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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)

by Victor Hugo

Published: 2002-10-08

Paperback: 512 pages

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Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugo’s powerful historical romance The Hunchback of Notre-Dame has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frol...

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics)

by Victor Hugo

Published: 2001-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages

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This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own...

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Hundehoved

by MORTEN RAMSLAND

Published: 2006

Paperback: 0 pages

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Alaotsikko: roman Kirjailija: Morten Ramsland Kustantaja: Rosinante Sidosasu: Nidottu, Kieli: tanska Julkaistu: 2005, Sivumäärä: 381 Painos: 17, Paino grammoissa: 640 ISBN10: 8762104543 ISBN13: 9788762104549 Kuvaus: »Et sted i det østlige Tyskland løber din farfar tværs over en slette; jeg...

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* * * Boring,
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A Hundred Flowers: A Novel

by Gail Tsukiyama

Published: 2013-08-27

Paperback: 320 pages

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A powerful new novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural RevolutionChina, 1957. Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend." Many intellectuals fear it is o...

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Hundred Foot Journey

by Richard C. Morais

Published: 2008

Hardcover: 180 pages

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The Hundred Secret Senses

by Amy Tan

Published: 1998

Paperback: 358 pages

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An exalting, exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, invented identities and discovered selves, "The Hundred Secret Senses" tells the story of Olivia Laguni, who is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family, especially her half-sister,...

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A Hundred Years of Happiness

by Nicole Seitz

Published: 2009-03-03

Paperback: 320 pages

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A beautiful young woman. An American soldier. A war-torn country. Nearly forty years of silence. Now, two daughters search for the truth they hope will set them free and the elusive peace their parents have never found. In the South Carolina Lowcountry, a young mother named Katherine Ann...

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The Hundred-Foot Journey: A Novel

by Richard C. Morais

Published: 2010-06-21

Kindle Edition: 272 pages

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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Om Puri, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Juliet Blake, DreamWorks Studios, and Participant Media.“That skinny Indian teenager has that mysterious something that comes along once a ge...

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The Hundred-Foot Journey: A Novel

by Richard C Morais

Published: 2010-07-06

Hardcover: 256 pages

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"That skinny Indian teenager has that mysterious something that comes along once a generation. He is one of those rare chefs who is simply born. He is an artist." And so begins the rise of Hassan Haji, the unlikely gourmand who recounts his life’s journey in Richard Morais’s charming n...

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Hunger

by Elise Blackwell

Published: 2004-06-03

Paperback: 144 pages

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When German troops surround Leningrad and cut off food supplies in the fall of 1941, no one imagines that the siege will last 900 long days and take hundreds of thousands of lives. As the first 'hunger winter' sets in, the city's residents strip the bark off trees, boil and eat moss-covered stones, and...