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A Proper Education for Girls: A Novel

by Elaine diRollo

Published: 2009-04-14

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Not since the Brontës have we seen the likes of the Talbot sisters, plucky peach growers with a peculiar upbringing and a flair for subversion. Set in England and India in the mutinous year of 1857, A Proper Education for Girls tells the story of Alice and Lilian Talbot, twins separated f...

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Property

by Valerie Martin

Published: 2004-04-13

Paperback: 196 pages

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Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dom...

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Prophecy

by S.J. Parris

Published: 2011-05-03

Hardcover: 384 pages

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S. J. Parris returns with the next Giordano Bruno mystery, set inside Queen Elizabeth's palace and steeped in period atmospherics and the strange workings of the occult. It is the year of the Great Conjunction, when the two most powerful planets, Jupiter and Saturn, align?an astrologi­ca...

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The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran

Published: 1923-09-23

Hardcover: 96 pages

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Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that ...

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The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran

Published: 2003-04-14

Paperback: 0 pages

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B/W Illust.In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us,...

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The Prophet

by Khalil Gibran

Published: 1986-01-01

Hardcover: 80 pages

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The Prophet

by Michael Koryta

Published: 2013-08-13

Paperback: 432 pages

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A new thriller from international bestseller Michael Koryta: the killer of a teenage girl terrorizes a small town and reopens decades-old wounds. Adam Austin hasn't spoken to his brother in years. When they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and murdered, and their devastated famil...

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The Prophetess

by Barbara Wood

Published: 1997-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages

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It is December 1999. In the Sinai Desert, archaeologist Catherine Alexander has unearthed six ancient papyrus scrolls that reveal vital secrets--secrets that the world's governments would give anything to possess. But even more important, the seventh scroll is missing--and it contains a secret of unfathomable...

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Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

by Sam Brower

Published: 2011-08-30

Hardcover: 336 pages

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"A remarkable man on many levels, Sam Brower is the real deal. Readers are apt to find his firsthand account of bringing Warren Jeffs to justice both extremely disturbing and absolutely riveting."-Jon Krakauer, from the foreword From the private investigator who cracked open the case that ...

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The Proposal

by Mary Balogh

Published: 2012-05-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In Mary Balogh's engaging and seductive new novel of drama and romance, a woman comfortable in her solitude allows temptation to free her heart, when a daring war hero shows her how truly extraordinary she is.   THE PROPOSAL   Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy, especia...