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Port Mortuary (A Scarpetta Novel)

by Patricia Cornwell

Published: 2010-11-30

Hardcover: 496 pages

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The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. "When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell." -The New York Times Book Review Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's eighteenth Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. I...

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Portnoy s Complaint

by Philip ROTH

Published: 1969

Hardcover: 0 pages

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In 1998, Modern Library ranked this novel 52nd out of 100 for best English language novels of the 20th Century. The novel tells of the humorous monologue of a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish Bachelor who confesses to his psychoanalyst in coarse, vulgar, and abusive language; Sparking...

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The Portofino Deception

by Jeffrey S. Stephens

Published: 2007-10-21

Hardcover: 360 pages

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When terrorists armed with poison gas plan a wave of attacks against the U.S. and its allies, retired CIA agent Jordan Sandor finds himself drawn into the chase, from New York to Florida to the Italian Riviera in this fast-paced thriller.

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Portrait in Sepia

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2002-06-02

Hardcover: 512 pages

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Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune (a February 2000 Oprah Pick) and The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende has written a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family. In Retrato en Sepia (Portrait in Se...

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Portrait in Sepia: A Novel

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2006-05-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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"Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House of the Spirits.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World “Portrait in Sepia tightens the weave of a multigenerational fantasy as complete an...

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Portrait in Sepia: A Novel (P.S.)

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2010-05-11

Paperback: 336 pages

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In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her regal and ambitious grandmother Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged environment but is tormented by horrible nightmares. Wh...

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Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper -- Case Closed (Berkley True Crime)

by Patricia Cornwell

Published: 2003-10-28

Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages

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Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus

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The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

Published: 2003-09

Paperback: 656 pages

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Henry James's magnificent heroine, a "young woman affronting her destiny" When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn...

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The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

Published: 1995-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 560 pages

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Seeking the opportunities of Europe, Isabel Archer, a young American, is courted by three men, comes to rely on an invalid cousin, an falls prey to a scheming, sophisicated older woman. Reissue.

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Portrait of a Marriage

by Nigel Nicolson

Published: 2009-06-01

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The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been....