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Ken Follett

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Two retired Texas Rangers lead a cattle drive from the Rio Grande to Montana -- a thousand miles through a country that rewards endurance and punishes haste.

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An English navigator shipwrecked in feudal Japan in 1600 becomes entangled in a war between samurai lords and falls in love with a world utterly unlike his own.

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The Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley
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The Arthurian legend retold through the eyes of its women -- Morgaine, Gwenhwyfar, the Lady of the Lake -- as the old ways of the Goddess give way to Christianity.

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Two sisters in occupied France choose very different paths of resistance -- and both will be tested beyond anything they imagined.

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