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  If Only They Could Talk

  by James Herriot, Christopher Timothy

  When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series "All Creatures Great and Small", this first volume of unforgettable memoirs chronicles James Herriot's first years as a country vet, with the signature storytelling magic that has made him a... (more)
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  Mary Russell: Book 4

  The Moor

  A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

  by Laurie R. King

  Barely has Mary Russell resumed her 1923 studies at Oxford when she is summoned by her partner and husband Sherlock Holmes to the eerie scene of his most celebrated case. But this time, on Dartmoor, there is more to the matter than a phantom hound. Sightings of a spectral coach carrying a long-dead noblewoman over the moonlit moor have heralded a mysterious death, the corpse surrounded by oversize paw prints. ... (more)
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  The Tudors: Book 4

  The Queen's Fool

  by Philippa Gregory

  A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of "Sight," the ability to foresee the future, is... (more)
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  Mary Russell: Book 1

  The Beekeeper's Apprentice

  Or, On the Segregation of the Queen

  by Laurie R. King

  In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own–until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under Holmes’s reluctant... (more)
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  Mary Russell: Book 6

  Justice Hall

  A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

  by Laurie R. King

  Only hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving one murky riddle on the moor, another knocks on their front door...literally. It’s a mystery that begins during the Great War, when Gabriel Hughenfort died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. But it’s not until Holmes and Russell arrive at Justice Hall, a home of unearthly perfection set in a garden modeled on Paradise, that they... (more)
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  The Tea Rose Trilogy: Book 1

  The Tea Rose

  by Jennifer Donnelly

  East London 1888, a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores and dreamers mingle where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here by the whispering waters of the Thames, a bright and defiant young woman dares to dream of a life beyond tumbledown wharves, gaslit alleys, and the grim and crumbling dwellings of the... (more)
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  Gladstone

  A Biography

  by Roy Jenkins

  From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback. William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role... (more)
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  Spycatcher

  The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer

  by Peter Wright

  From Publishers WeeklyThe British government's efforts to block publication of Peter Wright's Spycatcher: Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Agent climaxed in a sensational trial in Australia in 1986 that cast a shadow of disrepute on the British legal system, the Official Secrets Act and the government itself. The author of this engrossing, suspenseful account is the Australian attorney who... (more)
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  The Tudors: Personalities and Practical Politics in Sixteenth Century England

  by Read Conyers

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  Operation Sea Lion

  by Peter Fleming

  In the summer of 1940 the Germans prepared to launch Operation Sea Lion, the invasion of England. The British, barely recovered from Dunkirk, rallied their defenses. Both sides operated in great secrecy and, because the invasion never took place, the dramatic preparations for what would have been one of the watershed battles of history faded from memory. Not, however, before Peter Fleming rescued this... (more)
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  Combined Operations: The Official Story Of The Commandos

  by Louis Mountbatten

  This is an astonishing account of the accomplishments of those picked men from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force who work with U.S. Ranges and others for the United Nations in what is known officially as Combined Operations, or more popularly, the Commandos.
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  The Secret Garden

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Mary is an unhappy orphan forced to live in the home of a wealthy guardian — a busy man who has no time at all for her. But when Mary meets her guardian's mysterious son — and discovers a secret garden hidden on the estate-a startling change begins to come over her. And life for everyone is never quite the same.
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  Hugh and Bess

  by Susan Higginbotham

  "A delightful novel full of chivalry, romance, and real-life terrors." Historical Novels Review Forced to marry Hugh le Despenser, the son and grandson of disgraced traitors, Bess de Montacute, just 13 years old, is appalled at his less-than-desirable past. Meanwhile, Hugh must give up the woman he really loves in order to marry the reluctant Bess. Far apart in age and haunted by the past, can Hugh and Bess... (more)
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  War of the Roses: Book 2

  The Red Queen

  by Philippa Gregory

  Nobody does the Tudors better than Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl), so it should come as no surprise that her latest—the War of the Roses as seen through the eyes of Henry VII's mother —is confident, colorful, convincing, and full of conflict, betrayal, and political maneuvering. Gregory gives readers Margaret Beaufort in her own words, from innocent nine-year-old to conspiring courtier who stops at nothing to see... (more)