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An Echo in the Bone

Diana Gabaldon · 834 pages

Diana Gabaldon's brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant reb

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No Angel

Penny Vincenzi · 626 pages

Routinely making decisions that have dangerous consequences, strong-willed aristocrat's daughter Celia Lytton sets in motion a series of events during World War I that have a particular impact on her family, a destitute woman, and others. (from Amazon)

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Lake in the Clouds

Sara Donati · 613 pages

In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation's past--and in the life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the brave and b

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The Black Moon

Winston Graham · 405 pages

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Hold the Dream

Barbara Taylor Bradford · 678 pages

**In A Woman's of Substance, Barbara Taylor Bradford captivated millions of readers with the enthralling and triumphant tale of Emma Harte and her remarkable rise to the top of her own international business cartel. Now in this exciting and mesmerizing sequel, Emma's story -- and her legacy -- continue.** Having achieved the pinnacle of success, the **elderly Emma relinquishes control of her v

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The Burning Shore

Wilbur Smith · 632 pages

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The Fiery Cross part two

Diana Gabaldon, Davina Porter

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Three Daughters

Consuelo Saah Baehr · 712 pages

From the fertile hills of a tiny village near Jerusalem to the elegant townhouses of Georgetown, Three Daughters is a historical saga that chronicles the lives, loves, and secrets of three generations of Palestinian Christian women. Born in rural Palestine, just before the dawn of the twentieth century, Miriam adores her father and is certain his love will protect her, but she soon finds that trad

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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street

Naguib Mahfouz · 1,336 pages

Contains: [بين القصرين](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599742W) [قصر الشوق](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599738W) [السكرية](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1599727W)

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The Oak Apple

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles · 532 pages

The saga of the Morland family continues as England's peace is shattered by the outbreak of civil war between King and Parliament. Edmund Morland sees his family divided when his eldest son, Richard, brings home a young Puritan bride, while Kit is drawn to the royalist cavalry of Prince Rupert.

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Early Warning

Jane Smiley · 475 pages

Family patriarch Walter Langdon has died, and his children have fanned out across the country. The narrative moves year by year from 1953 to 1986, encompassing Cold War blinkeredness, Sixties rebellion, and escalating wealth into the Eighties.

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The Forsyte Saga

John Galsworthy · 416 pages

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The Toss of a Lemon

Padma Viswanathan · 619 pages

In south India in 1896, ten-year old Sivakami is about to embark on a new life. Hanumarathnam, a village healer with some renown as an astrologer, has approached her parents with a marriage proposal. In keeping with custom, he provides his prospective in-laws with his horoscope. The problem is that his includes a prediction, albeit a weak one, that he will die in his tenth year of marriage. De

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Empire: the Novel of Imperial Rome

Steven Saylor · 595 pages

Continuing the epic story begun in his "New York Times"-bestselling novel "Roma," Saylor charts the destinies of five more generations of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus to the height of Rome's empire.

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The Thorn Birds

Colleen McCullough · 573 pages

The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland – the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969.

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Galway Bay

Mary Pat Kelly · 571 pages

Here at last is one Irish family's epic journey, capturing the tragedy and triumph of the Irish-American experience. In a rousing tale that echoes the myths and legends of Ireland herself, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family, inhabiting a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers find solace in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communal celebrations. Sellin

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The Pearl Sister

Lucinda Riley · 510 pages

"From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father--the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt b

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City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan

Beverly Swerling · 591 pages

This is an epic story that follows the lives of two families through the centuries beginning in the 1600's in Dutch New Amsterdam, later to become the English New York.

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Beulah Land

Lonnie Coleman · 515 pages

**BEULAH LAND...** the tremendously engrossing saga of a great Georgia plantation in its golden age, and of the men and women, white and black, who were born and died there, knew every pain and pleasure, virtue and vice. BEULAH LAND... where the old South as it really was is brought to intense life, in all its outward splendor and secret shame.

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Somerset

Leila Meacham · 625 pages

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The Wife

Sigrid Undset · 423 pages

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True Women

Janice Woods Windle · 451 pages

True Women is a stunning first novel based on the author's own roots. Brought up on her family's "great epic tales of war and adventure, love and murder, violence and redemption," Janice Woods Windle searched for the sources that could tell her the truth about the extraordinary women whose blood flowed through her veins. What she discovered was more dramatic still, and from those tales she has c

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Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi · 320 pages

Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the

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