From the bestselling e-book sensation of The Thief Taker series comes a thrilling and sumptuous novel set during the early days of the French Revolution.
'A rip-roaring adventure.' Tessa Harris
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'He was alive when he went in the mortuary.'
1789. The Bastille is marked for destruction. Skirmishes in the city are...
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Kaiser und Reich stehen auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer Macht. Doch an den Grenzen brodelt es. Im Norden drängen barbarische Stämme gegen den Grenzwall; im Osten streben ehemalige Fürstentümer nach alter Unabhängigkeit. Jeder erfolgreiche kaiserliche Kommandeur kann der nächste Usurpator sein, der den Thron und die kaiserliche Göttlichkeit für sich selbst beansprucht. Und Nachrichten von unerklärlichen Erscheinungen erreichen die Hauptstadt.
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Kaiser und Reich stehen auf dem Höhepunkt ihrer Macht. Doch an den Grenzen brodelt es. Im Norden drängen barbarische Stämme gegen den Grenzwall; im Osten streben ehemalige Fürstentümer nach alter Unabhängigkeit. Jeder erfolgreiche kaiserliche Kommandeur kann der nächste Usurpator sein, der den Thron und die kaiserliche Göttlichkeit für sich selbst beansprucht. Und Nachrichten von unerklärlichen Erscheinungen erreichen die Hauptstadt.
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Robert Langdon Book 05
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Sunday Times 1 BestsellerNew York Times 1 Bestseller The global bestseller - Origin is the latest Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code. On a trail marked only by enigmatic symbols and elusive modern art, Langdon and Vidal will come face-to-face with a breathtaking truth that has remained buried - until now.
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A dazzling new novel of slavery and freedom by the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted Half Blood Blues. From the cane fields of Barbados to the icy waters of the Canadian Arctic, from the muddy streets of London to the deserts of Morocco, WASHINGTON BLACK teems with all the strangeness and mystery of life. It is the extraordinary tale of a world destroyed and made whole again.
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A Novel
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Absorbing . . . impossible to resist." -The Washington Post As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? International bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn...
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"Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turner about a woman who returns to her family's ancestral vineyard in Burgundy to study for her Master of Wine test, and uncovers a lost diary, a forgotten relative, and a secret her family has been keeping since World War II."
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVE AND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Führer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel...
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The Black Death's entrance to Britain through Dorset provides a menacing backdrop in this work of historical fiction from the author of "The Ice House". Lady Anne's people fear starvation but fear pestilence to an even greater degree, each steeling themselves for the prospect of breaking out beyond the security of their walled quarantine.
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Halblinge haben es schwer unter Menschen.
Lu ist wieder einmal in Geldnot. Die Priester haben ihren Handel mit schlüpfrigen Stempeldrucken verboten, so dass sie sich mit gelegentlichen Arbeiten für einen alten Gelehrten über Wasser halten muss. Als der Gelehrte erschlagen wird, steckt Lu wieder mitten in den Ermittlungen. Ihre einzige Spur zum Täter sind verschwundene Zauberringe. Mit Scharfsinn, Einfallsreichtum und ihrem...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, USA Today, and Maureen Corrigan, NPR - One...
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Manche sagen, in mir lebe ein Dämon, den es gilt auszutreiben – mit allen Mitteln.
Manche halten mich für den Sohn des Teufels, nur weil ich anders bin.
Sie gewähren mir keine Gnade, lassen mich büßen für Dinge, die ich nicht getan habe. Für sie bin ich die Verkörperung des Bösen.
Doch ich bin kein Kind der Dunkelheit, sondern des Lichts.
Sie schlagen und treten mich; sie spucken mich an und beschimpfen mich, aber...
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England 1346
Gweneth, Tochter des Grafen von Wickersham, lebte fünf Jahre lang im Kloster Saint Mary’s, nachdem ihre Mutter, Gräfin Brynna, als Hexe verleumdet und in den Kerker gesperrt wurde.
Saint Mary’s ist jedoch kein normales Kloster. Hinter den trutzigen Mauern leben magisch begabte Frauen und Mädchen nach einem uralten Glauben.
Als Gweneth zur Priesterin geweiht wird überschlagen sich die Ereignisse: Mutter Cessily, die...
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A picture hides a thousand words ... Seductive, exhilarating and suspenseful,The Muse is an unforgettable novel about aspiration and identity, love and obsession, authenticity and deception - a masterpiece from Jessie Burton, the million-copy bestselling author of "The Miniaturist".
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Jerusalem 1118. Zwanzig Jahre sind seit dem ersten Kreuzzug und der blutigen Eroberung Jerusalems vergangen. Jesco von Hohengreif, geboren im Heiligen Land und Nachkomme eines fränkischen Ritters, wächst als Waise in Jerusalem auf und wird zum Ritter. Überzeugt in seinem Glauben an Gott, bekämpft er viele Jahre die Ungläubigen und übersteht blutige Schlachten. Doch bald beschleichen ihn Zweifel an seinem Handeln, den Mächtigen und der Kirche...
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Now in paperback, this is an acclaimed historical novel of love and intrigue, set in Essex and London in the late 19th century. '"The Essex Serpent" is a novel to relish: a work of great intelligence and charm, by a hugely talented author,' Sarah Waters *Also appeared in January Buyer's Notes*
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In Abdera, der alten Stadt der Odrysii, muss Johanna in die Rolle der den Göttern geopferten Königstochter schlüpfen. In der Stadt brodeln die Vorboten einer Rebellion und Keron verstrickt sich in einen Machtkampf mit Gavril, der in Johanna seine geopferte Gefährtin sieht.
Die Rivalität der beiden Männer endet mit der Aufdeckung Kerons wahrer Identität und seiner drohenden Hinrichtung als Dämon.
Doch Zeus, der jugendliche Gott...
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Aus dem Jahr 2062 ins mittelalterliche Irland – für Zeitreise-Studentin Alison sind solche Zeitsprünge nichts Ungewöhnliches. Ungewöhnlich ist jedoch, dass sie von der unbeteiligten Beobachterin zur Beobachteten wird. Gregor ist der Name jenes Mannes, der sie auf ihrem Streifzug durch die Zeit erspäht und kurzerhand gefangen nimmt. Er sieht in ihr die Chance, mehr über seine Zukunft und eine Prophezeiung zu erfahren, die er vor vielen Jahren...
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A desperate letter from her best friend sends Lady Jane rushing from her cozy Cornwall home to the remote reaches of Northumberland. Alison’s frantic plea for help hints that something sinister is going on in the gloomy halls of Winton Park, so Jane braves the misty moors in the dead of winter to get to her pregnant and bedridden friend.
A menacing sense of doom grips Jane the moment she arrives at the isolated Victorian estate....
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Spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope returns to war-weary London, where she is thrust into the dangerous hunt for a monster, as the New York Times bestselling mystery series for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry continues.
England, 1942. The Nazis’ relentless Blitz may have paused, but London’s nightly blackouts continue. Now, under the cover of darkness, a madman is brutally killing...
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The Pope is dead.
Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election.
They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals.
Over the next seventy-two hours one of them...
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Seeking to get out from under the shadow of his famous father, Dr. John Watson, and his father's even more famous friend, Sherlock Holmes, young Thomas Watson signs on as a newspaper reporter in Philadelphia -- a city that rivals Al Capone's Chicago for its crime and corruption. Now Thomas suddenly finds himself caught up in the biggest story of his career: a suspicious explosion at a speakeasy, which kills the owner and his card-playing...
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400 Jahre - 3 Steine - 1 Welt
Im 17. Jahrhundert beschwört ein Hexenkonvent Magie in drei unscheinbare Steine. Noch im Ritual wird der Konvent angegriffen und zerstreut. Die Steine gehen verloren. 400 Jahre lang reisen sie durch die Welt. Wer sie findet, entwickelt magische Fähigkeiten. Doch nicht immer dienen die Kräfte dem Guten. Manchen retten die Steine das Leben, aber manchmal wendet sich die Macht des Steines auch gegen seinen...
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Two men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. “A magnificent fantasy epic” (NPR).
Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends...
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Dort wo die Geschichtsschreibung der römischen Antike vom heraufziehenden Dunkel des Mittelalters überschattet wird, leuchten die Namen zweier Helden noch schwach bis in unsere Zeit: Hengist und Horsa.
Britannien, 5. Jahrhundert n. Chr.
Die Pikten fallen in Hochkönig Vortigerns Reich ein. Um der drohenden Gefahr aus dem Norden Herr zu werden, entsendet Vortigern seinen Untertan Ceretic nach Nordgermanien: Er soll den berühmten...
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The author of the USA Today and New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home has once again created an unforgettable historical novel. Step into the world of Victorian London, where the wealth and poverty exist side by side. This is the story of two long-lost sisters, whose lives take different paths, and the young woman who will be transformed by their experiences.
In 1912, twenty-year-old Tilly...
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The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes and bank...
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In this enthralling novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, fate brings together a carefree beauty and a charismatic playboy—only to separate them all too soon.
Though Mary Harland knows about Jake Darcy’s notorious reputation, she can’t help but be drawn to him. Sharing an intimate dance awakens every sense in her body, and after spending six incredible hours together, Mary knows she’s...
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*** #1 Best-selling Time Travel, #2 Genetic Engineering & Dystopian Science Fiction***
The FUTURE IS COMING...FOR SOME SOONER THAN OTHERS
Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when diagnosed with a terminal illness, he's willing to take an insane gamble. He's built a time machine in his garage, and...
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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train's arrival in the English village of Bishop's Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by...
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The new novel from the internationally bestselling author of ‘The Joy Luck Club’.
In fin de siècle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city’s most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a “virgin courtesan.” Both Chinese and American, Violet moves between these cultural worlds, becoming a shrewd businesswoman...
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The second book, following last year’s My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the...
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A POIGNANT AND TIMELY NOVEL OF RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA
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A TOWN DIVIDED BY RACE IS HIDING A MIRACLE AMONG ITS SECRETS
Travel seventy years through the secrets of the white...
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Seventeen-year-old tagger Saira Elian can handle anything … a mother who mysteriously disappears, a stranger who stalks her around London, and even the noble English grandmother who kicked Saira and her mother out of the family. But when an old graffiti tag in a Tube station transports Saira to the nineteenth century and she comes face-to-face with Jack the Ripper, she realizes she needs help after all.
Saira meets Archer, a charming...
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Ken Follett folgt fünf Familien durch die welterschütternden Ereignisse des Ersten Weltkriegs, der Russischen Revolution und den Kampf um das Wahlrecht für Frauen. Eine Geschichte von verblüffender Komplexität, die uns von Washington nach St. Petersburg führt, vom Schmutz der Kohleminen zu den glitzernden Kronleuchtern der Paläste und von den Korridoren der Macht in die Schlafzimmer der Mächtigen. Der Auftakt einer...
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Book One of the Magnificent Devices series, a novel of 54,000 words.
London, 1889. Victoria is Queen. Charles Darwin’s son is Prime Minister. And steam is the power that runs the world.
At 17, Claire Trevelyan, daughter of Viscount St. Ives, was expected to do nothing more than pour an elegant cup of tea, sew a fine seam, and catch a rich husband. Unfortunately, Claire’s talents lie not in the ballroom, but in the chemistry lab...
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Eye of the Raven With the aid of the Native American Shaman Conawago, Duncan McCallum has begun to heal from the massacre of his Highland clan by the British. But his new life is shattered when he and Conawago discover a dying Virginian officer nailed to an Indian shrine tree. The authorities arrest Conawago and schedule his hanging. As Duncan begins a desperate search for the truth, he finds himself in a maelstro Full description
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Alexia Tarabotti, now Lady Maccon, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions and an arsenal of...
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There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, it's impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novel's...
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“P.B. Ryan makes a stunning debut with Still Life with Murder, bringing Nineteenth Century Boston alive, from its teeming slums to the mansions on Boston Common, and populating it with a vivid and memorable cast of characters. The fascinating heroine, Nell Sweeney, immediately engages the reader and I couldn't put the book down until I discovered the truth along with her. I can’t wait for the next installment.”
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need...
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Annie Fuller also possesses a...
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A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list
The woman within the mirror drew nearer. For a moment she appeared directly behind it and they could see the elaborate embroidery and beading of her gown; then she mounted up upon the frame as a step. The surface of the mirror became softer, like a dense cloud or mist....
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Things Fall Apart '...The story is the tragedy of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene ...a very simple but excellent novel'. The Observer Also available in an extended edition including essays, maps and illustrations Full description
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Bone Rattler In a novel rich in historical detail, acclaimed author Eliot Pattison reconsiders the founding of America and explores how disenfranchised people of any age and place struggle to find justice, how conflicting cultures can be reconciled through compassion and tolerance, and ultimately how the natural world has its own morality. Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, protagonist Dunc Full description
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It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing...
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All alone on the Kansas prairie, Summer Steadman has few options. With her husband and children lost to illness, she has no desire to continue on farther west to where she and her husband planned to build their future. Instead, she seeks employment in a small Mennonite community in order to be near the graves of her family.
Widower Peter Ollenburger, the local gristmill owner, needs someone to teach his young son. When he hears of...
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Carnton Plantation, 1894: Carrie McGavock is an old woman who tends the graves of the almost 1,500 soldiers buried there. As she walks among the dead, an elderly man appears--the same soldier she met that fateful day long ago. Today, he asks if the cemetery has room for one more.
Based on an extraordinary true story, this brilliant, meticulously researched novel flashes back to 1864 and the afternoon of the Civil War. While the fierce...
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The Complete Maus Tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. In this title, Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Full description
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"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America...
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"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America...
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It took Vonnegut more than 20 years to put his Dresden experiences into words. He explained, "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again." Slaughterhouse Five is a powerful novel incorporating a number of genres. Only those who have fought in wars can say whether it represents the experience well. However, what the novel does do is invite the...
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Growing up in Nazi Berlin. Profusely illustrated in b/w 8vo pp. 208 - tavole ril mezza tela, sovrac (half-cloth binding, DJ)
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Angela's Ashes The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.
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A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Her marvelously detailed, engagingly personal entries chronicle 25 trying months of claustrophobic,...
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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
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