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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

The Physician's Tale by Ann Benson

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Also by Ann Benson:

The Physician's Tale, October 2007
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
The Physician's Tale, December 2006
Hardcover

THE PHYSICIAN'S TALE
By: Ann Benson

Delacorte
December 2006
On Sale: November 28, 2006
528 pages
ISBN: 0385335059
EAN: 9780385335058
Hardcover
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Historical | Fiction

In the late fourteenth century, the Black Death has devastated Europe. And one Jewish physicianβ€”on the run from the English authoritiesβ€”struggles to rebuild his life and save his adopted daughter, imprisoned in the court of her birth father, King Edward III.

Meanwhile, in the near-future, life has virtually shut down across the world due to a reappearance of the virulent DR SAMβ€”an even deadlier killer than the once- feared Black Death. But one bold group of survivors struggles to rebuild a fragmented worldβ€” and reestablish the broken bonds of civilization.