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Hell's Belle by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere comes a time in a lady’s life when she needs to take matters into her own hands… A Scheming Minx Emily Goodnight, a curiously smart bluestocking – who cannot see a thing without her blasted spectacles – is raising the art of meddling to new heights...Categorized as:
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![The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov]()
The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOstap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities...Categorized as:
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![The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7 by Beth Brower]()
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7 by Beth Brower
Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"The image of Pandora’s Box being opened by my own hand flashed across my mind. A sobering and somewhat disappointing realization when one understands they are their own worst enemy."The Year is 1884 and Emma M. Lion has, at long last, gained her majority. Entering a golden age of friendship with Pierce, Islington, and Hawkes, Emma is confident she will manage whatever comes her way...Categorized as:
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![Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I by Nodar Dumbadze, نودار دومبادزه]()
Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I by Nodar Dumbadze, نودار دومبادزه
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Granny, Iliko, Illarion and I" was the first book written by Nodar Dumbadze (1928-1984), a major Georgian writer. The book, which has a strong autobiographical element, tells about the wartime childhood of an orphaned Georgian boy, and about his youth and studies at Tbilisi University...Categorized as:
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![The Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald]()
The Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Great Brain faces the challenge of life at a strict Catholic boarding school with daring exploits and money-making schemes...Categorized as:
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![Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser]()
Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsOne of literature's most delightful rakes is back in another tale of rollicking adventure and tantalizing seduction. The plucky Flashman's latest escapades are sure to entertain devotees as well as attract new aficionados...Categorized as:
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![Gramercy Classics Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works by Lewis Carroll]()
Gramercy Classics Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works by Lewis Carroll
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThis beautiful, 868-page leather-bound volume contains a delightful collection of stories from one of history's most beloved children's authors. Lewis Carroll's stories are still as fresh and appealing as when they were first published more than a century ago...Categorized as:
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![Lady At Last by Annabelle Anders]()
Lady At Last by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe can't make a baby without a husband! Or can she? A fter witnessing the miracle of birth, self-determined spinster Miss Penelope Crone is having second thoughts about swearing off marriage. She wants – no, she needs – to experience the blessed event herself...Categorized as:
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![Extinction by Thomas Bernhard]()
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau—the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family—lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends...Categorized as:
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![Making Money: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Making Money: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPlay based on Terry Pratchett's book, Making Money.Lord Vetinari wants to overhaul the banks of Ankh-Morpork so he appoints former con-man Albert Spangler, aka Moist von Lipwig, to the position of Mater of the Royal Mint, attached to a senior post at the Bank of Ankh-Morpork... -
![The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis, Enylton de Sá Rego]()
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis, Enylton de Sá Rego
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFans of Latin American literature will be thrilled by Oxford University Press's new translations of works by 19th-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. His novels are both heartbreaking and comic; his limning of a colonial Brazil in flux is both perceptive and remarkably modern...Categorized as:
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![Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser]()
Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis ninth volume of The Flashman Papers, faithfully edited and transcribed by Fraser, finds that Sir Harry Flashman is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty's Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India's Northwest Frontier. Flashy's most challenging exploit yet is as politically shrewd and thoroughly lewd as ever...Categorized as:
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![The Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer]()
The Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe year is 1898, and the best con man in Adenville, Utah, is the infamous twelve-year-old Tom Fitzgerald, "The Great Brain." A year at the Catholic Academy for Boys certainly hasn't dulled Tom's love for money—he's no sooner off the train than he begins scamming his own brother! By the end of his summer break, Tom has tricked all of his friends out of everything they own...Categorized as:
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Flashman and the Dragon by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHarry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all... -
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![The Great Brain Does it Again by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer]()
The Great Brain Does it Again by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs entertaining as ever...readers will fall happily under The Great Brain's spell."-- "School Library Journal...Categorized as:
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![Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas And Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson]()
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas And Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a recent writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked--and provoked--an era that was not so much the '60s proper, but rather the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out...Categorized as:
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![Little Big Man by Thomas Berger]()
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of ten."So starts the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction. As a "human being", as the Cheyenne called their own, he won the name Little Big Man... -
![More Adventures of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer]()
More Adventures of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHas Tom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, given up his con-artist ways for a bicycle? Not for long. Soon the Great Brain is back to his old tricks, swindling and trading, even convincing the whole town there's a prehistoric monster on the loose. But when someone robs the bank, even the police are stumped...Categorized as:
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![The Perfect Spinster by Annabelle Anders]()
The Perfect Spinster by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s more rake than gentleman and she’s more minx than spinster. Miss Olivia Redfield’s prospects for marriage are nonexistent, bleak at best. Removed from society for an ill-fated physical defect, she’s resigned herself to caring for others in a somewhat dreary existence...Categorized as:
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![Selected Stories by O. Henry]()
Selected Stories by O. Henry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratings"Selected Stories of O. Henry," by O. Henry, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras...Categorized as:
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![The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer]()
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophia with his sister, Elizabeth Rivenhall, in Berkeley Square. Newly arrived from her tour of the Continent, Sophy invites herself into the circle of her relatives...Categorized as:
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![In Good Company by Jen Turano]()
In Good Company by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Next Delightful and Lively Historical Romp from Turano After spending her childhood in an orphanage, Millie Longfellow is determined to become the best nanny the East Coast has ever seen. Unfortunately, her playfulness and enthusiasm tend to bring about situations that have employers looking askance at her methods...Categorized as:
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![My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad, Azar Nafisi]()
My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad, Azar Nafisi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA teenage boy makes the mistake of falling in love with the much-protected daughter of his uncle, mischievously nicknamed after his hero Napoleon Bonaparte, the curmudgeonly self-appointed patriarch of a large and extended Iranian family in 1940s Tehran...Categorized as:
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![Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle, James R. Kincaid]()
Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle, James R. Kincaid
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlternate Cover Edition can be found here and here.T.C. Boyle's riotous first novel, now in a new edition for its 25th anniversary Twenty five years ago, T.C. Boyle published his first novel, Water Music, a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining novel of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle's tremendous gifts as a storyteller...Categorized as:
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![Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser]()
Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFlashy, that lustful libertine, takes a round-the-world adventure that would shock Don Juan and make swingers of today green with envy. In an English mansion, he's not just doodling in the drawing room with a blue blood's red-hot-blooded mistress; in Africa, he's forced to serve a sultry queen who kills low-endurance lovers...Categorized as:
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![The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry, Shep O'Neal]()
The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry, Shep O'Neal
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsStarters are an introductory level to the new Oxford Bookworms Library, suitable for readers in their first or second years of learning English. The Starters series are original stories in a variety of formats: narrative, interactive, and comic strip. They contain glossaries and exercises and are carefully graded in structure and vocabulary. Cassettes are available for some titles...Categorized as:
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![Fish Preferred by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Fish Preferred by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece, but he was very good friends with Sue Brown - an attachment which Millicent, perhaps, could hardly be expected to enthuse over. Ronnie Fish loved Sue, and entertained feelings o unrestrained ferocity towards Pilbeam, a blister of the first water, who was pestering her with flowers...Categorized as:
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![Sang Pemimpi by Andrea Hirata]()
Sang Pemimpi by Andrea Hirata
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSang Pemimpi adalah sebuah lantunan kisah kehidupan yang memesona dan akan membuat Anda percaya akan tenaga cinta, percaya pada kekuatan mimpi dan pengorbanan, lebih dari itu, akan membuat Anda percaya kepada Tuhan... -
![The Partridge: The First Day by Kit Morgan]()
The Partridge: The First Day by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDear Mrs. Walters, One of my fellow clergy told me of Denver’s Benevolent Society of Lost Lambs. I believe your organization is just what our town needs to become a community of virtuous men and women...Categorized as:
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![Selected Stories by O. Henry]()
Selected Stories by O. Henry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsO. Henry originated the humorous, energetic tale that ends with an ironic, even shocking twist. In "After Twenty Years," for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into a policeman...Categorized as:
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![Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan, Alexander McCall Smith]()
Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan, Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsR. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. The four novels collected here, all written during British rule, bring colonial India into intimate focus through the narrative gifts of this master of literary realism...Categorized as:
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![Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance by Adam Bertocci, Bernard Setaro Clark]()
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: A Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance by Adam Bertocci, Bernard Setaro Clark
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat if William Shakespeare had written The Big Lebowski?The Dude has met the Bard, and he doth abide.Join the "Knave" and Sir Walter on a wild tale of mistaken identity, kidnapping, bowling, and a rug that, in faith, really tied the room together--in a sidesplitting Shakespearean comedy of errors and ninepins, told in five glorious acts of iambic pentameter and impeccable period prose...Categorized as:
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![El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra]()
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha II by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork...Categorized as:
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![The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth]()
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsConsidered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business and to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem...Categorized as:
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![The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer]()
The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMiles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by elderly Lord Darracott. Irascible Lord Darracott rules his barony with a firm hand. The tragic accident that killed his eldest son by drowning has done nothing to improve his temper. For now, he must send for the next heir apparent--the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family is never permitted to mention...Categorized as:
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![The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer]()
The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAt the age of five-and-thirty, Sir Waldo Hawkridge, wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious, and known as the nonesuch for his athletic prowess, and when he comes north to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom hall in the West Riding, his arrival leads to the most entertaining of ramifications. When they learned that Sir Waldo was coming, the village gentry were thrown into a flurry...Categorized as:
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![Sylvester by Georgette Heyer, Joan Wolf]()
Sylvester by Georgette Heyer, Joan Wolf
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen the news went out that Sylvester Rayne, the elegant, impeccable Duke of Salford, was seeking a wife, all England was aflutter! Lord Sylvester is a polished bachelor who has stringent requirements for his future wife -- she must be well-born, intelligent, elegant and attractive. And of course she must be able to present herself well in high society...Categorized as:
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![Hell Hath Frozen Over by Annabelle Anders]()
Hell Hath Frozen Over by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Duchess of Prescott, now a widow, fears she’s experienced all life has to offer. Thomas Findlay, a wealthy industrialist, knows she has not...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson]()
The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson's short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson's brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr...Categorized as:
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![Hell of a Lady by Annabelle Anders]()
Hell of a Lady by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRegency Romance between an angelic vicar and a devilish debutante: A must read if you love sweet and sizzle with an abundance of heart.THE DEVILISH DEBUTANTEMiss Rhododendron Mossant has given up on men, love, and worst of all, herself. Once a flirtatious beauty, the nightmares of her past have frozen her in fear. Ruined and ready to call it quits, all she can hope for is divine intervention...Categorized as:
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![Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser]()
Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s 1868 and Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., arch-cad, amorist, cold-headed soldier, and reluctant hero, is back! Fleeing a chain of vengeful pursuers that includes Mexican bandits, the French Foreign Legion, and the relatives of an infatuated Austrian beauty, Flashy is desperate for somewhere to take cover... -
![Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis, Edward Everett Tanner III]()
Around the World with Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis, Edward Everett Tanner III
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEncore, Encore! The brilliant sequel to the smash bestseller Auntie Mame is back and the reviews are in ..Categorized as:
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![After a Fashion by Jen Turano]()
After a Fashion by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMiss Harriet Peabody dreams of the day she can open up a shop selling refashioned gowns to independent working women like herself. Unfortunately, when an errand for her millinery shop job goes sadly awry due to a difficult customer, she finds herself out of an income. Mr...Categorized as:
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Flashman and the Angel of the Lord by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"A jolly read."-- The Wall Street Journal The tenth installment in The Flashman Papers finds Captain Harry Flashman of Her Majesty's Secret Service in the antebellum South, where the irrepressible, globe-trotting Victorian becomes the target of blackmailing beauties...Categorized as:
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![A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd]()
A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film.The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year...Categorized as:
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![I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal]()
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFirst published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is "an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel" (The New York Times), telling the tale of Ditie, a hugely ambitious but simple waiter in a deluxe Prague hotel in the years before World War II...Categorized as:
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![By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman]()
By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor fans of the I Survived series, this classic rollicking adventure about the California Gold Rush and one determined twelve-year-old has sold nearly a million copies!When Jack's aunt is forced to sell her beloved mansion but is still unable to raise enough money to pay her debts, the twelve-year-old goes to California in search of gold to help her...Categorized as:
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![The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer, Anne Stuart]()
The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer, Anne Stuart
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsShe could disguise everything -- except her love for him . . .The capricious politics of the eighteenth century made it necessary for Robin & Prudence Merriot to engage in a charming deception - one which became more & more fraught with danger..Categorized as:
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![Cotillion by Georgette Heyer]()
Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTo Kitty Charing, the conditions of her guardian's will were intolerable. She had to marry one of his nephews before she could inherit a farthing of the old man's fortune. And the only nephew she wanted was handsome Jack Westruther. Jack, however, made it quite clear he was not ready for marriage... -
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Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice. Now there are two of them – both intent on a dangerous enterprise...Categorized as:
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