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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Author: Mary Ann Shaffer
Published: 2009-05-05
book: 304 pages
ISBN:0385341008
ISBN:9780385341004
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Subject: Fiction

' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' - born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans ...

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A room of one's own

Author: Virginia Woolf
Published: 2005
book: 148 pages
ISBN:0156030411
ISBN:9780156030410
Publisher: Mariner Books
Subject: Fiction

Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors that impede literary creativity in women, in the story of William Shakespeare's ...

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The Thirteenth Tale

Author: Diane Setterfield
Published: 2007-09-25
book: 336 pages
ISBN:0385662858
ISBN:9780385662857
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Subject: Fiction

Tell me the truth.

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I Capture the Castle

Author: Dodie Smith
Published: 1999-04-28
book: 352 pages
ISBN:0312201656
ISBN:9780312201654
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Subject: Fiction

The 1934 journal of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain reveals her perspective on six stormy months in the eccentric and poverty-stricken life of her family ...

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The Children's Book

Author: A. S. Byatt
Published: 2010
book: 896 pages
ISBN:0307473066
ISBN:9780307473066
Publisher: Vintage
Subject: Fiction

A tale spanning from the Victorian era through World War I finds famous children's book author Olive Wellwood taking in a runaway who reminds her of her own ...

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The country of the pointed firs, and other stories

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Published: 2000-02-01
book: 234 pages
ISBN:0451527577
ISBN:9780451527578
Publisher: Signet Classics
Subject: Fiction

A wandering writer, who boards at an herbalist's house in Maine, finds herself becoming more and more involved in the lives of the villagers

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This Heart of Mine

Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Published: 2002-01-17
book: 432 pages
ISBN:0380808080
ISBN:9780380808083
Publisher: Avon
Subject: Fiction

When children's book author Molly Somerville acts on her crush on Chicago Stars quarterback Kevin Tucker, she sets in motion a chain of events that will alter ...

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Daddy-Long-Legs

Author: Jean Webster
Published: 1912
book: 302 pages
ISBN:0380808080
ISBN:9780380808083
Publisher: null
Subject: Women college students

DADDY-LONG-LEGS " BLUE WEDNESDAY " THE first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day — a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and ...

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Sarah's Key

Author: Tatiana de Rosnay
Published: 2008-09-30
book: 320 pages
ISBN:0312370849
ISBN:9780312370848
Publisher: Griffin
Subject: Fiction

On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to ...

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The country of the pointed firs

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Published: 1896
book: 213 pages
ISBN:0312370849
ISBN:9780312370848
Publisher: null
Subject: Women authors

I. THE RETUEN. THERE was something about the coast town of Dunnet which made it seem more attractive than other maritime villages of eastern Maine. ...

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The Tale of Hill Top Farm

Author: Susan Wittig Albert
Published: 2005-10-04
book: 286 pages
ISBN:0425201015
ISBN:9780425201015
Publisher: Berkley
Subject: Fiction

After purchasing a farm in the beautiful Lake District of England, the animal lover attempts to make friends among her fellow villagers, while her animal ...

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The Book of Salt

Author: Monique Truong
Published: 2004
book: 272 pages
ISBN:0618446885
ISBN:9780618446889
Publisher: Mariner Books
Subject: Fiction

Considering whether he will accompany his employers, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, to America, a personal cook remembers his youth in French-colonial ...

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The Tale of Briar Bank

Author: Susan Wittig Albert
Published: 2008-09-30
book: 305 pages
ISBN:0425223612
ISBN:9780425223611
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Subject: Fiction

Near Sawrey, the seat of Miss Beatrix Potter's country home, has been abuzz since Mr. Wickstead had met his death under a tree limb.

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Maggie Without a Clue

Author: Kasey Michaels
Published: 2004-08-01
book: 294 pages
ISBN:1575668831
ISBN:9781575668833
Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
Subject: Fiction

While dealing with the mob and the mysterious disappearance of a friend, Maggie, along with the dangerously sexy Viscount Saint Just, who is one of her ...

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Lost

Author: Gregory Maguire
Published: 2002-09-05
book: 352 pages
ISBN:0060988649
ISBN:9780060988647
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Subject: Fiction

Famed children's author Winifred Rudge attempts to write a novel about a woman haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper and finds herself the object of spectral ...

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The Other Side of the Story

Author: Marian Keyes
Published: 2005-03-01
book: 624 pages
ISBN:0060592060
ISBN:9780060592066
Publisher: Harper Torch
Subject: Fiction

Literary agent JoJo Harvey is troubled by her affair with her married boss, and the lack of a second novel from Lilly Wright, a bestselling author who has just ...

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The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood

Author: Susan Wittig Albert
Published: 2007-02-06
book: 352 pages
ISBN:0425215067
ISBN:9780425215067
Publisher: Berkley
Subject: Fiction

When Beatrix Potter returns to her new hometown of Sawrey after some time away, she finds the village threatened by a mysterious outsider who plans to destroy ...

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With this ring

Author: Amanda Quick
Published: 1999-02-02
book: 384 pages
ISBN:0553574094
ISBN:9780553574098
Publisher: Bantam
Subject: Fiction

The author of twelve consecutive New York Times best-sellers presents a romance of Regency England involving a set of forbidden rings suffused with the powers ...

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Contemporary American women writers

Author: Catherine Rainwater
Published: 1985
book: 234 pages
ISBN:0813101689
ISBN:9780813101682
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
Subject: Literary Criticism

Introduction Catherine Rainwater & William J. Scheick I n 1970, a signal year in the development of the women's movement, Kate Millett published her ...

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Remembrance

Author: Jude Deveraux
Published: 1997-10-01
book: 432 pages
ISBN:0671023578
ISBN:9780671023577
Publisher: Pocket
Subject: Fiction

After consulting a hypnotist, modern-day romance writer Hayden Lane finds herself journeying back in time to Edwardian England, where she awakens in the body of ...

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