Colleen McCullough
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English
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Tomorrow's America is a cold and ravaged place, a nation devastated by despair and enduring winter. In a small New England city, senior government official Dr. Judith Carriol finds the man she has been seeking: a deliverer of hope in a hopeless time who can revive the dreams of a shattered people; a magnetic, compassionate idealist whom Judith can mold, manipulate and carry to undreamed-of heights; a healer who must ultimately face damnation through...
2) Tim
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English
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Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence ...until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child - a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world - he illuminates the darkness of Mary's days with his boyish innocence. And he will shatter the lonely, middle-aged spinster's respectable, ordered life with a forbidden promise of a very special love.
3) Angel
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English
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The bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS returns with a novel of laughter, passion and more than a little magic... 1960, Sydney's Kings Cross. Harriet Purcell leaves her conventional, respectable home and respectable, passionless boyfriend and moves into a rooming house owned by Mrs. Delvecchio Schwartz. There, Harriet finds a life she relishes - excitement, adventure and passion. Mrs. Delvecchio Schwartz makes a living from telling fortunes, and...
4) Caesar
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English
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In the long, fabled history of Rome, never was there one more adored - yet more feared - than Gaius Julius Caesar. Invincible on the field of battle, he commands the love and loyalty of those who fight at his side and would gladly give their lives for his glory. Yet in Rome there are enemies everywhere orchestrating his downfall and disgrace. Fanatical rivals like Cato and Bibulus would tear Rome asunder just to destroy her greatest champion - using...
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Lamplight Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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The Hurlingford family have ruled the small town of Byron for generations. Wealthy, powerful and cruel, they get what they want, every time. Missy Wright, a Hurlingford by birth, has been shunned by her family since marrying for love, not money. Now widowed, she lives quiet existence in genteel poverty. But then a stranger arrives in town; a divorcee from Sydney. She opens Missy's eyes to the possibility of a happy ending.
6) On, off
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English
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Detective Carmine Delmonico sets out on a frantic game of cat-and-mouse as he searches for a serial killer that is terrorizing a university town in Connecticut.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 39
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English
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Presents the saga of the Cleary family, beginning on an Australian sheep station in the early twentieth century and ending fifty years later, focusing on the forbidden love that develops between Meggie and Father Ralph de Bricassart.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009 [i.e. 2008]
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of The Thorn Birds presents a sequel to Pride and Prejudice that finds the willful third Bennet sister setting out in her late thirties in pursuit of adventure while her sisters worry about her at home.
11) Morgan's run
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Richard Morgan, the refined son of a Bristol tavern-keeper finds himself consigned as a convict to the "First Fleet" which brought male and female prisoners to the newly discovered continent of Australia.
12) Bittersweet
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are not enthusiastic about the limited prospects life holds...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Chief of detectives Captain Carmine Delmonico investigates a string of twelve murders in Holloman, Connecticut in 1967 and is drawn into a complex web of deceit involving an armaments company, a student from Chubb University, and a spy selling secrets to the Russians.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Captain Carmine Delmonico, already dealing with trouble within the ranks of his police force in the Holloman suburb of Carew, Connecticut, in 1968, must somehow unite his team to find a rapist whose crimes have escalated to murder.
18) The grass crown
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Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
As the Roman Empire declines Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla vie for political dominance.
19) Caesar's women
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Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Caesar returns from the battlefield to Rome and prepares to conquer the political arena and the women he left behind--his mistress Servilia, his mother Aurelia, his daughter Julia, and the celebrated Vestal Virgins.