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Picnic at Hanging Rock
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred.
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Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the gi… -
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human.
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The Return of the Soldier
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also e…
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The Well of Loneliness
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781840224559
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Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents—a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a lo… -
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry
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The General in His Labyrinth
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Gabriel García Márquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent.
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The Last Book On The Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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An equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history’s most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of the award-winning Last Podcast on th… -
Middlemarch
"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are"
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George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peop… -
Miss Austen
Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was?
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England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone, spending … -
Thirst
Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most exciting n…
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A Governess's Guide to Passion and Peril (Ladies Most Scandalous, #4)
Two friends reunite—and discover hidden feelings—while investigating a murder in this sensual, witty historical romance.
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Jane Halliwell once dreamed of a home of her own—but those dreams (and her dowr… -
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
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On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining da… -
Northanger Abbey
A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical…
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A Long Fatal Love Chase
"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. A brooding stranger seduces her from the remote island onto his yacht. Trapped in a web of i…
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The Unmothers
In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and unravels a dark secret that the women have been keeping for generations.
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The Children of Jocasta
My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents...
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Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life … -
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
"I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars" - Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
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The middle ages are seen as a…