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  • The Old Wives' Tale (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Victorian generational saga of sisterhood, family rivalries, and personal transformation amid England's Industrial Revolution

    Set between the Staffordshire Potteries and Paris, The Old Wives' Tale traces the bifurcating lives of Constance and Sophia Baines from youthful shop assistants to old age, through marriage, commerce, flight, and loss. Bennett's spacious realism - precise in material detail, steady in pace, and quietly psychological - turns the ordinary into event. Moving from Bursley's drapery to the 1870-71 ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Grand Babylon Hotel (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Edwardian intrigue at a luxury hotel, where an American millionaire is drawn into the disappearance of a German prince

    Arnold Bennett's The Grand Babylon Hotel is a sparkling fin‑de‑siècle entertainment that doubles as a sly anatomy of modern luxury. When American millionaire Theodore Racksole, affronted by a refusal to serve his daughter Nella a simple steak, impulsively purchases London's most opulent hotel, he inherits a labyrinth of secret suites, shadowed cellars, and imperial intrigues. The disappearance of ... Read more

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  • The Road to Sanctuary

    Building Power and Community in Philadelphia

    During the Trump administration, more people sought sanctuary in churches in Philadelphia than any other city in the United States. The city was also on the front lines of progressive policy making, defending its sanctuary policies in federal court. In this collection of essays and interviews, a diverse set of authors examine the promise and limits of sanctuary. Contributors include Carmela ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    Gordon Rutherford, a young writer, finds himself in a dangerous dilemma when he is the only witness to the accidental death of an acquaintance. Because of the strange circumstances of the case, Rutherford knows that if he goes to the police he will almost certainly be accused of murder. But if he disposes of the body and conceals the accident, he will destroy any chance of proving his innocence. ... Read more

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  • Lord Peter Views the Body

    A Collection of Mysteries

    Series Book 12 - The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries
    A dozen whodunits to challenge the ingenious British aristocrat and sleuth—from "one of the greatest mystery story writers" ( Los Angeles Times ).Some aristocrats spend their lives shooting, but Lord Peter Wimsey is a hunter of a different kind: a bloodhound with a nose for murder. Before he became Britain's most famous detective, Lord Peter contented himself with solving the crimes he came across ... Read more

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  • The Nine Tailors

    Series Book 9 - The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries
    While ringing in the New Year, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers some old crimes: "A rattling good mystery" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Lord Peter Wimsey and his manservant Bunter are halfway across the wild flatlands of East Anglia when they make a wrong turn, straight into a ditch. They scramble over the rough country to the nearest church, where they find hospitality, dinner, and an invitation to go bell ... Read more

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  • Levels of Life

    A Memoir

    by Julian Barnes ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir—a "wise, funny, and devastating ... discourse on love and sorrow" (The New York Times Book Review).In this “deeply stirring” book (The Boston Globe), Julian Barnes writes about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

    Introduction by Francine Prose

    by Mavis Gallant ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    This generous collection of fifty-two stories, selected from across her prolific career by the author, includes a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.A widely admired master of the short story, Mavis Gallant was a Canadian-born writer who lived in France and died in 2014 at the age of ninety-one. Her more than one hundred stories, most published in The New Yorker over five ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Old Wives' Tale

    ‘There are few more moving accounts of the effects of time, the passage of history and the slow encroachment of age than this remarkable, epic novel’ GuardianDiscover this powerful novel about the ordinary lives of the Baines sisters. The perfect next step for fans of Little Women.In The Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett tells the story of two such old wives, sisters Constance and Sophia, from youth ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • English Humour for Beginners

    by George Mikes ...
    'To write a book is hard; to write a funny book is harder; to write a funny book both wise and funny is the prerogative of Mr. Mikes' The Times_________________________If you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour.So proclaims George Mikes' timeless exploration of this curious phenomenon. Whether it's understatement, self-deprecation or plain cruelty, the three ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • 50 Mystery & Investigation Masterpieces (Active TOC) (ABCD Classics) vol: 2

    This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names A Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain] The Man Who Knew Too Much,The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [G.K Chesterton] The Hound of the Baskervilles,The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle] The Nebuly Coat [John Meade Falkner] The Chestermarke Instinct,The Middle of Things,The Orange-Yellow Diamond,The ... Read more

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