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Nancy Turner burst onto the literary scene with her hugely popular bestselling novel These Is My Words, followed by sequels Sarah's Quilt, and The Star Garden. Now, Turner has written the novel she was born to write. The year is 1729, and young Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in New England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving. When Resolute finds herself alone in Lexington, Massachusetts, she struggles to find her way in a society that is quick to judge a young woman without a family. As the seeds of rebellion against England grow, Resolute's talent at the loom places her at the centre of an incredible web of secrecy that helped drive the American Revolution. Heartwrenching, brilliantly written, and packed to the brim with adventure, My Name is Resolute is destined to be an instant classic.

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The history of California in the mid-19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel. Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New York, is leading a neat, proper life, full of elegant parties and polite young men, yet the prospect of actually marrying any of them appalls her. Yearning for adventure, she instead marries Oliver Hale, a wild trader who is about to cross the mountains and deserts to an unheard-of land called California. During Garnet and Oliver's honeymoon in New Orleans, she meets a dance-hall performer on the lam who calls herself Florinda Grove and is also traveling to California. Along the Jubilee Trail, Garnet and Florinda meet kinds of men never known to them before, and together they make their painstaking way over the harsh trail to Los Angeles, learning how to live without compromise and discover both true friendship and true love.

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