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Fire engine dead
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Sheila Connolly |
When the entire collection of the Fireman's Museum ironically goes up in flames, Nell Pratt discovers one of the charred pictures isn't the one that was originally exhibited. But getting to the botto… |
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La Princesa Dormida / Waking the Princess
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Susan King |
An antiquarian for the National Museum, Christina Blackburn has her reasons for disguising her smoldering beauty with a pair of prim spectacles and an icy facade. She posed for a painting that scanda… |
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El anticuario
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Julián Sánchez |
Enrique Alonso, escritor, recibe una carta de su padre adoptivo, Artur Aiguader, un conocido anticuario de Barcelona. En ella, éste le relata el hallazgo de un antiguo manuscrito redactado en Latín … |
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Books of Bale
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Arden, John. |
xi, 532 p. ; 23 cm |
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A world of my own
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Christopher Whitfield |
"[Whitfield] arrived in Chipping Campden in 1924 with a car and his cats and his books, determined to make his way as a writer, although obliged to work in the family manufacturing business in Birmin… |
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Curiosities and texts
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Marjorie Swann |
"In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann examines the imperatives behind the craze for collecting physical objects and discusses its relationship to the literary culture of the period. Through a wid… |
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