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True Grit
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Charles Portis |
True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her … |
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Rachel Ray
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Anthony Trollope |
"Rachel Ray is an 1863 novel by Anthony Trollope. It recounts the story of a young woman who is forced to give up her fiancé because of baseless suspicions directed toward him by the members of her c… |
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The way we live now
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Anthony Trollope |
From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition):
*“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and… |
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Flatland
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Sajad Hussain,Trains of Trains of Thought Publishing,Edward Abbott,Joel Dueck,Edwin Abbott Abbott,Monty |
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its… |
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Angels on Toast
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Dawn Powell |
Written between the 1930s and the 1950s, the novels of Dawn Powell evoke a time when an artist *manqué* could come to New York with no money and improvise a life there within days; an era when even t… |
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Enter Jeeves
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P. G. Wodehouse |
Born in England in 1881, Sir P(elham) G(renville) Wodehouse delighted generations of readers with his whimsical tales of the deliciously dim aristocrat Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, his brainy, impertur… |
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P. G. Wodehouse
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P. G. Wodehouse |
Five Complete Novels:
- "The Return of Jeeves"
- "Bertie Wooster Sees It Through"
- "Spring Fever"
- "The Butler Did It"
- "The Old Reliable" |
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The world of Jeeves
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P. G. Wodehouse |
The collection (first published in 1967, reprinted in 1989) contains all of the Jeeves short stories (with the exception of "Extricating Young Gussie") presented more or less in narrative chronologic… |
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Money for nothing
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P. G. Wodehouse |
'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen FryA P.G. Wodehouse novel.The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to… |
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The herring-seller's apprentice
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L. C. Tyler |
A darkly subversive take on the detective novel, peopled by a memorable cast of eccentrics. |
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The sad tale of the brothers Grossbart
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Jesse Bullington |
Hegel and Manfried Grossbart may not consider themselves bad men - but death still stalks them through the dark woods of medieval Europe. The year is 1364, and the brothers Grossbart have embarked o… |
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Mathilda Savitch
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Victor Lodato |
La narratrice, Mathilda, est une adolescente américaine vivant avec son père, sa mère et un vieux chien dans une petite ville. Il y a un an, sa soeur Hélène se faisait écraser par un train. A l'appro… |
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A royal pain
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Rhys Bowen |
Another hilarious mystery featuring penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie, “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers” (Jacqueline Winspear). The Queen of England has concocted a pla… |
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Sticks & scones
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Diane Mott Davidson |
Celebrated for her unique blend of first-class suspense and five-star fare, Diane Mott Davidson has won scores of fans and earned a place on major bestseller lists across the country. Now she dishes … |
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Pygmy
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Chuck Palahniuk |
The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park--Chuck Palahniuk's finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club."Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern Am… |
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Wedding Season
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Katie Fforde |
This is a girly story about 3 women: A wedding planner, a hairdresser / cakemaker and a seamstress. The story starts with all three of them at a wedding that the first has planned. And that wedding s… |
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Martians in Maggody (Arly Hanks Mystery)
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Joan Hess |
Anticipating a normal, uneventful summer in the sleepy town of Maggody, police chief Arly Hanks is stunned when hysterical reports of strange lights, crop circles, and a hairy creature precede the ar… |
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Two to the Fifth (Xanth)
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Piers Anthony |
The future of Xanth is in frightful peril. A powerful magical bird named Ragna Roc has embarked on a campaign to become absolute ruler of that mystical
realm. Those who swear loyalty to him are spar… |
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Practice makes perfect
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Julie James |
When it comes to the laws of attraction, there are no rules The battle between the sexes is about to make these two lawyers hot under the collar. Opposites collide when two lawyers try to make partne… |
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This charming man
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Marian Keyes |
With This Charming Man, Marian Keyes hits her stride as a novelist with her best novel yet, telling the stories of four women who are shaped by one manPaddy de Courcy is Ireland's debonair politician… |
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