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A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy

by Helen Rappaport

Published: 2012-03-13

Hardcover: 352 pages

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As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband ? a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy.After the untimely death ...

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Magnolia Wednesdays

by Wendy Wax

Published: 2011-04-26

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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Vivien Armstrong Gray has spent most of her life fighting to make it in investigative journalism, only to have her dream crumble after a bullet lodges in her backside during an expose. Then she learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very, very hormonal. Maybe that's why she said yes to c...

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Maguire Fiction Collection Four-Book Set (Wicked; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror, Mirror)

by Gregory Maguire

Published: 2003-10-14

Paperback: 1568 pages

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Maguire Fiction Collection Four-Book Set (Wicked; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Lost; Mirror, Mirror) For a limited time get four of Gregory Maguire's creative retellings of classic fairy tales in one easy-to-order package, including the hardcover version of Maguire's latest book, M...

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The Magus

by John Fowles

Published: 2001-01-04

Paperback: 656 pages

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The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local millionaire evolves into a deadly game, one in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas must fight f...

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The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South

by Katherine Van Wormer, David W. Jackson III, Charletta Sudduth

Published: 2012-09-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress. Based on interviews with over fifty people--both white and black--these stories deliver a personal and powerful messa...

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Maid of Fairbourne Hall, The

by Julie Klassen

Published: 2012-01-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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Pampered Margaret Macy flees London in disguise to escape pressure to marry a dishonorable man. With no money and nowhere else to go, she takes a position as a housemaid in the home of Nathaniel Upchurch, a suitor she once rejected in hopes of winning his dashing brother. Praying no one wi...

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Maid of Honor

by Jillian Conley

Published: 2011-01-20

Paperback: 164 pages

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Unemployed and single Josephine Vitale felt like her life couldn't get any worse, or so she thought. On Valentine's night her best friend Sandra called announcing her engagement. Since Sandra had been planning her perfect wedding since she was twelve, Josephine knew she was in for one hell of a ride,...

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Maid to Match

by Deeanne Gist

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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The new maid at the Biltmore Estate jeopardizes her own efforts to become the lady's maid with her interest in the handsome--and forbidden--footman.

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The Maid: A Novel of Joan of Arc

by Kimberly Cutter

Published: 2011-10-18

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years? War rages on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, t...

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Maiden Voyage

by Tania Aebi, Bernadette Brennan

Published: 1996-09-29

Paperback: 304 pages

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Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop in which she had to sail around the world alone. She chose the boat and for two years it was her ...