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The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel

by Nina Siegal

Published: 2014-03-11

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Set in the Dutch Golden Age, an engrossing historical novel that brilliantly imagines the complex story behind one of Rembrandt's most famous paintingsCommissioned by the Amsterdam Surgeons’ Guild, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was the first major Rembrandt work to catapult the...

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Pearl

by C.E. Weisman

Published: 2012-12-15

Kindle Edition: 209 pages

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Pearl Water's childhood was shattered the night she stood at her bedroom window and watched her mother run away without a glance back. Only ten years old, Pearl was left to care for the family and take over her mother's responsibilities.Eight years later as the approach of midnight beckons...

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The Vanishing

by Wendy Webb

Published: 2014-01-21

Paperback: 304 pages

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Recently widowed and rendered penniless by her Ponzi-scheming husband, Julia Bishop is eager to start anew. So when a stranger appears on her doorstep with a job offer, she finds herself accepting the mysterious yet unique position: caretaker to his mother, Amaris Sinclair, the famous and ...

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The Resistance Man: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel

by Martin Walker

Published: 2014-02-25

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Bruno Courrèges—provincial French police chief extraordinaire—is back in another delectable tale of mystery and suspense that unfolds in the gastronomically ravishing Dordogne.A veteran of the Resistance dies, and among his possessions are documents that connect him to a notorious tra...

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Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs)

by Jacqueline Winspear

Published: 2014-04-08

Paperback: 368 pages

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In Leaving Everything Most Loved by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of Indian immigrants in London. The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed...

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Maisie Dobbs Bundle #3: The Mapping of Love and Death and A Lesson in Secrets: Books 7 and 8 in the New York Times Bestselling Series

by Jacqueline Winspear

Published: 2014-03-18

Kindle Edition: 478 pages

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The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War

by Jacqueline Winspear

Published: 2014-07-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world.By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since g...

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The Absent One: A Department Q Novel

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Published: 2013-05-07

Paperback: 432 pages

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New York Times bestseller Jussi Adler-Olsen returns with the second book in his electrifying Department Q series ?The new ?it’ boy of Nordic Noir” (The Times, London) delivers an electrifying follow up to his New York Times bestselling debut In The Keeper of Lost Ca...

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Trolley Days

by Robert T McMaster

Published: 2012-06-15

Paperback: 318 pages

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“A joyful, engaging read from beginning to end...." Mark Ashton, Southbridge Evening News "If you love period pieces then this is the book for you..." Mary Haggerty, Goodreads.com Trolley Days is the story of an unlikely friendship between two boys growing up in Holyoke, Massachusetts...

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Saving Sight: An Eye Surgeon's Look at Life Behind the Mask and the Heroes Who Changed the Way We See

by Andrew Lam

Published: 2013-05-20

Paperback: 232 pages

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In Saving Sight, Dr. Andrew Lam explains the intricacies of human sight and shines a light on the heroes who fought to save it, while also revealing the personal side of life as an eye surgeon - the stress and joy of a man who, on his best days, can turn darkness into light. The author bri...