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"Artists flock here, not just for wealth and fame, but for revolutionary color. Yet artist Giorgione "Zorzo" Barbarelli's career hangs in the balance. Competition is fierce, and his debts are piling up. When Zorzo hears a rumor of a mysterious new pigment, brought to Venice by the richest man in Europe, he sets out to acquire the color and secure his name in history. Winning a commission to paint a portrait of the man's wife, Sybille, Zorzo thinks...
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The Millions Most Anticipated Pick and A GMA March Reads Pick
"Lee Kravetz has created a bit of a miracle, a plot-driven literary puzzle box whose mystery lives in both its winding approach to history and its wonderous story. It's a book full of ideas about inspiration and a love for language that translates across borders, physical and generational."—Adam Johnson, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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First published serially in 1861, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret" is the wildly successful Victorian-era sensation novel. Sensation novels were very popular in English literature in the 1860s and 1870s. The novels were a combination of realism and romance and were usually tales of terrible crimes, such as murder, kidnapping, bigamy, adultery, and theft, occurring in otherwise normal, tranquil domestic settings. "Lady Audley's Secret"...
4) Marching Men
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Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson's second novel is a coming of age story that explores the individual and collective identities shaping American life. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneering work of Modernist literature admired for its plainspoken language and psychological detail, Anderson's Marching Men is a powerful work of fiction that helped...
5) The Gambler
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First published in Russian in 1866, "The Gambler", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is a gripping narrative of the dangers of gambling. As was common with Dostoyevsky's other writings, he draws upon his own life in a semi-autobiographical way. Dostoyevksy himself suffered from a compulsion to gambling and had to complete "The Gambler" under a strict deadline to pay off his own debts. These first-hand experiences bring a depth of realism to the novel and to...
6) Celebrity
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New York Times Bestseller: Three former friends bound by ambition, fame, and a dark secret reunite in this spellbinding saga from the author of Blood and Money. They were the princes of their high school in Fort Worth, Texas. Valedictorian Kleber Cantrell became a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who befriended the famous and exposed the notorious. Mack Crawford, teenage Adonis and University of Texas football hero, used his good looks to jumpstart...
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It's 1971 and rock and roll was at its height. Small-time Australian agent Wayne Zemmerman scored an unimaginable coup when he signs British supergroup Andromeda for a nationwide tour. Showbiz reporter Scottie McPherson smells a rat and starts his investigation. The Sound Mixers is a dramatic expose of the rock industry: fiction that reads like fact. A gripping story that moves at breathtaking pace to a devastating climax, Performers, promoters, manipulators,...
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Un pasteur promet à sa communauté de jeunes filles une vie éternelle, mais, un jour, on découvre qu'une jeune fille a été enterrée...
Au printemps 1903, une communauté religieuse du Michigan éveille la curiosité avec ses maisons victoriennes, son verger luxuriant et son parc d'attractions ouvert à tous.
Benjamin Purnell, le charismatique leader, promet la vie éternelle à ses adorateurs, en particulier aux belles jeunes filles. Comment...
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At the foot of a lonely mountain pass between Taos and Elizabethtown, a single log cabin huddles under the pines. Travelers are invited inside to stop, rest, and eat.But they should be careful how they look at the young woman who serves them. Her husband, Charles Kennedy, is subject to jealous rages.At least, he says that's why he kills the unwary: It's all Gregoria's fault.Based on a true story.
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His life's secrets betrayed by his therapists, pushed to the brink by their and his lawyer's lies, "The Other Side of Sanity" chronicles the harrowing account of James Snyder's rapid descent into, and gradual emergence from, psychosis and madness.
A CIA candidate for covert operations, Snyder's ambitions morph from wanting to serve his country to avenging the wrongs maliciously inflicted upon him.
Reading this story you will feel yourself being...
11) Caged Innocence
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A teenager, determined to end the reign of his abusive, alcoholic father, ends up accused of a murder he didn't commit.
A noted Klansman, Miran Thompson, has been killed, and the prime suspect in his murder case is seventeen-year-old Larry Henderson. Complicating matters, Larry's father, Officer Perry Henderson, is deeply involved in the case. To the casual observer, the evidence against Larry is overwhelming. If convicted he would surely receive...
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With so many pictures painted in these short series of events. Who is to say what levels we may exceed? Through consciousness and renewal of the mind the sky is the limit. This auto biography is very unique and one of a kind. It contains three different tall tales which are based on a true story and corresponds with on main topic. Each short story leads up to the revealing of three different formats of writing. Which are philosophies, poetry, and...
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An inmate's fictional view of life inside a Federal maximum prison in Canada. Vern states that this is fiction, but as a retired Correctional Officer who, due to many incidents which included being a hostage a couple of times, once at the point of a gun, and being physically assaulted, which caused him to take time off work to recover and then taking early retirement, he can state that many of the incidents he describes actually did happen.
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Jusqu'o peut-père qui a perdu son fils dans un acte terroriste aller?
Quelles intentions de vengeance peut-il méditer, pour donner effet à une justice privée qui tuera aussi la mémoire et la pitié?
Sang de rose écarlate est un chemin d'égarement et de rédemption. Seulement si nous ne suffoque pas dans les sentiments que nous sommes capables de ne pas nous perdre.
Si la douleur et la perte peuvent brutaliser l'âme humaine au point de se flétrir,...
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Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar tells the story of the last year in the life of Alexander Griboyedov, a diplomat and playwright in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas I. The novel takes him from bein,g feted in St Petersburg in March 1828, as the successful negotiator of a peace treaty with Persia, through his return to Persia as the "Vazir-Mukhtar" (Minister Plenipotentiary) and his death at the hands of a Tehran mob in January 1829.
On this simple arc,...
16) Sacred Treason
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Telegraph Your God. Your Country. Your Kin. Who Do You Betray? 1563: Anyone could be a suspect; any Catholic could be accused of plotting against the throne. Clarenceux keeps his head down and his religion quiet. But when a friend desperately pleads with Clarenceux to hide a manuscript for him, he is drawn into a web of treachery and conspiracy he may never untangle. Is there no refuge if your faith is your enemy? Bestselling author Dr. Ian Mortimer,...
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André Clottu entame sa dernière année en tant que professeur. Mais tout ne va pas se passer comme prévu...
Un vendredi de mai, un coup de feu retentit dans le silence assourdissant du lycée de Pré-Fleuri. Tous ont une bonne raison d'appuyer sur la gâchette ce jour-là.
Sébastien, Marie, Timéo ou encore Yacine... Les élèves de la DER1 ont renoncé à réussir leur scolarité. Parqués dans la classe des cancres sans avenir ni débouché,...
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Based on the incredible true story of a hapless lottery winner, Malibu Motel is a raw, timeless novel exploring the undercurrents of capitalism. Caish Calloway is struggling to maintain a stake in the land of limitless privilege. Blinded by pride and fueled by greed, Caish is slave to the wiles of a moneyed mind, as only one, who has tasted wealth's powerful fruit can be. 'A stunning and visceral look into the high stakes world of big money and the...
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First published in 1928, public domain in the US and Canada. The protracted trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was the most controversial political event of the 1920s. Today, more than seventy years after their execution, the events surrounding the case of Sacco and Vanzetti are still the source of debate. Truly, it is the "case that would not die." Surprisingly, of all the books that have appeared over the years concerning the case, the most complete and...
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Un couple en plein doute tente de se reconstruire.
Irae est une jeune femme époustouflante de folie, hantée par les malheurs de son passé, qui a renoncé à la magie de l'existence. Dimitri se retrouve entraîné malgré lui dans ses mésaventures : une morne routine, un compagnon qui ne convient plus, une enfant souffrante, toute une existence remise en question. Emotions délicieuses, rires déchainés et fatalité de la vie s'invitent violemment...
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