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Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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It?s been called the greatest novel ever written. Now, Tolstoy?s timeless saga of love and betrayal is transported to an awesomer version of 19th-century Russia. It is a world humming with high-powered groznium engines: where debutantes dance the 3D waltz in midair, mechanical wolves charge into battle alongside brave young soldiers, and robots-miraculous, beloved robots!-are the faithful companions of everyone who?s anyone. Restless to forge her...
Author
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Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
It?s been called the greatest novel ever written. Now, Tolstoy?s timeless saga of love and betrayal is transported to an awesomer version of 19th-century Russia. It is a world humming with high-powered groznium engines: where debutantes dance the 3D waltz in midair, mechanical wolves charge into battle alongside brave young soldiers, and robots-miraculous, beloved robots!-are the faithful companions of everyone who?s anyone. Restless to forge her...
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Grace Lawson is living a happy, straightforward life in the suburbs with her husband, Jack, and two young children. But that security is about to come to a brutal end. For when Grace picks up a set of holiday snaps, amongst them is one shot that doesn?t fit: a faded image of a life that Grace doesn?t recognise and of her husband as she never knew him. Within 12 hours, Jack has disappeared, a brutal hitman is stalking her family and the safe world...
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Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald?s glorious yet ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the exuberance, energy and decadence of an era. After the Great War, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to entice her. When Gatsby finally...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
THE WHITE DOVE Born an aristocrat, beautiful Amy Lovell leads a whirlwind life of extravagant parties and balls. But Amy is ill-suited to a life of indulgence, and eagerly embraces a nursing career, where she is drawn into the radical politics of the day. As the spectre of war looms, Amy's bittersweet love for the proud miner Nick Penry leads them to the conflict in Spain, where love and pain become inseparable agonies. THE POTTER?S HOUSE Olivia Giorgiadis...
6) The affair
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It started in Lake Como, where it should have ended ? Connie McGabe longs for the summers where she leads tours across Europe. But it?s on the glamorous shores of Lake Como that she is truly swept away, when Jared, a much younger man, falls for her. Despite resisting his advances, Connie finds that he?s got under her skin. And so begins a long, hot, intoxicating summer where Connie succumbs and breaks her marriage vows. At the end of the season Connie...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was, until the first Woman?s Rights Convention was held in 1848, inspiring Elizabeth and many other women to dream of greater freedoms. She began voicing her opinions on politics and religion - opinions that her husband did not share. Incensed and deeply threatened by her growing independence, he had her declared ?slightly insane? and committed to an asylum. Inside the Illinois...
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