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A gripping tale of mystery and adventure from the bestselling author of THE CITY OF LIES and LABYRINTH.1891. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la...
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Phoenix
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2008-09-18
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The Mill on the Floss in half the timeMaggie Tulliver's quick imagination is stifled by the claustrophobic constraints of family life in a provincial town. Her parents suppress her natural intelligence and instead focus their hopes and ambitions on her brother Tom....
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2008-09-18
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Moby Dick in half the timeMoby Dick is the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the eccentric crew of a whaling ship, The Pequod. The ship...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2008-09-18
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A stunning literary ghost-story of entanglement and obsession; ambition and betrayal - set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th centuryThe son of a reclusive historian finds his mother's drowned body in the tributary of the River Cam that runs through...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2008-09-18
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1790 and England is on the cusp of war with Revolutionary France. The night-time Channel is the scene of intense smuggling activity and the passage of spies from one coast to another.Lieutenant James Hayter has achieved his heart's desire -- his first independent...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2008-09-11
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`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"'
John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-09-11
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A SMALL PART OF HISTORY tells the story of one of the most epic journeys the settlers of America ever made, and finally does so from a woman's perspective. Remarkable. Inspiring. Heartbreaking.In the summer of 1845 Rebecca Springer and her family join the Oregon wagon...
Editeur :
Tinder Press
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2008-09-04
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It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2008-09-04
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'I am sure of this much: my little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine...'Reeling from the aftermath of the twin tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, diffident schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin has...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2008-09-04
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Discover a dazzling story of risk and dangerous liaisons... Beautiful, clever Arabella Fermor is seduced by charming Robert Petre, seventh baron of Ingatestone. Eager to secure herself a rich and handsome husband, Arabella cannot guess that the enigmatic Robert is...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2008-09-04
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Summer 1940. The evacuation of Dunkirk proves that the British can rise to a challenge, even against seemingly insurmountable odds. But now the soldiers walk the streets of Dover, even wandering through Woolworths store, and take weary turns on the town's skating...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2008-09-04
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June 1815On the eve of Waterloo, a sense of finality and cautious hope pervade a nation wearied by decades of war. But peace will present its own challenge to Adam Bolitho, captain of His Majesty's Ship Unrivalled, as many of his contemporaries face the prospect of...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2008-09-04
ePub
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Warrior clans nursing ancient grudges. Western missionaries brandishing pistols. Beautiful geishas who are deadly ninjas. 1861 - after two centuries of isolation Japan has been forced to open its doors. Now new influences are tearing apart the old order. Japan is as...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
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2008-09-04
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The Accordionist's Son is a remarkably powerful and accomplished novel, exploring the life of David Imaz, a former inhabitant of the Basque village of Obaba, now living in exile and ill-health on a ranch in California.As a young man, David divides his time between his...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2008-09-04
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Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine.But Japan is...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2008-09-04
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There was once no greater advocate for revolution than Michel Wéry. No voice spoke louder, was more impassioned, on the need for a new order, for an end to disparity and injustice - not just in France but throughout the continent. Strange, then, that such a man should...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
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2008-09-04
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'A masterpiece' Irish Times'Exhilarating' Daily TelegraphBorn in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast.By the time he can walk he's out robbing and begging, often cold and always...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2008-09-04
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The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everything -- punishment, sale to a cotton plantation, even his life -- to...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
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2008-09-01
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Be whisked away in the moving story of a girl travelling far and wide for a better life, from the internationally bestselling author Lesley PearseTragedy sent her on a journey far from home . . .Fifteen-year-old Beth's life is shattered when she and her brother Sam are...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2008-07-14
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For the most popular of his Scottish romances, published at the end of 1817, Scott drew on the legends and historical anecdotes about Rob Roy MacGregor he had collected in his youth. The famous outlaw is only one of a series of vivid characters who cast their spell of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-07-10
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