In 1933, Robert Byron set off from Venice with his friend Christopher Sykes to explore the architecture of the Middle East. Their long and arduous journey took them from Cyprus and Jerusalem to...
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Author: Byron, RobertSummary:Genre: Travel writing
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Author: Macfarlane, Robert, Morris, Jackie, Bowman, Edith, Garvey, Guy, Matthews, Cerys, Zephaniah, BenjaminSummary:
FINALIST, WAINWRIGHT PRIZE. In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary - widely used in schools around the world - was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around...
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Author: Smith, CherieSummary:
Through a unique combination of biography, memoir, and autobiography, Cherie Smith traces four generations of her immigrant family and, in doing so, charts the very course of Russian-Jewish...
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Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySummary:
The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear, and thirty-seven short stories from the Adventures...
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Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, Paget, SidneySummary:
The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear, and thirty-seven short stories from the Adventures...
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Author: Orner, PeterSummary:
"Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become," Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living...
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Author: Smith, CherieSummary:
Through a unique combination of biography, memoir, and autobiography, Cherie Smith traces four generations of her immigrant family and, in doing so, charts the very course of Russian-Jewish...
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Author: Grey, ZaneSummary:
Filled with the life, color, and spirit of pioneer days, this is the story of the bravery and heroism of Betty, beautiful young sister of Colonel Isaac Zane.
Genre: Western fiction