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The English American

by Alison Larkin

Published: 2001-04

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Alison Larkin's hit one woman show - a comedy set on two continents, recorded live in Los Angeles. Based on the true story of adopted British comedian Alison Larkin's reunion with her American birth mother, The English American has played to packed houses and high critical acclaim sinc...

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The English American: A Novel

by Alison Larkin

Published: 2008-03-04

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Adopted at birth into a loving, tidy family, charming, chronically untidy Pippa Dunn hopes that finding her birth parents will help her understand why she's so different from everyone she knows - and somehow cure her of her inability to trust even the most devoted of men. She meets her untidy, creative...

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English as a Second Language

by Megan Crane

Published: 2004-08-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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The English Assassin

by Daniel Silva

Published: 2003-02-25

Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages

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Spy turned art restorer Gabriel Allon finds himself accused of murder in this New York Times bestseller from Daniel Silva.An Israeli spy by trade and art restorer by preference, Gabriel Allon arrives in Zurich to restore the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker—and finds himsel...

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The English Breakfast Murder (Childs, Laura. Tea Shop Mysteries.)

by Laura Childs

Published: 2003-08-05

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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It is a truly exhilarating experience for Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning-helping Charleston's Sea Turtle Protection League shepherd hundreds of tiny green loggerheads safely into the sea. But just as she's about to celebrate all her hard work, she spots a dead body bobbing in the waves. Now...

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The English Governess and the Siamese Court: The True Story Behind 'The King and I'

by Anna Leonowens

Published: 1999-11-15

Mass Market Paperback: 308 pages

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Anna Leonownes' memoir of her six year as a governess in the Royal Palace of Bangkok was the inspiration for the beloved Broadway musical The king and I, as well as two award-winning films. First published in 1870, Leonowens' memoir is the true story of a proper English governess who is hi...

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The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

by Anna Harriette Leonowens

Published: 2006-09-27

Paperback: 272 pages

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A vision of comfort and gladness, that tropical March morning, genial as a July dawn in my own less ardent clime; but the memory of two round, tender arms, and two little dimpled hands, that so lately had made themselves loving fetters round my neck, in the vain hope of holding mamma fast, blinded my...

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The English Major: A Novel

by Jim Harrison

Published: 2008-10-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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English Passengers: A Novel

by Matthew Kneale

Published: 2008-12-10

Kindle Edition: 446 pages

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In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side ...

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The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

Published: 1993-11-30

Paperback: 305 pages

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With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize–winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the...