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1666. A child is born in the farmhouse at Windebank, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Named Rejoice (Joy) by her dying father, Joy grows up witness to the persecution of the farming community for following a banned faith. Defying the authority of the local priest, she joins a group of Yorkshire pioneers traveling to the New World to form a Quaker colony close to Philadelphia-a passionate, rebellious, and courageous woman fighting against the constraints...
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Jane Austen Society mystery volume 2
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When the English town of York hosts a Jane Austen Society conference, bookseller Erin Coleridge is glad to get out of Kirkbymoorside for a while. When a featured speaker dies from an apparent heart attack, Erin is suspicious. As both Detective Inspector Peter Hemming and schoolteacher Jonathan Alder make gestures of romantic interest, Erin joins forces with Kirdbymoorside's cat lady, Farnsworth, to ferret out the guilty party. -- adapted from jacket....
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A neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor, Jo Jones, taking possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing, and to clear her name, she must unearth the town's secrets--and her own.