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L'aristocratico Giorgio Aurispa assiste al suicidio di uno sconosciuto a Roma e poco dopo è richiamato in Abruzzo dalla famiglia, in forte dissesto economico, per la morte dello zio Demetrio. Giorgio ha perso l'unico punto di riferimento della famiglia, poiché tutti i...
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Cactus
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2024-10-07
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Longing for a life bigger than the one she inhabits, Lizzie Donoghue thinks she’s found a simple escape route in Michael Power, but soon discovers that she might have been mistaken…
The Donoghue Girl is the story of Lizzie Donoghue, the spirited daughter of Irish...
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Latitude 46 Publishing
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2024-09-19
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Threatened by encroaching colonialism, one Métis family struggles to protect their way of life.
In 1869, the arrival of surveyors from the new Dominion of Canada sends ripples of anxiety through the people of Red River. As the Métis Nation begins negotiating terms for...
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Tidewater Press
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2024-09-17
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It is June 1940 and fifteen-year-old Olivia Baldini's idyllic English life is shattered as Britain declares war on Italy. With hyperthymesia, Olivia possesses an extraordinary ability to recall information with vivid detail, a gift that makes her invaluable to...
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Signature Editions
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2024-09-01
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This is the complete nine-book collection of the classic series.
The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on...
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Horizon Ridge Publishing
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2024-07-29
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Il Fermo e Lucia presenta numerose discontinuità rispetto alle redazioni successive che condurranno a I promessi sposi. A cambiare sono sia la struttura quanto la rappresentazione di personaggi maggiori e minori, a cominciare dai nomi dei due protagonisti: Fermo Spolino...
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Cactus
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2024-07-25
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In uno sfondo storico ricco di intrighi e contrasti, il capolavoro di Alessandro Manzoni ci trasporta nell'Italia del XVII secolo, tra nobili cortigiane, sacerdoti devoti e popolani oppressi. Le vicende dei giovani protagonisti, Renzo e Lucia, si intrecciano in un...
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Cactus
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2024-07-25
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Opera unica nel panorama della letteratura antica, il De rerum natura si propone come modello dell'universo infinito teorizzato da Epicuro e come strumento interpretativo di un mondo i cui fenomeni eterogenei sfidano da sempre la ragione dell'uomo e lo costringono a...
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Cactus
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2024-07-21
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"The Stranger" (French: "L'Étranger") is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1942. It is a compelling and existential work that examines the absurdity of human existence and societal norms through the story of its protagonist, Meursault.
The novel is narrated by...
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Horizon Ridge Publishing
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2024-07-20
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I will die,I will die. And nobody will know my grave. And nobody will come and remember, Only the nightingale will sing. Inspired by a real-life story, Black Sunflowers illuminates one of the darkest times in Ukrainian history: the Holodomor or "death by...
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Fitzhenry & Whiteside
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2024-06-26
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In 1916, as a costly war raged in Europe, the Newfoundland Government sought to curb spending on social support programs in order to finance the war effort. This decision led to deadly consequences for a group of people in Fortune Bay. A lightkeeper on St. Jacques...
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Flanker Press
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2024-06-07
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Juniper Tickle, Newfoundland, 1906
Jimmy Bailor is left on the edge of the wild North Atlantic with meagre supplies and limited survival skills. He stumbles upon shelter with Flory White, her sister-in-law, Lizzy, and Lizzy’s young son.
The Whites have been...
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Flanker Press
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2024-04-26
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Romance between a middle-aged widow and a younger man scandalizes 1920s London society in this classic novel by the author of The Enchanted April.
Although they thoroughly enjoy watching performances of The Immortal Hour, it is no longer the sole reason Catherine...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-04-24
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Martin Somers, surgeon and adjutant of women in O’Cahan’s Irish regiment fighting for Montrose, is a better swordsman than surgeon. In his adventurous wardship of this ill-fated company of women,Martin finds excitement and danger in war-torn Scotland from his first...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-04-12
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A dramatic retelling of the life of the tough and bellicose sixth-century King of Persia, Cyrus the Great.
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-04-09
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The first book in ‘The Shanghai Tetralogy’ City Rising, From the Holy Mountain: On the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ, the most powerful man in the world, the First Emperor bequeaths a talisman - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth...
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At Bay Press
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2023-11-09
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Harbour Grace
Newfoundland
June 1884
Sergeant Sean Ryan, an officer with the Terra Nova Constabulary, is transferred from St. John’s to police the very troubled and tense Catholic community of Riverhead,Harbour Grace, a place he thought he had left behind him....
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Flanker Press
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2023-09-01
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No other city in the world could compare with it in grandeur, splendor, and wealth. And when it fell to the Turks in 1453, it must have seemed like the end of the world to Christians. Famed author Mika Waltari takes us into the last months of this dying city as revealed...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2022-09-12
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Joan Crofton had come to Boston to take a job at a prominent advertising agency. She loved her job -- it was stimulating and exciting -- but from the moment she had met Craig Lamont, the owner of the agency, her acquaintance with him had been marred by...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2022-05-12
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By starting a farm in Maine, Prudence Schuyler hoped to forget the tragedy that had broken her faith in all rich and attractive young men. But her new neighbor turned out to be just such a man - sporting, debonair and immensely wealthy Rodney Gerard.
When lumber baron...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2022-05-12
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