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  The Overlander's Daughter

  Amy Isaman

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  In 1847, 17-year-old Sarah wants no part of walking 2000 miles behind a wagon to Oregon, but her father leaves her no choice. She packs up her beloved quilt and heads west with her family. When her innocence is taken in one violent moment, her quilt provides her only solace as she flees into the wilderness. One-hundred and sixty years later, 28-year-old Harper unearths Sarah’s quilt which has been passed down to Sarah’s great-granddaughter, Agnes, whose last wish was to record the story of her treasured family quilt before her memory fades completely.The two women embark on a journey to record the quilt’s story. Throughout the intertwined narratives, both Sarah and Harper hold tight to the quilt as they find the courage to accept their losses and tell the truth despite the consequences honesty brings. In doing so, they both discover a resilience and inner strength they didn’t know they had.

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  Mafia III: Plain of Jars

  Jeff Mariotte, Marsheila Rockwell

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  A mobster’s adopted son sees action in the Vietnam War and as a CIA operative in this pulp-fiction-inspired prequel to the hit video game. 
   
  Before Lincoln Clay laid waste to New Bordeaux in his quest for vengeance against the Italian mob, he did an equally action-packed tour of Vietnam. In this authorized prequel to the hit game Mafia III, Clay learns the skills he will use back in New Bordeaux—first as an Army grunt, then as a Special Forces soldier running covert ops for the CIA. 
   
  Featuring characters and locations from the game and a brand-new, original storyline full of intrigue, passion, and suspense, Mafia III: Plain of Jars is a great read for fans of the game and crime genre hounds looking for more of the Mafia world to explore.

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  Evelina

  Fanny Burney

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  In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her uncertain parentage. Through a series of harrowing and humorous events that take place in London and an English resort town, Evelina learns how to navigate the complex layers of 18th century society and earn the love of a distinguished and honorable nobleman. This comedy of manners often satirizes the society in which it is set; Evelina is a significant precursor to later works by Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues. (from Evelina’s wikipedia entry, modified by ettelocin)

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  Cranford (Argo Classics)

  Elizabeth Gaskell

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  William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. 
  In rural England, a female-dominated community runs on social customs and gossip. At its heart are spinster sisters Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, who must withstand the everyday dramas and hardships of provincial life. 
  Gaskell’s vivid portrayal of 19th century country folk is reinvigorated by the narration of the inimitable Prunella Scales, star of Fawlty Towers. 
  For fans of George Eliot (Middlemarch), Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey), and Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone).

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  To Capture Love - Outside the...

  Shereen Vedam

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  Where there is love, there is life. 
  In April of 1812, a female sculptor-in-hiding gains a priceless commission to make a replica of a slain soldier. On the day she's set to reveal her identity to his grieving brother, a man she once secretly loved, he gives her a public set-down, ensuring that the truth gets buried under a mountain of grief and illusion. 
  Can love help heal this painful situation or will these two broken hearts remain forever separated? 
  If you crave sweet Regency romances, you'll love this touching tribute to a soldier romance during Regency times.

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  The Hidden Diary of Marie...

  Carolly Erickson

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  For more than two centuries Marie Antoinette has been vilified as the heartless, frivolous queen who spent lavishly while her people starved. Now, in the tradition of The Birth of Venus and The Other Boleyn Girl, this moving novel tells her side of the story. 
  Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette leaves behind in her prison cell a diary telling the story of her life—from her privileged childhood as Austrian Archduchess to her years as glamorous mistress of Versailles to the heartbreak of imprisonment and humiliation during the French Revolution. Carolly Erickson takes us deep into the psyche of France's doomed queen: her love affair with handsome Swedish diplomat Count Axel Fersen, who risked his life to save her on the terrifying night the Parisian mob broke into her palace bedroom intent on murdering her and her family; her harrowing flight from France in disguise, her recapture and the grim months of harsh captivity; her agony when her beloved husband was guillotined and her beloved son was torn from her arms, never to be seen again. 
  Erickson brilliantly captures the queen's voice, her hopes, her dreads, her suffering. We follow, mesmerized, as she reveals every detail of her remarkable, eventful life, from her teenage years when she began keeping a diary to her final days when she awaited her own bloody appointment with the guillotine.A Macmillan Audio production.

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