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Elizabeth Street

by Laurie Fabiano

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 386 pages

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Based on true events, Elizabeth Street is a multigenerational saga that opens in an Italian village in the 1900's, and crosses the ocean to New York's Lower East Side. At the heart of the novel is Giovanna, whose family is targeted by the notorious Black Hand -the precursor to the Mafia. E...

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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

by Sally Bedell Smith

Published: 2012-10-30

Paperback: 720 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Perfect for fans of The Crown, this magisterial biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a close-up view of the woman we’ve known only from a distance—and a captivating window into the last great monarchy.From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 a...

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Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac

by Elizabeth Zimmermann

Published: 1981-10-01

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A year's worth of knitting projects from the "Busy Knitter," called "one of America's most ingenious and creative knitters." Classic patterns for Aran sweaters, baby items, blankets, mittens, moccasins and other seasonal needs may be followed by intermediate to advanced knitters, or may be...

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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne

by David Starkey

Published: 2001-12-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexual-- though, as she maintained, a virgin -- Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography concentrates on Elizabeth's formative years -...

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Ella Enchanted

by Gail Carson Levine

Published: 2004-02

Paperback: 288 pages

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Ella is a girl with a most unusual gift, and her story has charmed readers and critics alike. Now Miramax Films brings this wholly original Cinderella story to the silver screen, complete with princes, ogres, wicked stepsisters, and a fairy-tale ending fit for a princess.At birth, Ella is ...

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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

by Mark Dunn

Published: 2002-09-17

Paperback: 208 pages

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Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds...

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Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable

by Mark Dunn

Published: 2001-10

Hardcover: 205 pages

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Ella Minnow Pea is an epistolary novel set in the fictional island of Nollop situated off the coast of South Carolina and home to the inventor the pangram The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog. Now deceased, the islanders have erected a monument to honor their hero, but one day a ti...

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Ella Price's Journal

by Dorothy Bryant

Published: 1997-10-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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Elle

by Douglas Glover

Published: 2007-09-07

Paperback: 226 pages

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A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza -- this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor General's Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on what might be a true story,...

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Ellen Foster

by Kaye Gibbons

Published: 2012-10-17

Paperback: 144 pages

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Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye...