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Mason's Retreat: A Novel

by Christopher Tilghman

Published: 2012-04-24

Paperback: 304 pages

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A New York Times Book Review Notable BookThe year is 1936, and the world is on the brink of war. American expatriot Edward Mason, owner of a failing machine factory, is fighting more private battles. In the face of defeat, he abandons his adopted home in England in order to reclaim his inh...

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* * * * Romantic,
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The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation)

by Lauren Willig

Published: 2006-10-31

Paperback: 464 pages

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Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked the spy who saved England from Napoleon. But now she has a million questions about the Pink Carnation's deadly French nemesis, the Black Tulip. And she's pretty sure that her handsome onagain, off-again crush,...

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Masquerade

by Nancy Moser

Published: 2010-08-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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1886, New York City: Charlotte Gleason, a rich heiress from England, escapes a family crisis by traveling to America in order to marry the even wealthier Conrad Tremaine. She soon decides that an arranged marriage is not for her�and persuades her maid, Dora, to take her place. What begins ...

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Masquerade (A Blue Bloods Novel) (Blue Bloods Novel)

by Melissa De La Cruz

Published: 2008-07-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young vampires. With her best friend, Oliver, Schuyler travels to Italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help-her grandfather. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations are feverishly underway for the Four Hundre...

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The Masquerade (Hqn)

by Brenda Joyce

Published: 2010-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages

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On the evening of her first masquerade, shy Elizabeth Anne Fitzgerald is stunned by Tyrell de Warenne's whispered suggestion of a midnight rendezvous in the gardens. Lizzie has secretly worshipped the unattainable lord for years. When fortune takes a maddening turn, she is prevented from m...

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The Master and His Emissary

by Iain McGilchrist

Published: 2010-08-16

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Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound?not ...

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Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Published: 2006-01-26

Mass Market Paperback: 576 pages

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Moscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town with a bizarre entourage that includes a giant talking cat and a fanged assassin, all hell breaks loose. Among...

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The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Published: 2001-12

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Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts-one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow-the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire...

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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Published: 1994-01-13

Paperback: 402 pages

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I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguo...

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Master Butchers Singing Club

by Louise Erdrich

Published: 2003-02-04

Paperback: 704 pages

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What happens when a trained killer discovers that his true vocation is love? Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend who was killed in action.With a suitcase full of saus...