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Lambrusco
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Ellen Cooney,Ellen Cooney |
The year is 1943. The Nazis have invaded Italy; American troops have landed. At Aldo's restaurant on the Adriatic coast, Lucia Fantini entertained customers for years with her marvelous opera singing… |
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Bring Up the Bodies
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Hilary Mantel |
Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by Hilary Mantel; sequel to the award-winning [Wolf Hall;](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL464512W) and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thoma… |
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The people's act of love
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James Meek |
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005. 1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of the Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian… |
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Memoirs of an egoist
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Stendahl.,Stendhal |
Written in 1832, three years before The Life of Henry Brulard (which recounts the author?s boyhood and youth), Memoirs of Egotism forms the essential middle section of Stendhal?s intended autobiograp… |
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The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
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Fernando Pessoa |
"Though known primarily as a poet, Fernando Pessoa wrote prose widely, in several languages and in every genre - the novel, short stories, letters, and essays. Drawing from the huge body of work that… |
OL847194W |
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The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Annie Barrows,Mary Ann Shaffer |
"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of t… |
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The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll
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Francisco Goldman,Alvaro Mutis |
"Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the l… |
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