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The death of Franz Liszt
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Lina Schmalhausen |
"After falling ill during a visit to Bayreuth, Franz Liszt uttered this melancholy refrain throughout his final days, which were spent in rented rooms in a house opposite Wahnfried, the home of his d… |
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DEAR AUSTEN
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Nina Bawden |
Accidents happen to other people. But on May 10 2002 Nina Bawden discovered what it feels like to be one of the other people. It was to be a lovely outing to Cambridge for a friend's birthday party. … |
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Perón
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Pedro Cossio,Carlos A. Seara,Pedro Ramón Cossio |
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Murder in Baker Company
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Cilla McCain |
Using court transcripts, personal interviews, and police records to retrace the key events of the case, this journey to uncover the truth about what happened to Richard Davis provides a disturbing, e… |
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After the Prophet
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Lesley Hazleton |
Narrative history at its most compelling, After the Prophet relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam.Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle o… |
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God's Choice CD
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George Weigel |
George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an extraordi… |
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I Want My Mummy Back
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Jon Nicholson |
Jon Nicholson's moving story of loss and fatherhood.This account will not hide from the truth of what this illness does to the one who is suffering, and to all those whom that person loved the most. … |
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Bloody Crimes
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James L. Swanson |
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time. The Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly befor… |
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Losing Matt Shepard
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Beth Loffreda |
The infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply with America's bitter history of violence against min… |
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Kennedys hjärna
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Henning Mankell |
A fast paced international thriller - sure to delight fans starved of WallanderWhen archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues th… |
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The Empty Glass
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J. I. Baker |
In the early-morning hours of August 5, 1962, Los Angeles County deputy coroner Ben Fitzgerald arrives at the home of the world's most famous movie star, now lying dead in her bedroom, naked and stil… |
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The Mozart conspiracy
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Scott Mariani |
Enlisted by beautiful opera star Leigh Llewell to investigate her brother Oliver's mysterious death, SAS operative Ben Hope finds himself caught up in a centuries-old puzzle. The official line states… |
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The reckoning
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Charles Nicholl |
In 1593 the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging-house. The circumstances were shady, the official account -- a violent quarrel … |
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Savage harvest
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Hoffman, Carl |
Retracing Rockefeller's steps, journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule.
The myster… |
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Northern light
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Roy MacGregor |
"The eccentric spinster Winnie Trainor was a fixture of Roy MacGregor's childhood in Huntsville, Ontario. She was considered too odd to be a truly romantic figure in the eyes of the town, but the loc… |
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Secrets of the mummies
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Harriet Griffey |
Discusses the Egyptian preservation of dead bodies, stories associated with mummies, and mummies from different cultures, including Incan and Sicilian. |
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Mary, Queen of Scots, and the murder of Lord Darnley
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Alison Weir |
This book is an excursion into Britain's bloodstained, power-obsessed past. The author's investigation into Lord Darnley's murder is set against one of the most dramatic periods in English history. I… |
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The gender frontier
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Mariette Pathy Allen,Grady T. Turner |
Mariette Pathy Allen documents the lives of extraordinary individuals, their partners, families and friends. Through photographs and short texts, the reader is offered an intimate connection to the b… |
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Duel with the devil
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Collins, Paul |
Acclaimed historian Paul Collins' remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued -- a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and… |
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The death of Meriwether Lewis
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James E. Starrs |
A Coroner's Inquest held in Tennessee in 1996 has investigated the mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis on the Natchez Trace on October 11, 1809 and has heard testimony from leading historians and fo… |
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