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A Gripping Historical Thriller Set In Inverness In The Wake Of The 1746 Battle Of Culloden. 'This Slice Of Historical Fiction Takes You On A Wild Ride' The Times After Culloden, Iain Macgillivray Was Left For Dead On Drummossie Moor. Wounded, His Face Brutally Slashed, He Survived Only By Pretending To Be Dead As The Redcoats Patrolled The Corpses Of His Jacobite Comrades. Six Years Later, With The Clan Chiefs Routed And The Highlands Subsumed Into The British State, Iain Lives A Quiet Life,
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The Women's Room [Book]
The twenty-one-million copy bestselling novel and provocative feminist classic that changed the world when it was first published in 1977 "With The Women's Room, Marilyn French joined Simone de Beauvoir, Ralph Ellison, and that very small group of writers whose words spark a movement." --Gloria Steinem In the 1950s, many American women left education and professional advancement behind in order to marry, only to find themselves adrift and unable to support themselves after divorcing their husbands twenty years later. Some became destitute; a few went insane. But many went back to school in the heyday of the Women's Liberation movement, and were swept up in the promise of equality for both sexes. The Women's Room tells the story of one such woman: a suburban 1950s housewife named Mira who d
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The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father [Book]
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay...like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."--The New Yorker A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance--financial, cultural, genetic--conspired in one person's self-destruction. Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphia's Main Line. There was an obligation to protect it, a license to enjoy it, a duty to pass it on--but it was impossible to know in advance how all that extraordinary
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A Mercy [Book]
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In "one of Morrison's most haunting works" (New York Times) the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter--a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding i
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