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Author
Series
Watchmaker of Filigree Street series volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm
Description
In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has worse fears than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, which has just received a threat for what could be the largest-scale Fenian bombing in history. When the watch saves Thaniel's life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori--a kind, lonely immigrant who sweeps him into a new world...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xvii, 218 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Description
During the Gold Rush, a young Chinese concubine arrived by horse in Idaho gold country, where a white gambler soon won her in a poker game. She became Polly Bemis, the winner's legal, beloved wife. Polly emerged into public view only in 1923, a tiny old woman on horseback, her identity and story known only to a few old-timers.
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