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King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
By Roger Lancelyn Green [Ebook, Adobe epub 2008] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Retold out of the old romances, this collection of Arthurian tales endeavors to make each adventure--"The Quest for the Round Table", "The First Quest of Sir Lancelot", "How the Holy Grail Came to Camelot", and so forth--part of a fixed pattern that effectively presents the whole story, as it does... more -
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Claudius
By Douglas Jackson [Ebook, Adobe epub 2009] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Claudius desires total conquest. Caratacus will fight for freedom. An epic battle is coming, in this second gripping and visceral novel of the Roman invasion of Britain, for fans of Conn Iggulden and Simon Scarrow. 43 AD: in Southern Britain, Caratacus, chief of the Britons, watches from a hilltop as... more -
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Darkest Hour
By James Holland [Ebook, Adobe epub 2009] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Second in the WWII series featuring Jack Tanner. Posted to a training camp on the south-east coast of England, the deaths of two Polish refugees makes Tanner suspect foul play. When he and Sykes are nearly killed, his suspicions fall on an old comrade. But as the Germans launch their... more -
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Relics of the Dead
By Ariana Franklin [Ebook, Adobe epub 2009] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! In medieval Glastonbury, human remains have been discovered - are they the remains of King Arthur and Guinevere? King Henry II wants evidence, and sends anatomist Adelia Aguilar to examine the bones. But someone doesn't want the skeletons identified, and is prepared to kill in order to prevent it... Trade... more -
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Set in Stone
By Linda Newbery [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Written in diary style, this novel combines different voices and a different century. For in the nineteenth century, murder and madness were no different to our passions of today. Ages: 12+. When Samuel Godwin, a young and naive art tutor, accepts a job with the Farrow family at their majestic... more -
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
By Yukio Mishima [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Introduction by Donald Keene; Translation by Ivan Morris Introduction by Donald Keene; Translation by Ivan Morris Introduction by Donald Keene; Translation by Ivan Morris (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) In "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion," celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting portrait of a young man's obsession... moreOther Editions: Hardcover 1994 Hardcover 1995 Paperback 1994 Paperback 1981 Ebook, Adobe epub 2011 Hardcover 1971 ... -
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Strange Music
By Laura Fish [Ebook, Adobe epub 2009] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Richly complex, Strange Music recreates the lives of three women -- the poet Elizabeth Barrett in England, and in Jamaica on the Barrett estate, there is Kaydia, a maidservant and Sheba, an indentured labourer. All three women struggle to escape a tragic but ever-present past. "From the Hardcover edition." In... more -
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Highway Robbery
By Kate Thompson [Ebook, Adobe epub 2009] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! An illustrated short story for younger readers, featuring the most famous highwayman of all time and his horse, Black Bess. With a stunning velvet cover and beautiful illustrations throughout. Ages: 9-11. 'Hold the mare for me, lad. And when I come back I'll give you a golden guinea.' It's more... moreOther Editions: Hardbound 2008 -
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Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer
By Wesley Stace [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! An intellectual thriller set in the world of English classical music in the early years of the 20th century. From the author of }By George{ and }Misfortune{. Set in 1923 England, this ambitiously intricate novel tells the macabre story of a gifted young composer, Charles Jessold, who on the eve... more -
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Cold Blood
By James Fleming [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Charlie Doig, the Scots-Russian hero of "White Blood," returns to avenge his family--and help himself to a hoard of Tsarist gold--as Russia descends into the chaos of full-blown revolution. Historical thriller, set during the Russian Revolution, as Charlie Doig vows to track down and kill the man who raped and... more -
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The Kings Mistress
By Emma Campion [Ebook, Adobe epub 2011] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! History has not been kind to Alice Perrers, the notorious mistress of King Edward III. Campion paints a colorful and thrilling portrait of the court of Edward III--with all of its extravagance, scandalous love affairs, political machinations, and murder--and the devastating results of being singled out by the royal family.... more -
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Doctor Thorne
By Anthony Tollope [Ebook, Adobe epub 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family's mortgaged estate by making a good marriage to a wealthy... moreOther Editions: Paperback 2008 Hardbound 2008 Paperback 2008 Paperback 2010 Paperback 2010 Ebook, Adobe epub 2008 ... -
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Don Quixote
By Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra , John Rutherford [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2010] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Originally planned as a moral fable, using parody to attach chivalric romances, the adventures of Don Quixote and his faithful squire Sancho Panza gained depth and complexity in the course of writing. There is a note on the translation and explanatory notes on the text. Widely regarded as the world's... moreOther Editions: Hardbound 1998 Paperback 2001 Hardcover 1997 Hardcover Hardcover 1954 Paperback 2012 ... -
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Fathers and Sons
By Ivan Turgenev [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2003] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Fathers and Sons takes the conflict between generations as its subject. The novel's central characters, Yevgeny Bazarov and his disciple and fellow student, Arkady Kirsanov, are self-proclaimed Nihilists: repudiators of all the received truths of art, religion, and politics-all claims to truth, in fact, except those verifiable by scientific experiment.... more -
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The Iliad
By Homer [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! When Helen, the most beautiful woman in Mycenaean Greece, is taken away from her husband, Menelaus, Greek princes send out a thousand ships to bring her home from Troy. The Trojan War breaks out, resulting in an epic poem crowned with heroic military action, sensual romance, and vengeful gods. Also... more -
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Joseph Andrews
By Henry Fielding [Ebook, Adobe epub 2006] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! This highly moralistic eighteenth century novel is about a innocent and straightforward footman who resists the seductive worldly corruptions that surround him. This is Fieldings appreciation of the life of ordinary people in England. His range of observations place him in a unique category of social documenters. Joseph Andrews, refuses... moreOther Editions: Paperback 2012 Paperback 1961 1983 Ebook, Adobe pdf 2005 Paperback 1961 Paperback 1961 ... -
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The Odyssey
By Homer [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! A vivid adventure on the Aegean waters spurts out pure poetry. Travel with the cunning Odysseus around the world. Along the way, the courageous Greek will face the wrath of gods and monsters in this epic mythological work. Also look for the Barnes & Noble World Digital Library Edition of... moreOther Editions: Paperback 2010 Ebook, Adobe pdf 2005 Paperback 1994 Audio-cd 1989 Unknown Hardcover 1996 ... -
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
By Baroness Orczy [Ebook, Adobe pdf 2002]Discontinued The classic bestselling adventure story is back with a stunning new jacket. An Englishman assumes many disguises in order to rescue members of the French royalty from the terrorists during the French Revolution. During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work:... more
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The Small House at Allington
By A Trollope [Ebook, Adobe epub 2009] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying not allowed. Printing allowed, 1314 pages every 365 days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. Lily Dale is sublimely happy when she becomes engaged to Adolphus Crosbie, assistant secretary in a government agency. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered... more -
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The First Apostle
By James Becker [Ebook, Adobe epub 2008] In Stock. Delivers in 60 seconds! An ancient inscription... a dangerous secreta] An explosive debut thriller Chris Bronson is devastated when his best friendas wifea the woman he was secretly in love withadies in a tragic accident. But when Bronson heads to Italy to console his friend, he finds the evidence of a break-inaand a strange... more
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