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  Awakening

  by S. J. Bolton

  Clara Benning, a veterinary surgeon in charge of a wildlife hospital in a small English village, is young and intelligent, but nearly a recluse. Disfigured by a childhood accident, she generally prefers the company of animals to people. But when a local man dies following a supposed snakebite, Clara’s expertise is needed. She’s chilled to learn that the victim’s postmortem shows a higher concentration of venom... (more)
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  Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English

  by Natasha Solomons

  (Originally published in the UK as "Mr. Rosenblum's List") Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. Through study and application he intends to become a Very English Gentleman. Jack is compiling a list, a comprehensive guide to the manners, customs and habits of this country. He knows that marmalade must be bought from Fortnum & Mason, he’s memorised the entire British monarchy... (more)
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  The Rose Prince

  by Bethany Dean

  "The rescuer needs rescuing if you think that you can."When Jayne finds a rose, it reveals a horrible prophecy about a cursed prince which forces her into a world of witches, talking toads and apocalyptic horsemen. Armed with a host of bizarre characters, an axe called Alan and her own Common Sense, forsaking the possibility that she may not be loved in return, Jayne is faced with a question she never... (more)
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  Bride Valley

  by C.J. Bailey

  The book describes the archaelogy and history of the parishes in the valley of the river Bride in south-west Dorset: Littlebredy, Long Bredy, Litton Cheney, Chilcombe, Puncknowle, Swyre, Shipton Gorge and Burton Bradstock; and of the deserted mediaevel settlements of Kingston Russel, Sturthill, Bexington and Ashley.
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  Tess of the D'Urbervilles

  by Thomas Hardy

  Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim, Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty, while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned upon its publication... (more)
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  Sense and Sensibility

  by Jane Austen

  'Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security.' Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems, the hypocrisy and the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. "Sense and Sensibility" is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two... (more)
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  Adam Dalgliesh: Book 5

  The Black Tower

  by P. D. James

  Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley is dead. Is it merely his own brush with mortality that causes Dalgliesh to sense the shadow of death about to fall once more? "Splendid, macabre," wrote the London Sunday Telegraph. "The Black Tower is a masterpiece," the London Sunday Times concurred.
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  Great Leaders

  Queen Elizabeth I

  by Betka Zamoyska

  "How haps it? Yesterday my Lady Princess, today but my Lady Elizabeth," two-year-old Elizabeth is said to have remarked after her mother, Ann Boleyn, was beheaded and the little girl was declared illegitimate. She was thirteen-and-a-half when her father, King Henry VIII, died, and by then she was well skilled in the art of survival. She was twenty-five on her succession to the throne and determined to demonstrate... (more)
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  Adam Dalgliesh: Book 14

  The Private Patient

  by P. D. James

  Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, scheduled to have a disfiguring and long-standing facial scar removed, she had every expectation of a successful operation and a pleasant week recuperating. Two days later she was dead, the... (more)