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THE KING'S GENERAL
Daphne du Maurier
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ARCH OF TRIUMPH
Erich Maria Remarque
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THE BLACK ROSE
Thomas B. Costain
THE BLACK ROSE
by Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday
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Walter of Gurnie, bastard son of an English peer, is forced to flee from Oxford for his part in the university riots of 1273. Inspired by Friar Bacon, he determines to travel to China. With his friend Tristam, he fights his way to the heart of the fabulous Mongol Empire, and returns famous, to find that he must choose between the first love he thought lost and the exotic flower that he found in the East.
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BEFORE THE SUN GOES DOWN
Elizabeth Metzger Howard
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THE RIVER ROAD
Frances Parkinson Keyes
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WRITTEN ON THE WIND
Robert Wilder
WRITTEN ON THE WIND
by Robert Wilder · Putnam
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"Moral and social degeneration of the heirs of a Winston-Salem, North Carolina, tobacco fortune." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
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THE STREET
Ann Petry
THE STREET
by Ann Petry · Houghton Mifflin
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A young African American woman struggles to retain her moral integrity and guard her small son from evil in Harlem.
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THE WHITE TOWER
James Ramsey Ullman
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THOSE OTHER PEOPLE
Mary King O'Donnell
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