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A Sensible Life: Mary Wesley: 9780670833382: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: July 23, 1990

She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language.  Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926--leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasures--Flora was a ten-year-old misfit.  Ignored by her self-absorbed parents, unloved, and pitied by the pleasant, stylish people in Brittany that summer, Flora was--peripherally--included in their gracious circles.  And there, meeting kindly civilised people for the first time, she fell in love--with Cosmo--with Hubert--with Feix.  It took forty years for the love affairs to be explored, consummated and finally resolved.

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• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Viking Adult; First Edition edition (July 23, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067083338X
• ISBN-13: 978-0670833382
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces

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Buddha Kiss: Peter Tasker: 9780385485524: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: August 18, 1997

The New York Times called Peter Tasker's first thriller, Silent Thunder, "pure entertainment" that "pulls out all the fictional stops yet does so convincingly." With Buddha Kiss, Tasker takes his sophisticated brand of suspense to a whole new level.
Richard Mitchell used quick wits and a degree in Japanese Studies to turn his job as a bike messenger in central London into a position as securities analyst in Tokyo. Those wits should help make him a financial whiz-kid -if his career isn't ruined first by his having to recommend the underwriting of a run-down company at the insistence of his new boss, Yazawa, a strange, mercurial man who seemed to appear out of the blue three months ago. Meanwhile, Kazuo Mori, a maverick private eye in the world's most conformist society, is trying to retain his independence as he investigates the murder of a friend's daughter. His inquiries seem to be leading him toward the radical Peace Technology cult-it's just that any time he makes progress, somebody tries to kill him.
These are minor tremors from a disruption deep in Japan's unstable structure, a disruption so deep-from huge financial fraud to the narcotic ambitions of a religious zealot-so lethally crazy and so diabolically organized, it will destroy and reshape worlds.
Buddha Kiss is a superlative thriller with echoes of the Kobe earthquake, the Nick Leeson/Barings scandal, and the Tokyo subway gas attacks-though it was, uncannily, written before any of these stories made news. Gritty, fast-paced, filled with unique characters, and absolutely sizzling with the oddities and obsessions of Tokyo life, Buddha Kiss is a vivid journey to the complex heart of Japan

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• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (August 18, 1997)
• Language: English
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A Much Married Man (Thomas Dunne Books): Nicholas Coleridge: 9780312382261: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: May 27, 2008 | Series: Thomas Dunne Books

From one of the sharpest observers of the modern scene comes this witty, intelligent, and irresistible novel in the tradition of Gosford Park and Snobs. 
Anthony Anscombe has everything he could ever want: an exquisite family estate, enviable social standing, and a desirable inheritance. But Anthony still has an aching desire for one thing: the perfect match. Running headlong into marriage is Anthony’s forte . . . and his greatest weakness. As he surveys his beautiful house in the English countryside, Anthony has the distinct feeling that he’s under siege. He may be surrounded by his sprawling estate, but lurking in the village are more than one or two reminders of his complicated past, including three ex-wives, a mistress, and a legion of children and stepchildren, all dependent on him and all determined to do whatever it takes to get what they want.
A Much Married Man is a wickedly funny social satire with characters that will stay with readers long after the final page. Like a modern-day Edith Wharton or Anthony Trollope, Nicholas Coleridge delivers a sensational glimpse inside the salacious world of the upper classes.

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• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (May 27, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031238226X
• ISBN-13: 978-0312382261
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6 x 1.2 inches
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The Romantics: A Novel: Pankaj Mishra: 9780375502743: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: February 1, 2000

On the banks of the Ganges, the holy city of Benares groans and heaves along the fault line where modern India presses against its living past, as pilgrims bathe in the sacred waters while the bodies of the dead await by the thousands their turns on the burning ghats. Into this city comes in all innocence young Samar to complete his university studies and take the civil-service examinations that will determine his future. An uprooted Brahman, bearing the responsibilities of his caste but shorn of its privileges, Samar, obsessed by the intellectual culture of the West but shaped by ancient obligations due his ancestors, finds himself suspended between conflicted worlds. He is the classic young man from the provinces, propelled by curiosity and passion beyond his comprehension. He will emerge with a story to tell: a story of lost illusions and the joy and pain of love.
        
On his journey of self-discovery, Samar is accompanied by two guides: Rajesh, an impoverished fellow Brahman, a hanger-on at the university who has mysterious powers over a band of student malcontents that has made him its leader; and Miss West, his neighbor in the ramshackle lodging where he has taken a room. Miss West--English, fortyish, her good looks so far intact--will introduce Samar to her circle of Western friends who have come to Benares seeking a culture more resonant than their own. From Rajesh, Samar will discover the dead end to which that culture has come.
        
When he arrives in Benares, Samar knows Miss West's world only through the books he has read. By the time he is ready to leave the holy city, Samar's Brahman reserves will have been tested to the breaking point by Miss West's beautiful friend Catherine and by the horror to which Rajesh has exposed him. He survives by the grace of character and intelligence with which his brilliant creator--one of the most promising talents of his Anglo-Indian generation--has endowed him in this astonishingly mature first novel, the harbinger of a major literary career.

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• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375502742
• ISBN-13: 978-0375502743
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	Another World Publication Date: March 1999The new novel by the author of the acclaimed Regeneration trilogy. Suppose time can slow down. Suppose it's not an ever rolling stream, but something altogether more viscous and unpredictable, like blood. Suppose it coagulates around terrible events, clots them over, stops the flow . . . During the hazy Newcastle summer, Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. A proud and resilient man, he has long outlived his peers but not the memories of his youth. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors that surrounded his brother's death in the painful days befor...
	The Icarus Girl: A Novel Release Date: June 21, 2005“The Icarus Girl is an astonishing achievement.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)Jessamy “Jess” Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of an extraordinary and powerful imagination, she spends hours writing haiku, reading Shakespeare, or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can’t shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and the other kids in her class are wary of her tendency to succumb to terrified fits of screamin...
	Paradise Postponed Publication Date: April 7, 1986A literary novel from the author of FELIX IN THE UNDERWORLD, TITMUSS REGAINED and THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS. ...
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	Scorpius (Ian Fleming's James Bond) Release Date: May 23, 1988| Series: Ian Fleming's James Bond The dead body of a young girl found floating in the Thames leads Bond into the haunts of a secret sect which is connected with Scorpius, the biggest arms dealer to terrorists worldwide; Bond soon finds himself in the middle of a deadly game of terrorism and arms supplies. John Gardner is author of six previous James Bond titles, including "Ice Breaker", "Licence Renewed" and "Nobody Lives For Ever", as well as other thrillers such as "The Nostrodamus Traitor", "The Garden of Weapons" and "The Quiet Dogs". --This text refers to an a...
	The Ghost Writer Publication Date: July 5, 2004A tantalizing tale of suspense and family secrets that weaves Victorian ghost stories into the present – where they start to come trueTimid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother’s drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. And as he discovers more of Viola’s chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery – or will they bri...
	Un d Release Date: September 21, 2010| Series: Vintage Espanol #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIt’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they can’t stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fi ghts, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. As the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. ...
	Kingdom's End: And Other Stories (India) Release Date: March 6, 1990| Series: India A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, TRANSLATED FROM THE URDU, BY A WRITER CONSIDERED THE SUBCONTINENT'S GREATEST SHORT STORY WRITER. THIS EXCELLENT TRANSLATION HAS BEEN VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS 'MEMORABLE' (SALMAN RUSHDIE), 'AN ESTATE OF MANY MANSIONS' (FARRUKH DHONDY), 'IMPRESSIVE' (ANITA DESAI). ALL THE TRANSLATORS UNVARYINGLY CALL MANTO THE SUBCONTINENT'S FINEST MODERN SHORT STORY WRITER. FOR CONTENTS SEE OVER>>>> CONTENTS: TOBA TEK SINGH; THE DOG OF TITWAL; THE LAST SALUTE; THE RETURN; DOING GOD'S WORK; IT HAPPENED IN 1919; THE PRICE OF FREEDOM; THE WO...
	In the Red Publication Date: June 1991Runner-up for the P.G.Wodehouse Humour Prize, this is a novel about the ultimate bank manager disaster. Mark Andrew James decides to murder his bank manager and then extends it to bank managers throughout the country. ...
	Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Writers Publication Date: December 1989Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Wri, by DeSlavo, Louise et al., eds.. 2d ptg. 8vo. ...
	Turning for Home Publication Date: May 19, 2003A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her one remaining racehorce, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married – who is still her dearest friend.Onto this scene comes Maeve Delaney. Sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, streetwise and outrageous, Maeve bursts into the old house like a firecracker.As open warfare settles into a wary true between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorce,...
	Original Bliss Release Date: January 25, 2000"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book ReviewA brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and...
	A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters Release Date: October 7, 1989This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!From the Trade Paperback edition. ...
	Half Life Release Date: April 27, 2010On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking.  Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than a year, Aruna heads to Heathrow, where she boards a plane bound for Singapore and her old life.  Educated and beautiful, Aruna has a desperate need to risk it all.  But why?  Waiting for her is a messy past and a perfect past lover she had once abandone...
	Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man: A Novel Release Date: July 1, 2008 Amelia Lockwood doesn't mean to sound greedy. She's got a fabulous career in television, a posh apartment, and four fiercely loyal and wickedly funny friends. The only thing she's missing is a husband. So she swallows her pride, signs up for dating boot camp, and enlists the help of a professional—an acidic New Yorker with a black belt in "tongue fu"—who'll help Amelia apply proven business-marketing principles to finding her dream man. Amelia's first assignment is to track down all the lovers she's ever lost—from the guy who dumped her during ...
	Miller's Dance: A Novel of Cornwall, 1812-1813 (The Poldark novels) Publication Date: October 1982| Series: The Poldark novels A novel from the Poldark series, originally published in 1983, in which the Poldark and Warleggan families find themselves thrust into a turbulent new era, with the uneasy political situation at home providing complications for Ross and Demelza Poldark and their children. ...
	Eclipse Release Date: February 20, 2001In his first novel since The Untouchable, John Banville gives us the intensely emotional story of a man discovering for the first time who he has been and what he is becoming.Alexander Cleave—a famous actor who “took to the stage to give myself a cast of characters to inhabit who would be . . . of more weight and moment than I could ever hope to be”—faces the almost certain collapse of his thirty-year career. In physical and psychological retreat, he returns to his abandoned childhood home, believing that, away from his wife and daughter...
	Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages Publication Date: February 21, 2011Polly is a real estate solicitor. She is also losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner's to pick up her dress for the party, it's not there. Not the dress - the dry cleaner's.And then there are the chickens who think they are people. Something strange is definitely going on - and it's going to take more than a magical ring to sort it out.From one of the funniest voices in comic fiction today comes a hilarious tale of pigs and parallel worlds. ...
	Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells Publication Date: July 1, 2005Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmeshed in the world of her fictional characters in this inspiring and poetic novel about hope and the ravages of recent Jamaican economic and social upheavals. When poverty, emigration, and political turmoil in the fictional world oblige Flamingo's characters to disperse, the one-eyed protagonist Alva solicits Flamingo's help to bring them back together. The innovative novel is organized as a writers' notebook and sprinkled with recipes, herbal remedies, dream interpretations, and various other interjections e...
	The Unbelonging Publication Date: August 1993This is a moving story of self-discovery and survival. It tells of an 11 year old girl, who finds herself in a land of strangers with hers the only black face in a sea of white, after being summoned to Britain by the father she has never known. ...

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Emma Watson: The Watsons Completed: Joan Aiken: 9780312145934: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: September 1996

In a novel that is based on The Watsons, an unfinished Jane Austen novel, Emma Watson, who tends her father's household along with her sister Elizabeth, finds herself caught up in an adventure as two men compete for her attention.

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• Hardcover: 221 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr; First American Edition edition (September 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312145934
• ISBN-13: 978-0312145934
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	Brotherhood of the Rose: A Novel Publication Date: May 1984They were orphans, Chris and Saul - raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought them candy. He treated them like sons. He trained them to be assassins. Now he is trying desperately to have them killed. Spanning the globe, here is an astonishing novel of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders planned and coolly executed, of revenge bitterly, urgently desired. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
	Kingdom's End: And Other Stories (India) Release Date: March 6, 1990| Series: India A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, TRANSLATED FROM THE URDU, BY A WRITER CONSIDERED THE SUBCONTINENT'S GREATEST SHORT STORY WRITER. THIS EXCELLENT TRANSLATION HAS BEEN VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS 'MEMORABLE' (SALMAN RUSHDIE), 'AN ESTATE OF MANY MANSIONS' (FARRUKH DHONDY), 'IMPRESSIVE' (ANITA DESAI). ALL THE TRANSLATORS UNVARYINGLY CALL MANTO THE SUBCONTINENT'S FINEST MODERN SHORT STORY WRITER. FOR CONTENTS SEE OVER>>>> CONTENTS: TOBA TEK SINGH; THE DOG OF TITWAL; THE LAST SALUTE; THE RETURN; DOING GOD'S WORK; IT HAPPENED IN 1919; THE PRICE OF FREEDOM; THE WO...
	Lucky Publication Date: August 1985Sultry Lucky Santangelo takes her game of love and power to all corners of the globe as she fights for her father's honor. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
	The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories (African Writers Series) Publication Date: October 1993| Series: African Writers Series A series of stories about the oppressive regime in Ethiopia which places innocent people in the dock. Here Tuma puts the regime itself on trial, and includes other stories where life turns out to be equally full of vengeance and betrayal - in bars, brothels, guerilla hideouts and village huts. ...
	At Freddie's Publication Date: September 15, 1999"Freddie's" is the familiar name of the Temple Stage School, which supplies London's West End theaters with child actors for everything from Shakespeare to musicals to the Christmas pantomime. Its proprietress, Freddie Wentworth, is a formidable woman of unknown age and murky background who brings anyone she encounters under her spell -- so common an occurrence that it is known as "being Freddied." At her school, we meet dour Pierce, a teacher hopelessly smitten with enchanting Hannah; Jonathan, a child actor of great promise, and his slick rival Mattie; a...
	The Dragon Can't Dance Publication Date: March 1998Lovelace's classic novel of Carnival.Carnival takes on social and political importance in this recognized classic. The people of the shantytown Calvary Hill, usually invisible to the rest of society, join the throng and flaunt their neighborhood personas in masquerade during Carnival. Aldrick, the dashing "king of the Hill," becomes a glorious, dancing dragon; his lovely Sylvia, a princess; Fisheye, rebel idealist, a fierce steel band contestant; and Philo, Calypso songwriter, a star. Then a business sponsors Fisheye's band, Philo gets a hit song, and Sylvia leave...
	Abyssinian Chronicles Release Date: May 30, 2000Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda.The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early 1960s, he is raised ...
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	Spares Release Date: February 2, 1998They were raised for one chilling purpose....A loner, an ex-cop, Jack Randall is the dangerous veteran of a savage war. All he's held dear has long been destroyed. For the last five years, he's been hiding out on a Spares Farm, guarding those who've been prisoners from birth. Now he's on the run with seven of the Farm's inmates (well, six and a half), and the people who own them will do anything to get them back. What's worse, Jack is on a head-on collision course with a cold-blooded killer with one purpose: to cancel Jack once and for all. Jack has a tough deci...
	Midnight at the Dragon Cafe: A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards)) Release Date: April 12, 2005| Series: Alex Awards (Awards) The life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divided loyalties in a small Ontario town in the 1950s.Judy Fong Bates's fresh and engaging first novel is the story of Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese girl growing up the only daughter of an unhappy and isolated immigrant family in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Through Su-Jen's eyes we see the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Caf, the local diner her family runs. Her half-brother Lee-Kung smolders under the responsibilities he must carry as the dutiful Ch...
	Original Bliss Release Date: January 25, 2000"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book ReviewA brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and...
	Downriver (or, The Vessels of Wrath): A Narrative in Twelve Tales Release Date: May 25, 1993| Series: Or, the Vessels of Wrath : a Narrative in Twelve Tales Hired to film a documentary on what's left of old-time life along the now-trendy Thames, a filmmaker finds his most interesting subject in Edith Cadiz, a nurse, performance artist, and whore who comes to life from a vintage photograph. 10,000 first printing. ...
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	Another World Publication Date: March 1999The new novel by the author of the acclaimed Regeneration trilogy. Suppose time can slow down. Suppose it's not an ever rolling stream, but something altogether more viscous and unpredictable, like blood. Suppose it coagulates around terrible events, clots them over, stops the flow . . . During the hazy Newcastle summer, Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. A proud and resilient man, he has long outlived his peers but not the memories of his youth. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors that surrounded his brother's death in the painful days befor...
	Matter of Time Publication Date: May 1, 2001The New York Times Book Review called Shashi Deshpande's U.S. debut, "austere, philosophical, and rich; a work that . . . grows in moral force and pathos." Deshpande's critical acclaim in India—including three top literary prizes—prefigured the wide recognition abroad of this pivotal novel, now available in paperback.One morning, with no warning, Gopal, respected professor, devoted husband, and caring father, walks out on his family for reasons even he cannot articulate. His wife, Sumi, returns with their three daughters to the shelter of the Big Hous...
	A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters Release Date: October 7, 1989This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!From the Trade Paperback edition. ...
	Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells Publication Date: July 1, 2005Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmeshed in the world of her fictional characters in this inspiring and poetic novel about hope and the ravages of recent Jamaican economic and social upheavals. When poverty, emigration, and political turmoil in the fictional world oblige Flamingo's characters to disperse, the one-eyed protagonist Alva solicits Flamingo's help to bring them back together. The innovative novel is organized as a writers' notebook and sprinkled with recipes, herbal remedies, dream interpretations, and various other interjections e...
	Turning for Home Publication Date: May 19, 2003A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her one remaining racehorce, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married – who is still her dearest friend.Onto this scene comes Maeve Delaney. Sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, streetwise and outrageous, Maeve bursts into the old house like a firecracker.As open warfare settles into a wary true between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorce,...
	Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Writers Publication Date: December 1989Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Wri, by DeSlavo, Louise et al., eds.. 2d ptg. 8vo. ...

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Destiny: Sally Beauman: 9780553051834: Amazon.com: Books

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Release Date: March 1, 1987

Edward and Helene.  When they met it was more than coincidence. When  they fell in love it was more than passion. When  they thought they'd lost it all, they should have  known they were wrong--they should have known it  was Destiny.
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• Hardcover: 822 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (March 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553051830
• ISBN-13: 978-0553051834
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds

	A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters Release Date: October 7, 1989This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!From the Trade Paperback edition. ...
	Turning for Home Publication Date: May 19, 2003A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her one remaining racehorce, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married – who is still her dearest friend.Onto this scene comes Maeve Delaney. Sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, streetwise and outrageous, Maeve bursts into the old house like a firecracker.As open warfare settles into a wary true between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorce,...
	The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories (African Writers Series) Publication Date: October 1993| Series: African Writers Series A series of stories about the oppressive regime in Ethiopia which places innocent people in the dock. Here Tuma puts the regime itself on trial, and includes other stories where life turns out to be equally full of vengeance and betrayal - in bars, brothels, guerilla hideouts and village huts. ...
	Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Writers Publication Date: December 1989Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Wri, by DeSlavo, Louise et al., eds.. 2d ptg. 8vo. ...
	The Dragon Can't Dance Publication Date: March 1998Lovelace's classic novel of Carnival.Carnival takes on social and political importance in this recognized classic. The people of the shantytown Calvary Hill, usually invisible to the rest of society, join the throng and flaunt their neighborhood personas in masquerade during Carnival. Aldrick, the dashing "king of the Hill," becomes a glorious, dancing dragon; his lovely Sylvia, a princess; Fisheye, rebel idealist, a fierce steel band contestant; and Philo, Calypso songwriter, a star. Then a business sponsors Fisheye's band, Philo gets a hit song, and Sylvia leave...
	Midnight at the Dragon Cafe: A Novel (Alex Awards (Awards)) Release Date: April 12, 2005| Series: Alex Awards (Awards) The life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divided loyalties in a small Ontario town in the 1950s.Judy Fong Bates's fresh and engaging first novel is the story of Su-Jen Chou, a Chinese girl growing up the only daughter of an unhappy and isolated immigrant family in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Through Su-Jen's eyes we see the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Caf, the local diner her family runs. Her half-brother Lee-Kung smolders under the responsibilities he must carry as the dutiful Ch...
	In the Red Publication Date: June 1991Runner-up for the P.G.Wodehouse Humour Prize, this is a novel about the ultimate bank manager disaster. Mark Andrew James decides to murder his bank manager and then extends it to bank managers throughout the country. ...
	Tengu ...
	At Freddie's Publication Date: September 15, 1999"Freddie's" is the familiar name of the Temple Stage School, which supplies London's West End theaters with child actors for everything from Shakespeare to musicals to the Christmas pantomime. Its proprietress, Freddie Wentworth, is a formidable woman of unknown age and murky background who brings anyone she encounters under her spell -- so common an occurrence that it is known as "being Freddied." At her school, we meet dour Pierce, a teacher hopelessly smitten with enchanting Hannah; Jonathan, a child actor of great promise, and his slick rival Mattie; a...
	Kingdom's End: And Other Stories (India) Release Date: March 6, 1990| Series: India A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, TRANSLATED FROM THE URDU, BY A WRITER CONSIDERED THE SUBCONTINENT'S GREATEST SHORT STORY WRITER. THIS EXCELLENT TRANSLATION HAS BEEN VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS 'MEMORABLE' (SALMAN RUSHDIE), 'AN ESTATE OF MANY MANSIONS' (FARRUKH DHONDY), 'IMPRESSIVE' (ANITA DESAI). ALL THE TRANSLATORS UNVARYINGLY CALL MANTO THE SUBCONTINENT'S FINEST MODERN SHORT STORY WRITER. FOR CONTENTS SEE OVER>>>> CONTENTS: TOBA TEK SINGH; THE DOG OF TITWAL; THE LAST SALUTE; THE RETURN; DOING GOD'S WORK; IT HAPPENED IN 1919; THE PRICE OF FREEDOM; THE WO...
	Matter of Time Publication Date: May 1, 2001The New York Times Book Review called Shashi Deshpande's U.S. debut, "austere, philosophical, and rich; a work that . . . grows in moral force and pathos." Deshpande's critical acclaim in India—including three top literary prizes—prefigured the wide recognition abroad of this pivotal novel, now available in paperback.One morning, with no warning, Gopal, respected professor, devoted husband, and caring father, walks out on his family for reasons even he cannot articulate. His wife, Sumi, returns with their three daughters to the shelter of the Big Hous...
	The Ghost Writer Publication Date: July 5, 2004A tantalizing tale of suspense and family secrets that weaves Victorian ghost stories into the present – where they start to come trueTimid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother’s drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. And as he discovers more of Viola’s chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery – or will they bri...
	Another World Publication Date: March 1999The new novel by the author of the acclaimed Regeneration trilogy. Suppose time can slow down. Suppose it's not an ever rolling stream, but something altogether more viscous and unpredictable, like blood. Suppose it coagulates around terrible events, clots them over, stops the flow . . . During the hazy Newcastle summer, Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. A proud and resilient man, he has long outlived his peers but not the memories of his youth. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors that surrounded his brother's death in the painful days befor...
	Wednesday's Children ...
	Original Bliss Release Date: January 25, 2000"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book ReviewA brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and...
	Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells Publication Date: July 1, 2005Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmeshed in the world of her fictional characters in this inspiring and poetic novel about hope and the ravages of recent Jamaican economic and social upheavals. When poverty, emigration, and political turmoil in the fictional world oblige Flamingo's characters to disperse, the one-eyed protagonist Alva solicits Flamingo's help to bring them back together. The innovative novel is organized as a writers' notebook and sprinkled with recipes, herbal remedies, dream interpretations, and various other interjections e...
	Downriver (or, The Vessels of Wrath): A Narrative in Twelve Tales Release Date: May 25, 1993| Series: Or, the Vessels of Wrath : a Narrative in Twelve Tales Hired to film a documentary on what's left of old-time life along the now-trendy Thames, a filmmaker finds his most interesting subject in Edith Cadiz, a nurse, performance artist, and whore who comes to life from a vintage photograph. 10,000 first printing. ...
	Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man: A Novel Release Date: July 1, 2008 Amelia Lockwood doesn't mean to sound greedy. She's got a fabulous career in television, a posh apartment, and four fiercely loyal and wickedly funny friends. The only thing she's missing is a husband. So she swallows her pride, signs up for dating boot camp, and enlists the help of a professional—an acidic New Yorker with a black belt in "tongue fu"—who'll help Amelia apply proven business-marketing principles to finding her dream man. Amelia's first assignment is to track down all the lovers she's ever lost—from the guy who dumped her during ...
	The Unbelonging Publication Date: August 1993This is a moving story of self-discovery and survival. It tells of an 11 year old girl, who finds herself in a land of strangers with hers the only black face in a sea of white, after being summoned to Britain by the father she has never known. ...
	Abyssinian Chronicles Release Date: May 30, 2000Every once in a while there emerges a literary voice with the power and urgency to immerse readers deep within a previously "invisible" culture. From a young African writer who has already earned comparisons to Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes this masterful saga of life in 20th-century Uganda.The teller of this panoramic tale is Mugezi, a quick-witted, sharp-eyed man whose life encompasses the traditional and the modern, the peaceful and the insanely violent, the despotic and the democratic. Born in a rural community in the early 1960s, he is raised ...

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Release Date: December 13, 2005 | Series: P.S.

Taking its title from a description of Peter Pan's Neverland, Astonishing Splashes of Colour follows the life of Kitty, a woman who, in a sense, has never grown up. As her moods swing dramatically from high to low, they are illuminated by an unusual ability to interpret people and emotions through colour.

Kitty struggles to come to terms with her life, including the loss of her mother, a miscarriage, and an unconventional marriage to her husband, who lives in the apartment next door. And when her father and brothers reveal a family secret long hidden, it overwhelms Kitty's tenuous hold on reality and propels her on an impetuous journey to the brink of madness.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial (December 13, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060734469
• ASIN: B000GG4FCC
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	Paradise Postponed Publication Date: April 7, 1986A literary novel from the author of FELIX IN THE UNDERWORLD, TITMUSS REGAINED and THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS. ...
	My Fault Publication Date: September 1, 2005A nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse stumbles onward into adolescense, laying bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes men. At turns hilarious and harrowing. ...
	TRIPLE FEATURE: A Novel Publication Date: April 8, 1997Three women in the male-dominated, glamour town of Hollywood--supermodel-turned-actress Roxana, studio head Eleanor, and scriptwriter Megan--pool their resources to pull off the movie-making coup they have all been dreaming of. 30,000 first printing. ...
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• Publisher: Random House (August 12, 1982)
• Language: English
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Publication Date: January 1, 1995

In The Duke's Daughter, ordinary country pleasures provide the happenstance for the hopes and hesitations of young love. Family names familiar from earlier installments of Barsetshire series- Marling and Adams, Winter and Waring, Belton and Dale- populate the pages of this engaging novel, as enamored men and women find their way into each other's hearts, culminating in one day in which three engagements are announced! To the traditional concerns of the gentry is added a fierce displeasure with intrusions of the post-war government (the office of "Red Tape and Sealing Wax"), yet this new-found preoccupation does nothing to deter the onset of a happy ending for all concerned.

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• Language: English
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	Savages: Savages Publication Date: May 1, 1990A novel, whose English language rights were sold for 2,500,000, which deals with 5 women, transformed from wives of the powerful rich executives to widows in the jungle, coming face to face with the savage inside themselves. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
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	Destiny Release Date: March 1, 1987Edward and Helene.  When they met it was more than coincidence. When  they fell in love it was more than passion. When  they thought they'd lost it all, they should have  known they were wrong--they should have known it  was Destiny.From the Paperback edition. ...
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• Publisher: Penguin Books; 1st edition (October 1, 1989)
• Language: English
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	Sister Murdock's House of Correction Publication Date: June 23, 2000Trapped inside Athelstan Hall with seven other young women who have displeased their husbands, Sarah Easton discovers the hard way that a lady's education is not complete until she learns to accept subjugation willingly.She is swept along from one degrading encounter to the next, becoming gradually aware that things are not quite what they seem... ...
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	Under My Skin: A Hannah Wolfe Mystery (Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels) Release Date: July 6, 2004| Series: Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, Silver Dagger Award-winning author Sarah Dunant won critical acclaim for her Hannah Wolfe crime novels.In Under My Skin, private investigator Hannah Wolfe's cushy new assignment takes her to the sumptuous Castle Dean health spa. While being plucked, crimped, steamed, and oiled, Hannah is ideally placed to probe some reported cases of sabotage -- fish in the Jacuzzi and steel nails in the massage heads. But spa owner Olivia Marchant has other problems besides sa...
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Publication Date: August 25, 2004

Cassandra Leigh has a long-term lover who is handsome, charismatic, sophisticated--and married.Now Max has abandoned Cass and taken his wife off to America, leaving Cass all alone in her damp little cottage.
Cass always dreamed that one day she and Max would be married and have children, but now she is waking up to reality.Not only is the prince missing, there isn't even a half-way decent frog in the vicinity.
Meanwhile, Jason, one of her oldest friends, has developed a worrying crush on her--she's also had an encounter of a closer kind than she bargained for with Dante Chase, the new owner of the U.K.'s most ghost-infested manor house, a man even more haunted by his past than Cass is by hers.
Now, the vicar wants to sell Cass off to the highest bidder at the local charity slave auction, and Max, Jason and Dante are each determined to bid for her.And somehow Cass knows that they're all after more than a little light dusting . . .

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• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (August 25, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312327129
• ISBN-13: 978-0312327125
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces

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Light a Penny Candle: Maeve Binchy: 9781568655284: Amazon.com: Books

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Publication Date: April 11, 1983

As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling-who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her support carried Elizabeth through the painful end of her parents' chilly marriage. In return, Elizabeth's friendship helped Aisling endure her own unsatisfying marriage to a raging alcoholic. Through the years, they always believed they could overcome any conflict, conquer any hardship. They believed they could survive anything, as long as they had each other. Now they're about to find out if they were right.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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• Hardcover: 542 pages
• Publisher: Viking Adult; 1ST edition (April 11, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670428272
• ISBN-13: 978-1568655284
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

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	Un d Release Date: September 21, 2010| Series: Vintage Espanol #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIt’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they can’t stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fi ghts, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. As the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. ...
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	Heartstones (Harper Short Novel Series) Publication Date: May 1987| Series: Harper Short Novel Series Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, of course, but not so sad as her younger sister Spinny. Spinny is afraid their father, Luke, will be heartbroken, but Elvira knows better -- after all, Luke has her to take her mother's place. But then Luke brings home a pretty young woman and introduces her as his fiancee, and Elvira decides that she will stop at nothing to stop her father's marriage . . . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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	Half Life Release Date: April 27, 2010On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking.  Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than a year, Aruna heads to Heathrow, where she boards a plane bound for Singapore and her old life.  Educated and beautiful, Aruna has a desperate need to risk it all.  But why?  Waiting for her is a messy past and a perfect past lover she had once abandone...
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