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  • Man o' War

    A Legend Like Lightning

    by Dorothy Ours ...
    The "riveting" true story of one of the greatest racehorses who ever lived, " researched meticulously and told brilliantly" (Laura Hillenbrand, New York Times–bestselling author of Seabiscuit).His trainer said that managing him was like holding a tiger by the tail. His owner compared him to "chain lightning." His jockeys found their lives transformed by him, in triumphant and distressing ways. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Battleship

    A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse

    by Dorothy Ours ...
    A tough little horse, a gifted boy, and a woman ahead of her time. "Perfect for fans of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit or Nack's Secretariat ." — BooklistThe youngest jockey, the smallest horse, and an unconventional heiress who disliked publicizing herself. Together, near Liverpool, England, they made a leap of faith on a spring day in 1938: overridin... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Whose Body

    Series Book 1 - Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
    Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, telephones to say that Thipps, an architect hired to do some work on her local church, has just found a dead body wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez in the bath in his London flat. The official investigator, Inspector Sugg, suspects Thipps and his servant; Wimsey starts his own enquiry. Sir Reuben Levy, a famous financier, has disappeared from ... Read more

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  • High Wages

    High Wages (1930) was Dorothy Whipple's second novel. It is about a girl called Jane who gets a badly-paid job in a draper’s shop in the early years of the last century. Yet the title of the book is based on a Carlyle quotation ‘Experience doth take dreadfully high wages, but she teacheth like none other’ and Jane, having saved some money and been lent some by a friend, opens her own dress-shop. ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • Darkwater

    by Dorothy Eden ...
    This classic Gothic romance, hailed by the Boston Globe as "a gem of its species," tells the spine-tingling story of a young woman caught up in an English manor's shadowed, violent past—and confronted by the very real dangers that lie withinFanny Davenport has lived at Darkwater ever since she was brought there as a young orphan. She both loves and detests the forbidding English estate on the ... Read more

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  • Greenbanks

    Persephone Books' bestselling author Dorothy Whipple's third novel (1932) was the choice of the Book Society in the summer of that year. Hugh Walpole wrote: ‘To put it plainly, in Dorothy Whipple's picture of a quite ordinary family before and after the war there is some of the best creation of living men and women that we have had for a number of years in the English novel. She is a novelist of ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Inspector Thanet Mysteries Volume One

    The Night She Died, Six Feet Under, and Puppet for a Corpse

    Series series The Inspector Thanet Mysteries
    The first three novels in the "beautifully crafted," CWA Silver Dagger Award–winning mystery series set in the English countryside ( The Washington Post ).Detective Inspector Luke Thanet may be a family man with a soft heart and bad back, but he also has a bloodhound's nose for murder. With Sgt. Mike Lineham at his side, no mystery is too tough.The Night She Died: Beautiful Julie Holmes lies dead ... Read more

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  • Killing the Black Body

    Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

    Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.**"A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Cassandra at the Wedding

    A young woman returns to California for her sister’s wedding in this “brilliantly told” classic that stands alongside The Catcher in the Rye and The Member of the Wedding (New York Times).“I stayed up all night reading . . . I can only . . . be overwhelmed by Dorothy Baker’s continuing brilliance.” —Carson McCullersCassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fatal Invention

    How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Niccolo Rising

    Book One of the House of Niccolo

    Series Book 1 - House of Niccolo Series
    In this first book of The House of Niccolò series, the author of the Lymond Chronicles introduces a new hero, Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ravenscroft

    by Dorothy Eden ...
    In this acclaimed, classic Gothic romance by bestselling author Dorothy Eden, a woman falls in love with the nobleman who rescues her from a life on the streets . . . only to find herself in deadly danger at his haunted country estateOrphaned and cast adrift in the world, young sisters Bella and Lally McBride travel to London—only to fall victim to criminals who traffic in human flesh. Rescued by ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus