Bringing together the best of Marius Kociejowski's travel writing, Zoroaster's Children snags on the borderline between dream and meaning, offering unusual glimpses of some of the places, exotic or otherwise, the author has been....
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Author:Lalwani, NikitaSummary:From the outside, Pizzeria Vesuvio seems just like any other pizza place in West London: a buzzy, cheerful Italian spot on a street where cooks from Sri Lanka rub shoulders with waitstaff from Spain, Georgia, Wales, Poland, and more....
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Author:Brontë, EmilySummary:On the wild moors of Yorkshire, childhood friends Catherine and Heathcliffe form a passionate bond that threatens all around them. Jealousy, vengefulness, unspeakable cruelty — this is Gothic fiction at its best. Published to mixed...
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Author:Follett, Ken.Summary:Two centuries after the building of the elaborate Gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, its prior finds himself at the center of a web of ambition and revenge that places the city at a crossroad of commerce, medicine, and architecture.
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Author:Henty, G. A.Summary:This story includes depictions of the battles of Forts Duquesne and Necessity in Pennsylvania, and Forts Ticonderoga and William Henry in New York, and Quebec in Canada.
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Author:Quick, AmandaSummary:Nothing can stop Beatrice from investigating the disappearance of the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite from her uncle's home, or her uncle's death. The Earl of Monkcrest is incensed with Beatrice and insists on giving his...
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Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:It is late summer in the year 1270 and England is as weary as its aging king, Henry III. Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs like smoke over the land. Even in the small priory of Tyndal on...
- Author:Holden, AnthonySummary:
Holden's portrayal is a racy, incident-packed account of Shakespeare as husband, father, actor, poet and Stratford lad who found subsequent immortality via the stage of Elizabethan London.
- Author:King, JamesSummary:
In this first genuinely new account of William Blake's life since 1927, the author focuses on the enormous contradictions and complexities of Blake's personality. He examines the poet-artist's deeply divided feelings about sexuality, as...
- Author:Eagland, JaneSummary:
They strip her naked, of everything, undo her whalebone corset, hook by hook. Locked away in Wildthorn Halla madhousethey take her identity. She is now called Lucy Childs. She has no one; she has nothing. But, she is still...
- Author:James, EloisaSummary:
Lady Joan can't seem to avoid scandals, but her latest plan could ruin her: to join a theater act in the title role of a prince, in breeches. Viscount Greywick vows that he will keep her safe, and strikes a bargain.
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Author:Harrison, MikeSummary:When Eddie receives an early morning call for help, he catches the next plane to Britain. His friend, Dr. Peter Maurice, a renowned psychologist on a UK book tour with his wife Sylvia, has been accused of multiple, brutal murders and is...
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Author:Francis, DickSummary:Thriller set in the world of horse racing, Thomas Lyon, a film director, finds himself caught in a moral dilemma when a close friend confesses to him on his deathbed, mistaking Thomas for a priest.
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Author:Reid, StacySummary:Tobias Walcott, the Earl of Blade, has learned it is best to exercise rigid control over his passions and emotions in all that he does. Uncaring that it makes him seem cool and aloof to most in the ton, he is content with his desire to...
- Author:Malliet, G. M.Summary:
Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. But this new-found serenity is...
- Author:Edwards, RobertaSummary:
A life in the wild! Jane Goodall, born in London, England, always loved animals and wanted to study them in their natural habitats. So at age twenty-six, off she went to Africa! Goodall's up-close observations of chimpanzees changed...
- Author:Anderson, KirstenSummary:
How does a little boy from the London suburbs named Reginald Kenneth Dwight grow up to become one of the biggest pop stars of all time? A lot of talent and a lot of personality! Elton John, as he would later call himself, started...
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Author:Smith, ZadieSummary:On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it...
- Author:Francis, DickSummary:
An entertaining story combining horse racing, detection, suspense and a sensitive study of human relationships. Ex-jockey, Sid Halley, is a victim of his own success, overworked and stretched to do all the jobs he is offered, even with...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
A New York Times Bestseller. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Francesca Bridgerton, in the sixth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series...
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