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ERE I SAW ELBA

by Drew Banks

Published: 2009-08-06

Paperback: 300 pages

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August 17, 1944. Following Brigitte Sureau's release from a Nazi internment camp near Paris, the reunited Sureaus become France's postwar standard for reconciliation. This notoriety veils the family's quiet disintegration. Fifty years later, a chance encounter exposes fact from fiction.

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Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Published: 2009-03

Hardcover: 224 pages

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ONE OF TWELVE TITLES IN VINTAGE'S A FORMAT WAR PROMOTION The Greatest Novel about the First World War and an International Bestseller All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during...

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Eromenos

by Melanie McDonald

Published: 2011-03-11

Paperback: 176 pages

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Eros and Thanatos converge in the story of a glorious youth, an untimely death, and an imperial love affair that gives rise to the last pagan god of antiquity. In this coming-of-age novel set in the second century AD, Antinous of Bithynia, a Greek youth from Asia Minor, recounts his seven-...

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Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island

by Lea Aschkenas

Published: 2006-01-09

Paperback: 360 pages

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Es Cuba is a poignant and passionate travel memoir about falling in love with a country and one of its compatriots. Aschkenas never strays from her acute awareness that there is no way to separate her foreignness (intensified by U.S.-Cuba relations) from the complex mix of emotions, devoti...

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Escape

by Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer

Published: 2007-10-16

Hardcover: 413 pages

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The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man th...

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Escape

by Barbara Delinsky

Published: 2011-07-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In her luminous new novel, Barbara Delinsky explores every woman's desire to abandon the endless obligations of work and marriage?and the idea that the most passionate romance can be found with the person you know best. Emily Aulenbach is thirty, a lawyer married to a lawyer, working in Ma...

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The Escape Artist

by Diane Chamberlain

Published: 1998-03

Mass Market Paperback: 391 pages

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The author of the highly-praised and bestselling novels "Reflection" and "Brass Ring" delivers an absorbing and emotionally charged page-turner of one woman's dark past and desperate desire to keep her child. Masterfully weaving together the strands of one extraordinary woman's life, Diane Chamberlain...

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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom inthe West

by Blaine Harden

Published: 2012-03-29

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being h...

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Escape From Red China

by Robert Loh

Published: 2007-09-12

Paperback: 380 pages

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Escape from Shangri-La

by Michael Morpurgo

Published: 2001-10-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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'He's got no one else...and nowhere else to go. After all those years, he's found his son and you've found your father. Doesn't that mean anything to you?' Cessie has never seen her grandfather, not even in photos, until the day he turned up on the doorstep out of nowhere...The old man has a stroke....