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The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

by Anthony Horowitz

Published: 2012-10-02

Paperback: 296 pages

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"Horowitz truly pulls off the wonderful illusion that Arthur Conan Doyle left us one last tale."--San Diego Union TribuneLondon, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange m...

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The House of Special Purpose

by John Boyne

Published: 2013-04-02

Paperback: 478 pages

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From the author of The Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the Romanovs. Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his...

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House of Spirits and Whispers: The True Story of a Haunted House

by Annie Wilder

Published: 2005-09-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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Annie Wilder suspected the funky 100-year-old house was haunted when she saw it for the first time. But nothing could have prepared her for the mischievous and downright scary antics that take place once she, her two children, and her cats move into the rundown Victorian home. Disembodied ...

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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

by Anthony Shadid

Published: 2013-02-05

Paperback: 336 pages

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“Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I’ve read.” — Philip Caputo, Washington PostIn the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family’s ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-gra...

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House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe

by Christina Lamb

Published: 2007-09-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The House of the Rothschild (Volume 1 & 2, Volume 1 & 2: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848, The Worlds Bankers 1848-1999)

by Niall Ferguson

Published: 1998

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Volume 1 & 2. Founded in the late 18th century by expatriate German Jews, the London-based House of Rothschild was within decades the largest banking enterprise in the world. Its principals controlled a vast portion of the industrial world's wealth--more so, Oxford historian Niall Ferguson writes, than...

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The House of the Scorpion

by Nancy Farmer

Published: 2005-02

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From the unique combination of the timelessness of an old and seemingly forgotten world deftly mixed with the futuristic reality of a brave new world comes a chilling tale of ethics and mortality that is thought provoking and macabre, and yet strangly fascinating...Is this the way of the f...

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The House of the Seven Gables (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Published: 2007-02-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics�series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some...

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The House of the Seven Gables (Enriched Classics)

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Published: 2007-06-19

Paperback: 404 pages

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Enduring Literature Illuminated By Practical Scholarship The story of the Pyncheon family, residents of an evil house cursed by the victim of their ancestor's witch hunt and haunted by the ghosts of many generations. This Enriched Classic Edition Includes: A concise introducti...

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The House of the Seven Gables (Signet Classics)

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Published: 2010-10-05

Paperback: 302 pages

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A tale of an evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, haunted by ghosts of its dead and the terror of its living. Nathanial Hawthorne's works are imbued with a mixture of actual and imaginary and this is an enduring example. The puritanical Jaffrey Pyncheon is...