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A Traitor to Memory (Inspector Lynley Mystery, Book 11)
6 Cassettes, 9 hrs.Performance by Simon Jones“To listen is to be, but to play is to live….”So believes Gideon Davies, 28-year-old musical wunderkind, a virtuoso violinist whose talents are internationally celebrated. When Gideon finds himself center-stage, unable to play, his tortured search for his music-and for the truth behind the appalling event that shaped his…
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Humphrey Clinker
Collected letters record a family’s adventures while traveling through England and Scotland and reveal their reactions toward a unique servant encountered on the trip.
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ASH: A Secret History
For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulders lies the destiny of a Europe threatened by the depredations of…
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The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn
A collection of fiction by a popular war correspondent testifies to the scope of a talented writer, in stories that range in subject from poverty in the Depression-era South to genteel expatriate life in Africa.
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Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life
Constance Garnett was a translator of Russian classics, a pioneer of women’s rights, a great traveller and an ardent rationalist and atheist. This biography features such individuals as George Bernard Shaw, Lenin, H. G.Wells, Katherine Mansfield, Conrad and H.E.Bates.
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The Greek Way of Life
The Greek Way of Life is a survey of the major life experiences which constituted the social reality of classical Greece, broken down into the general topics of conception and pregnancy, birth, childhood, coming of age, early adulthood, and elders and the elderly. What emerges is a conception of the human being as a social…
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The Beach
Late at night in a seedy hotel, Richard is drawn into a strange conversation with a fellow guest. Through a narrow strip of mosquito netting he hears for the first time of a secret beach, and island Garden of Eden hidden somewhere in the scattered islands of a Thai marine park. The next morning, Richard…
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