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| William Trevor and Simon Prebble - Felicia's Journey |
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An unmarried Irish girl, pregnant and penniless, drifting through the industrial English Midlands in search of the boyfriend who left her, instead meets Mr. Hilditch, fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable--who is looking for a new friend to join the other girls of his "Memory Lane". "Perfectly execu ...
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$1.99 - $11.90
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| A. N. Wilson - Tolstoy |
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This biography of Tolstoy by the award-winning English biographer A. N. Wilson puts Tolstoy's life into the context of his times--the rich, chaotic world of 19th-century Russia.
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$13.00 - $13.00
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| William Boyd - A Good Man in Africa |
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In the small African republic of Kinjanja, Morgan Leafy, a carefree British civil servant perennially in search of sexual adventure, must deal with Harvard-educated tribal chiefs, unalterably genteel Englishwomen, and a cursed lightning-struck corpse. Winner of the Whitbread Award.
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$10.00 - $10.00
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| Roy Jenkins - Gladstone: A Biography |
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A biography of the great 19th-century British statesman, who served four times as Prime Minister. Jenkins examines Gladstone's public side, including his forming of the Liberal party and his advocacy of Irish home rule; and he examines Gladstone's interest in knowledge and learning, as well as the s ...
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$12.00 - $12.00
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| Diarmaid MacCulloch - Thomas Cranmer: A Life |
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This prize-winning biography provides the definitive account of the life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, King Henry VIII's guide through three divorces, and ultimately a martyr for his Protestant faith. 40 illustrations. 40 illustrations.
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$23.00 - $70.00
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| Helen Dunmore - The Siege |
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Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental -- the Nazis' 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed six hundred thousand -- but her focus is heartrendingly intimate. One family, the Levins, fights to sta ...
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$10.00 - $10.00
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| Iris Murdoch - The Sacred and Profane Love Machine |
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Murdoch tells the story of the effect on two families of Blaise Gavender, who inhabits two households, one that of his "legitimate" family--his wife and son--and the other that of his mistress and their son. These shifting relationships are hauntingly observed by a widowed and jaded novelist named M ...
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$16.00 - $16.00
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| Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World |
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Masuji Ono was once a painter of the Ukiyo, the traditional pleasure-seeking "floating world" of geishas, cherry blossoms, and teahouses. But he also worked as an enthusiastic propagandist, creating posters in support of the imperialist Japanese government during World War II--a war in which his wif ...
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$28.00 - $28.00
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| Beryl Bainbridge - Every Man for Himself |
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In her latest novel, the author of "The Birthday Boys" dramatizes the night of April 15, 1912, when 1,500 people lost their lives after the world's greatest luxury liner--the invincible "Titanic"--sank on her miaden voyage.
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$9.86 - $9.86
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| Lindsay Clarke - Chymical Wedding |
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In a dazzling weave of story and character, The Chymical Wedding tells two parallel and interconnected tales--one set in the late 1840's, one in the 1980's, both played out in the same English village.
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$23.00 - $23.00
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| William Trevor - Fools of Fortune |
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Spanning 60 years, William Trevor's story of love and revenge, set against the background of the Irish Troubles, has at its center a dark and violent act that spills over into the mutilated lives of generations to come.
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$12.00 - $12.00
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