Anya Seton
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Language
English
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"Exhilarating, exuberant, and rich," Katherine is an epic novel of a love affair that changed history—that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family (Austin Chronicle).
Set in the vibrant fourteenth century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets—Edward...
Set in the vibrant fourteenth century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets—Edward...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
"Princes, Vikings, and the history of tenth-century England come together in this saga of exploration and unrequited love. Prince Rumon of France, descendant of Charlemagne and King Alfred, is a searcher. He has visions of the Islands of the Blessed, perhaps King Arthur's Avalon, "where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow." Merewyn grows up in savage Cornwall--a lonely girl, sustained by her stubborn courage and belief that she is descended from...
4) Dragonwyck
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Language
English
Description
First published in 1944, Dragonwyck was a national bestseller that was made into a major motion picture starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price in 1946. A classic gothic romance, the story features an 18-year-old Miranda Wells who falls under the spell of a mysterious old mansion and its equally fascinating master. Tired of churning butter, weeding the garden patch, and receiving the dull young farmers who seek her hand in marriage, Miranda is excited...
Author
Pub. Date
[1972]
Physical Desc
652 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
""The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay-- the law of cause and effect, good and evil, among certain individual souls in two periods of English history." Green Darkness is the story of a great love, a love in which mysticism, suspense, and mystery form a web of good and evil forces that stretches from Tudor England to the England of the twentieth century. The marriage of the Englishman Richard Marsdon and his young...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 399 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Captures all the drama of the short life of Theodosia Burr (1783-1813). Her father Aaron-- Thomas Jefferson's vice president, most famous for his great duel with Alexander Hamilton-- holds sway over young Theodosia's heart. But his arrogance forces her to choose between the man he insists she marry and her love for a young soldier who will turn out to play a decisive role in her father's fate. Persuaded by Aaron that she will soon be crowned princess...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
""Seton, at her best, has a gaudy vitality all her own, and a sure sense of theatre. This reader for one, enjoyed The Turquoise enormously."--New York Times "With accurate historical background, Anya Seton has constructed a touchingly tragic story of a girl who tried so hard to find happiness that she lost everything in her search. The life of Santa Fe Cameron lingers long in memory."--Springfield Republican Santa Fe Cameron was named for the town...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 527 pages : map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Charles Radcliffe, a Catholic nobleman who joined the short-lived Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and of Jenny, his daughter by a secret marriage. Set in the Northumbrian wilds, teeming London, and colonial Virginia-- where Jenny eventually settled on the estate of the famous William Byrd of Westover-- Jenny's story reveals one young woman's loyalty, passion, and courage as she struggles in a life divided between the Old World and the...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Marblehead, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to the present, and of a family who settled and stayed there in the Hearth and Eagle Inn; it is also the story of Hesper Honeywood, a passionate young woman whose long and dramatic life, full of triumph and tragedy, contained the history of both.