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The Lady in Gold

The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

By: Anne-Marie O'Connor

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The Lady in Gold

The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

By: Anne-Marie O'Connor

National Bestseller The true story that inspired the movie Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O’Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt’s 1907 masterpiece—the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socialite, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The celebrated painting, stolen by Nazis during World War II, subsequently became the subject of a decade-long dispute between her heirs and the Austrian government. When the U.S. Supreme Court became involved in the case, its decision had profound ramifications in the art world. Expertly researched, masterfully told, The Lady in Gold is at once a stunning depiction of fin-de siècle Vienna, a riveting tale of Nazi war crimes, and a fascinating glimpse into the high-stakes workings of the contemporary art world. One of the Best Books of the Year: The Huffington Post, The Christian Science Monitor. Winner of the Marfield National Award for Arts Writing. Winner of a California Book Award.

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Vintage

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1101873124

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An Aid to the MRCP PACES, Volume 2

Stations 2 and 4

By: Dev Banerjee,N. Sukumar,Robert E. J. Ryder,M. Afzal Mir,E. Anne Freeman

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An Aid to the MRCP PACES, Volume 2

Stations 2 and 4

By: Dev Banerjee,N. Sukumar,Robert E. J. Ryder,M. Afzal Mir,E. Anne Freeman

This new edition of An Aid to the MRCP Paces Volume 2: Stations 2 and 4 has been fully revised and updated, and reflects feedback from PACES candidates as to which cases frequently appear in each station. The cases and scenarios have been written in accordance with the latest examining and marking schemes used for the exam providing an invaluable training and revision aid for all MRCP PACES candidates.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118505026

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9781118505021

Tales of the Woods and Fields

By: Anne Caldwell Marsh-Caldwell

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Tales of the Woods and Fields

By: Anne Caldwell Marsh-Caldwell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338514826X

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9783385148260

Saga of the Ages

By: Dr. Anne R. Murray

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Saga of the Ages

By: Dr. Anne R. Murray

Saga of the Ages is a fictional novel focused on the life of those before and during the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. It represents the birth of a new nation for the American people. The setting is in Albany, New York, as characters are integrating into the original thirteen colonies. Life is not easy as the main characters seek to find comfort in their surroundings. This book is set apart from other novels in that it depicts colonial life before and during the era. Some of the events and dates are true while the names of characters are fictitious.

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1524696749

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9781524696740

Museum Marketing

By: Ruth Rentschler,Anne-Marie Hede

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Museum Marketing

By: Ruth Rentschler,Anne-Marie Hede

Museums have moved from a product to a marketing focus within the last ten years. This has entailed a painful reorientation of approaches to understanding visitors as ‘customers’; new ways of fundraising and sponsorship as government funding decreases; and grappling with using the internet for marketing. This book brings the latest in marketing thinking to bear on the museum sector taking into account both the commercial issues and social mission it involves. Carefully structured to be highly accessible the book offers: * A contemporary and relevant and global approach to museum marketing written by authors in Britain, Australia, the United States, and Asia * An approach that reflects the particular challenges museums of varying sizes face when seeking to market an experience to a diverse set of stakeholders: audience; funders; sponsors and government. * A particular focus on museum marketing in the 'Information Age' * Major case studies at the beginning and end of each section of the book, and smaller case studies within chapters The hugely experienced author team, includes both leading academics and practitioners to ensure the book has broad appeal and is both relevant, innovative and progressive in approach. It will be essential reading for students in museum studies, non-profit marketing, and arts management and marketing. It will also be equally relevant for professionals working in and managing museums and galleries, heritage attractions and ministries of arts.

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Routledge

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1136377433

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Beyond the Green Hills

By: Anne Doughty

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Beyond the Green Hills

By: Anne Doughty

The sequel to On a Clear Day, which continues the enchanting story of Clare Richardson; Clare, now aged 20 and blossoming into a beautiful young woman, is looking forward to her final year at university, and to the return of her childhood sweetheart Andrew to Ulster. After a happy summer together they become engaged, and the future looks bright. But when Clare and Andrew's romance ends in disappointment and shattered dreams, she determines to make a new life on her own. Following in the footsteps of so many of her fellow countrymen, she takes the Liverpool boat and from there goes to Paris. Life 'beyond the green hills' is exciting and stimulating, but it brings with it the realization that she will only ever be at home in her beloved Ireland.

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Allison & Busby

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0749017805

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9780749017804

Until Death

A Mindhunters Holiday Novella

By: Anne Marie Becker

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Until Death

A Mindhunters Holiday Novella

By: Anne Marie Becker

When Dr. Rachel Montgomery’s friend asks her to be a bridesmaid at a Valentine’s Day wedding set on San Antonio’s famous River Walk, she looks forward to a much-deserved break from her hectic days at the health clinic. Great food, margaritas, and reconnecting with old friends should be the relaxing vacation she needs. And on a holiday meant for celebrating love, she might even find the man of her dreams. But those dreams become a nightmare when her ex-boyfriend uses their reunion to pull her back into his web of lies and greed. She broke away from him once before, but this time, the stakes are much higher. On personal leave after the tragic loss of his partner, SAPD Officer Jake Rosales is grateful for the distraction of his brother’s wedding. The beautiful and intelligent Rachel is a particularly welcome diversion, but Jake’s not looking to date anyone while he’s recovering. However, when Rachel becomes a pawn in someone’s deadly games, Jake’s heart overrules his head. When a member of the wedding party is murdered and Rachel becomes a target for violence, Jake must keep her close in order to ensure her safety. And once she’s in his arms, he never wants to let her go. The Mindhunters series continues in this 31,000-word romantic suspense Valentine’s Day novella…

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Anne Marie Becker

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1944055908

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Safe Surrender

Left Hand Justice Series

By: Anne Beck

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Safe Surrender

Left Hand Justice Series

By: Anne Beck

She thought she had found true love. The dream somehow turned into a nightmare. She fled with her only thought being to free herself from this nightmare. She had thought that she was safe and living the life she wanted, that after seven years she found someone she could truly love. The nightmare was only just beginning. She was through; she was free now. She was ready to surrender to her true love, but now she needs to save him by leaving. He was a playboy, never one to commit. He was a love-them-and-leave-them, happy-go-lucky type. That was until she came into his life in a time when he was hiding, not sure what might happen. He only had a few days with her, but she consumed his thoughts. He will do whatever it takes to be with the woman he loves and have a future with her, but at what cost?

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Balboa Press

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1504387724

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9781504387729

Marie Antoinette: the Courageous End

By: Margaret Anne MacLeod

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Marie Antoinette: the Courageous End

By: Margaret Anne MacLeod

https://www.marieantoinettethecourageousend.com This chilling but ultimately life affirming novel about the agonising last year of Marie Antoinette’s turbulent life will help you understand the tragic queen and her ill-fated decisions, better. It will help you decide if the shameless, sex-mad, Marie Antoinette deserved to be guillotined. The Parisians thought so. What would you have thought if you had been there during the French Revolution in August 1792? Whose side would you have been on? The side of the French princes, 7,000 French aristocrats and 80,000 awesome Austrian and Prussian soldiers advancing on Paris to raze it to the ground, wreaking destruction across France as they advanced? Or the side of the starving people, fighting to protect their brand new National Assembly and their brand new rights to liberty, equality and fraternity? What would you have thought of your deceitful king, Louis XVI, and his spendthrift wife Marie Antoinette, who had secretly invited these formidable German armies to march on Paris – to restore their absolute monarchy and annihilate all your new rights? Would you have stormed Marie Antoinette’s palace with the downtrodden people? Would you have guillotined her? As the shrieking Parisians stormed their palace, the apathetic Louis XVI waited passively for death. whilst Marie Antoinette fought valiantly for her children and her throne. She wanted to live – for the sake of her darling son, whom she burned to see on the throne of France. Not to mention her darling comte Axel de Fersen, the handsome Swedish nobleman she had fallen in love with 18 years before. Yes, 36 year old Marie Antoinette had loved the dashing Fersen for 18 years, because her hopeless, sweet, liar of a husband – was never enough of a man for the tragic queen. Find out why in this novel, based on the memoirs of those who were there, and twenty years of research and translation of original French resources by MacLeod. The furious Parisians stormed Marie Antoinette’s palace and imprisoned her. And this once thoughtless, pleasure seeking queen transformed herself into the courageous, admirable queen she should always have been. But it was too late to save her life and her throne. If only she had changed while she still had time. If only the people had got to know the new admirable queen. Share Marie Antoinette’s agony as she dutifully remained at the side of her hopeless, sweet, liar of a husband, as the Parisians stormed her palace. Witness the last heart-breaking meeting between Marie Antoinette and her husband – before he was led off to the guillotine. Experience her anguish on the day they wrenched her shrieking little boy (now a child-king) out of her arms – forever. Feel for her 14 year old daughter on the night the revolutionaries came for Marie Antoinette. No wonder the queen’s beauty had faded! No wonder her hair had begun to turn white! Based on contemporary accounts, and with characters (most of whom were actual historical personages) speaking the very words they recall in their memoirs. Includes as extras: 20 pages of snippets from Marie Antoinette’s letters to her beloved comte Axel de Fersen, the love of her life: “Most loved and most loving of men.” And extracts from the moving memoirs of Marie Therese, Marie Antoinette’s daughter, about her disturbing 2 and a half years of imprisonment, after they guillotined her mother: “The guards came to search my room at four o’clock in the morning. They were all drunk and their oaths and blasphemy dare not be repeated.” No wonder Marie Antoinette’s daughter Marie Therese, the only survivor of the family’s imprisonment, seemed to suffer for the rest of her life. And of course, there was the simply wicked treatment of Marie Antoinette’s beloved son, which only ended with his merciful death, whilst in solitary confinement – although not before the child had endured two years of hell on earth. “His look seemed to say: ‘Dispatch your victim.’”

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Isaac MacDonald Publishers

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0955999111

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9780955999116

Imagining the Past in France

History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

By: Elizabeth Morrison,Anne D. Hedeman,J. Paul Getty Museum

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Imagining the Past in France

History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

By: Elizabeth Morrison,Anne D. Hedeman,J. Paul Getty Museum

This exquisite volume beautifully reproduces and insightfully examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts.

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Getty Publications

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1606060287

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9781606060285

Gauguin and Impressionism

By: Richard R. Brettell,Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark

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Gauguin and Impressionism

By: Richard R. Brettell,Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark

A new assessment of Gauguin' s involvement with-- and notable impact upon-- the Impressionist movement

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Yale University Press

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0300134347

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9780300134346

Magnificent Rebel

Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris

By: Anne de Courcy

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Magnificent Rebel

Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris

By: Anne de Courcy

Anne de Courcy, the author of Husband Hunters and Chanel's Riviera, examines the controversial life of legendary beauty, writer and rich girl Nancy Cunard during her thirteen years in Jazz-Age Paris. Paris in the 1920s was bursting with talent in the worlds of art, design and literature. The city was at the forefront of everything new and exciting; there was no censorship; life and love were there for the taking. At its center was the gorgeous, seductive English socialite Nancy Cunard, scion of the famous shipping line. Her lovers were legion, but this book focuses on five of the most significant and a lifelong friendship. Her affairs with acclaimed writers Ezra Pound, Aldous Huxley, Michael Arlen and Louis Aragon were passionate and tempestuous, as was her romance with black jazz pianist Henry Crowder. Her friendship with the famous Irish novelist George Moore, her mother’s lover and a man falsely rumored to be Nancy’s father, was the longest-lasting of her life. Cunard’s early years were ones of great wealth but also emotional deprivation. Her mother Lady Cunard, the American heiress Maud Alice Burke (who later changed her name to Emerald) became a reigning London hostess; Nancy, from an early age, was given to promiscuity and heavy drinking and preferred a life in the arts to one in the social sphere into which she had been born. Highly intelligent, a gifted poet and widely read, she founded a small press that published Samuel Beckett among others. A muse to many, she was also a courageous crusader against racism and fascism. She left Paris in 1933, at the end of its most glittering years and remained unafraid to live life on the edge until her death in 1965. Magnificent Rebel is a nuanced portrait of a complex woman, set against the backdrop of the City of Light during one of its most important and fascinating decades.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250272572

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9781250272577

The Gatsby Game

By: Anne R. Allen

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The Gatsby Game

By: Anne R. Allen

This novel offers a possible solution to a real unsolved Hollywood mystery—the death in 1973 of David Whiting during the filming of the Burt Reynolds’ movie, "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing". Whiting was found dead in the motel room of the actress Sarah Miles. It destroyed Sarah Miles' career and her marriage. When Nicky Conway meets Fitzgerald-quoting Alistair at a Princeton mixer in 1969, she falls for his retro, Jazz-Age charm. But she discovers he’s a con man obsessed with his own “Daisy”—British actress Delia Kent. After Alistair manipulates Nicky into nannying for Delia’s daughter on the set of a Hollywood film, Delia finds Alistair dead in her motel room. Local police can’t decide if it’s accident, suicide—or murder, in which case, Nicky is the prime suspect.

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Anne R. Allen

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8834139348

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9788834139349

The Acquittal

By: Anne Laughlin

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The Acquittal

By: Anne Laughlin

Ex-Chicago cop and new PI Josie Harper has been hired by an outside group to clear the name of publisher Lauren Wade, recently acquitted of the murder of her lover. That means finding the real killer, a task made more difficult by Lauren’s unwillingness to cooperate and a large family problem—Lauren’s parents have been kidnapped for a ransom she can no longer pay. Josie has a big challenge of her own: how to redeem herself after losing her job as a detective. When Josie and Lauren join forces to rescue the parents, they discover they make a great team, in more ways than one. Will Josie’s troubled past come back to haunt her? And who did kill Lauren’s lover?

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Bold Strokes Books Inc

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1626392609

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Death and the crown

Ritual and politics in France before the Revolution

By: Anne Byrne

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Death and the crown

Ritual and politics in France before the Revolution

By: Anne Byrne

Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774, and the coronation of Louis XVI, including the ceremony of the royal healing touch for scrofula. It reviews the state of the field in ritual studies and appraises the status of the monarchy in the 1770s, including the recall of the parlements and the many ways people engaged with royal ritual. It answers questions such as whether Louis XV died in fear of damnation, why Marie Antoinette was not crowned in 1775 and why Louis XVI's coronation was not held in Paris. This lively, accessible text is a useful tool for under- and post-graduate teaching which will also be of interest to specialists on this under-researched period.

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Manchester University Press

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1526143321

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9781526143327

No Traveller Returns

By: Anne-Louise Mathie

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No Traveller Returns

By: Anne-Louise Mathie

Marie is brought up as a country girl on the West coast of France, but world events catch up with her and life has more in store for her than her family ever expected. As a teenager working in a bar, the Resistance movement makes use of her local knowledge to help Jewish youngsters to escape the Nazi threat. Moving to Paris after the War, she is caught up in the aftermath of the Vel d’Hiv atrocity, and is sent on an investigation by a local Communist newspaper into the heart of Siberia. Back in Paris in the 1950s, she finds herself involved in the French/Algerian crisis and travels to North Africa. Here is the story of a young woman who is passionately interested in justice, not easily intimidated by political rhetoric of any sort, but most of all is touched by the personal relationships she forms with the people she is sent to investigate and those she meets on her travels. She is constantly discovering herself and the complexities of the world around her and, in all three countries, she is fascinated by the members of the Jewish community she meets, as well as those with conflicting political beliefs. Descriptions of the countryside around Les Landes, central Siberia and Algeria will draw you into the lives of the people who lived there in the 1940s and 50s. It will make you want to identify with a young woman, who becomes increasingly self-possessed and independent, despite the tragedies she endures

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800462042

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9781800462045

Crazy Like a Fox

By: Anne Stuart

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Crazy Like a Fox

By: Anne Stuart

Left broke and all but homeless by her shiftless husband, widow Margaret Jaffrey turns to his family in hope of a better life for her daughter . . . until she realizes the decaying family mansion in Louisiana comes complete with a domineering matriarch, a drunken uncle, and a madman locked in the attic. The madman in question is Peter Delacroix, and he doesn't seem that crazy. In fact, Margaret is starting to find him irresistible. But if Peter isn't really unstable, then why did he confess to a murder he didn't commit? And which one of her new-found in-laws hides a lethal streak? Most of all, how will she keep her daughter safe when she's falling in love with a very dangerous man? Author Bio: Anne Stuart recently celebrated over forty years as a published author. She has won every major award in the romance field and appeared on the bestseller list of the NYTimes, Publisher's Weekly, and USA Today, as well as being featured in Vogue, People Magazine, and Entertainment Tonight. Anne lives by a lake in the hills of Northern Vermont with her fabulous husband.

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Bell Bridge Books

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1611949009

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9781611949001

The Feast of All Saints

By: Anne Rice

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The Feast of All Saints

By: Anne Rice

In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of them--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and pain.

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Ballantine Books

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0345334531

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9780345334534

Harlequin Historical March 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Julia Justiss,Marguerite Kaye,Anne Herries

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Harlequin Historical March 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

An Anthology

By: Julia Justiss,Marguerite Kaye,Anne Herries

Harlequin® Historical brings you three new Regency titles for one great price, available now! Enjoy these timeless love stories that capture the imagination and sizzle with scandal and seduction. This Regency box set includes: THE RAKE TO RESCUE HER by Julia Justiss Ransleigh Rogues (Book 3 of 4) When Alastair Ransleigh sees Diana, Duchess of Graveston, for the first time since she jilted him, he makes her a shocking offer…the chance to become his mistress. And she accepts! THE SOLDIER'S DARK SECRET by Marguerite Kaye Comrades in Arms (Book 1 of 2) Could enchanting French artist Celeste Marmion be the distraction that officer Jack Trestain so desperately craves? Or will her exquisite touch be enough to make him reveal his darkest secret? REUNITED WITH THE MAJOR by Anne Herries Regency Brides of Convenience (Book 3 of 3) Major Harry Brockley gave up on love when he lost his heart to his colonel's wife, Samantha Scatterby. Now, Brock agrees to a loveless marriage—only for widowed Sam to reappear in his life! Look for Box Set 2 of 2 for more timeless stories from Harlequin Historical!

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1460385624

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Remedy

By: Anne Marsella

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Remedy

By: Anne Marsella

Meet Remedy: a young, single American living on the rive gauche and toiling at an on-line fashion magazine. She may have her feet on well-trodden expat ground, but she has her head in the clouds and the path she walks through Paris is distinctly original. When she's not dreaming up articles about this season's must-have accessory or foiling her best friend's attempts at match-making, she attends mass with a blind nun, shimmies her way through belly-dancing classes and meditates on the lives of the saints. All the while, believing that spiritual enlightenment and romantic fulfilment might be just around the corner ...

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Portobello Books

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1846274621

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The Bohemians

By: Anne Gédéon Lafitte, Marquis de Pelleport

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The Bohemians

By: Anne Gédéon Lafitte, Marquis de Pelleport

While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novel—one equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself. Yet Sade's neighbor, the marquis de Pelleport, is almost completely unknown today, and his novel, Les Bohémiens, has nearly vanished. Only a half dozen copies are available in libraries throughout the world. This edition, the first in English, opens a window into the world of garret poets, literary adventurers, down-and-out philosophers, and Grub Street hacks writing in the waning days of the Ancien Régime. The Bohemians tells the tale of a troupe of vagabond writer-philosophers and their sexual partners, wandering through the countryside of Champagne accompanied by a donkey loaded with their many unpublished manuscripts. They live off the land—for the most part by stealing chickens from peasants. They deliver endless philosophic harangues, one more absurd than the other, bawl and brawl like schoolchildren, copulate with each other, and pause only to gobble up whatever they can poach from the barnyards along their route. Full of lively prose, parody, dialogue, double entendre, humor, outrageous incidents, social commentary, and obscenity, The Bohemians is a tour de force. As Robert Darnton writes in his introduction to the book, it spans several genres and can be read simultaneously as a picaresque novel, a roman à clef, a collection of essays, a libertine tract, and an autobiography. Rediscovered by Darnton and brought gloriously back to life in Vivian Folkenflik's translation, The Bohemians at last takes its place as a major work of eighteenth-century libertinism.

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0812203704

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