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Portrait in Sepia

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2002-06-02

Hardcover: 512 pages

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Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune (a February 2000 Oprah Pick) and The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende has written a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family. In Retrato en Sepia (Portrait in Se...

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Portrait in Sepia: A Novel

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2006-05-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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"Portrait in Sepia is the best book Allende has published in the United States since her first novel of nearly two decades ago, The House of the Spirits.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World “Portrait in Sepia tightens the weave of a multigenerational fantasy as complete an...

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Portrait in Sepia: A Novel (P.S.)

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2010-05-11

Paperback: 336 pages

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In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her regal and ambitious grandmother Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged environment but is tormented by horrible nightmares. Wh...

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* * Informative,
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Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper -- Case Closed (Berkley True Crime)

by Patricia Cornwell

Published: 2003-10-28

Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages

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Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus

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The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

Published: 2003-09

Paperback: 656 pages

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Henry James's magnificent heroine, a "young woman affronting her destiny" When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn...

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The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

Published: 1995-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 560 pages

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Seeking the opportunities of Europe, Isabel Archer, a young American, is courted by three men, comes to rely on an invalid cousin, an falls prey to a scheming, sophisicated older woman. Reissue.

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Portrait of a Marriage

by Nigel Nicolson

Published: 2009-06-01

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The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been....

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Portrait of a Spy (Gabriel Allon)

by Daniel Silva

Published: 2012-02-21

Paperback: 512 pages

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“A bona fide thrill ride.”—Miami Herald “Silva builds tension with breathtaking double and triple turns of plot.”—People Portrait of a Spy is Silva’s eleventh thriller to feature art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon as he races from Great Britain to Washington to New Y...

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Portrait of an Unknown Woman

by Vanora Bennett

Published: 2007-02-05

Paperback: 528 pages

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* * * Informative,
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman: A Novel

by Vanora Bennett

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 464 pages

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In the year 1527, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, fleeing the Protestant Reformation, comes to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. Over the course of the next six years, Holbein paints two nearly identical portraits of the More family, his dear and loyal friends. But closer ex...