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61) Show Boat
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"Here, I thought, was one of the most melodramatic and gorgeous bits of Americana that had ever come my way. It was not only the theater - it was the theater plus the glamour of the wandering drifting life, the drama of the river towns, the mystery and terror of the Mississippi itself... I spent a year hunting down every available scrap of show-boat material; reading, interviewing, taking notes and making outlines."
Inspired by an offhand comment...
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Wilkie Collins was the first great detective novelist. His dark and complex mysteries influenced the work of other writers, such as Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, with whom he developed a close personal friendship. Swinburne found his work worthy of serious criticism, and T. S. Eliot credits him even more than Poe with the invention of the modern detective novel and the popular thriller. Before such works as The Woman in White, The Moonstone,...
63) Eight Cousins
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Eight Cousins (1875) is a novel by American author, feminist, and abolitionist Louisa May Alcott. Based on her experience of being raised by a father dedicated to education reform, and grounded in her radical beliefs on the role of women in society, Eight Cousins is a masterpiece of children's literature that explores themes of family, death, and perseverance.
Rose Campbell is a young girl when her parents pass away. Orphaned, she is taken to the...
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Historic fiction from East Germany post WWII to after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Distant Signs is an intimate portrait of two families spanning three generations amidst turbulent political change, behind and beyond the Berlin Wall. In 1960s East Germany, Margret, a professor's daughter from the city, meets and marries Hans, from a small village in the Thuringian forest. The couple struggle to contend with their different backgrounds, and the emotional...
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The House of Farrell is a prolific skincare company and home of The Cream, an iconic face product that has seen women flocking to its flagship London store since 1953. At Farrell, you can rely on the personal touch that has been their trademark for generations. The legendary Athina Farrell remains the company's figurehead and in her kingdom at the Berkeley Arcade, while Florence Hamilton plies their cosmetics with the utmost care and discretion. She...
66) Émilie
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Une nouvelle édition de la série qui a valu à Louise Tremblay d'Essiambre le titre de «reine de la saga familiale québécoise» avec un demi-million d'exemplaires vendus au Québec et en France!
Déjà quatorze années se sont écoulées depuis l'époque o Charlotte découvrait que sa famille était pour le moins inhabituelle. Charlotte a vieilli, elle a connu l'amour, puis la déception de voir partir celui qu'elle aimait. Elle s'est aussi...
67) Charlotte
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Une nouvelle édition de la série qui a valu à Louise Tremblay d'Essiambre le titre de «reine de la saga familiale québécoise» avec un demi-million d'exemplaires vendus au Québec et en France!
Cette magnifique saga, qui s'amorce dans les années vingt, a pour cadre une famille québécoise dont la mère hypocondriaque sombre inéluctablement dans les abîmes de l'alcoolisme et de la dépression aux ctés d'un mari qui refuse de voir la vérité.
Charlotte...
68) Le demi-frère
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Voici le quatrième et dernier tome de la série à succès Les sœurs Deblois, de Louise Tremblay-D'Essiambre.
Au moment o nous retrouvons les membres de la famille Deblois, Raymond et sa benjamine tentent tant bien que mal de se remettre des conséquences du retour à Montréal imposé par Blanche, après une année exaltante passée auprès d'Antoinette et de son fils Jason. Était-il trop ambitieux de la part de Raymond de penser qu'il parviendrait...
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Oswald Cray is so often praised for his strong values and nobility, that it is easy for him to forget that he still has flaws. After a nosy servant, who meddles in others' belongings, finds a letter he deems to be suspicious, he presents false charges against Dr. Davenal, a kind and patient man who previously held a sterling reputation. Unaware that it was all a misunderstanding, Cray places too much trust in his own suspicions and breaks off his...
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La fille de Joseph, originalement publié sous Le Tournesol, est le tout premier roman de Louise Tremblay D'Essiambre. Le voici maintenant présenté dans une élégante édition de collection, pour ceux n'ayant pas eu la chance de découvrir cette histoire captivante de passion et d'ambition.
La fille de Joseph raconte l'histoire de Julie, que nous suivons dès l'enfance, en 1929, jusqu'à l'âge adulte, en 1955. Confrontée à de nombreuses pertes...
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Back in the deep recesses before the time of natural law, it was established the world needed a disinterested panel to oversee the business of mankind...High above the land was a suspended mist that housed a board of wizards, priests, and seers. Under the direction of the Ancient Ones, they were directed to guide the course of man's affairs.
When corruption was discovered, they selected from the earth a pair of innocents. Upon the intercession of...
72) Anne
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Le troisième tome de la populaire série Les sœurs Deblois, de Louise Tremblay-D'Essiambre.
La benjamine des sœurs Deblois est au centre de ce roman, tel un point de convergence vers lequel se dirigent les plus nobles aspirations des membres de la famille. C'est qu'elle est attachante, vive et audacieuse, cette chère Anne, et ce, malgré l'indifférence et les remarques insidieuses dont sa mère Blanche l'afflige le plus souvent. Sans savoir...
73) Mountolive
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The astounding third offering in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, a richly detailed and extraordinary expansion of the events of Justine and Balthazar. David Mountolive is a British diplomat who views love as just another everyday transaction. But as romance turns to betrayal and secret alliances are exposed, Mountolive's affair will bring the true complexity of contemporary love to the forefront amid the swirling political climate of Alexandria. ...
74) In Chancery
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The moving story of a wealthy English clan and the infidelities and intrigues threatening to tear one marriage apart. In Chancery begins where The Man of Property, and its subsequent interlude, left off, pursuing Soames and Irene Forsyte across Edwardian England, meanwhile highlighting the failing marriage of Soames's sister, Winifred. Galsworthy juxtaposes the two relationships while bringing more members of the Forsyte clan into the drama, making...
75) Clea
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The final installment of the Alexandria Quartet. Years after his liaisons with Justine and Melissa, Darley becomes immersed in a relationship with Clea, a bisexual artist. The ensuing chain of events transforms not only the lovers, but the dead as well, and leads to the series' brilliant and unexpected resolution. Praised by Life as among the 'most discussed and widely admired serious fiction of our time,' Clea carries on Durrell's assured and...
76) Justine
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The acclaimed first novel of the Alexandria Quartet, and the celebrated story of an all-consuming love transcending time and place. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years between World Wars I and II, Justine is the first installment in the distinguished Alexandria Quartet. Here Lawrence Durrell crafts an exquisite and challenging modern novel that explores tragic love and the fluidity of recollection. Employing a fluctuating narrative and poetic prose,...
77) To Let
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The final chapter in the saga of a once-wealthy English family tormented by the sins of their past. Old loves threaten to jeopardize a family's future in the final installment of the Forsyte Saga. Part social satire, part melodrama, this captivating novel brings to fascinating life author John Galsworthy's preoccupations with class, gender, and morality. Soames and Irene Forsyte have finally separated after years of turmoil. Irene is now wed to...
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Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
79) The Rainbow
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Spanning over a period of sixty-five years, from the 1840s to 1905, The Rainbow by D.H Lawrence follows three generations of the Brangwen family, mapping the change in their romantic relationships amid the industrialization of Great Britain. Their story begins when Tom Brangwen meets a Polish widow named Lydia. The two soon fall in love and get married, though they find that their cultural differences cause more issues than they imagined. Due to a...
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A young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support a sick brother drive Cytherea to accept the hand of Aeneas Manston, Miss...
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