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Answered Prayers
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Truman Capote |
RESUMEN: El protagonista de la novela ingenioso, encantador, bisexual, absolutamente amoral logró escaparse de un orfanato a los trece años, aprendió el oficio de masajista y se las ingenió para conv… |
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Lusitania
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Greg King |
"Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the co… |
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Pedigree
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Lauren A. Rivera |
"Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land t… |
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Passé imparfait
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Julian Fellowes |
Roman de société |
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Duchess of Fifth Avenue
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Ruth Langan |
To save her best friend and her child from a wretched husband, New York City maid Lana Dunleavy must transform herself into a lady. But she never imagines her heart will be transformed by the confide… |
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Adèle and Co.
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Dornford Yates |
The first full-length novel featuring Yates’ finest comic creation, Bertram "Berry" Pleydell. The central character Adele is based on the author’s first wife, Bettine, a gregarious American dancer an… |
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The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at… |
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The Blanchland Secret
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Nicola Cornick |
Prim and proper Sarah Sheridan sought to live a respectable life as her cousin's companion, trying to put her family's past behind her. But everything changed with a letter insisting on her return to… |
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A Very Unusual Governess
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Sylvia Andrew |
Edward's bachelor existence is thrown into a spin when he is forced to look after his two orphaned nieces. When he mistakes Lady Octavia Petrie for the new temporary governess, she doesn't correct hi… |
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Faithful handmaid
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Hester Davenport |
"Drawing on Fanny Burney's letters and journals of the time, Davenport explores the events of King George III's court, and Burney's place within it. She became Keeper of the Robes to Queen Charlotte … |
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