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Exodus

Leon Uris

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

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Sorceress

Celia Rees

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England

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The Sound of the Trees

Robert Payne Gatewood

Eighteen-year-old Trude Mason and his mother set off on horseback from New Mexico during the Great Depression to escape his increasingly brutal father, but tragedy strikes as they try to reach Colorad

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Nuremberg

William F. Buckley

Sebastian, a young German-American, seeks to find closure in his life at the Nuremberg trials in 1945, hoping to find out more about his father's mysterious disappearance and his ancestors he never kn

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A Death in the Venetian Quarter

Alan Gordon

The peace of the Byzantine Empire is endangered when the ships of the Fourth Crusade show up outside the walls of Constantinople, and the jester known as Feste and his friends must find a way to prote

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The Courtesan's Daughter

Priscilla Galloway

From humble beginnings, Phano rises to become one of ancient Athens' most powerful citizens through her marriage to Theo, but they both have powerful enemies who don't share their political views.

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Bad Boy Brawly Brown

Walter Mosley

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Cold Sassy Tree

Olive Ann Burns

When the preacher of Cold Sassy, Georgia, elopes with a woman half his age (not to mention, a Yankee) the sleepy little town comes alive.

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