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Master of the Game

Sidney Sheldon · 471 pages

WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL? She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned. And she's a survivor, indomitable as her father, the man who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the bleak South African earth. Now, celebrating her ninetieth birt

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A Dangerous Fortune

Ken Follett · 574 pages

Ondanks tegenslagen en duidelijke tegenwerking slaagt een jonge telg uit een Londense bankiersfamilie er ruim een eeuw geleden in door te dringen tot de top van het bedrijf.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 592 pages

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. A huge popular success when it was first serialized in the

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The Tea Rose

Jennifer Donnelly · 762 pages

East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a cost

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Rich Boy

Sharon Pomerantz · 522 pages

Een arme joodse jongen uit Philadelphia werkt zich op tot vastgoedjurist, maar verliest daarbij het plezier in het leven en de liefde.

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A Woman of Substance

Barbara Taylor Bradford · 843 pages

Emma Harte Lowther Ainsley is seventy-eight years old and one of the richest most powerful women in the world. Self-reliant and ruthless, she uses money as a weapon and adversity as a tool. In her poverty-stricken youth, Emma exhibited an uncommon amount of initiative and intelligence even as a maidservant on a Yorkshire estate. Pregnant and unwed at fifteen, she fled her shameful situation to s

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The Son

Philipp Meyer · 561 pages

Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, this is a novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim. Spring, 1849. Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches takes him captive. Brave

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Scruples

Judith Krantz · 576 pages

The widow of Ellis Ikehorn, Billy Ikehorn, sets out to create Scruples, "a playland specialty shop where the rich could indulge their most lavish whims."--Jacket.

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Homeland

John Jakes · 1,138 pages

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Captains and the Kings

Taylor Caldwell · 640 pages

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Rich Man, Poor Man

Irwin Shaw · 666 pages

A novel of two brothers from the end of World War II to the 1960's. The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his own way, determined to achieve his "birthright."

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Shadow of a Dark Queen

Raymond E. Feist · 528 pages

Feist, author of the Riftwar Saga, embarks on a new series, returning to the magical twin worlds of Kelewan and Midkemia to begin the story of the Serpent War Saga. Two unlikely heroes are destined to oppose the malign forces that threaten their lives and the survival of their world.

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Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray · 699 pages

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fo

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The Inheritance Games Collection

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 778 pages

OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES! Fall in love with the series everyone is talking about with this ebook collection of the #1 New York Times bestselling Inheritance Games trilogy! The Inheritance Games, The Hawthorne Legacy, and The Final Gambit are together for the first time--plus a FREE bonus ebook, The Naturals! Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high s

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All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren · 490 pages

The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to narrate the story and Stark's rise to power.

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The Heaven Tree Trilogy

Edith Pargeter · 899 pages

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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 469 pages

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1

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The City of Marvels

Eduardo Mendoza · 418 pages

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe · 690 pages

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Scarlett

Alexandra Ripley · 832 pages

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