Montgomery, an impoverished Elizabethan knight, is elated when he is assigned to escort Axia, the Lancaster heiress, to the castle of her betrothed. If only she will fall in love with Jamie 00 as Jamie's devoted older sister predicts 00 the family's financial woes will be solved. But Axia, who has spent her life closely guarded by her father's servants, is not the shy, cossetted flower Jamie expects. She's a... (more)
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  The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle

  by Karen L. King

  Lost for more than fifteen hundred years, the Gospel of Mary is the only existing early Christian gospel written in the name of a woman. Karen L. King tells the story of the recovery of this remarkable gospel and offers a new translation. This brief narrative presents a radical interpretation of Jesus' teachings as a path to inner spiritual knowledge. It rejects his suffering and death as a path to eternal life... (more)
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  Meditations (Penguin Classics)

  by A. S. L. Farquharson, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Gregory Hays, R. B. Rutherford, Marcus Aurelius, George Long, Aurelius Marcus, G. M. A. Grube

  A new translation of the philosophical journey that has inspired luminaries from Matthew Arnold to Bill Clinton Written by an intellectual Roman emperor, the Meditations offer a wide range of spiritual reflections developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and the universe. Marcus Aurelius covers topics as diverse as the question of virtue, human rationality, the nature of the gods,... (more)