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Mémoires d'Hadrien Mémoires d'Hadrien Marguerite Yourcenar *Mémoires d'Hadrien* est un roman historique de l'écrivaine française Marguerite Yourcenar, publié en 1951. Ces pseudo-mémoires de l'empereur romain Hadrien ont immédiatement rencontré un extraordina… OL106837W
The sublime and spirited voyage of Original Sin The sublime and spirited voyage of Original Sin Colette Moody The Gulf of Mexico, 1702: When pirates of the square-rigger Original Sin steal ashore to abduct a doctor to tend to their wounded, they end up settling for the doctor’s attractive fiancée―Celia Pierc… OL16145736W
The absolutist The absolutist John Boyne It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Gr… OL16489797W
The last nude The last nude Ellis Avery Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young Am… OL16597105W
The paying guests The paying guests Sarah Waters It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now ber… OL17062740W
Los dos hoteles Francfort Los dos hoteles Francfort David Leavitt "It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe--a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while aw… OL17081002W
Days Without End Days Without End Sebastian Barry Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Sebastian Barry's sensational new novel set in mid-19th Century America. After signing up for the US army… OL17934982W
Two spirits Two spirits Toby Johnson,Walter L. Williams Twenty years after publishing his groundbreaking The Spirit and the Flesh, anthropologist Walter L. Williams breaks his silence and publishes another book on Native Americans by teaming up with award… OL18786506W
The Prisoner of the Riviera The Prisoner of the Riviera Janice Law Peace has come to England and the blackout is over, but the gloom has yet to lift from London. One night, leaving a gambling club where he has run up a considerable tab, the young painter Francis Bac… OL19978209W
Descendants of Hagar Descendants of Hagar Nik Nicholson It's 1914 in Zion, Georgia, during the Black Codes, when Negroes were lynched for one wrong glance. A time when marriage was an agreement between a woman's father and the man he chose for her. Most w… OL24701428W
The King Must Die The King Must Die Mary Renault Historical fiction. Theseus, a prince of ancient Athens, is taken as a slave to the island of Crete, where he's condemned to certain death as a bull dancer. But he abducts the Princess Ariadne & make… OL3906339W
The last of the wine The last of the wine Charlotte Mendelson,Mary Renault The Last of the Wine is Mary Renault's first novel set in ancient Greece, the setting that would become her most important arena. The novel was published in 1956 and is the second of her works to fea… OL3906362W
The man who fell in love with the moon The man who fell in love with the moon Tom Spanbauer The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon provides a unique view of the Old West unlike anything told before. The narrator, Shed, is one of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction: a half-… OL4084794W
Tipping the Velvet Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manage… OL551012W
Fingersmith Fingersmith Sarah Waters Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babi… OL551015W
Stray dog winter Stray dog winter David Francis Darcy Bright, a hapless young Australian artist, receives a surprising birthday present from his elusive half-sister Fin, ostensibly in Moscow on a prestigious fellowship painting industrial landscap… OL5724188W
Beyond the Pale Beyond the Pale Elana Nachman/Dykewomon Born in a Russian-Jewish settlement, Gutke Gurvich is a midwife who immigrates to New York’s Lower East Side with her partner, a woman passing as a man. Their story crosses with that of Chava Meyer, … OL8612967W
Bitter Eden Bitter Eden Tatumkhulu Afrika Based on the author's experiences, follows the story of three prisoners of war who must negotiate the complex emotions and belief-challenging intimacies of survival in a male-only prison camp. OL880819W