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Douglas Woods, Matt Walla
Afficionados of Spanish Style architecture and of the 'Santa Barbara adobe' recognise Santa Barbara as a mecca, the influence of which continues to be felt nationwide. The book is an…
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Barbara Wooding
In the first full-length study devoted to John Lowin, Wooding provides a comprehensive overview of the life and times of one of the greatest actors of seventeenth-century England. She examines…
Barbara Feller
Barbara Weldele
It's raining outside, which means Jeannine and her brothers are stuck indoors. At first, hope for a fun-filled day seems lost. Then Jeannine gets an idea...
"Let's make a big…
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Barbara Wood
In ancient Rome, 19-year-old Ulrika is plagued with strange visions and dreams. To discover the truth behind her past, she embarks on a dangerous journey and discovers her calling to…
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Moving through the exotic settings of California, Hawaii, and Africa, Wood weaves a rich and compelling story of three women’s lives and the challenges they face in their careers and…
Wood combines her superb storytelling gifts with medical and historic fact to create an epic adventure. Selene, an unusual and gifted young woman, seeks her destiny in the ancient healing…
Set in the untamed landscape of mid-19th century Australia, The Dreaming is a rich and potent tale of hidden passion and broken taboo from acclaimed novelist Wood.
After her mother’s death in 1857, Leyla travels from London to the brooding countryside mansion of Pemberton Hurst to seek out her past. Then terror strikes. A murderer roams the…
Dr. Mark Davison is saved from unemployment by a stroke of extraordinary good fortune. A stranger arrives on his doorstep with an item any historian would envy–the journal of a…
Set in Kenya, in 1919, this book is of a British family, the Trevertons, who settle on an estate on the homeland of Kikuyu and the antagonism that develops between…
Beautiful young Andrea travels from Los Angeles to her ancestral home in England to meet her relatives and confront her mysterious heritage. But from the first moment she steps foot…
From master storyteller Barbara Wood comes an engrossing suspense novel about a young girl caught between the possibilities of science and the mysteries of faith. According to the doctors, seventeen-year-old…
Seventeen-year-old Hoshitiwas life is simple–until she is captured by the powerful and violent ruler of Center Place. Bestselling author Wood writes of an extraordinary woman drawn into a world of…
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Ugarit, Syria, 1450 B.C.E. Eighteen-year-old Leah, the eldest daughter of a wealthy winemaker, is past the traditional age of betrothal. Vowed to wed the wealthy but cruel shipbuilder Jotham, Leah…
A masterful depiction of human emotion with richly imagined characters and spellbinding scenery.
Growing up in the squalor of Victorian London, Samantha dreams of becoming a doctor. From the crowded wards of charity hospitals to the grandeur of society receptions and the calm…
An exciting thriller teeming with adventure and suspense about two sisters caught in a deadly international game.
It’s been four years since Lydia Harris last spoke to her elder sister…
A sweeping historical saga of Australia and a love story of one determined young woman who must choose between the two devoted men she loves. Eighteen-year-old Hannah Conroy has always…
A magnificent coming-of-age saga about two sisters from an aristocratic Egyptian family who rebel against tradition.
Moving through the exotic settings of California, Hawaii, and Africa, Barbara Wood weaves a rich and compelling story of three women’s lives and the challenges they face in their careers…
Brimming with the passion and suspense Barbara Wood’s fans have come to expect, this magnificent novel portrays two lovers separated by deadly secrets and trapped in the fateful hourglass of…
The 21st century is approaching, and Caroline Alexander is determined to translate the ancient scrolls she has discovered. Deadly enemies are on her trail, but despite several almost fatal moments…
Mei-Ling is the daughter of a Chinese mother and American father. But when their marriage fails, she is sent to America for a better life and struggles to make a…
Set in London, New York, and San Francisco from the late 19th-century through the first decades of the 20th, Domina is the inspiring saga of one woman’s personal and professional…
Barbara Woods
Enjoy Easy & Crispy Air Fryer Recipes For Healthy Living!I bet you crave for simple, no-fuss air fryer recipes! That’s why I decided to create the best air fryer cookbook…
New York Times bestselling author Barbara Wood’s latest novel follows a disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress who marry and move West to build an agricultural empire…
NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK Set in the tumultuous era when Egypt is on the brink of becoming the dominant world power, The Serpent and the Staff tells the powerful story…
Three million years ago a blue stone breaks off from a meteor and falls to earth. From there, the story follows the stone as it changes hands, from prehistoric Africa…
From the bestselling author of The Blessing Stone and Daughter of the Sun comes an evocative novel set in an undiscovered world before the time of Columbus.
Benjamin Messer finds himself drawn into the past as he deciphers the Magdalene scrolls, written by David Ben Jonah. As he digs deeper, the riddle of the scrolls becomes terrifyingly…
For as long as anyone could remember, the Schallers and the Newmans had been enemies. When the skeletal remains of a victim of foul play are discovered at the Schaller…
A tale of history, romance and magic.
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Sensuous, spicy, and romantic, Virgins of Paradise is a spellbinding novel set in an exotic and erotic culture. Brilliantly portraying two sisters’ search for identity amidst historic change, Wood also…
