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Fortunes of War (The Sentinels Series Book One) (Sentinels (Greenleaf))

by Gordon Zuckerman

Published: 2009-07-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In this riveting amalgam of political intrigue, poignant romance, and bare-knuckled action, six friends risk everything to thwart an international Nazi conspiracy. In the financial devastation of the 1930s, a greedy, power-hungry group of German industrialists plot to usher in the Nationa...

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Fortune's Children

by Arthur T. Vanderbilt 2nd

Published: 1991-02-20

Paperback: 512 pages

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Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among th...

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* * * Interesting,
Beautiful

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Fortune's Daughter

by Alice Hoffman

Published: 1999-12-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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This novel from the bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon tells the story of two women--one young, unmarried, and far from home as she awaits the birth of her first child, the other a mother who lost her daughter long ago...

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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 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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Fortune's Rocks

by Shreve Anita

Published: 2000-11-01

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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...