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2022.
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English
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"A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. "Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was." Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." ...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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Nora no ha visto a Clare desde hace diez anos. No desde que Nora salio del instituto un dia para no volver jamas. Hasta que, inesperadamente, recibe una invitacion para la despedida de soltera de Clare. Un fin de semana en una casa en la profundidad del bosque. Es esta la oportunidad para Nora de recuperar la relacion con su mejor amiga? La ocasion de superar su pasado? Y sin embargo algo va a ir mal. Muy mal.
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English
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As Christmas of 1804 approaches, Jane Austen finds herself "insupportably bored with Bath, and the littleness of a town." It is with relief that she accepts a peculiar commission from her Gentleman Rogue, Lord Harold Trowbridge—to shadow his niece, Lady Desdemona, who has fled to Bath to avoid the attentions of the unsavoury Earl of Swithin.
But Jane's idle diversion turns deadly when a man is discovered stabbed to death in the...
But Jane's idle diversion turns deadly when a man is discovered stabbed to death in the...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of the acclaimed twentieth-century writer discusses how her personal experiences inspired her later-in-life writing career and the creations of such award-winning novels as "The Gate of Angels" and "Offshore.".
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Biography of the English author whose novels were a reflection of the social life and conventions of her time.
Here, firmly rooted in her own social setting for the first time, is the real Jane Austen - the shy woman willing to challenge convention, the woman of no pretensions who nevertheless called herself "formidable," a woman who could be frivolous and yet suffer from black depressions, who showed unfailing loyalty and, in the conduct of her...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction―above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea―that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica,...
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English
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1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford's seemingly dazzling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill Bookshop in Mayfair, hoping to make ends meet, and discovers...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, “very complex.” Her highly autobiographical early work, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, to friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story.Life in a Cold Climate.
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this engrossing debut novel offers an unusual twist on the legacy of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors: two researchers from the future are sent back in time to meet Jane and recover a suspected unpublished novel"--
19) Agatha Christie
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the mystery writer shares insights into her Edwardian youth, marriages, relationship with her daughter, and mysterious disappearance for eleven days in 1926.
The author of the New York Times bestselling The Six now turns her formidable biographical skills to the greatest crime writer in the world, Agatha Christie. It has been one hundred years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. A brilliant...
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