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Ponniyin Selvan - The Cyclone by Kalki
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe second part in the series of ‘Ponniyin Selvan’, describes the conspiracy afoot to deny the rightful heirs to the throne, the kingdom – and the plot to crown Prince Maduranthakar – uncle to the heirs... -
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Ponniyin Selvan - The Crown by Kalki
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe fourth part in the series Ponniyin Selvan, recounts the incidents when crown prince Aditha Karikalan leaves Kanchi inspite of Malayamans efforts to prevent him from doing so. For Aditha Karikalan now, there is no turning back.. -
![Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali]()
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAvailable in English for the first time, this best-selling Turkish classic of love and alienation in a changing world captures the vibrancy of interwar Berlin. A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin...Categorized as:
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![Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice * Mansfield Park * Persuasion by Jane Austen]()
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice * Mansfield Park * Persuasion by Jane Austen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJane Austen’s sparkling and witty novels continue to entrance readers today, as proven by the rapturous reception of the many film and TV adaptations of her works. Here are three of her best: Pride and Prejudice, Austen’s best-loved story; Mansfield Park; and Persuasion, her final novel. Delightfully illustrated with delicate line drawings...Categorized as:
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![This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer]()
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMinke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world...Categorized as:
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![Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar]()
Take What You Can Carry by Gian Sardar
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAn aspiring photographer follows her dreams and faces her fears in a poignant novel about finding beauty, promise, and love amid the chaos of war-torn Kurdistan.It’s 1979. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined to become a photojournalist and make a difference with her work...Categorized as:
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![The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley]()
The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAlly D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father—an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt—has left each of them a tantalizing clue to their true heritage...Categorized as:
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![Child of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer]()
Child of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist—and full of heartbreak, suspense, love, and fury. Pramoedya immerses the reader in a world that is astonishing in its vividness: the cultural whirlpool that was the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s...Categorized as:
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![The Angry Tide by Winston Graham]()
The Angry Tide by Winston Graham
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Angry Tide is the seventh novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, the major TV series from Masterpiece on PBS.Cornwall, towards the end of the 18th century. Ross Poldark sits for the borough of Truro as Member of Parliament - his time divided between London and Cornwall, his heart divided about his wife, Demelza...Categorized as:
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War And Peace, Volume 3 by Leo Tolstoy
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...Categorized as:
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Ishmael by E.D.E.N. Southworth
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou will never read a story that is more inspiring and challenging than Ishmael . The heights of success achieved by this young man reveal little of the utter poverty into which he was born. He entered life motherless and poor, and despite the wishes of everyone around, he survived and flourished in his paltry environment...Categorized as:
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![Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham]()
Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCornwall, 1790. Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. He is to stand trial for the wrecking of two ships. Despite their stormy married life, Demelza has tried to rally support for her husband. But Ross Poldark has many powerful enemies...Categorized as:
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![Green City in the Sun by Barbara Wood]()
Green City in the Sun by Barbara Wood
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA magnificent saga of two proud and powerful families—one British, one African—and their battle over Kenya’s destiny in the twentieth century.In 1917, Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya, determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England...Categorized as:
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![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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![Marble Dance by Lygia Fagundes Telles]()
Marble Dance by Lygia Fagundes Telles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis haunting psychological portrait of three sisters--Virginia, Octavia, and Bruna--explores the pleasures and torments of sexuality in the world of the wealthy Brazilian... -
![Kiss Me Duke by Tamara Gill]()
Kiss Me Duke by Tamara Gill
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMolly Clare is living her dream. Being a guest in a gorgeous villa while she explores Rome is everything she could’ve hoped for and more. The man who owns the villa is equally charming—and entirely too tempting. At least, that’s what he appears to be. The truth of who and what he really is…well, that’s infinitely more complicated.Lord Hugh Farley is living a nightmare...Categorized as:
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Braveheart by Randall Wallace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom ... he became the hammer and scourge of England.In one of history's darkest hours there arose from humble beginnings a man of courage and honor—the likes of whom the world may never see again... -
![A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute]()
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsNevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children...Categorized as:
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![The Reluctant Wife by Caroline Warfield]()
The Reluctant Wife by Caroline Warfield
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen all else fails, love succeeds…Captain Fred Wheatly’s comfortable life on the fringes of Bengal comes crashing down around him when his mistress dies, leaving him with two children he never expected to have to raise. After he chooses justice over army regulations, he’s forced to resign his position, leaving him no way to support his unexpected family... -
![Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones]()
Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsXIV century. The city of Barcelona is at its moment of greatest prosperity; has grown towards the Ribera, the humble neighborhood of fishermen, whose inhabitants decide to build, with the money of some and the effort of others, the largest Maria cathedral ever known...Categorized as:
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![Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin]()
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsEugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women...Categorized as:
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![Silver Wings (Love Endures) by Grace Livingston Hill]()
Silver Wings (Love Endures) by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmory Lorrimer watched from her bedroom window as the plane landed. The rugged young pilot who jumped from the plane was quickly surrounded by admiring friends. For a moment he looked toward the grand old mansion--and then his eyes met Amory's. In that instant they fell in love. The next morning Gareth was to leave on a dangerous flight over the Arctic--but his plane never made it...Categorized as:
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![Great Maria by Cecelia Holland]()
Great Maria by Cecelia Holland
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHer father is a robber baron... Her husband has grand ambitions and a quick temper... She will become... The Great Maria...Categorized as:
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![Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj, คึกฤทธิ์ ปราโมช]()
Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj, คึกฤทธิ์ ปราโมช
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis English version of the Thai novel Si Phaendin tells the rich and entertaining story of one woman's life both inside and outside the royal palace in Bangkok...Categorized as:
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![Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas]()
Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChicot the Jester was one of King Henry III's trusted advisors and friends, sharp-tongued and cunning and spoke with the king without formalities. Dumas' novel is another great series of plot twists, schemes, and larger than life characters delving into the ill-fated romance of the Dame de Monsoreau and Count de Bussy...Categorized as:
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![La Guerre Et La Paix by Leo Tolstoy]()
La Guerre Et La Paix by Leo Tolstoy
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHardPress Classic Books...Categorized as:
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Caleb by Emma Lang
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Texas Ranger, a lady blacksmith, a fierce passion, a dangerous game. Caleb Graham has spent the last four years in too many dangerous situations to count. As a Texas Ranger, he knows no fear, or at least he never shows it. When he’s sent to force a blacksmith off government seized property, he runs face to face into the woman who will change his life...Categorized as:
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Leaving Ireland by Ann Moore
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter crossing an ocean from her beloved Ireland and traversing thousands of miles of frontier and canyon, Gracelin O'Malley finds a new home for her family, halfway around the world from her old one. She's haunted by echoes of the past, even when a man she misjudged proves himself worthy and her children soon acclimate. All this-and a wish Grace thought would never come true...Categorized as:
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![Homeland by John Jakes]()
Homeland by John Jakes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAt the dawn of a new century, from the uncontrolled chaos of Chicago's infamous Pullman Strike, to the birth of the moving picture, and the bloody carnage of the Spanish-American War, the immigrant Crown family raced with the currents of a changing world and their own desires, to claim America as their own... -
![Le Morte d'Arthur Volume 2: King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table by Thomas Malory, D. Gardner]()
Le Morte d'Arthur Volume 2: King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table by Thomas Malory, D. Gardner
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe full work of Thomas Malory...Categorized as:
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![Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado]()
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne bright spring day in 1925, Gabriela arrives from the poverty-stricken backwoods of Brazil to the lively seaside port of Ilhéus amid a flock of filthy migrant workers. Though wearing rags and covered in dirt, she attracts the attention of Nacib, a cafe owner, who is in desperate need of a new cook. So dire is his situation that he hires the disheveled girl...Categorized as:
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![The Bracelet of Garnets and Other Stories by Aleksandr Kuprin, Leo Pasvolsky]()
The Bracelet of Garnets and Other Stories by Aleksandr Kuprin, Leo Pasvolsky
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
![Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti]()
Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the tradition of Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives, a celebrated classic and heart-wrenching story of a family torn apart by the forces of history, by one of Latin America’s most celebrated writersSpringtime in a Broken Mirror revolves around Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, who was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere...Categorized as:
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![The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer]()
The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPramoedya's The Girl from the Coast tells the story of a beautiful young woman from a fishing village who finds herself in an arranged marriage with a wealthy aristocrat. Forced to leave her parents and home behind, she moves to the city to become the 'lady' of her husband's house...Categorized as:
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![The Scavenger's Daughters by Kay Bratt]()
The Scavenger's Daughters by Kay Bratt
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsHaving survived torture and imprisonment during China’s Cultural Revolution, Benfu escaped to find love with his compassionate and beautiful Calla Lily. Together they build a fulfilling life around the most menial of jobs—Benfu’s work collecting trash. As he sorts through the discards of others, he regularly discovers abandoned children...Categorized as:
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![Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy, René Huigen]()
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy, René Huigen
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsBig, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends growing up in sleepy Knockglen. Their one thought is to get to Dublin, to university and to freedom...On their first day at University College, Dublin, the inseparable pair are thrown together with fellow students Nan Mahon, beautiful but selfish, and handsome Jack Foley...Categorized as:
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![Out of the Storm by Grace Livingston Hill]()
Out of the Storm by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOut of the Storm by Grace Livingston Hill (Marcia Macdonald). Illustrated by Walter Stewart. 1929 hardcover published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York...Categorized as:
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![The Short Stories of Lucy Maud Montgomery from 1907-1908 by L.M. Montgomery]()
The Short Stories of Lucy Maud Montgomery from 1907-1908 by L.M. Montgomery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her "Anne of Green Gables" books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry...Categorized as:
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![Fluch Der Begierde by May McGoldrick]()
Fluch Der Begierde by May McGoldrick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWANTED…for crimes against the king. In retaliation for the brutality of the English troops. The Irish rebel Egan is fighting back, leading a secret group of revolutionaries—and building his legend across the country. REJECTED…by his own family. Jane Purefoy is a woman with a past. The daughter of an English magistrate, she watched her Irish lover die on the gallows... -
![In the Spirit Intended: Variations on a Jane Austen Christmas by Jan Ashton]()
In the Spirit Intended: Variations on a Jane Austen Christmas by Jan Ashton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPretty packages, even those containing the greatest treasures of my house, are secondary to what we most desire, for there are no words equal to the tenderness of heart I feel for you, and no gifts greater than what you have already given me: your own heart. The wisest and the best action I have ever done, is give you mine... -
![The Finding of Jasper Holt by Grace Livingston Hill]()
The Finding of Jasper Holt by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV Jean turned white with deadly sickening fear, but kept her head courageously up...Categorized as:
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![The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini]()
The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Priscilla Harradine travels back to England accompanied by the rather dull Major Sands, she has no cause to expect her journey will be anything other than uneventful. But also on board the Centaur is Charles de Bernis - a mysterious and intriguing buccaneer...Categorized as:
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![Les Liaisons Dangereuses a Play by Christopher Hampton]()
Les Liaisons Dangereuses a Play by Christopher Hampton
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Les Liaisons Dangereuses", A Play by Christopher Hampton, from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos. Produced on the Broadway Stage by James M. Nederlander, The Schubert Organization, Inc., Jerome Minskoff, Elizabeth I. McCann and Stephen Graham in association with Jonathan Farkas...Categorized as:
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![The Temptation of Angelique by Anne Golon]()
The Temptation of Angelique by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFaithful Wife of Slave of Passion? Separated from her husband and all alone i the savage wilderness, Angelique learned to be strong enough to brave all the perils of frontier life. Then an intruder entered the forest; the dashing, roguish pirate who had set her heart aflame once before. Angelique soon found her new strength give way to the familiar weakness of passion... -
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![Les Caprices d'un astre by Antoine Laurain]()
Les Caprices d'un astre by Antoine Laurain
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsXavier Lemercier, agent immobilier, trouve au hasard d'une visite d'appartement un mystérieux télescope ayant appartenu à un célèbre astronome. Voilà bientôt qu'il cadre dans l'instrument, depuis son balcon, une femme derrière une fenêtre, sans oser, bien sûr, l'aborder. Divorcé et esseulé, avec pour seules joies ses week-ends avec son jeune fils, il commence à tomber amoureux de l'inconnue...Categorized as:
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![The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami]()
The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn international bestseller available in English for the first time,a story of forbidden love set against the background of Arabic culture and endless feuds between clansA dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul s Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer and he was murdered...Categorized as:
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Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis remarkable novel by adventure writer H. Rider Haggard can be enjoyed on many levels. As a tale of adventure, it takes the reader through 16th-century England, Spain, and Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. But on a deeper level, the author's hopes for humanity shine through the darkness of this time to illuminate the reader with his spiritual philosophy...Categorized as:
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Broken Paradise by Cecilia Samartin
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn "Broken Paradise" Cecilia Samartin offers heart wrenching insight into the tender balance between hope and grief that shapes the immigrant heart and exposes the struggles of everyday people amid political turmoil.Cuba, 1956: Cousins Nora and Alicia are accustomed to living among Havana's privileged class -- lavish dinners, days at the beach, dances, and dresses...Categorized as:
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![Dina's Book by Herbjørg Wassmo]()
Dina's Book by Herbjørg Wassmo
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOn the scale of Gone with the Wind and War and Peace, this grand, sweeping epic will enthrall readers just as Dina bewitches everyone she meets.Set in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century, Dina's Book presents an extraordinary heroine. Beautiful, eccentric, and tempestuous, Dina carries a terrible burden: at the age of five she accidentally causes her mother's death...Categorized as:
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Equator by Miguel Sousa Tavares
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is 1905 and Luis Bernardo Valenca, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping company, is revelling in Lisbon's luxurious high society. But his life is turned upside down when King Dom Carlos invites him to become governor of Portugal's smallest colony, the island of São Tomé e Principe...Categorized as:
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