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"Set in London during the years of 1939-1942, when citizens had slim hope of survival, much less victory; and on the strategic island of Malta, which was daily devastated by the Axis barrage, Everyone Brave is Forgiven features little-known history and a perfect wartime love story inspired by the real-life love letters between Chris Cleave's grandparents. This dazzling novel dares us to understand that, against the great theater of world events, it...
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2016.
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In an alternate England, where people who are wicked in thought or deed are marked by the Smoke that pours from their bodies, Thomas, Charlie, and Livia notice that some people appear to be able to lie without triggering Smoke. As they dig deeper, they discover teachers who have mysterious ties to warring political factions, a sumptuous estate which hides attic rooms and laboratories, revolutionaries who are fighting against a secret police force....
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2014.
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"Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman...
6) The lodger
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Large print edition.
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In her debut novel, The Lodger, Louisa Treger melds fiction and history in order to bring to light the life of a remarkable and near-forgotten female writer. In her time, Dorothy Richardson was lauded for having reinvented language and revolutionized the art of writing.
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[2012]
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Unabridged.
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In London, just after World War II, a love flourishes between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah Miles. Without explanation Sarah breaks off the affair after a considerably violent episode takes place at Maurice's apartment. This wonderful analysis of what really constitutes love touches on the love of another, the love of self and the love of God.
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