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The Brass Queen

By: Elizabeth Chatsworth

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If you like the Parasol Protectorate or the Invisible Library series, you'll love this gaslamp fantasy-a rambunctious romantic romp that will have you both laughing out loud and wishing you owned all of Miss Haltwhistle's armaments.

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Chicago Review Press

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0744300096

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9780744300093

Grand Tour

The Brass Queen II

By: Elizabeth Chatsworth

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Grand Tour

The Brass Queen II

By: Elizabeth Chatsworth

“I loved The Brass Queen.” —Genevieve Cogman, author of the Invisible Library series “Lush, exciting, and endlessly inventive . . .” —Cherie Priest, award-winning author of Boneshaker, on The Brass Queen The grass was always greener in another dimension. In a fantastical steam-powered world, eccentric aristocrat and secret arms dealer, Miss Constance Haltwhistle, has been blackmailed into stealing alien artifacts from the crown heads of Europe. Only the shady but annoyingly handsome US spy, “Liberty” Trusdale, can help her execute her perfect palace heists. As Constance creates chaos and mayhem across the Continent, monstrous creatures are plotting an interdimensional invasion of Earth. Will Constance and Trusdale stop bickering long enough to end the war of the worlds before it starts? If you enjoy stories inspired by HG Wells’s War of the Worlds, you’ll love this gaslamp romp across an alternate 1890s Europe where our bickering heroes may just be the bad guys.

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CamCat Publishing, LLC

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0744306213

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9780744306217

The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake

By: Elizabeth Eastlake

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The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake

By: Elizabeth Eastlake

This year marks the bicentennial of the English writer, translator, critic and amateur artist Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake (1809–93). The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake brings together a comprehensive collection of her surviving correspondence and reveals significant new material about this extraordinary Victorian figure. Rigby wrote on a variety of subjects, most notably reviews of works and authors such as Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, Ruskin, Coleridge, and Madame de Staël, as well as art-related criticism, including one of the earliest critical texts on photography. Her lively correspondence here shows how this well-connected woman played such an important role in the Victorian art world.

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Liverpool University Press

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1846311942

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9781846311949

American Bruja

The Los Angeles Cauldron

By: Elizabeth Harris

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American Bruja

The Los Angeles Cauldron

By: Elizabeth Harris

Amber McBride just moved into LA's most eccentric outpost - the Simi Hills, birthplace of Hollywood and the Manson Family. She's dealing with her parent's marital problems, the ghost of a teenager that disappeared during the 1980's and a family of brothers living under a curse. That's a lot for a fourteen year-old witch to deal with.

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Trylon Associates, Inc.

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069275735X

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9780692757352

A Simple Story

By: Elizabeth Inchbald

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A Simple Story

By: Elizabeth Inchbald

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. In scenes charged with understated erotic tension it tells the stories of the flirtatious Miss Milner who falls in love with her guardian, a Roman Catholic priest and aristocrat, and of their daughter Matilda who, banished from her father's sight, craves his love. In her use of dramatic methods—expressive gestures, delayed revelations and economical dialogues—to present these two versions of the same power-struggle between an older father-lover figure and a young girl, Inchbald achieves a psychological intensity and subtlety of characterization rarely found in other late eighteenth-century novelists.

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Penguin

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1101161779

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9781101161777

The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell

By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell

By: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

These letters, covering such subjects as scarlet fever, the Lancashire cotton famine and the American Civil War, bring history alive. They also throw light on Gaskell's own writings, especially her biography of Charlotte Brontèe.

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Manchester University Press

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1901341038

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9781901341034

Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers

By: Elizabeth Tyrwhit

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Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers

By: Elizabeth Tyrwhit

This volume presents critical, old-spelling editions of two versions of Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers. The edition also includes an extensive introduction that provides background on Tyrwhit's life and family and sets her work within the context of sixteenth- century English prayerbooks; an autograph note by Tyrwhit; and several versions of the rhymed Hours of the Cross as background to Tyrwhit's rendition entitled, An Hymne of the Passion of Christ.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754606619

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9780754606611

The Billionaire Gets His Way

By: Elizabeth Bevarly

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The Billionaire Gets His Way

By: Elizabeth Bevarly

He'd carved out his empire with hard work and steely determination. But now billionaire Gavin Mason's reputation was in question. All because he resembled a character in Violet Tandy's bestselling novel. Since he'd never even met the woman, she had some serious explaining to do. Seemingly innocent Violet claimed her work was pure fiction, but no one in Gavin's elite social circle was buying it. The infuriating beauty owed him big-time, and he found great pleasure in making her pretend to be his girlfriend. Still, Gavin wondered if having her this close would destroy his most prized status—that of confirmed bachelor.

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Silhouette

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1426884699

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9781426884696

The Sunlight On The Garden

A Family In Love, War And Madness

By: Elizabeth Speller

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The Sunlight On The Garden

A Family In Love, War And Madness

By: Elizabeth Speller

In 1880, Ada Curtis bore Gerald Howard the first of several illegitimate children. Ada was a housemaid, the daughter of a Lincolnshire butcher. Gerald was her employer and the son of a once-grand family now obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. They thereby sent their descendants tumbling chaotically into the twentieth century. More than a century later, inspired by the stories, reinventions and half-truths in her family's past, Elizabeth Speller - Gerald and Ada's great-granddaughter - set out to trace the criss-crossing lines of their history, and, as she recovered from a mental breakdown, she began to wonder if that history offered any explanation of what had happened in her own life. The search brings vividly to life the passions and hopes of four generations, amid tales of wealth inherited and lost, eccentricity, sexual indiscretion and madness. Ultimately, this book will remain in the memory as a beautifully realised sequence of portraits of mothers and daughters.

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Granta Books

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1847086608

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9781847086600

The Drawings of Bronzino

By: Carmen Bambach,Agnolo Bronzino,Janet Cox-Rearick,George R. Goldner,Philippe Costamagna,Marzia Faietti,Elizabeth Pilliod

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The Drawings of Bronzino

By: Carmen Bambach,Agnolo Bronzino,Janet Cox-Rearick,George R. Goldner,Philippe Costamagna,Marzia Faietti,Elizabeth Pilliod

Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the sixty drawings attributed to this leading draftsman of the 16th century. Each drawing is illustrated in color, discussed in detail, and shown with many comparative photographs. Bronzino's technical virtuosity as a draftsman and his mastery of anatomy and perspective are vividly apparent in each stroke of the chalk, pen, or brush. The younger generations of Florentine artists particularly admired Bronzino for his technical virtuosity as a painter, and Giorgio Vasari praised him for his powers as a disegnatore (designer and draftsman).

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588393542

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9781588393548

Culinary Landmarks

A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825-1949

By: Elizabeth Driver

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Culinary Landmarks

A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825-1949

By: Elizabeth Driver

Culinary Landmarks is a definitive history and bibliography of Canadian cookbooks from the beginning, when La cuisinière bourgeoise was published in Quebec City in 1825, to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of more than ten years Elizabeth Driver researched every cookbook published within the borders of present-day Canada, whether a locally authored text or a Canadian edition of a foreign work. Every type of recipe collection is included, from trade publishers' bestsellers and advertising cookbooks, to home economics textbooks and fund-raisers from church women's groups. The entries for over 2,200 individual titles are arranged chronologically by their province or territory of publication, revealing cooking and dining customs in each part of the country over 125 years. Full bibliographical descriptions of first and subsequent editions are augmented by author biographies and corporate histories of the food producers and kitchen-equipment manufacturers, who often published the books. Driver's excellent general introduction sets out the evolution of the cookbook genre in Canada, while brief introductions for each province identify regional differences in developments and trends. Four indexes and a 'Chronology of Canadian Cookbook History' provide other points of access to the wealth of material in this impressive reference book.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802047904

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9780802047908

The Brass Queen

By: Elizabeth Chatsworth

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The Brass Queen

By: Elizabeth Chatsworth

She knows a liar when she sees one. He knows a fraud when he meets one. In a steam-powered world, Miss Constance Haltwhistle is the last in a line of blue-blooded rogues. Selling firearms under her alias, the “Brass Queen,” she has kept her baronial estate’s coffers full. But when US spy J. F. Trusdale saves her from assassins, she’s pulled into a search for a scientist with an invisibility serum. As royal foes create an invisible army to start a global war, Constance and Trusdale must learn to trust each other. If they don’t, the world as they know it will disappear before their eyes. If you like the Parasol Protectorate or the Invisible Library series, you’ll love this gaslamp fantasy—a rambunctious romantic romp that will have you both laughing out loud and wishing you owned all of Miss Haltwhistle's armaments.

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CamCat Publishing, LLC

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0744300126

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Palladio's Venice : Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic

By: Tracy Elizabeth Cooper,Andrea Palladio

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Palladio's Venice : Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic

By: Tracy Elizabeth Cooper,Andrea Palladio

A glamorous and unprecedented exploration of Palladio's work in one of the most beautiful of all cities

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Yale University Press

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0300105827

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9780300105827

Byron's "Corbeau Blanc"

The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne

By: Viscountess Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb Melbourne

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Byron's "Corbeau Blanc"

The Life and Letters of Lady Melbourne

By: Viscountess Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb Melbourne

Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (née Elizabeth Milbanke; 1750 ? 1818) was one of the most influential of the political hostesses of the extended Regency period, and the wife of Whig politician Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne. She was the mother of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amongst several other influential children. Lady Melbourne was known not just for her political influence but also for her friendships and romantic relationships with members of London society including Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, George, Prince of Wales and Lord Byron."--Wikipedia.

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Texas A&M University Press

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0890966729

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9780890966723

Whisper His Name

By: Elizabeth Thornton

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Whisper His Name

By: Elizabeth Thornton

Breaking the code to her heart... Independent and stubbornly unmarried, Abbie Vayle has always been a little too smart for her own good. But she may have gone too far when she starts her own rare-book business--and accidentally acquires an antique book in Paris with a mysterious code scribbled in the margins.... Someone wants the book back--and is willing to kill to get it. The only trouble is, Abbie no longer has the book. It's locked away in the customs house in Dover. Now it's a race against time as Abbie stays one step ahead of her pursuers. The last person she wants to confide in is her best friend, Hugh Templar, whom she knows only as a formidable scholar who shares her passion for Roman antiquities. But as Hugh keeps turning up where she least expects him, a few things begin to dawn on her....Not only is Hugh surprisingly--in fact incredibly--handsome without his glasses on, but he's strangely "professional" in how he handles her mysterious enemies. Hugh is clearly not what he seems. And soon Abbie realizes that neither is she...as she discovers what it means to love with all her heart and soul.

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Bantam

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0307808912

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9780307808912

The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson

His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife

By: Elizabeth Amisu

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The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson

His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife

By: Elizabeth Amisu

An essential companion to Michael Jackson's music, films, and books, this work offers 21 original, academic essays on all things Jackson-from film, music, and dance to fashion, culture, and literature. Going well beyond the average celebrity biography, this comprehensive book looks at why Jackson is regarded as one of the most important musicians of our time, offering insights into every facet of his art, life, and artistic afterlife. It looks at the methods by which his work was created, presented, received, and appropriated; discusses Jackson's varied personas along with his public and private appearances, albums, conceptual art, short films, and dance; and considers his use of costume, makeup, and reinvention. To help readers understand the phenomenon that was-and is-Michael Jackson, the book focuses on Jackson's historical context through an analysis of his films, songs, and books, examining him as an artist and shedding light on the political and ideological debates that surrounded him. Not shying away from the controversial aspects of Jackson's life and legacy, it also tackles questions of sexuality and racism, gender, and class, comparing Jackson to artists ranging from J. S. Bach to Andy Warhol. Through its examination of Jackson's entire catalog, the work connects all the aspects of his art and life to exemplify-and explain-the performer's unparalleled influence in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440838658

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9781440838651

New English Interiors

At Home with Today's Creatives

By: Elizabeth Metcalfe

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New English Interiors

At Home with Today's Creatives

By: Elizabeth Metcalfe

New English Interiors is a celebration of an endlessly evolving and consistently forward-looking style that is enjoying a renewed popularity among today’s young creatives.

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0711293341

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9780711293342

The Medici: Portraits and Politics 1512–1570

By: Keith Christiansen,Carlo Falciani,Andrea Bayer,Elizabeth Cropper,Davide Gasparotto,Sefy Hendler,Antonella Fenech Kroke,Tommaso Mozzati,Elizabeth Pilliod,Julia Siemon,Linda Wolk-Simon

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The Medici: Portraits and Politics 1512–1570

By: Keith Christiansen,Carlo Falciani,Andrea Bayer,Elizabeth Cropper,Davide Gasparotto,Sefy Hendler,Antonella Fenech Kroke,Tommaso Mozzati,Elizabeth Pilliod,Julia Siemon,Linda Wolk-Simon

Between 1512 and 1570, Florence underwent dramatic political transformations. As citizens jockeyed for prominence, portraits became an essential means not only of recording a likeness but also of conveying a sitter’s character, social position, and cultural ambitions. This fascinating book explores the ways that painters (including Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati), sculptors (such as Benvenuto Cellini), and artists in other media endowed their works with an erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made Florentine portraiture distinctive. The Medici family had ruled Florence without interruption between 1434 and 1494. Following their return to power in 1512, Cosimo I de’ Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd ability to wield culture as a political tool in order to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring more than ninety remarkable paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume is written by a team of leading international authors and presents a sweeping, penetrating exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588397300

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9781588397300

Windows

History, Repair and Conservation

By: Michael Tutton,Elizabeth Hirst,Hentie Louw,Jill Pearce

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Windows

History, Repair and Conservation

By: Michael Tutton,Elizabeth Hirst,Hentie Louw,Jill Pearce

This is the first and only reference volume covering the subject of windows in depth - no other book offers this wealth of practical detail. It is highly accessible, written for both the professional and interested layperson Written by a team of 15 experts - surveyors, structural engineers, craftsmen and conservators describing their own approaches to specific materials, problems and designs. It includes over 400 illustrations in colour and black and white, from a wide range of sources, including historic drawings, paintings, pattern books, textbooks, manufacturers' catalogues and contemporary and archive photographs. It is an invaluable asset for everyone involved with windows on a daily basis, combining the knowledge of leading historians and experts in the field of window conservation. The window is a familiar yet surprisingly complex feature, with a rich history that has not, up until now, been explored in any great depth. This encyclopaedic work is both a fascinating exploration of the history and development of the window, and a practical hands-on guide to their care and preservation. Part 1 covers the history of the window including the development in glass technology. It also provides an illustrated glossary of window types. Part 2 reviews the changes in policy and legislation and discusses structural issues, decay mechanisms and the current stringent performance standards and how they affect historic windows. Part 3 focuses on the materials used in the construction of windows and the craft of leaded glazing. It details the appropriate techniques for repair and conservation. Windows is fully illustrated in both colour and mono to include over 400 high quality illustrations.

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674

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Routledge

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1317742699

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9781317742692

A Woman's First Impressions of Europe

By: Elizabeth A. Forbes

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A Woman's First Impressions of Europe

By: Elizabeth A. Forbes

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Being Wayside sketches made during a short tour in the year 1863.

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3752586907

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9783752586909

The Enchanted April

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By: Elizabeth Von Arnim

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The Enchanted April

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By: Elizabeth Von Arnim

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