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  Wuthering Heights

  by Emily Brontë

  There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.
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  Canon of Sherlock Holmes: Book 5

  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  What's the real truth behind the legend of the hound of the Baskervilles? Is it really a devil-beast with crushing teeth and supernatural strength that's haunting the lonely moors? And also understand the human plot behind the hound of the Baskervilles...
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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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  Blacklands

  by Belinda Bauer

  EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO , Billy Peters disappeared. Everyone in town believes Billy was murdered—after all, serial killer Arnold Avery later admitted killing six other children and burying them on the same desolate moor that surrounds their small English village. Only Billy’s mother is convinced he is alive. She still stands lonely guard at the front window of her home, waiting for her son to return, while her... (more)
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  Jane Eyre

  by Charlotte Brontë

  Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. However, when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret... (more)
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  La mano de Fátima

  by Ildefonso Falcones

  La apasionante historia de un joven atrapado entre dos religiones y dos amores, en busca de su libertad y la de su pueblo España, segunda mitad del siglo XVI: hace más de medio siglo que ha desaparecido el último reino musulmán de la península, el de Granada. Los musulmanes, cuya presencia tenía ochocientos años de antigüedad, se ven convertidos en una minoría oprimida económicamente y humillada en sus... (more)
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  The Thirteenth Tale

  by Diane Setterfield

  All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist.The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her... (more)
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  Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World

  by Stephen O'Shea

  From the sixth through the sixteenth centuries, the faiths of Islam and Christianity contended for primacy in the Mediterranean world. At times acrimonious, at other times harmonious, the encounter between the two creeds in the Middle Ages provides a backdrop to much of what informs, and misinforms, public opinion on present-day conflicts. Recounting seven major battles encircling the Mediterranean—Yarmuk,... (more)
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  Emily's Ghost

  A Novel of the Brontë Sisters

  by Denise Giardina

  A lustrous, beautifully written reimagining of the Brontë family—and of Emily Brontë’s passionate engagement with life. Enigmatic, intelligent, and fiercely independent, Emily Brontë refuses to bow to the conventions of her day: she is distrustful of marriage, prefers freedom above all else, and walks alone at night on the moors above the isolated rural village of Haworth. But Emily’s life, along with the... (more)
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  Othello

  by William Shakespeare

  Othello is duped by the evil Iago into thinking that his wife Desdemona has been unfaithful. This leads to tragic consequences.
• Charlotte and Emily Bronte: The Complete Novels, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heighs , Shirley, Villette and the Professor

  

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  Charlotte and Emily Bronte: The Complete Novels, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heighs , Shirley, Villette and the Professor

• 6 Volume Set Jane Eyre, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, Professor, Poems, Miscellanea, Shirley, VilleteCharlotte, Emily, Anne Bronte

  

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  6 Volume Set Jane Eyre, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, Professor, Poems, Miscellanea, Shirley, Villete

  by Charlotte, Emily, Anne Bronte

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  The Viking

  by Edison Marshall

  Viking novel with all of the clashes, passions, furies & plunders -- this in Dell MM PB.
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  The Moro War

  How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913

  by James R. Arnold

  As the global war on terror enters its second decade, the United States military is engaged with militant Islamic insurgents on multiple fronts. But the post-9/11 war against terrorists is not the first time the United States has battled such ferocious foes. The forgotten Moro War, lasting from 1902 to 1913 in the islands of the southern Philippines, was the first confrontation between American soldiers and their... (more)
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  Alhambra: Arena of Assassins

  by Colin De Silva

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  The Devil's Acolyte (Knights Templar) [Paperback]

  by Michael Jecks

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  A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening: A Novel

  by Mario Vieira de Carvalho

  Winner of the Portuguese Writers' Association Grand Prize for Fiction and the Pegasus Prize for Literature, and a best-seller in Portugal, Mario de Carvalho's A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening is a vivid and affecting historical novel set at the twilight of the Roman Empire and the dawn of the Christian era. Lucius Valerius Quintius is prefect of the fictitious city of Tarcisis, charged to defend it... (more)
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  Victorian Mystery: Book 8

  Death at Dartmoor

  by Robin Paige

  At Britain's most notorious prison, Lord Charles Sheridan, his clever American wife Kate, and his acquaintance Arthur Conan Doyle, must determine why one of its most infamous inmates confessed to a crime he clearly didn't commit.
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  Albucasis Aka Al-zahrawi: Renowned Surgeon of the Arab World (Great Muslim Philosophers and Scientists of the Middle Ages)

  by Fred Ramen

  Gr. 5-8. Acknowledging the skimpy historical record on his subject, Ramen fleshes out this profile of an influential Spanish physician with sweeping histories of ancient Mediterranean civilizations, early medicine, the rise of Islam, and the rise and fall of Muslim culture in Spain. Readers will come away impressed by the surgeon's contributions to medicine, which ranged from an encyclopedic surgical text to the... (more)
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  Seville & Andalusia (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

  by DK Publishing

  Highlights include: Seville, Huelva, Sevilla, Cordoba, Jaen, Cadiz, Malaga, Granada, and Almeria.