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Fortune's Fool (Star-Cross'd)

by David Blixt

Published: 2012-04-26

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Star-Cross'd - Book Three. Italy, 1326. While the brilliant and wily Cesco is schooled in his new duties at the hand of a hard master, Pietro Alaghieri travels to Avignon, current seat of the Papacy, to fight his excommunication and plead for Cesco's legitimacy. He doesn't know an old foe has been...

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Fortune's Rocks

by Shreve Anita

Published: 2000-11-01

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Fortune's Rocks

by Anita Shreve

Published: 1999-11-23

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5 CDs / approx. 5 hoursIn a summer community on the coast of New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a girl is drawn into a passionate affair with a man nearly three times her age.  Fortune's Rocks is the story of Olympia Biddeford, proveleged, well-educated, and mature beyond her...

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* * * * Life Changing,
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The Fortune's Rocks Quartet: Fortune's Rocks, Sea Glass, The Pilot's Wife, Body Surfing

by Anita Shreve

Published: 2010-11-01

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THE FORTUNE'S ROCKS QUARTET collects four of Anita Shreve's most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for the first time. The novels highlight Shreve's ability to illuminate women's lives across different eras and share a delightful detail: they...

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* * * * * Romantic,
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Fortune's Rocks: A Novel

by Anita Shreve

Published: 2001-01-02

Paperback: 480 pages

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Everywhere hailed for its emotional intensity and unflagging narrative momentum, this magnificent novel transports us to the turn of the twentieth century, to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who ...

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Fortune's Favorites

by Colleen McCullough

Published: 1993-10

Hardcover: 878 pages

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The third volume of a saga set in ancient Rome focuses on the political fortunes of Julius Caesar, a soldier destined for greatness; Sulla the dictator; and the ambitious Pompey, as well as Spartacus's slave revolt. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.

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* * * * Dark,
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The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi

by Elif Shafak

Published: 2011-04-26

Paperback: 368 pages

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In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish know...

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Forty-Four (44)

by Jools Sinclair

Published: 2011-03-31

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Last year after falling through the ice, seventeen-year-old Abby Craig woke up from death.But she woke into a world she barely recognizes. She can?t see colors, memories have been erased, and her friends all hate her. And then there's Jesse, who she loves, but who refuses to forgive her th...

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Forward From Here: Leaving Middle Age--and Other Unexpected Adventures

by Reeve Lindbergh

Published: 2008-04-01

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco

Published: 2007-03-05

Paperback: 640 pages

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Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled?a point ...