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The Countess: A Novel of Elizabeth Bathory

by Rebecca Johns

Published: 2011-09-27

Paperback: 304 pages

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Was the ?Blood Countess? history's first and perhaps worst female serial killer? Or did her accusers create a violent fiction in order to remove this beautiful, intelligent, ambitious foe from the male-dominated world of Hungarian politics? In 1611, Countess Erzsébet Báthory, a powerful...

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Country

by Jasper Conran

Published: 2010-05-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Jasper Conran's Country is unlike any lifestyle book you've ever seen. It's neither a catalog of perfectly decorated spaces nor a how-to compendium of design problems and solutions. Rather, it is a deeply moving vision of the pleasures of country life and an intensely felt celebration, i...

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A Country Called Home

by Kim Barnes

Published: 2009-10-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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A powerful novel of young love and rural isolation from the acclaimed author of In the Wilderness. Thomas Deracotte is just out of medical school, and his pregnant wife, Helen, have their whole future mapped out for them in upper-crust Connecticut. But they are dreamers, and they set out t...

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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

by Peter Hessler

Published: 2010-02-01

Hardcover: 448 pages

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From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver...

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The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue

by Edna O'Brien

Published: 1987-05-01

Paperback: 544 pages

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“Delicious...whollv original...sensitive as a harp string...captures the vigilance of childhood and reproduces, eerily intact, its heightened sensations.”—NewsdayFrom the acclaimed author of Country Girl: A MemoirKate and Baba are two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life: ...

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The Country Girls

by Edna O'Brien

Published: 2002-06-25

Paperback: 192 pages

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Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together. As they leave the safety of their convent school in search of life and love in the big city, they struggle to maintain their somewhat tumultuous relationship. Kate, dreamy and romantic, yearns for tr...

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The Country Life: A Novel

by Rachel Cusk

Published: 2000-01-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearStella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair, arriving in a tiny Sussex village that's home to a family that is slightly larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them is low and remote. It soon becomes c...

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Country Pride and Joy

by Sally Simon

Published: 2003-12-23

Paperback: 655 pages

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A character-driven novel about the consequences of choices and the nature of love. Powerful but fun, a good read with a happy ending. Set in Southwest Florida, fictional characters interact with real people and businesses well-known in Charlotte County, Florida.

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A Country Year: Living the Questions

by Sue Hubbell

Published: 1999-04-26

Paperback: 240 pages

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A Couple's Guide to Loving: Frank, Accessible, Expert Advice for Lovers (Stanway, Andrew)

by Andrew Stanway

Published: 2002-11-21

Paperback: 200 pages

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Choose your own pathway to improving practical lovemaking skills, building intimacy, and trying new techniques. A Couple's Guide to Loving's special split-page format maximizes freestyle presentation and cross-referencing by dividing up its wealth of information and suggestions into "His" and "Hers"...