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  To Catch a Falling Star

  Anna Belfrage

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  Some gifts are double-edged swords ... 
  For Matthew Graham, being given the gift of his former Scottish manor is a dream come true. For his wife, Alex, this gift will force her to undertake a perilous sea journey, leaving most of their extensive family in the Colony of Maryland. Alex is torn apart by this, but staying behind while her husband travels to Scotland is no option.  
  Scotland in 1688 is a divided country, torn between the papist Stuart king and the foreign but Protestant William of Orange. In the Lowlands, popular opinion is with Dutch William, and Matthew's reluctance to openly support him does not endear him to his former friends and neighbors.  
  While Matthew struggles to come to terms with the fact that Scotland of 1688 bears little resemblance to his lovingly conserved memories, Alex is forced to confront unresolved issues from her past, including her overly curious brother-in-law, Luke Graham. And then there's the further complication of the dashing, flamboyant Viscount Dundee, a man who knocks Alex completely off her feet. 
  All the turmoil that accompanies their return to Scotland pales into insignificance when a letter arrives, detailing the calamities threatening their youngest daughter in Maryland-at the hand of that most obnoxious minister, Richard Campbell. Matthew and Alex have no choice but to hasten back, no matter the heartache this causes.  
  Will they make it back in time? And what will Richard Campbell do?  
  To Catch a Falling Star is the eighth book in Anna Belfrage's series featuring time traveler Alexandra Lind and her seventeenth-century husband, Matthew Graham.

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  And Then There Were None

  Agatha Christie

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  A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick 
  One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie. 
  ""Ten . . ."" 
  Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious ""U. N. Owen."" 
  ""Nine . . ."" 
  At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead. 
  ""Eight . . ."" 
  Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one . . . as one by one . . . they begin to die. 
  ""Seven . . ."" 
  Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?

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  Sherlock Holmes and the Rosetta...

  Linda Stratmann

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  Before Dr. Watson, there was Mr. Stamford . . .  
   
   
   
  London, 1876 
   
   
   
  Mr. Stamford meets Sherlock Holmes while studying at St. Bartholomew's Medical College in London. With his intense stare and unorthodox methods of doing things, Holmes has already gained a reputation as an eccentric but brilliant man. 
   
   
   
  When suspected intruders are sighted at the British Museum, Holmes is called upon to give his opinion of what happened. 
   
   
   
  But before he can come to any conclusions, something horrifying happens—one of the great treasures of the world, the priceless Rosetta Stone, is stolen from the museum. 
   
   
   
  The thieves have left a note demanding a ransom. And if it is not fulfilled they threaten to cast the Stone into the ocean so it can never be found again. 
   
   
   
  With the police on the wrong track, it is down to Holmes to solve the complex case. And when the burglary case turns into a murder investigation, it becomes a race against time before more victims are killed.

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  The Defiant Seamstress

  Evelyn Hood

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  The penultimate book in Evelyn Hood's The Paisley Women Scottish family saga series. 
  Will one defiant woman's grit and determination prevent her finding happiness? 
  Paisley, Scotland 1784 
  Christian Knox dreams of a life beyond that of a Paisley housewife and at thirteen is determined to further her education. When her disobedience causes her father to withdraw his financial support, she resolves to pay for her education herself by working at her uncle’s weaving business. 
  Headstrong and enterprising Christian soon becomes the manager, representing the local weaver women. But as problems begin to mount at home and at work, has she taken on too much? 
  When her hard work and savvy business acumen are recognised, Christian is further promoted but is pursued by her cousin Rab with an unwanted proposal of marriage. 
  Years later, she succumbs to a cossetted marriage to an older husband and is forced to give up work and is torn over her attraction to younger, Benjamin Selbie. 
  Meanwhile, spurned Rab is not prepared to let sleeping dogs lie as he causes further heartache and turmoil for Christian. 
  When Christian finally gets a second shot at success and will her relentless drive to succeed stop her from finding love? 
  The continuation of The Paisley Women saga series from Evelyn Hood, the original bestselling Scottish saga writer. Storytelling at its best. 
  Previously published as The Damask Days 
  PRAISE FOR EVELYN HOOD  'Scotland's Catherine Cookson' - Scots Magazine  ‘Hood is immaculate in her historical detail’ - Scottish Herald  'Quite simply, I couldn't put it down. A rich and rewarding read' - Emma Blair  'Evelyn Hood has been called Scotland's Catherine Cookson. Unfair. She has her own distinctive voice' - Scots Magazine  ‘Touching, romantic and unforgettable’ - Reader Review  ‘Love all her books’ - Reader Review ‘Evelyn Hood produces the best of stories’ - Reader Review  ‘I cannot put her books down’ - Reader Review  ‘Love everything Evelyn Hood writes’ - Reader Review

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  Ruth

  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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  The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The title of the novel refers to the main character Ruth Hilton, an orphaned young seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a minister and his sister. They conceal her single status under the pretence of widowhood in order to protect her child from the social stigma of illegitimacy. Ruth goes on to gain a respectable position in society as a governess, which is threatened by the return of Bellingham and the revelation of her secret. (Wikipedia)

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  Life After Kafka

  Magdaléna Platzová

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  A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiancée, and the story behind Letters to Felice 
   
   
   
  Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. Life After Kafka is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with her children from Hitler's Berlin, following her family and members of Kafka's entourage—including Grete Bloch, Max Brod, and Salman Schocken—as they try to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Years later, a man claiming to be Kafka's son approaches Felice's son in Manhattan and the drama surrounding Kafka's letters to Felice begins. 
   
   
   
  While taking the measure of literary fame's long shadow, Life After Kafka depicts the magic and poison of memories, and what we cling to when all else is lost. Most of all, it illuminates the bravery required to move forward through the shattered remains of one world to rebuild life in a new one.

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