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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

by David Cannadine

Published: 1999-09-07

Paperback: 848 pages

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"A brilliant, multifaceted chronicle of economic and social change." --The New York Times"No praise can be too high." --The New York Review of BooksAt the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's...

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The English Aristocracy: A Beginner's Guide to Their Titles, Rank, and Forms of Address

by J Robinson

Published: 2014-08-26

Paperback: 200 pages

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The Aristocracy of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales have, for generations, enjoyed great wealth and great power, and over the centuries have helped forge the political landscape of both Britain and Ireland. A century ago they figured prominently in the media and the marriage of a duke ...

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Fiercombe Manor: A Novel

by Kate Riordan

Published: 2016-03-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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In this haunting and richly imagined dual-narrative tale that echoes the eerie mystery of Rebecca and The Little Stranger, two women of very different eras are united by the secrets hidden within the walls of an English manor house.In 1933, naive twenty-two year-old Alice—pregnant and un...

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The German Girl: A Novel

by Armando Lucas Correa

Published: 2016-10-18

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler’s List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal’s harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best friend, only to discover that the ove...

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Taking Flight

by Adrian R Magnuson

Published: 2015-09-26

Paperback: 290 pages

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Jeremy Walsh’s parents assume he’s been abducted by the elderly man he met on a cross-country flight, but it’s the other way around. Two unlikely companions meet in midair: 13-year-old Jeremy, sent against his will by his career-absorbed father to spend the summer with his bipolar mother, and...

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The Summer That Melted Everything: A Novel

by Tiffany McDaniel

Published: 2016-07-26

Hardcover: 320 pages

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“A wonderfully original, profoundly unsettling, deeply moving novel that delivers both the shock of fully realized reality and the deep resonance of parable...A remarkable debut.” ?Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain“A haunting Ap...

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The Unseen World: A Novel

by Liz Moore

Published: 2016-07-26

Hardcover: 464 pages

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The moving story of a daughter’s quest to discover the truth about her beloved father’s hidden past.Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to w...

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The Forgotten Room

by Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig

Published: 2016-10-25

Paperback: 384 pages

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New York Times bestselling authors Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig present a masterful collaboration—a rich, multigenerational novel of love and loss that spans half a century....   1945: When critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenel is brought to a private hospital on...

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Desperate Characters

by Paula Fox

Published: 2015-03-30

Paperback: 192 pages

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"A towering landmark of postwar Realism. . . . A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved." ? David Foster WallaceOtto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is...

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Luba (Love and Rockets)

by Gilbert Hernandez

Published: 2009-06-23

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Graphic Novels: the sequel to the 2003 perennial classic, Palomar. Gilbert Hernandez climaxed his award-winning "Palomar" series at the end of Love and Rockets' original run by leveling the Central American hamlet. But he soon picked up...