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The Third Daughter: A Novel

by Talia Carner

Published: 2019-09-03

Paperback: 432 pages

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“In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century. Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered, this is an important and unforgettable story of exploitation and em...

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics)

by James Hogg, Ian Duncan

Published: 2010-06-06

Paperback: 272 pages

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One of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a terrifying tale of murder and amorality, and of one man's descent into madness and despair. James Hogg's sardonic novel follows a young man who, falli...

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Whereabouts: Notes on being a foreigner

by Alastair Reid

Published: 1987

Hardcover: 205 pages

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King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Classics)

by H. Rider Haggard

Published: 2008-01-29

Paperback: 320 pages

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The first great "Lost World" action-adventure, a precursor to Indiana Jones H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publication in 1885. Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa...

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Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life

by John McNeillie

Published: 2012-10-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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In following the growth into manhood of young Andy Walker, this novel provides a realistic depiction of the lives and living conditions of the rural laboring poor in Scotland in the 1930s. The son of an abusive father, Andy leaves school at age 13 and works for a succession of corrupt and ...

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Influence

by Carl Weber

Published: 2018-08-28

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Business crime series comes a deliciously provocative legal page-turner about the Hudson family.When famed attorney Bradley Hudson learns of his youngest son Langston’s arrest for drug trafficking, he immediately assembles a tea...

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Cafe Nevo

by Barbara Rogan

Published: 1987-05-01

Hardcover: 309 pages

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Vered begins an affair with a Palestinian in hopes of freeing herself from her husband, Peter Caspi, a famous Israeli author

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Morality Play

by Barry Unsworth

Published: 1995-10-01

Hardcover: 206 pages

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Barry Unsworth, author of the Booker Prize-winnings Sacred  Hunger, turns to 14th-century England with a novel of foul doings in the time of The Name of the Rose.In Morality Play, Barry Unsworth, indisputably the finest writer of literate historical fiction alive today, brings 14th-centu...

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Sweet Sorrow: the highly-anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of ONE DAY

by David Nicholls

Published: 2019-07-11

Hardcover: 400 pages

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One life-changing summerSixteen-year-old Charlie meets Fran...Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future ...

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Shadowplay

by Joseph O'Connor

Published: 2019-06-06

Hardcover: 320 pages

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'Joseph O’Connor is a very great artist and storyteller. The quotient of enjoyment in his extraordinary new novel is stupendous' Sebastian Barry1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that will be full of drama, transformation, passi...