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The Snow Kimono

by Mark Henshaw

Published: 2015-06-02

Paperback: 416 pages

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Winner of the prestigious Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2015?From Algiers to Tokyo, Henshaw creates indelible images...An intriguing contemplation on the nature of storytelling itself.’?Booklist Online?Henshaw creates a world of psychological complexity...

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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

by Simon Mawer

Published: 2013-05-09

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Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she is recruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime France, it seems her hybrid status - and fluent...

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Siberian Treasure (A Marina Alexander Adventure)

by C. M. Gleason

Published: 2015-03-11

Paperback: 324 pages

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"Gleason mixes historical mysteries with current events and exciting technology—creating a fast-paced story that takes you on an action-packed ride!” —New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon In the tradition of Clive Cussler comes the first novel in an exciting series of thri...

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Worthy of the Stars (The Worthy of the Stars Series) (Volume 1)

by Cletus R. Willems

Published: 2014-11-11

Paperback: 398 pages

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In Worthy of the Stars, an American man and a German woman find their beliefs about love and family, loyalty and patriotism upended by World War Two: He in the course of military service and conflict regarding the decision to bomb Hiroshima; she in uncovering and resisting the Nazi slaughter of the...

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M Train

by Patti Smith

Published: 2015-10-06

Hardcover: 272 pages

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National Best Seller From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.” M Trai...

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Milton's Hymn On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity

by John Milton

Published: 2007-06-25

Paperback: 64 pages

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...

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Ice

by Lyn Gardner

Published: 2014-03-10

Paperback: 242 pages

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**Finalist in the 2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards for LGBT Fiction** **Winner of the Gold Medal in the 2014 Global Ebook Awards in Gay / Lesbian / LGBT Fiction** The last time Maggie Campbell and Alexandra Blake worked together, they both received two-week suspensions. This time...it's...

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A History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

Published: 1992-09-01

Paperback: 688 pages

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First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slaves—from concepts ...

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Secrets, Spies and Spotted Dogs: Unravelling mysterious family connections behind a secret adoption

by Jane Eales

Published: 2014-07-23

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A simple need for her birth certificate leads Jane, aged 19, to a devastating secret: she is adopted. Stunned, Jane is sworn to secrecy and forbidden to search for her biological family - a promise she honours until the death of her adoptive parents. A heart-wrenching family crisis and a...

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Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero

by Ashley Smith

Published: 2005-09-27

Hardcover: 272 pages

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In March 2005, Ashley Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of alleged courthouse killer Brian Nichols after he took her hostage for seven hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. In this moving, inspirational account, the twenty-seven-year- old widowed...