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Habits of the House

by Fay Weldon

Published: 2013-10-29

Paperback: 336 pages

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From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton AbbeyAs the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocabl...

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Learn to Love Me

by Sinead Macdughlas

Published: 2013-04-18

Paperback: 242 pages

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Despite her secret past, Emily O'Shea was finally living a normal life. There had been some arguments with her husband, Trevor, lately, but no marriage is perfect. At least the column she writes for the local paper is going well...that is, until one of her interviewees goes missing, and a monster from...

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The Little White Horse

by Elizabeth Goudge

Published: 2001-12-31

Paperback: 240 pages

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When orphan Maria arrives at Moonacre Manor, she feels as if she's come home. Her new guardian is kind and funny, and everyone there is like an old friend. But beneath the beauty and comfort lies a tragedy. Maria is determined to find out about it, change it, and give her own life story ...

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Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Children

by Ransom Riggs

Published: 2014-01-14

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was the surprise best seller of 2011—an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that enthralled readers and critics alike. Publishers Weekly called it “an enjoyable, eccentric read, distinguished by well-developed charact...

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The Bird in the Tree (Eliot Family Trilogy)

by Elizabeth Goudge

Published: 2013-03-01

Paperback: 259 pages

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Introducing the beloved trilogy that has captured the hearts and imaginations of the many fans of bestselling author Elizabeth Goudge. "The Bird in the Tree "takes place in England in 1938, and follows a close-knit family whose tranquil existence is suddenly threatened by a forbidden love ...

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Seduction and Snacks

by Tara Sivec

Published: 2012-06-22

Paperback: 286 pages

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2012 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee - Best Romance Claire is a twenty-something, single mom that grudgingly helps her best friend sell sex toys while she attempts to make enough money to start her own business to give her foul-mouthed, but extremely loveable (when he's asleep) toddler a be...

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Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

by Luke Barr

Published: 2013-10-22

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and a...

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"When Did You See Her Last?" (All the Wrong Questions)

by Lemony Snicket

Published: 2013-10-15

Hardcover: 288 pages

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I should have asked the question "How could someone who was missing be in two places at once?" Instead, I asked the wrong question -- four wrong questions, more or less. This is the account of the second.In the fading town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea, young apprentice Lemony Snicket has a new ca...

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A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in Ireland, London, and New York

by Anjelica Huston

Published: 2013-11-19

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Writing with an exuberant love of language and detail, Anjelica Huston shares her enchanted childhood in Ireland, her teen years in London, and her coming-of-age as a model and nascent actress in New York.Living with her glamorous and artistic mother, educated by tutors and nuns, intrepid...

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Jeeves and the Wedding Bells

by Sebastian Faulks

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)—return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for ...