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1) Cafe Europa
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
"Ifkovic successfully blends homicide with a loving homage to Budapest on the eve of World War I." —Kirkus Reviews
In 1914, as rumors of war float across Europe, Edna Ferber travels to Budapest with Winifred Moss, a famous London suffragette, to visit the homeland of her dead father and to see the sights. Author Edna is fascinated by ancient Emperor Franz Joseph and by the faltering Austro-Hungarian Empire, its pomp and circumstance
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Haymarket Media Group Ltd
Edition
UEFA Europa League Final Programme
Language
English
Description
UEFA Europa League final official matchday programme The 84-page programme is packed with interviews with players and managers of both FC Porto and SC Braga, who will play-out the final at Dublin Arena on Wed 18 May. - A4 - 84pages - Gloss UV finish - Perfect bound
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Tim LaHaye, creator of the Left Behind® series, blends suspense and Biblical prophecy in a new series of thrillers with a chilling relevance to the events of our time. Here are ancient secrets never before revealed, dire warnings, and a man who must rise to face the greatest evil of all.…
Michael Murphy is a hero for our troubled times. He’s an archaeologist and a scholar of Biblical prophecy. He’s also a man of action hunting...
Michael Murphy is a hero for our troubled times. He’s an archaeologist and a scholar of Biblical prophecy. He’s also a man of action hunting...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Kentucky-born American author John Fox, Jr. can be described as the Jack London of the Bluegrass region. A Mountain Europa is one of many pieces produced by Fox that celebrates the unique culture and gorgeous landscape of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, his adopted hometown.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
'The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's great masterpieces, a work charged with eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself.
Here Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the painting's movement following the rise and fall of the countries in which it has been housed. The story ranges from its place at the court of King Philip II of Spain, through French revolution and...
Here Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the painting's movement following the rise and fall of the countries in which it has been housed. The story ranges from its place at the court of King Philip II of Spain, through French revolution and...
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Rome escape line trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn...
9) Winter
Author
Publisher
Europa
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of the final years of Thomas Hardy's life sees the premiere of the London theatre production of his acclaimed "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and his obsessive infatuation with the show's star revealed to his reclusive wife.
10) Breasts and eggs
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Language
English
Description
It tells the story of three women: the thirty-year-old unmarried narrator, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's daughter Midoriko. Unable to come to terms with her changed body after giving birth, Makiko becomes obsessed with the prospect of getting breast enhancement surgery. Meanwhile, her twelve-year-old daughter Midoriko is paralyzed by the fear of her oncoming puberty and finds herself unable to voice the vague, yet overwhelming anxieties associated...
11) The postcard
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
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HL 830L
Language
English
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"Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan"--Publisher marketing.
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English
Description
"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
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