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(0)Anya Seton
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In 1631 Elizabeth Winthrop, newly widowed with an infant daughter, set sail for the New World. Against a background of rigidity and conformity she dared to befriend Anne Hutchinson at the moment of her banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; dared to challenge a determined army captain bent on the massacre of her friends the Siwanoy Indians; and, above all, dared to love a man as her heart and her whole being commanded. And so, as a response...
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""A glorious example of romance in its most classic literary sense: exhilarating, exuberant, and rich with the jeweled tones of England in the 1300s." --Austin Chronicle Katherine is an epic novel of a love affair that changed history--that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant fourteenth century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting...
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""The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay--the law of cause and effect, good and evil, among certain individual souls in two periods of English history." Green Darkness is the story of a great love, a love in which mysticism, suspense, and mystery form a web of good and evil forces that stretches from Tudor England to the England of the twentieth century. The marriage of the Englishman Richard Marsdon and his young...
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A saga set in the coastal town of Marblehead, Massachussetts, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Katherine and other acclaimed historical novels.
Inspired by research into her own family history, novelist Anya Seton created this compelling tale of New England, set in a “sea-girdled town of rocks and winding lanes and clustered old houses.”
It is not only the story...
Inspired by research into her own family history, novelist Anya Seton created this compelling tale of New England, set in a “sea-girdled town of rocks and winding lanes and clustered old houses.”
It is not only the story...
5) Foxfire
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Amanda Lawrence, a young sheltered woman from New York, falls for Jonathan Dartland, a half-Apache mining engineer. Following her new husband to the grim western town of Lodestone, Arizona, Amanda soon feels lonely and forsaken. But when a map of a lost mine surfaces detailing the location of a cache of cursed Apache gold, Amanda and her husband become caught in a whirlwind of haunting legends and deadly realities.
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A novel of a girl’s journey from an orphaned childhood in New Mexico to an opulent life in Gilded Age New York, by the author of Avalon.
In 1850, as her mother lay dying and a priest stood by, Santa Fe Cameron was named by her Scottish father after the town in which she had just been born. At seven years old, she would also lose her father.
Shortly thereafter, a Navajo shaman recognized psychic...
In 1850, as her mother lay dying and a priest stood by, Santa Fe Cameron was named by her Scottish father after the town in which she had just been born. At seven years old, she would also lose her father.
Shortly thereafter, a Navajo shaman recognized psychic...
7) Dragonwyck
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A novel of seduction, mystery, and danger set in New York's Hudson Valley in the nineteenth century, by the author of Foxfire. There was, on the Hudson, a way of life such as this, and there was a house not unlike Dragonwyck . . . In the spring of 1844, the Wells family receives a letter from a distant relative, the wealthy landowner Nicholas Van Ryn. He has invited one of their daughters for an extended visit at his Hudson Valley estate, Dragonwyck....
8) Avalon
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This saga travels across oceans and continents to Iceland, Greenland, and North America during the time in history when Anglo-Saxons battled Vikings and the Norsemen discovered America. The marked contrasts between powerful royalty, landless peasants, Viking warriors and noble knights are expertly brought to life in this gripping tale of the French prince named Rumon. Shipwrecked off the Cornish coast on his quest to find King Arthur's legendary Avalon,...
9) Dragonwyck
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Libros de Seda
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2019
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El libro de Anya Seton que inspiró la obra maestra del cine de Joseph L. Mankiewicz. La historia de una mujer notable y el misterio y el suspense que la esperan en los magníficos pasillos de Dragonwyck.Miranda Wells tiene dieciocho años y es la hija de un granjero en la América profunda. Está harta de batir mantequilla, de quitar las malas hierbas del jardín y de que la pretendan jóvenes granjeros sin gracia. Por eso, al recibir la invitación
...10) Devil water
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The true story of Charles Radcliff, a Catholic nobleman who joined the short-lived Jacobite rebellion of 1715, and of his daughter, Jenny, by a secret marriage. Set in the wilds of Northumbria, teeming London, and colonial Virginia, Jenny's loyalty, passion, and courage as she struggles between living in the Old World and the New are revealed.
11) My Theodosia
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Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1941
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In this historical novel by the author of Green Darkness, Theodosia’s romantic life is controlled by her domineering father, the infamous Aaron Burr.
Anya Seton’s best-selling first novel, originally published in 1941, captures all the drama of the short life of Theodosia Burr (1783–1813). Her father, Aaron—Thomas Jefferson’s vice president, most famous for his great duel with Alexander Hamilton—holds
15) Dragonwyck
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Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
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Gothic tale of a country girl who falls in love with and marries an eccentric, mean-spirited man.
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Twentieth Century Fox Entertainment
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[2008], ©2008
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Disc. 1. When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi. -- Disc. 2. A naive farm girl is invited to live with her dark and charming distant cousin in order to school his daughter at Dragonwyyck manor. She becomes more aware of selfishness, desire, and insanity at the manor. -- Disc 3. Dr. Larry Forbes visits the château of Dr. Robert...
