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2012
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“Just try to resist.... A Continental Downton Abbey plus sex, with a dash of Dangerous Liaisons tossed in.” —Seattle Times
Piet Barol has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. When his mother dies, Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe's leading hotelier—a child who refuses to leave his family’s mansion
22) Hush money
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"A newly minted member of Henley & Hargrove, Pasadena's oldest law firm, Jack MacTaggart is assigned to handle an insurance claim on behalf of socialite Sydney Everett. Hush Puppy, Sydney's champion show horse, has died - and the attending veterinarian confides to Jack that the death was abything but natural. The investigation uncovers intrigue and blackmail, and after Jack reports his findings another body is discovered. And this one is human. Framed...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Alexander Popper is four years old when his father throws him into Lake Michigan and tells him to sink or swim. The rest of the family also struggles to remain afloat while his father, a lawyer obsessed with his own success, fails to see that his family is falling apart. Covering four decades of Alexander's life, Peter Orner illuminates the many ways that love makes us whole and unravels us.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, reclusive orchardist William Talmadge tends to his apples and apricots. One day, two teenaged girls steal his fruit and later return to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and pregnant, they take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his reservoir of compassion. But just as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Toby, the "remarkable sapient pig, " attained his celebrity in late-eighteenth-century England. After winning the blue ribbon at the Salford Livestock Fair and escaping the butcher's knife with the help of his young friend Sam, Toby tours the country wowing circus audiences with his abilities to count, spell, and even read minds. Eager to step out of the spotlight, Toby begins studies at the university before finally settling down to tell his own...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Deep in the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources sits a nondescript bureaucrat named Konstantin Malin. From his shabby office Malin controls half the nation's oil industry, making him one of the most feared and wealthy men in Russia. His public face is Richard Lock, a diffident English lawyer bound to Malin by marriage, complacency, greed, and by a complex lie that neither can escape. But the lie cannot hold forever, and someone has hired Benjamin...
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Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a sexual ailment, is caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. His few months of passion come to an abrupt end when she presses charges of rape. A carefully plotted escape saves him from trial, but sets off a chain of events that steadily dismantles Lysander's life. Soon he is plunged into the dangerous theater of wartime intelligence.
28) Ancient light
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Thorndike Press
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2013.
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English
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An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of fifteen with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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A stunningly original book that follows the lives of four young professional women in contemporary China - Tiao, a children's book editor, her sister Fan, who thinks escaping to America might solve her problems, hedonistic and self-destructive Fei, and Youyou, a chef - from childhood during the Cultural Revolution to adulthood in the new market economy.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
31) The sympathizer
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"It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong....
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June, 1916. Louis C. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at his fantastical Oyster Bay mansion, so as to foil the town from reclaiming the beach for public use. The explosion shakes the apple crate where Prudence, the daughter of Tiffany's prized gardener, is sleeping and the rocks where Randall, her brother, is playing. Nearly a century later Prudence receives an unexpected visit at her New York apartment from Grace, a hospice...
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"Sam Brandis was Tate Jones's first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heartbreak. During a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only the way that first loves do: sharing all of their hopes, dreams, and deepest secrets along the way. Sam was the first, and only, person that Tate--the long-lost daughter of one of the world's biggest film stars--ever revealed her identity to. So when it became...
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Winternight trilogy volume 3
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Now, in the conclusion to this powerful trilogy, Moscow has been struck by disaster. Its people are searching for answers--and someone to blame. Vasya finds herself alone, beset on all sides. The Grand Prince is in a rage, choosing allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. A wicked demon returns, stronger than ever, determined to spread chaos. Caught at the center of this conflict is Vasya, who finds the fate of both worlds resting on...
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