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Historia Secreta del Clavel Carmesi / The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Published: 2006-07-30
Mass Market Paperback: 592 pages
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The French eventually unmasked the famed spies in the Napoleonic war, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian, but as Harvard graduate student Eloise Kelly discovers at the start of this breezy historical romance, the identity of the Pink Carnation remains a mystery. Setting off for E...
The Historian
Published: 2005-06-14
Hardcover: 642 pages
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To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of-a labyrinth...
The History Boys: A Play
Published: 2006-04-04
Paperback: 109 pages
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“A play of depth as well as dazzle, intensely moving as well as thought-provoking and funny.” —The Daily Telegraph An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys’ school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place...
History Lesson for Girls
Published: 2007-06-26
Paperback: 368 pages
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History of a Pleasure Seeker
Published: 2012-02-07
Paperback: 288 pages
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From the acclaimed author of The Drowning People (“A literary sensation” —The New York Times Book Review) and Natural Elements (“A magnum opus” —The New Yorker), an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe’s belle époque, written in the grand traditi...
History of a Pleasure Seeker. by Richard Mason
Published: 2011-05
Hardcover: 288 pages
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'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' It is 1907. The belle epoque is in full swing. Piet Barol has escaped the drabness of the provinces for the grandest mansion...
History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life
Published: 2011-02-15
Hardcover: 272 pages
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?It is so nice to be happy. It always gives me a good feeling to see other people happy. . . . It is so easy to achieve.? ?Kim's journal entry, May 3, 1988 On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky's twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She argued ...
History of Food
Published: 1994-08-01
Paperback: 824 pages
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The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this definitive history. She looks at the transition from a vegetable - to an increasingly meat-based diet, as well as at the relationship between people and what they...
History Of God : The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Published: 1993-09-28
Hardcover: 460 pages
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"Strange as it may seem, the idea of 'God' developed in a market economy in a spirit of aggressive capitalism," Karen Armstrong asserts in her fascinating work A History of God. Armstrong considers herself a "historian of ideas," and with this broad view she gives a compelling account of t...
A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind
Published: 2008-05-05
Hardcover: 352 pages
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