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Edith Wharton was an American novelist, poet and short story writer whose works display her mastery over the realistic fiction genre. In 1922, two years after winning the Pulitzer Prize for "The Age of Innocence", Wharton wrote "The Glimpses of the Moon". The novel centered around two young newlyweds, who arranged their marriage in order to take advantage of their wealthy friends' generosity. However, things do not end quite as they planned when they...
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Earth's children volume 6
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Continuing the story of Ayla and Jondalar, Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived more than 25,000 years ago.
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"A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect himself. With the United States now also at risk, Piero goes on the run with Lauren Shannon, a young American CNN reporter based in Paris, desperate to uncover who is behind the attacks. After all, the power doesn't just keep the lights on-it keeps us alive."--Amazon.com.
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Earth's children volume 1
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An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory
7) All is fair
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"It's 1918, and war is raging across Europe. When Lady Mina Tretheway receives a telegram at boarding school, she doesn't want to read it--telegrams never bring good news. The message is written in a cryptic code, and Mina is soon pulled out of school and into a secret wartime mission with a dashing American spy" --
8) Dodsworth
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A middle-aged American retires and he and his wife go to Europe where they find a new set of values and relationships
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Marble Arch Press
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2013
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440 pages ; 21cm
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Four brothers--none of whom knew the others existed--come together for the first time to search for their missing father, a truck driver who abandoned them when they were young, and put together the pieces of his life.
10) Vanity fair
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Vanity Fair is a story of two heroines---one humble, the other a scheming social climber---who meet in boarding school and embark on markedly different lives. Amid the swirl of London's posh ballrooms and affairs of love and war, their fortunes rise and fall. Through it all, Thackeray lampoons the shallow values of his society, reserving the most pointed barbs for the upper crust. What results is a prescient look at the dogged pursuit of wealth and...
11) The confessor
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 3
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Signet
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[2004], c2003
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470 p. ; 19 cm.
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In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated- and covert operative and art restorer Gabriel Allon must get to the bottom of a plot that reveals the truth about the Catholic Church's response to the Holocaust. Now, as Allon follows a trail of secrets and unthinkable deeds, the lives of millions will be changed forever- and one man will become expendable...
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Paris, 1937. Andras L?vi, a Hungarian-Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he promised to deliver. But when he falls into a complicated relationship with the letter's recipient, he becomes privy to a secret that will alter the course of his?and his family?s?history.
13) Black order
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Sigma Force novels volume 3
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A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany . . . and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland. A continent away, madness...
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Little blue envelopes volume 2
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HarperTeen
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c2011
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282 p. ; 22 cm.
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Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.
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Ishmael trilogy volume 2
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
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325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"People are listening, Jared--possibly to something quite new. That makes it dangerous." So begins Father Jared Osborne's mission to Europe to find a peripatetic preacher whose radical message is attracting a growing circle of followers. Father Osborne is bound by a covert centuries-old mandate held by his religious order: to know before all others that the Antichrist is among us--and to try to suppress and destroy him...
16) The unicorn hunt
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Knopf
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1994
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xx, 656 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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Dutton Children's Books
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c2008
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377 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"At first Tally doesn't want to go to the boarding school called Delderton. But she soon discovers that it is a wonderful place where freedom and self expression are valued. Tally organizes a ragtag dance troupe so the school can participate in an international folk dancing festival in Bergania in the summer of 1939. There she befriends Karil, the crown prince, who would love nothing more than to have ordinary friends and attend a school like Delderton....
20) Queen of babble
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Queen of babble novels volume 1
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William Morrow
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c2006
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308 p. ; 22 cm.
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Lizzie Nichols discovers that her inability to keep her mouth shut has landed her in hot water when she aggravates her unfaithful boyfriend, is stranded in London, and takes a job as a bartender for a catered wedding at a French chateau.
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