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Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte
SUMMARY: Anne BrontA's first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to y... -
After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
SUMMARY:After the reading of a will at a Victorian mansion, the sister of the deceased patriarch suspects he met with foul play. But before long, Cora is banished from the f... -
Act of Will - A. J. Hartley
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. As 18-year-old orphaned actor Will Hawthorne explains early on in this clever page-turner, I don't want you thinking you're going to get a ... -
Acceptable Loss_ A William Monk - Anne Perry
“Give her a good murder and a shameful social evil,” The New York Times Book Review once declared, “and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens’s eyes p... -
A War Like No Other - Victor Hanson
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the... -
A Victorian Flower Dictionary - Mandy Kirkby
"A flower is not a flower alone; a thousand thoughts invest it."Daffodils signal new beginnings, daisies innocence. Lilacs mean the first emotions of love, periw... -
A cold treachery - Charles Todd
Amazon.com ReviewIntegral to most crime tales is the unearthing of concealed and unfavorable facts about suspected malefactors. But the mother-son duo who write under the nom de pl... -
A Test of Wills - Charles Todd
Amazon.com ReviewHaving just returned from France after World War I with a medal of honor and serious shell shock, Inspector Ian Rutledge struggles to settle back into his duties a... -
A Tale of Two Cities and Great - Charles Dickens
Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature-together in one extraordinary volume. A TALE OF TWO CITIES After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille,... -
A Singular Hostage - Thalassa Ali
From Publishers WeeklyWhat's a Victorian girl to do? Twenty years old, not quite beautiful, more interested in military history than in conventional female doings, Mariana Givens s...