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Fools and Mortals: A Novel - To avoid the gallows, he must play the part of a lifetime. But he is a penniless actor, making ends meet through a combination of a beautiful face, petty theft and a silver tongue. New york times bestselling author bernard cornwell makes a dramatic departure with this enthralling, action-packed standalone novel that tells the story of the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream—as related by William Shakespeare’s estranged younger brother.
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His blood is saxonhis heart is vikinghis battleground is England"Perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today" Washington Post, Bernard Cornwell has dazzled and entertained readers and critics with his page-turning bestsellers. And the new foe is sköll, whose ambition is to be King of Northumbria and who leads a frightening army of wolf-warriors, a Norseman, men who fight half-crazed in the belief that they are indeed wolves.
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And while uhtred might have regained his family’s fortress, it seems that a peaceful life is not to be – as he is under threat from both an old enemy and a new foe. The old enemy comes from Wessex where a dynastic struggle will determine who will be the next king.
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John the Pupil: A Novel - Astonishing. Booklist starred review“Strikingly original. Two companions will accompany John, both Franciscan novices: the handsome, sweet-tempered Brother Andrew; and the brutish Brother Bernard. John the pupil is a road movie, recounting the journey taken from Oxford to Viterbo by John and his two companions.
. Modeling themselves after Saint Francis, the men trek by foot through Europe, preaching the gospel and begging for sustenance.
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Jane and the Man of the Cloth: Being the Second Jane Austen Mystery Being a Jane Austen Mystery Book 2 - . A man who already may have won her heart. Yet on the outskirts of town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house. For everyone who loves Jane Austen. And it is there that Jane meets the darkly forbidding yet strangely attractive Mr.
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An unforgettable fresco of a golden age in fourteenth-century Barcelona, plague and hope, Cathedral of the Sea is a thrilling historical novel of friendship and revenge, love and war. As a young man, arnau joins the powerful guild of stoneworkers and helps to build the church with his own hands, while his best friend and adopted brother Joanet studies to become a priest.
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Increasingly, he feels like a fish out of water among the concrete buildings of the University of Barchester, where he works as an English professor. And when the future of the cathedral itself is threatened, about the Grail, Arthur and Bethany’s search takes on grave importance, leading the pair to discover secrets about the cathedral, and about themselves.
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From the new york times bestselling author of the bookman’s tale comes a new novel about an obsessive bibliophile’s quest through time to discover a missing manuscript, the unknown history of an English Cathedral, and the secret of the Holy Grail Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded by the ancient books and manuscripts of the Barchester Cathedral library.
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