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His Wife and Daughters

by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga

Published: 2011-12-19

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HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga It's 1988 and Trina Brath and her teenage daughters, Jill and Phoebe, lead happy and privileged lives as the wife and daughters of successful California Congressman Dan Brath. But that all changes when Dan, 52, is suspected of having an affai...

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Hissy Fit : A Novel

by Mary Kay Andrews

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 464 pages

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"Andrews is at her best in this thoroughly satisfying story with the right blend of mystery, romance, and sharply funny writing." --Orlando SentinelWhether it’s a mystery, sassy women’s fiction, or a combination of the two, New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews always gives her fa...

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Historia Secreta del Clavel Carmesi / The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

by Lauren Willig

Published: 2006-07-30

Mass Market Paperback: 592 pages

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The French eventually unmasked the famed spies in the Napoleonic war, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian, but as Harvard graduate student Eloise Kelly discovers at the start of this breezy historical romance, the identity of the Pink Carnation remains a mystery. Setting off for E...

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The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

Published: 2005-06-14

Hardcover: 642 pages

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To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth...

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The History Boys: A Play

by Alan Bennett

Published: 2006-04-04

Paperback: 109 pages

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“A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny.” —The Daily Telegraph An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys’ school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place...

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History Lesson for Girls

by Aurelie Sheehan

Published: 2007-06-26

Paperback: 368 pages

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History of a Pleasure Seeker

by Richard Mason

Published: 2012-02-07

Paperback: 288 pages

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From the acclaimed author of The Drowning People (“A literary sensation” —The New York Times Book Review) and Natural Elements (“A magnum opus” —The New Yorker), an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe’s belle époque, written in the grand traditi...

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History of a Pleasure Seeker. by Richard Mason

by Richard Mason

Published: 2011-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' It is 1907. The belle epoque is in full swing. Piet Barol has escaped the drabness of the provinces for the grandest mansion...

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History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life

by Jill Bialosky

Published: 2011-02-15

Hardcover: 272 pages

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?It is so nice to be happy. It always gives me a good feeling to see other people happy. . . . It is so easy to achieve.? ?Kim's journal entry, May 3, 1988 On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky's twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She argued ...

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History of Food

by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat

Published: 1994-08-01

Paperback: 824 pages

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The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this definitive history. She looks at the transition from a vegetable - to an increasingly meat-based diet, as well as at the relationship between people and what they...