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The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846—Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights—it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontë's death. Like Villette (1853), The Professor is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator...
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"1942. Hannah Martel has narrowly escaped Nazi Germany. When her ship bound for America is turned away at port, she has nowhere to go but to her cousin Lily in Brussels. Fearful for her life, Hannah is desperate to get out of occupied Europe. But with no safe way to leave, she must return to the dangerous underground work she thought she had left behind. Seeking help, Hannah joins the Sapphire Line, a secret resistance network. But when a grave mistake...
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Once again, THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallinson captivates readers with an eminently readable piece of historical fiction. If you're a fan of Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, you'll love this.
'The Matthew Hervey books have a way of getting under your skin...reveals a man who is very much of his time -and one to have beside you when riding into action.' - DAILY MAIL
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Bewitching art experts and enthusiasts alike for centuries, the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries hang today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. In each, an elegant lady and a unicorn stand or sit on an island of grass surrounded by a rich background of animals and flowers. Little is known about them except that they were woven toward the end of the fifteenth century and bear the coat of arms of a wealthy family from Lyons. Chevalier weaves a story about...
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
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English
8) Back up
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Point Blank
Pub. Date
2018.
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353 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Berlin, 1967: four members of the British rock band Pearl Harbour die at the same time but in separate locations. Inexplicably, the police conclude natural causes are to blame. Brussels, 2010: A homeless man is hit by a car outside the Gare du Midi, leaving him with locked-in syndrome, only able to communicate (sometimes) by blinking. An Irish journalist starts to investigate. How did the members of Pearl Harbor die, and how is this linked to the...
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Malcolm and Suzanne Rannoch volume 2
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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xiv, 482 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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When her husband, Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch, is sent on a perilous mission in the wake of Napoleon's escape from Elba, Suzanne must help him expose a killer as they are both forced to play a deadly game of murder, espionage and betrayal.
10) Expo 58
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New Harvest
Pub. Date
2014.
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First U.S. Edition.
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viii, 274 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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An English public employee becomes embroiled in a Soviet plot while he oversees the construction of an authentic British pub being showcased at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
11) The capital
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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First American edition.
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417 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Set in the European Union buildings in Brussels, [this novel] is based on Manasse?s extensive research of this much-maligned institution. Without a central plot, it offers a kaleidoscopic view of the machinations and tribulations of a huge cast of characters who undertake the widely varied work of the European Commission. One strand follows the attempts of Martin Susman and Fenia Xenapoulou, bureaucrats in the Department of Culture, to organize a...
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