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Gentlehands (Harper Keypoint Book)

by M. E. Kerr

Published: 1990-10-30

Paperback: 208 pages

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Buddy Boyle lives year-round with his family in unfashionable Seaville, New York, in a cramped little house on the bay. Skye Pennington spends the summers nearby on lavish estate complete with ocean view and a butler named Peacock.But Skye and Buddy fall in love anyway. And every once in a...

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* * * * Romantic,
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The Gentleman Poet: A Novel of Love, Danger, and Shakespeare's The Tempest

by Kathryn Johnson

Published: 2010-09-07

Paperback: 336 pages

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En route to the Americas in 1609, Elizabeth Persons, a young servant girl, sees her blinding headache as an ominous sign. Sure enough, a hurricane during the final leg of their journey tosses the ill-fated Sea Venture and its one hundred and fifty passengers and crew onto the dreaded shor...

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Gentleman's Agreement

by Laura Z. Hobson

Published: 2007-03-01

Paperback: 280 pages

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The plot of GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT concerns the experiences of a young Gentile writer who poses as a Jew in order to secure material on anti-Semitism for a series of magazine articles. A thesis novel concerning the social and economic aspects of anti-Semitism in American life. Timely when issued in 1947...

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Gentlemen and Players

by Joanne Harris

Published: 2006

Paperback: 512 pages

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Gentlemen and Players: A Novel

by Joanne Harris

Published: 2006-01-01

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Gentlemen AND Players Audere, agere, auferre. To dare, to strive, to conquer. For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more ...

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Gentlemen and Players: A Novel (P.S.)

by Joanne Harris

Published: 2006-12-26

Paperback: 422 pages

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For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however, the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, ...

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Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure [title page only]

by Michael Chabon

Published: 2008-09-30

Paperback: 224 pages

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* * * * Fun,
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

by Eric Weiner

Published: 2008-01-03

Hardcover: 329 pages

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Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science...

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The Geography of Love: A Memoir

by Glenda Burgess

Published: 2008-08-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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“If I had given it much thought, I might have hesitated to marry a man for whom at the age of 45 much of the past was too painful to consider--for either of us. Truthfully, thought had little to do with it.  Instinct did--the instinct to seize a sure and ebullient happiness or go down trying.” Falling...

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The Geometry of Sisters

by Luanne Rice

Published: 2009-04-14

Hardcover: 336 pages

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What is one sister without the other? Is it even possible to imagine?New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice explores the complex emotional equations of love and loyalty that hold together three pairs of remarkable sisters. Here in the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private schoo...