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When London was capital of America
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Julie Flavell |
Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London and in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the city. This book recreates the city's hey day… |
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Spain in our hearts
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Adam Hochschild,Adam Hochschild |
For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist u… |
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Two lives
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Janet Malcolm |
"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of cours… |
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Prag
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Phillips, Arthur |
Budapest 1990. Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs. Fünf amerikanische College-Absolventen auf der Suche nach dem wirklichen Leben. Charles, smarter Risiko-Kapitalgeber einer New Yorker Investment Firma, such… |
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Recuerdos de Un Verano
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Maeve Binchy |
It was a summer of warmth.... Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern... lovely twelve-year-old twins... and such wonderful dreams.... It was a sum… |
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Everything Is Illuminated
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, however, he is … |
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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
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Vendela Vida |
On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iverton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and her fiance has… |
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