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1949: the celebrated Russian author Boris Pasternak is writing the novel that will become Doctor Zhivago. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it. But in the rest of the world it is fast becoming a sensation. In Washington DC, the CIA is planning to use the book to tip the Cold War in its favour. However, their agents are not the usual spies. Two typists are charged with the mission of a lifetime: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago back into...
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Mills & Boon Modern
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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An innocent for the taking? Hired to catalogue the Sullivan House library, Elizabeth Brown is in her element. Books she can handle. Men - well, she?s a little less experienced in that department. She?s certainly not at all prepared for the unexpected arrival of the master of the house, Rogan Sullivan! Rogan is dark, dangerous and wickedly sexy - exactly the kind of man Elizabeth has read she should stay away from.But it?s not long before Rogan is...
3) The graduate
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RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Published in 1963, Charles Webb?s The Graduate was a sly and provocative first novel that is often overshadowed by the success of Mike Nichol?s sensational 1967 film. The Graduate is a novel that speaks to its time: a time when young Americans were beginning to question, for perhaps the first time, the materialistic values that the postwar culture had taught them. Its hero is at once worldly and naive, a dichotomy that won?t last for very long as...
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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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