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Skyhorse, Brando Madonnas Of Echo Park Free Press 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002709. ISBN #1439170843 / 9781439170847. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Skyhorse, Brando Madonnas Of Echo Park Free Press 2011 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1002709. ISBN #1439170843 / 9781439170847. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Madonnas of Echo Park is both a grand mural of a Los Angeles neighborhood and an intimate glimpse into the lives of the men and women who struggle to lose their ethnic identity in the pursuit of the American dream. Each chapter summons a different voice poetic, fierce, comic. We meet Hector, a day laborer who trolls the streets for work and witnesses a murder that pits his morality against his illegal status; his ex-wife Felicia, who narrowly survives a shooting and lands a cleaning job in a Hollywood Hills house as desolate as its owner; and young Aurora, who journeys through her now gentrified childhood neighborhood to discover her own history and her place in the land that all Mexican-Americans dream of, the land that belongs to us again. Reminiscent of Luis Alberto Urrea and Dinaw Mengestu, The Madonnas of Echo Park is a brilliant and genuinely fresh view of American life.
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Sleath, Betsy Hess Pelican Island Pharmacy ArchwayPublishing 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109948. ISBN #1480821594 / 9781480821590. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sleath, Betsy Hess Pelican Island Pharmacy ArchwayPublishing 2015 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1109948. ISBN #1480821594 / 9781480821590. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Five years after her divorce, Jessie thinks her problems with her ex-husband, Jason, are over--until the day he attacks her on the campus where she works as a pharmacy professor. Several months later, Jessie flees Connecticut with her teenage daughter, May, and heads to the small beach town of Pelican Island, North Carolina, to seek safety and a new beginning. After she secures a job as a pharmacist to help out family friends, Jessie is soon intertwined in the lives of the members of the local Methodist church who frequent the pharmacy's soda fountain, including the pastor and his wife. While a rivalry develops with Norma, the feisty southern belle who runs the soda fountain, Jessie becomes the most eligible female in Pelican Island. As she builds friendships with the town doctor and a lieutenant colonel, Jessie wonders if she will ever be able to trust a man again. But just as she settles into her new life and opens her heart to love, Jessie's past rises up once again to haunt her. In this compelling novel, a woman attempting to rebuild her life after an attack by her ex-husband discovers that her painful past may be more difficult to escape than she ever realized.
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Sloan, Maya High Before Homeroom 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112073. ISBN #1439171297 / 9781439171295. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sloan, Maya High Before Homeroom 2010 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112073. ISBN #1439171297 / 9781439171295. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Losers, now you can get the bad-boy rep the girls find positively irresistible Unleash your dark side with the Doug Schaffer plan for drug addiction and rehabilitation Kids, don't try this at home. At sixteen years old, Doug Schaffer knows two things for sure: 1. He is doomed to live in the shadow of his older brother, Trevor, a former high school football star who is stationed in Iraq. 2. Free-spirited Laurilee, the hot ear-piercing girl at the mall, only dates bad boys. Cue Doug's foolproof plan to tarnish his own unremarkable reputation. The first step is to develop a drug addiction. His mom's too preoccupied with organizing care packages for Mothers Support Our Troops Northwest Oklahoma City Chapter to stop him. Besides, he just needs to get hooked on meth long enough to come back from rehab a totally different person. Someone people notice. With the help of Trevor s strung-out former high-school buddy, drug addict Doug has the confidence that loser Doug never mustered. He stays out all night, scores girls, and stands up for himself. Then Trevor unexpectedly returns home with a dark secret of his own, and everything Doug thought was true is shattered. Soon the brothers find a common ground they never knew they shared as they discover the price of pleasing others is the freedom to be yourself.
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Sloan, Robin Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Picador 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153207. ISBN #1250037751 / 9781250037756. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sloan, Robin Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Picador 2013 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1153207. ISBN #1250037751 / 9781250037756. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times , and San Francisco Chronicle The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. But after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything--instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends. But when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls. Rendered with irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: an establishment you have to enter and will never want to leave.
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Smiley, Jane A Thousand Acres Ballantine Books 1991 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1152672. ISBN #0449907481 / 9780449907481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane All-True Travels And Adventures Of Lidie Newton 1998 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030772. ISBN #0679450742 / 9780679450740. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane All-True Travels And Adventures Of Lidie Newton 1998 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030772. ISBN #0679450742 / 9780679450740. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance. Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of Lidie Harkness of Quincy, Illinois, a young woman of courage, good sense, and good heart. It carries us into an America so violently torn apart by the question of slavery that it makes our current political battlegrounds seem a peaceable kingdom. Lidie is hard to scare. She is almost shockingly alive--a tall, plain girl who rides and shoots and speaks her mind, and whose straightforward ways paradoxically amount to a kind of glamour. We see her at twenty, making a good marriage--to Thomas Newton, a steady, sweet-tempered Yankee who passes through her hometown on a dangerous mission. He belongs to a group of rashly brave New England abolitionists who dedicate themselves to settling the Kansas Territory with like-minded folk to ensure its entering the Union as a Free State. Lidie packs up and goes with him. And the novel races alongside them into the Territory, into the maelstrom of "Bloody Kansas," where slaveholding Missourians constantly and viciously clash with Free Staters, where wandering youths kill you as soon as look at you--where Lidie becomes even more fervently abolitionist than her husband as the young couple again and again barely escape entrapment in webs of atrocity on both sides of the great question. And when, suddenly, cold-blooded murder invades her own intimate circle, Lidie doesn't falter. She cuts off her hair, disguises herself as a boy, and rides into Missouri in search of the killers--a woman in a fiercely male world, an abolitionist spy in slave territory. On the run, her life threatened, her wits sharpened, she takes on yet another identity--and, in the very midst of her masquerade, discovers herself. Lidie grows increasingly important to us as we follow her travels and adventures on the feverish eve of the War Between the States. With its crackling portrayal of a totally individual and wonderfully articulate woman, its storytelling drive, and its powerful recapturing of an almost forgotten part of the American story, this is Jane Smiley at her enthralling and enriching best.
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Smiley, Jane Barn Blind Ballantine Books 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1028304. ISBN #0449908747 / 9780449908747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane Barn Blind Ballantine Books 1993 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1028304. ISBN #0449908747 / 9780449908747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting. But the horses that graze there have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfillment of every wish: to win, to be honored, to be the best. Her ambition is the galvanizing force in Jane Smiley's first novel, a force that will drive a wedge between her and her family, and bring them all to tragedy. Written with the grace and quiet beauty of her Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, Barn Blind is a spellbinding story on the classic American themes of work, love, and duty, and the excesses we commit to achieve success. "Chilling . . . Jane Smiley handles with skill and understanding the mercurial molasses of adolescence, and the inchoate, cumbersome love that family members feel for one another." -- The New York Times
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Smiley, Jane Golden Age Knopf 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118982. ISBN #0307700348 / 9780307700346. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane Golden Age Knopf 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1118982. ISBN #0307700348 / 9780307700346. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume, following Some Luck and Early Warning, of her acclaimed American trilogy a richly absorbing new novel that brings the remarkable Langdon family into our present times and beyond A lot can happen in one hundred years, as Jane Smiley shows to dazzling effect in her Last Hundred Years trilogy. But as Golden Age, its final installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of Langdons face economic, social, political and personal challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered before. Michael and Richie, the rivalrous twin sons of World War II hero Frank, work in the high-stakes world of government and finance in Washington and New York, but they soon realize that one s fiercest enemies can be closest to home; Charlie, the charming, recently found scion, struggles with whether he wishes to make a mark on the world; and Guthrie, once poised to take over the Langdons Iowa farm, is instead deployed to Iraq, leaving the land ever the heart of this compelling saga in the capable hands of his younger sister. Determined to evade disaster, for the planet and her family, Felicity worries that the farm s once-bountiful soil may be permanently imperiled, by more than the extremes of climate change. And as they enter deeper into the twenty-first century, all the Langdon women wives, mothers, daughters find themselves charged with carrying their storied past into an uncertain future. Combining intimate drama, emotional suspense, and a full command of history, Golden Age brings to a magnificent conclusion the century-spanning portrait of this unforgettable family and the dynamic times in which they ve loved, lived, and died: a crowning literary achievement from a beloved master of American storytelling.
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Smiley, Jane Good Faith Knopf 2003 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or947269. ISBN #0375412174 / 9780375412172. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane Good Faith Knopf 2003 hardcover. First Edition. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or947269. ISBN #0375412174 / 9780375412172. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Jane Smiley brings her extraordinary gifts comic timing, empathy, emotional wisdom, an ability to deliver slyly on big themes and capture the American spirit to the seductive, wishful, wistful world of real estate, in which the sport of choice is the mind game. Her funny and moving new novel is about what happens when the American Dream morphs into a seven-figure American Fantasy. Joe Stratford is someone you like at once. He makes an honest living helping nice people buy and sell nice houses. His not-very-amicable divorce is finally settled, and he s ready to begin again. It s 1982. He is pretty happy, pretty satisfied. But a different era has dawned; Joe s new friend, Marcus Burns from New York, seems to be suggesting that the old rules are ready to be repealed, that now is the time you can get rich quick. Really rich. And Marcus not only knows that everyone is going to get rich, he knows how. Because Marcus just quit a job with the IRS. But is Joe ready for the kind of success Marcus promises he can deliver? And what s the real scoop on Salt Key Farm? Is this really the development opportunity of a lifetime? And then there s Felicity Ornquist, the lovely, feisty, winning and married daughter of Joe s mentor and business partner. She has finally owned up to her feelings for Joe: she s just been waiting for him to be available. The question Joe asks himself, over and over, is, Does he have the gumption? Does he have the smarts and the imagination and the staying power to pay attention to Marcus and to Felicity and reap the rewards? Good Faith captures the seductions and illusions that can seize America during our periodic golden ages every Main Street an El Dorado . To follow Joe as he does deals and is dealt with in this newly liberated world of anything goes is a roller-coaster ride through the fun park of the 1980s. It is Jane Smiley in top form.
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Smiley, Jane Good Faith Anchor Books 2003 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144837. ISBN #0385721056 / 9780385721059. (keywords: Real Estate Agents Divorced Men 1980s Eighties Investment Venture Affair) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane The Greenlanders Fawcett Columbine 1988 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143541. ISBN #044991089X / 9780449910894. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane Thousand Acres 1992 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1007484. ISBN #0449907481 / 9780449907481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane Thousand Acres 1992 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1007484. ISBN #0449907481 / 9780449907481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and of the human cost of a lifetime spent trying to subdue the land and the passions it stirs. The most critically acclaimed novel of the literary season, a classic story of contemporary American life, A THOUSAND ACRES is destined to be read for years to come. "It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt . . . . Its genius grows from its ruthless acceptance of the divided nature of every character . . . . This gives A THOUSAND ACRES the prismatic quality of the greatest art." -- Chicago Tribune Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
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Smiley, Jane Thousand Acres 1992 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135881. ISBN #0449907481 / 9780449907481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smiley, Jane Thousand Acres 1992 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1135881. ISBN #0449907481 / 9780449907481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and of the human cost of a lifetime spent trying to subdue the land and the passions it stirs. The most critically acclaimed novel of the literary season, a classic story of contemporary American life, A THOUSAND ACRES is destined to be read for years to come. "It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt . . . . Its genius grows from its ruthless acceptance of the divided nature of every character . . . . This gives A THOUSAND ACRES the prismatic quality of the greatest art." -- Chicago Tribune Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
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Smith, Andrew Grasshopper Jungle 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034709. ISBN #0142425001 / 9780142425008. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smith, Andrew Grasshopper Jungle 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034709. ISBN #0142425001 / 9780142425008. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A 2015 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Winner of the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction "Raunchy, bizarre, smart and compelling." -- Rolling Stone Grasshopper Jungle is simultaneously creepy and hilarious. Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut s in Slaughterhouse Five, in the best sense. -- New York Times Book Review In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend, Robby, have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things. This is the truth. This is history. It s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it. You know what I mean. Funny, intense, complex, and brave, Grasshopper Jungle brilliantly weaves together everything from testicle-dissolving genetically modified corn to the struggles of recession-era, small-town America in this groundbreaking coming-of-age stunner.
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Smith, Annabel Whiskey & Charlie 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1007450. ISBN #1492628530 / 9781492628538. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smith, Annabel Whiskey & Charlie 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1007450. ISBN #1492628530 / 9781492628538. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "A sharp, perceptive novel about family and forgiveness, Whiskey Charlie will stay with me for a very long time." Christina Baker Kline, 1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train A captivating debut novel of brothers who have drifted apart and the accident that will determine their future, by an unforgettable new voice in fiction. Whiskey and Charlie might have come from the same family, but they'd tell you two completely different stories about growing up. Whiskey is everything Charlie is not bold, daring, carefree and Charlie blames his twin brother for always stealing the limelight, always getting everything, always pushing Charlie back. By the time the twins reach adulthood, they are barely even speaking to each other. When they were just boys, the secret language they whispered back and forth over their crackly walkie-talkies connected them, in a way. The two-way alphabet alpha, bravo, charlie, delta became their code, their lifeline. But as the brothers grew up, they grew apart. When Charlie hears that Whiskey has been in a terrible accident and has slipped into a coma, Charlie can't make sense of it. Who is he without Whiskey? As days and weeks slip by and the chances of Whiskey recovering grow ever more slim, Charlie is forced to consider that he may never get to say all the things he wants to say. A compelling and unforgettable novel about rivalry and redemption, Whiskey Charlie is perfect for anyone whose family has ever been less than picture-perfect. "A finely crafted novel that keeps us reading because we care about the characters. It's a terrific book." Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect
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Smith, Anne Easter A Rose for the Crown Touchstone 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048676. ISBN #0743276876 / 9780743276870. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smith, Anne Easter A Rose for the Crown Touchstone 2006 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1048676. ISBN #0743276876 / 9780743276870. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary AN UNFORGETTABLE HEROINE, A KING MISUNDERSTOOD BY HISTORY, A LOVE STORY THAT HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD In A Rose for the Crown, we meet one of history's alleged villains through the eyes of a captivating new heroine -- the woman who was the mother of his illegitimate children, a woman who loved him for who he really was, no matter what the cost to herself. As Kate Haute moves from her peasant roots to the luxurious palaces of England, her path is inextricably intertwined with that of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III. Although they could never marry, their young passion grows into a love that sustains them through war, personal tragedy, and the dangerous heights of political triumph. Anne Easter Smith's impeccable research provides the backbone of an engrossing and vibrant debut from a major new historical novelist.
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Smith, Anne Easter Daughter of York: A Novel Touchstone 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140269. ISBN #0743277317 / 9780743277310. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Smith, Anne Easter Daughter of York: A Novel Touchstone 2008 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1140269. ISBN #0743277317 / 9780743277310. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary History tells us that the intelligent, wealthy, and powerful Margaret of York had everything any woman could want, except for love. The acclaimed author of A Rose for the Crown takes us between the lines of history and into her heart. It is 1461: Edward, son of Richard of York, ascends to the throne, and his willful sister, Margaret, immediately becomes a pawn in European politics as Edward negotiates her marriage. The young Margaret falls deeply in love with Anthony Woodville, the married brother of Edward's queen, Elizabeth. But Edward has arranged for his sister to wed Charles, son of the Duke of Burgundy, and soon Margaret is setting sail for her new life. Her official escort: Anthony Woodville. Margaret of York eventually commanded the respect and admiration of much of Europe, but it appears to history that she had no emotional intimate. Anne Easter Smith's rare gift for storytelling and her extensive research reveal the love that burned at the center of Margaret's life, adding a new dimension to the story of one of the fifteenth century's most powerful women.
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