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February list by Kent Dean

Dovekeepers
by Alice Hoffman
Published 2011 by Scribner Book Company

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781451617474

Jacket Notes:
Hoffman weaves a spellbinding tale of four extraordinary, bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in desperate days. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets--about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and who they love.... More...

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Bright and Distant Shores
by Dominic Smith
Published 2011 by Washington Square Press

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9781439198865

Jacket Notes:
"Washington Square Press fiction original trade"--T.p. verso. From the award-winning author of "The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre" and "The Beautiful Miscellaneous" comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific.... More...

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Scottish Prisoner
by Diana Gabaldon
Published 2011 by Delacorte Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780385337519

Jacket Notes:
Includes a preview of the new novel in the Outlander series.

London, 1760. For Jamie Fraser, paroled prisoner-of-war in the remote Lake District, life could be worse: He's not cutting sugar cane in the West Indies, and he's close enough to the son he cannot claim as his own.... More...

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