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An International Episode Henry James - Short story about a love affair, by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; this book is James' least 'veiled' attempt at analyzing the divide between Britain and the US.
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Series
Uptown girls volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
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In serving the wealthy power brokers of New York society, Frank Tripp has finally gained the respectability and security his own upbringing lacked. There's no issue he cannot fix...except for one: the beautiful and reckless daughter of an important client who doesn't seem to understand the word danger. Excitement lay just below Forty-Second Street and Mamie Greene is determined to explore all of it-while playing a modern-day Robin Hood along the way....
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Publisher
Head of Zeus Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
723 pages : map ; 23 cm.
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English
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In Beijing, 1322 Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father's death, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan. Johanna's destiny--if she has one--lies with her grandfather, in Venice. So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road--the Silk Road--that storied collection of routes that link the silks of Cathay, the spices of...
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Publisher
Underground Voices
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
x, 149 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"The setting for Tsipi Keller's new novel, Nadja on Nadja, is New York City--its neighborhoods, its streets, its people--where 'humanity, as if spellbound, is approaching the end of the millennium.' Working for a living, Nadja, a girl-woman in her thirties, doesn't delude herself. Corporations, she knows, are dictatorships comprised of many low-level tyrants; she must either subjugate herself, or suffer the consequences. In the words of author Bruce...
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William Morrow Paperbacks, An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
321, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"1914, Smoky Pittsburgh Eighteen-year-old Hazel Renner has a talent for drawing and dreams of traveling the world, a life free of the grand expectations her loving, ambitious immigrant parents want for her. When war breaks out in Europe, her fantasies are shattered, and horrific carnage and wrenching loyalties agonize her fellow German-Americans; now they're the enemy, hated and attacked. Hazel escapes to teach in Galway, a tranquil town seemingly...
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