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The Glass Madonna

by Donna Meredith

Published: 2010-09-24

Paperback: 312 pages

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Donna Meredith's award-winning debut novel, "The Glass Madonna," tells the powerful story of a woman's determination to create her own destiny. Coming of age was supposed to be easy in the 70s. After all, women have been liberated and love is free. Why does Sarah Stevens find life so hard? Union rules...

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The Glass Menagerie (Modern Classics (Penguin))

by Tennessee Williams

Published: 2009-07

Paperback: 92 pages

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Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by 'gentleman callers'. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother's suffocating embrace, while Laura,...

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The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

Published: 1999-06-17

Paperback: 104 pages

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No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since...

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The Glass Minstrel

by Hayden Thorne

Published: 2010-09-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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The Christmas season in mid-19th century Bavaria is brought to life in the THE GLASS MINSTREL, a new, original historical novel from acclaimed author Hayden Thorne. Two fathers, Abelard Bauer and Andreas Schifffer, are brought together through the tragic deaths of their eldest sons. Bauer, a brilliant...

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The Glass Palace: A Novel

by Amitav Ghosh

Published: 2002-02-12

Paperback: 486 pages

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Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and...

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The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

by James Lee Burke

Published: 2011-07-26

Mass Market Paperback: 560 pages

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James Lee Burke's eagerly awaited new novel finds Detective Dave Robicheaux back in New Iberia, Louisiana, and embroiled in the most harrowing and dangerous case of his career. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all th...

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The Glass Room

by Simon Mawer

Published: 2009-10-20

Paperback: 406 pages

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A New York Times Best-Seller Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landaue...

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Glass-Blowers (Virago Modern Classics)

by Daphne Du Maurier

Published: 2004-06-03

Paperback: 384 pages

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Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it' Faithful to her...

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The Glassblower of Murano

by Marina Fiorato

Published: 2009-05-26

Kindle Edition: 365 pages

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Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the greatest of the artists, Corradino Ma...