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The Orchid House: A Novel
Published: 2012-02-14
Kindle Edition: 464 pages
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Spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences.As a child, concert pianis...
The Orchid Thief
Published: 2000-01-04
Paperback: 320 pages
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The orchid thief is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy in spite of the fact that he is missing all his teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. This national bestseller follows him into the Florida swamp to relate his mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession....
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
Published: 2008-11-11
Paperback: 420 pages
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In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.Marsh was conceived in...
An Order of Amelie, Hold the Fries
Published: 2004-09-04
Paperback: 136 pages
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An ultra-modern teen love story. Seventeen-year-old Tim is smitten when he glimpses the girl of his dreams. But who is she? When her name and address falls from her bag, he can't believe his luck. Tim boldly writes to his fantasy woman. But to his surprise, the address belongs to som...
Ordinary Heroes
Published: 2011-04-05
Paperback: 496 pages
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Stewart Dubinsky knew his father, David, had served in World War II, but had been told very little about his experiences. When he finds, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee and learns of David's court-martial, Stewart is driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic,...
Ordinary Life: Stories (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Published: 2003-05-13
Paperback: 192 pages
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In this superb collection of short stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into remarkable moments in the lives of women, when memories and events come together to create a sense of coherence, understanding, and change. In ?Ordinary Life,? Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week,...
Ordinary Love and Good Will
Published: 2007-10-09
Paperback: 210 pages
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From Jane Smiley, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres: a pair of novellas chronicling difficult choices that reshape the dynamics of two very different families.In Ordinary Love, Smiley focuses on a woman's infidelity and the lasting, indelible effects it leaves on ...
An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography
Published: 2007-02-27
Paperback: 224 pages
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April 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide--Read more about the conflict and the amazing life story of the man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda in this remarkable accountReaders who were moved and horrified by Hotel Rwanda will respond even more intensely to Paul Ruse...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Published: 1993-03-17
Paperback: 271 pages
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The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.Shocking as it is, this book--a crucial source of original research used for the bestseller Hitler's Willing Executioners--gives evidence to suggest the opposi...
Ordinary People
Published: 1982-10-28
Paperback: 272 pages
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