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English
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William Crimsworth escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school. Also included in this edition is Emma, Charlotte Bronte's last, unfinished novel. Both works are drawn from the original Clarendon texts.
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English
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"1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network. But when a grave mistake...
3) Villette
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Everyman's library volume no. 68
Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 351
Complete Brontë Sisters Children's Collection
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Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 351
Complete Brontë Sisters Children's Collection
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English
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With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully...
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English
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Celebrated short-story writer, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's (The Most Beautiful Book in the World) first full-length novel to appear in English is a literary tour de force, a magnificent cathedral of contemporary eroticism.
The Carousel of Desire is a sexual and romantic saga told with a master storyteller's feel for character and plot and a philosopher's abiding preoccupation with what makes life truly worthwhile. With tenderness and...
The Carousel of Desire is a sexual and romantic saga told with a master storyteller's feel for character and plot and a philosopher's abiding preoccupation with what makes life truly worthwhile. With tenderness and...
5) Expo 58
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Publisher
New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An English public employee becomes embroiled in a Soviet plot while he oversees the construction of an authentic British pub being showcased at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
6) The pact
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1997
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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After their parents die in a helicopter crash, two girls and a boy, all three students in the American School in London, vow to stick together forever. As adults the pact is tested many times, culminating in the search for a killer when one of them discovers the crash was no accident. By the author of Laura.
7) Nowhere boy
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime"--
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English
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A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now.
Paris, 1490. A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish
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Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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From an Edgar award–winning crime author, a mystery featuring unorthodox detective Henri Castang as he hunts for a kidnapper in the Czech Republic.
It's every mother's nightmare-their child abducted. But for Anita Rogier, whose son has been missing for four years, a glimmer of hope shines into her dark world when she receives a call that convinces her he is alive. But with few believing her claims, she needs a detective who is able to take the...
10) A dwarf kingdom
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Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1996
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213 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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The final Henri Castang mystery confirms the Edgar award–winning author's "mastery of character and imagery in a superlative study of people and power (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
After the murder of dear friends and an attack on his wife, Vera, Inspector Henri Castang is finished with life as an investigator. As the couple settles into an inherited cliff-top home in Biarritz, Castang is just starting to wonder if retirement suits him...
11) You who know
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Series
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
279 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of his friend, French detective Henri Castang travels from Joyce and Yeats to the Italian Alps, where he learns of the victim's longtime battle for survival.
12) Back up
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Publisher
Point Blank
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, 1967: four members of the British rock band Pearl Harbour die at the same time but in separate locations. Inexplicably, the police conclude natural causes are to blame. Brussels, 2010: A homeless man is hit by a car outside the Gare du Midi, leaving him with locked-in syndrome, able to communicate (sometimes) by blinking. An Irish journalist starts to investigate. How did the members of Pearl Harbor die, and how is this linked to the homeless...
13) The capital
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English
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Set on capturing the elusive inner workings of the European Union, Robert Menasse, one of Austria's most creative thinkers, moved to the EU's headquarters in Brussels for an enthralling, wine-soaked tour of supranational institutions. The resulting novel has become an international sensation, translated from German into more than twenty languages and deemed "the first great EU novel" (Politico). At the heart of a cast as diverse as the union itself...
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A classic early novel from Peter May situated among the political intrigue of Brussels, Belgium, in 1979--now available in the United States.--
There are two men on their way to Brussels from the UK: Neil Bannerman, an iconoclastic journalist for Scotland's Daily Standard whose irate editor wants him out of the way, and Kale--a professional assassin. Expecting to find only a difficult, dreary political investigation in Belgium, Bannerman has barely...
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Everyman's library volume no. 292
Publisher
Everyman's Library/Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxviii, 922 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
These two classic novels, together with Brontë's well-known Jane Eyre and Villette, comprise a magnificent oeuvre, each one a singular achievement of characterization, human understanding, and narrative elegance and drama. Shirley is the story of a complicated friendship between two very different women: shy and socially constrained Caroline, the poor niece of a tyrannical clergyman; and the independent heiress Shirley, who has both the resources...
16) Imperial scandal
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xiv, 482 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her husband, Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch, is sent on a perilous mission in the wake of Napoleon's escape from Elba, Suzanne must help him expose a killer as they are both forced to play a deadly game of murder, espionage and betrayal.
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