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(0)Louis Bayard
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English
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Now a Netflix film starring Christian Bale, Harry Melling, and Gillian Anderson
"Shockingly clever and devoutly unsentimental . . . reads like a lost classic. Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction." — New York Times Book Review
An ingenious tale of murder and revenge at West Point, featuring a retired detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe—from the author of Courting
...2) Jackie & me
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2022.
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English
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In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. Her mission in life is “not to be a housewife,” but when she meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a Georgetown party, her resolution begins to falter. Soon the two are flirting over secret phone calls, cocktails, and dinner dates, and as Jackie is drawn deeper into the Kennedy orbit, and as Jack himself grows increasingly...
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English
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When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no ones short list to be president. A country lawyer living above a dry goods shop, he is lacking both money and manners, and his gift for oratory surprises those who meet him. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with an interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. “I can only hope,” she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua...
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Wheeler/Windsor/Paragon
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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"In the late sixteenth century, five brilliant scholars gather to discuss God, politics, astronomy and the black arts. Known as the School of Night, they meet in secret to avoid the wrath of the queen. But one of them, scientist Thomas Harriot, has secrets of his own... In modern-day Washington, DC, disgraced Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish is hired to find a stolen letter from the 1600s. But the letter is of interest to others. Soon Henry is...
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Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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When a murder occurs on the grounds of West Point, retired NYPD detective Gus Landor is enlisted to solve the case, recruiting the assistance of an eccentric young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe to help him find the culprit.
"El libro que inspiró la película en Netflix con Christian Bale, Harry Melling y Gillian Anderson UNA INGENIOSA HISTORIA DE ASESINATOS Y VENGANZA, CON UN DETECTIVE JUBILADO DE LA CIUDAD DE NUEVA YORK Y UN JOVEN CADETE LLAMADO...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
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A reimagining of the ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition that included Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, documents their struggles with hunger and malaria before being captured by an Amazonian tribe that requires them to hunt a mysterious beast.