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A Bell for Adano

by John Hersey

Published: 1988-03-12

Paperback: 288 pages

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An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists.

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The Bell Jar (P.S.)

by Sylvia Plath

Published: 2009-11-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under?maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably...

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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

Published: 2013-06-11

Paperback: 288 pages

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A Special Paperback Edition to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Sylvia Plath's Remarkable NovelSylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanityEsther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously tal...

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The Bell

by Iris Murdoch

Published: 1987-01-06

Paperback: 320 pages

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First published in 1958, Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty. Encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, is a community of very mixed-up people waiting for the installation of a new bell,...

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Bella Fortuna

by Rosanna Chiofalo

Published: 2012-08-28

Paperback: 368 pages

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In this warm, enchanting debut novel, Rosanna Chiofalo evokes the extraordinary beauty of Venice, the charm of a close-knit New York neighborhood, and the joys of friendship, family, and surprising second chances. . .Valentina DeLuca has made hundreds of brides' dreams come true. At Spos...

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Bella Tuscany

by Frances Mayes

Published: 1999-04-06

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Happiness? The color of it must be spring green, impossible to describe until I see a just-hatched lizard sunning on a stone. That color, the glowing green lizard skin, repeats in every new leaf. The regenerative power of nature explodes in every weed, stalk, branch. Working in the mild su...

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Bella Tuscany & Under the Tuscan Sun (2 Book Set)

by Frances Mayes

Published: 2000-04-04

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Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy

by Frances Mayes

Published: 2000-04-04

Paperback: 285 pages

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A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIAFrances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throug...

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Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits

by Celia Rivenbark

Published: 2008-08-19

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The Bells: A Novel

by Richard Harvell

Published: 2011-06-28

Paperback: 373 pages

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I grew up as the son of a man who could not possibly have been my father. Though there was never any doubt that my seed had come from another man, Moses Froben, Lo Svizzero, called me “son.” And I called him “father.” On the rare occasions when someone dared to ask for clarificatio...