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The English Breakfast Murder (Childs, Laura. Tea Shop Mysteries.)

by Laura Childs

Published: 2003-08-05

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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It is a truly exhilarating experience for Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning-helping Charleston's Sea Turtle Protection League shepherd hundreds of tiny green loggerheads safely into the sea. But just as she's about to celebrate all her hard work, she spots a dead body bobbing in the waves. Now...

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The English Governess and the Siamese Court: The True Story Behind 'The King and I'

by Anna Leonowens

Published: 1999-11-15

Mass Market Paperback: 308 pages

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Anna Leonownes' memoir of her six year as a governess in the Royal Palace of Bangkok was the inspiration for the beloved Broadway musical The king and I, as well as two award-winning films. First published in 1870, Leonowens' memoir is the true story of a proper English governess who is hi...

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The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok

by Anna Harriette Leonowens

Published: 2006-09-27

Paperback: 272 pages

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A vision of comfort and gladness, that tropical March morning, genial as a July dawn in my own less ardent clime; but the memory of two round, tender arms, and two little dimpled hands, that so lately had made themselves loving fetters round my neck, in the vain hope of holding mamma fast, blinded my...

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The English Major: A Novel

by Jim Harrison

Published: 2008-10-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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English Passengers: A Novel

by Matthew Kneale

Published: 2008-12-10

Kindle Edition: 446 pages

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In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side ...

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The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

Published: 1993-11-30

Paperback: 305 pages

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With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize–winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the...

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English Trifle

by Josi S. Kilpack

Published: 2009-08-05

Paperback: 368 pages

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High Crimes at High Tea Things to Do in England Visit Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London, and the London Zoo Take the Jack the Ripper tour creepy! Sample authentic English scones and crumpets Discover a dead body What begins as a holiday trip for amateur sleuth and cooking aficionado Sadie Hoffmiller...

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The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I

by Ben Macintyre

Published: 2003-02-04

Paperback: 254 pages

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In the first terrifying days of World War I, four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front. They were forced to hide in the tiny French village of Villeret, whose inhabitants made the courageous decision to shelter the fugitives until they could pas...

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Enigma

by Robert Harris

Published: 1996-09-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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"LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE."--The Washington Post Book WorldEngland 1943. Much of the infamous Nazi Enigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans' movements, allowing them to destroy a re...

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Enjoy Every Sandwich: Living Each Day as If It Were Your Last

by Lee Lipsenthal

Published: 2011-11-08

Hardcover: 224 pages

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This book is a culmination of what I?ve learned. I hope it will open the door for you to embrace your humanity, accept uncertainty, and live a life of gratitude. ?from Enjoy Every Sandwich As medical director of the famed Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Lee Lipsenthal helped thousa...