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The Absolutist
John Boyne - Other Press
Format: Paperback
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"A novel of immeasurable sadness, in a league with Graham Greene's The End of the Affair. John Boyne is very, very good at portraying the destructive power of a painfully kept secret." - John IrvingA masterfully told tale of passion, jealousy, heroism and betrayal... |
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The American Heiress: A Novel
Daisy Goodwin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin’s The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers... |
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Ashenden: A Novel
Elizabeth Wilhide - Simon & Schuster; First American Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A novel about people, a country estate, and living history The house contains time. Its walls hold stories. Births and deaths, comings and goings, people and events passing through. . . . For now, however, it lies suspended in a kind of emptiness, as if it has fallen asleep or someone... |
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The Dressmaker
Kate Alcott - Anchor; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on the Titanic. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men—a kind sailor and an enigmatic Chicago businessman—who... |
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Fall of Giants
Ken Follett - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . . . An American... |
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Fallen Skies: A Novel
Philippa Gregory - Touchstone
Format: Paperback
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Can a family's mannered traditions and cool emotions erase the horrors of war from a young couple's past Now back in print from New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory, Fallen Skies takes readers to post-World War I England in a suspenseful story about the marriage... |
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A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
Ernest Hemingway - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming... |
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The Fever Tree
Jennifer McVeigh - Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Format: Hardcover
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Having drawn comparisons to Gone with the Wind and Out of Africa, The Fever Tree is a page-turner of the very first order. In London she was caged by society. In South Africa, she is dangerously free. Frances Irvine, left destitute in the wake of her father’s sudden... |
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The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property and In Chancery
John Galsworthy
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The Forsyte Saga is John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are constantly at war with its passions. The story of Soames Forsyte's marriage to the beautiful and rebellious Irene, and its effects upon the whole Forsy |
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Habits of the House
Fay Weldon - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton AbbeyAs the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable... |
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The House at Riverton: A Novel
Kate Morton - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. It is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all and kept a secret for decades. Grace Bradley... |
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The House at Tyneford: A Novel
Natasha Solomons - Plume
Format: Paperback
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The start of an affair, the end of an era.Fans of Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden, Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms, and TV's Downton Abbey will love this New York Times bestselling sweeping historical novel of love and loss. It's the spring of 1938 and no longer... |
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Longbourn
Jo Baker - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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* Pride and Prejudice was only half the story * If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center... |
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Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear - Soho
Format: Hardcover
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"Meet Maisie Dobbs, who in 1929 launches her career as a private investigator and finds herself drawn back to the Great War she thought she'd long since put behind her: an unexpected beginning for Maisie-and a rare treat for mystery fans."-Charles Todd "A welcomed addition... |
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Mr. Churchill's Secretary: A Maggie Hope Mystery
Susan Elia MacNeal - Bantam
Format: Paperback
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For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, Mr. Churchill's Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge - and the greatness that rose to meet it.London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat... |
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Past Imperfect: A Novel
Julian Fellowes - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Paperback
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From the creator of the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey.... "Damian Baxter was a friend of mine at Cambridge. We met around the time when I was doing the Season at the end of the Sixties. I introduced him to some of the girls. They took him up, and we ran about together in London... |
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Park Lane
Frances Osborne - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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A Goldsboro Crown Historical Fiction Award Nominee The bestselling author of The Bolter returns with a delicious novel about two determined women whose lives collide in the halls of a pedigreed London town home.When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she's unable... |
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A Star for Mrs. Blake: A novel
April Smith - Knopf
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The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel,... |
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The Typewriter Girl
Alison Atlee - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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ALL BETSEY DOBSON HAS EVER ASKED IS THE CHANCE TO BE VIEWED ON HER OWN MERITS, BUT IN A MAN'S WORLD, THAT IS THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN When Betsey disembarks from the London train in the seaside resort of Idensea, all she owns is a small valise and a canary in a cage. After attempting to forge... |
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Wake: A Novel
Anna Hope - Random House
Format: Book
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Anna Hope's brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives. Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2) Ritual for the dead. 3) Consequence or aftermath. London,... |
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The Wild Rose (The Tea Rose Book 3)
Jennifer Donnelly - Hyperion; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the limits ofendurance in the most... |
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Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey, Season 1
Gareth Neame - Carnival Film & Television Limited
Format: DVD video
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Product Description Downton Abbey -- a sprawling, lavish Edwardian mansion nestled in the Yorkshire landscape -- needs an heir. Dame Maggy Smith stars as Violet, the stubborn Dowager Countess of Grantham matriarch of Downton. Hugh Bonneville stars as her son, the stoic,... |
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Downton Abbey (Television program)
Masterpiece theatre (Television program)
Julian Fellowes - PBS
Format: DVD video
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Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar... |
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Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey Season 3
Hugh Bonneville - Carnival Film & Television Limited ; Alexandria
Format: DVD video
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The War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham,... |
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Downton Abbey Season 4 DVD
Julian Fellowes - distributed by PBS Distribution
Format: DVD video
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The sweeping Downton Abbey saga continues, beginning six months after the unexpected death of Matthew Crawley, heir to Downton Abbey, husband to Lady Mary, and brand new father to a baby boy and successor, in a car accident. Although it is the 1920s, Britain still observes mourning rituals... |
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