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Cherrydale Adult Fiction
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| c2016. | Viking | 462 pages : illustration ; 24 cm | English | Available 35 copies, 7 people are on the wait list. Cherrydale Adult Fiction F TOWLE Columbia Pike Adult Fiction F TOWLE Glencarlyn New Fiction F TOWLE |
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| [2016] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 14 audio discs (17 hr., 53 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Aurora Hills Audiovisual CD F TOWLE Central Audiovisual has 2 CD F TOWLE Cherrydale Audiovisual CD F TOWLE |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 14 copies, 62 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 22 copies, 157 people are on the wait list. |
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"A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades...
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Westover New Fiction
F PATCH
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| [2019] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 337 pages ; 24 cm. | English | Available 68 copies, 216 people are on the wait list. Westover New Fiction F PATCH |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out 22 copies, 181 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out 45 copies, 355 people are on the wait list. |
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older...
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Aurora Hills New Fiction
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Shirlington Adult Fiction
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Shirlington New Fiction
F GILBE
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| 2019. | Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 470 pages ; 24 cm. | English | Available 52 copies, 27 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills New Fiction F GILBE Shirlington Adult Fiction F GILBE Shirlington New Fiction F GILBE |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 13 copies, 73 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 29 copies, 193 people are on the wait list. |
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| [2019] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 677 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English | Checked Out |
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In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a...
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Columbia Pike New Fiction
F MOYES
Shirlington New Fiction
F MOYES
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F MOYES
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| [2019] | Pamela Dorman Books/Viking | 390 pages ; 24 cm. | English | Available 36 copies, 145 people are on the wait list. Columbia Pike New Fiction F MOYES Shirlington New Fiction F MOYES Westover New Fiction has 2 F MOYES |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 19 copies, 120 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 35 copies, 264 people are on the wait list. |
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a...
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Aurora Hills Adult Fiction
F DOERR
Columbia Pike Adult Fiction
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F DOERR
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c2014 | First Scribner hardcover edition. | Scribner | 531 pages ; 24 cm. | English | Available 30 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills Adult Fiction F DOERR Columbia Pike Adult Fiction F DOERR Shirlington Adult Fiction F DOERR |
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| [2014] | Unabridged. | Simon & Schuster Audio | 13 audio discs (960 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Checked Out |
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Checked Out 20 copies, 13 people are on the wait list. |
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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| 2014. | Thorndike Press | 771 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available 4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central Large Type has 2 LT F DOERR Westover Large Type LT F DOERR |
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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6) Circe
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Aurora Hills Adult Fiction
F MILLE
Aurora Hills New Fiction
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F MILLE
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| [2018] | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 393 pages : color map ; 25 cm | English | Available 32 copies, 20 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills Adult Fiction F MILLE Aurora Hills New Fiction F MILLE Central Adult Fiction has 2 F MILLE |
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| [2018] | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : CD ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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16 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 16
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Hachette Book Group | English | Available Online 16 copies, 6 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 16 |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Checked Out 37 copies, 49 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2018. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press | 599 pages (large print) ; 23. | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. |
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Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
Circe is not powerful like her father Helios, nor viciously alluring like her mother Perse. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power-- the power of witchcraft,...
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Central Adult Fiction
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Westover Adult Fiction
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| 2017. | First edition. | Ballantine Books | 342 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available 19 copies, 16 people are on the wait list. Central Adult Fiction F WINGA Westover Adult Fiction F WINGA |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 8 copies, 63 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 21 copies, 136 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2017. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 605 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children's Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned...
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Columbia Pike New Fiction
F COATE
Glencarlyn New Fiction
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Shirlington New Fiction
F COATE
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| 2019. | First edition. | One World | 403 pages ; 25 cm. | English | Available 46 copies, 73 people are on the wait list. Columbia Pike New Fiction F COATE Glencarlyn New Fiction F COATE Shirlington New Fiction F COATE |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 18 copies, 67 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 27 copies, 132 people are on the wait list. |
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
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9) Pachinko
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Aurora Hills Adult Fiction
F LEE
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| 2017. | First edition. | Grand Central Publishing | 490 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available 26 copies, 8 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills Adult Fiction F LEE Central Adult Fiction has 2 F LEE |
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| ℗2017. | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 16 audio discs (approximately 18 hr., 30 min.) : CD ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Hachette Book Group | English | Checked Out 11 copies, 11 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Grand Central Publishing | English | Checked Out 20 copies, 36 people are on the wait list. |
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Profoundly moving and gracefully told, PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by her wealthy lover, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life. So begins a sweeping saga of exceptional people...
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Aurora Hills Adult Fiction
F WHITE
Columbia Pike Adult Fiction
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Shirlington Adult Fiction
F WHITE
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016. | First edition. | Doubleday | 306 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available 20 copies, 14 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills Adult Fiction F WHITE Columbia Pike Adult Fiction F WHITE Shirlington Adult Fiction F WHITE |
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2016] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Aurora Hills Audiovisual has 2 CD F WHITE Central Audiovisual CD F WHITE Shirlington Audiovisual CD F WHITE |
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10 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online 10 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 10 |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 25 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. |
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| [2016] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 417 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English | Checked Out |
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A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes...
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11) Summer of '69
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Cherrydale New Fiction
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| 2019. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 425 pages ; 25 cm. | English | Available 28 copies, 6 people are on the wait list. Cherrydale New Fiction F HILDE Glencarlyn New Fiction F HILDE Shirlington New Fiction F HILDE |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Hachette Book Group | English | Checked Out 6 copies, 7 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Little, Brown and Company | English | Checked Out 15 copies, 14 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2019. | Large print edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 645 pages (large print) ; 25 cm | English | Checked Out |
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Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed , in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand's first historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much...
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Columbia Pike New Fiction
F WEINE
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| 2019. | First Atria Books hardcover edition. | Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc | 466 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available 38 copies, 12 people are on the wait list. Columbia Pike New Fiction F WEINE Shirlington New Fiction has 2 F WEINE |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Checked Out 7 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. |
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25 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 25
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Atria Books | English | Available Online 25 copies, 20 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 25 |
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"A smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world. Mrs. Everything is an ambitious, richly textured journey through history--and herstory--as these two sisters navigate a changing America over the course of their lives"--
Growing up in 1950s Detroit, Jo and Bethie Kaufman's roles in the family are clearly defined....
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Aurora Hills Adult Fiction
F MORRI
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Westover New Fiction
F MORRI
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| [2018] | First U.S. edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 262, 11 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | Available 11 copies, 24 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills Adult Fiction F MORRI Central Adult Fiction F MORRI Westover New Fiction F MORRI |
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13 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Online OverDrive Collection has 13
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| 2018 | OverDrive | HarperAudio | English | Available Online 13 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 13 |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out 21 copies, 123 people are on the wait list. |
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"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2020. | First U.S. edition. | Henry Holt and Company | xvii, 757 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. | English | In Processing 15 copies, 150 people are on the wait list. Additional copies on order |
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out 8 copies, 53 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2020 | OverDrive | Henry Holt and Co | English | Checked Out 11 copies, 91 people are on the wait list. |
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""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness...
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