18 books like The Harvester
The Bastard
***“Phillipe Charboneau—the bastard. Illegitimate son of an English nobleman,*** Phillipe flees Europe and, as Philip Kent, joins the turbulent adventure that was the beginning of the American Experience. Through his struggles, his passions, his loves, and his courage, ***we share the wondrous adventure which became our America!”***
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Landfall, a channel story
***Against the grim background of England at war, the romance of Jery Chambers and Mona Stevens stands out like an unexpected spring day in the midst of a brutal winter.*** Jerry is a flying officer in the RAF. At the hotel which is the hangout for officers he sees Mona. She has taken the job of barmaid at the Royal Clarence because it is more exciting than anything else she can find to do.…
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Blaze of Noon
**Ernest K. Gann, author of ''Island in the Sky''**
***Goodreads Member Review:
KOMET (Sep 21, 2015 5 of 5 Stars) it was amazing:aviation-general, ernest-k-gann, mass-market-paperbacks***
Ernest K. Gann, in his day, was one of those aviators with a gift for conveying to the general reader the thrills and perils of flying. And in ***"BLAZE OF NOON"***, he succeeds brilliantly.
**The story…
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Tilly
***In early Victorian times, Tilly Trotter goes from a lowly cottage on the edge of the Sopwith estate, through suspicion of witchcraft and personal disillusionment, to fulfillment of a prophecy that she would come into her own.***
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Joy street
**A young woman brought up in a Brahmin family on Beacon Hill and her husband are exposed to different cultures for the first time when he joins a law firm that has experimented by hiring a Jew, an Irishman, and an Italian, in addition to their traditional Protestants.**
***Can Emily and Roger befriend these seeming upstarts without offending their own families and associates?*** This is a…
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If Tomorrow Comes
***She's Tracy Whitney. Sidney Sheldon's most exciting heroine ever.*** Lovely, idealistic, she's soon to enter into a dazzling world of sumptuous wealth, audacious exploits, and narrow escapes--***and to a passion, dangerous and elusive, that promises to fulfill all her secret dreams ...***
***The international bestseller from the master of suspense. A mafia conspiracy and one woman against…
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
***THE GREAT BESTSELLER OF THIS CENTURY! The brutally frank story!***
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Katie, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
***An awe inspiring…
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Except for me and thee
**These further adventures of Jess and Eliza Birdwell, the beloved hero and heroine of *''The Friendly Persuasion,''* are cause for celebration to the millions who have met them in Jessamyn West's memorable book.**
***Here are those gallant Quakers, young and in love, meeting the challenges of nature and man as the growing family travels westward, then encountering the bitterness and savagery…
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Overload
In the middle of a sweltering July heat wave that has no end in sight, California’s Golden State Power and Light is on overload. An emergency brownout is already in effect. Then, GSP&L’s newest and largest generator explodes. With four people dead and a widespread loss of power, a fringe group takes responsibility. But for GSP&L vice president Nim Goldman and his family; his adversary,…
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Little men
The characters from Little Women grow up and begin new adventures at Plumfield, a progressive school founded by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer.
Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.***--LibraryThing***
With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the…
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up with in Missouri. Set by the Mississippi River in the 1840's, it follows these boys as they get into predicament after predicament. Tom's classic whitewashing of the fence has become part of American legend, and the book paints a nostalgic picture of life in the middle of…
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Inside, Outside
**Herman Wouk's classic novel moves on from the grand themes which have won him international acclaim - war, the fate of nations, and the indomitable spirit of man - to the quest for identity, in the clash between the Inside of faith and family and the Outside of the glittery American dream.**
Inside, Outside sweeps through ***more than sixty years, from the pre-war, pre-atomic innocence of…
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Fairoaks
**Guy Falks, an imposter, makes a tainted fortune and becomes a great aristocrat in the pre-Civil War South.**
***Christy Lashley (Sep 16, 2012 5 of 5 Stars) it was amazing: This is a sequel to The Dahomean and is just as amazing!*** Frank Yerby is one of the best story tellers I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I have never encountered a book of his that I didn't love. This book picks…
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The City Boy
'City Boy' spins a hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven.
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The Talbot odyssey
For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole -- code name Talbot -- inside the CIA. At first, Talbot is suspected of killing European agents.
Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of…
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Captain Rebel
**Here is Frank Yerby's bestselling novel, set in Civil War New Orleans and on the perilous seas of the great Southern blockade runners.** Regardless of his Southern upbringing, **Tyler Meredith is NO GENTLEMAN!!!**
Whispers followed the powerful figure of Tyler Meredith, as he strode through **New Orleans in the spring of 1861.** This strong and ruthless man mocked southern chivalry, did not…
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The Assassin and the Desert
The Assassin and the Desert
After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a…
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The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
The Assassin and the Pirate Lord
On a remote island in a tropical sea, Celaena Sardothien, feared assassin, has come for retribution. She's been sent by the Assassin's Guild to collect on a debt they are owed by the Lord of the Pirates. But when Celaena learns that the agreed payment is not in money, but in slaves, her mission suddenly changes - and she will risk everything to right the wrong she's been sent to bring about.
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