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83) Mariana
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English
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"This novel is the touching and often extremely funny story of a young English girl's growth towards maturity in the 1930s. We see her at school, on holiday in Somerset, her attempt at drama school, her year in Paris learning dressmaking and getting engaged to the wrong man, and finally the arrival of Mr Right."--Publisher's description.
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Verity Browne has returned from Prague with tuberculosis and is sent to a private clinic in Henley-on-Thames, a place with a connection to the recent murder of a dentist. She and Lord Edward Corinth become involved in an investigation into the mysterious deaths of three of the dentist's elderly patients, which comes to a climax during the Henley Royal Regatta.
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Baccano! volume 1
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English
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"New York, 1931. The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by law, but behind this prohibition, organized crime flourishes -- so, too, do bank robbers, bootleggers, assassins, and homunculi"--
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Burning Cove volume 3
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Polish
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"Niebanalna kobieta i tajemniczy mżczyzna stpaj po cienkiej linie namitności w śmiertelnie niebezpiecznej rozgrywce. Była trapezistka cyrkowa, Amalie Vaughn, przeprowadziła si do Burning Cove, aby zaczć wszystko od nowa. Ale nie wszystko idzie zgodnie z planem. Bo w Burning Cove nikt nie jest tym, kim si wydaje i nie tylko ludzie, ale i miejsca ukrywaj mroczn przeszłość. Tak jak dom, który kupiła, i mżczyzna, który pojawił si w jej życiu..."--Page...
87) Euforia
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Español
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Anthropologist Andrew Bankson has spent two years investigating the Kiona tribe of New Guinea. The voluntary isolation and lack of discoveries lead him to develop a suicide plan. However, the appearance of two anthropologist colleagues makes him rethink his decision. Nell, controversial and brilliant, and Fen, attractive and put-together, together create an extreme love triangle with Bankson. Euforia becomes a tense story about the competition of...
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"In an America ravaged by the Great Depression, a talented but ragtag baseball team sets out to change the world. Barnstorming the back roads and dusty ballparks of the Midwest, the Racine Robins rally fans to the populist cause, raising money for soup kitchens and strike funds even as they thrill small-town crowds and dazzle opponents on the field. Yet winning the hearts and minds of the people turns out to be easier for the players than facing the...
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"Clive and Henrietta return to England to find Castle Linley in financial ruin. When Clive's cousin, Wallace, invites an estate agent in to assess the home's value, the agent is later found poisoned, throwing all of the Castle's guests into suspicion. Clive and Henrietta are soon drawn into an investigation, which is slowed by an incompetent local inspector and several unexplained phenomena -- the cause of which many, especially the frail Lady Linley,...
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"Manhattan, 1933. Charlie Doherty may have been kicked off the force after The Grand Central Massacre, but thanks to a wealthy benefactor, his private detective business is booming. Catering to the city's wealthy elite, Doherty is making a good living chasing down wayward spouses and runaway socialites when the case of a lifetime lands in his lap. Mrs. Fairfax, a wealthy widow, hires Doherty to prove her husband's suicide wasn't actually a suicide....
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Maitland trilogy volume 3
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English
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"It is the 1930s and the Maitland family have spent the years following the Great War struggling to come to terms with its catastrophic aftermath, and their hopes now lie with the next generation. Their Lincolnshire village of Doddington suffered terrible loss and it has taken great courage for the bereaved families to rebuild their lives without their loved ones. When war is declared again, it is Daisy Maitland and her peers who must now take up...
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Español
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"Gordon Pinner es un joven periodista destinado en París en 1930. Aunque consciente de las injusticias cometidas por los bolcheviques tras la caída del imperio de los zares, Pinner es también un idealista que alberga una honda simpatía por la Revolución y que no dudará en infiltrarse en la comunidad de rusos exiliados en la capital francesa cuando sus camaradas del servicio secreto soviético se lo pidan. De la mano de una hermosa y enigmática...
93) An Oxford murder
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English
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After Miss Catherine Tregowyn, poet, and Dr. Harry Bascombe, her bête noire, discover a body in the Somerville College chapel, they are declared suspects in a murder inquiry. How can they prove their innocence? The pair decide they must launch their own investigation into the strangling of Oxford don, Agatha Chenowith. But working as a team will not be easy. Their relations are anything but cordial. It is not long before they uncover motives aplenty....
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Ukrainian
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"Vse z͡hytti͡a ïĭ kazaly, shcho vona slabka ĭ neharna. Vse z͡hytti͡a za nei͡u dohli͡adaly, ale ne li͡ubyly. Vse z͡hytti͡a vona vvaz͡hala sebe zaĭvoi͡u ta povodylasi͡a tykho, i͡ak myshka, shchob ne obti͡az͡huvaty soboi͡u rodynu. Ale odnoho dni͡a vse raptom zminylosi͡a, i Elʹza opynylasi͡a v novomu, nevidomomu ïĭ sviti. Ïĭ dovelosi͡a bahato prat͡si͡uvaty, opyratysi͡a holodu ta pidtrymuvaty blyzʹkykh li͡udeĭ. Krov...
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