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The girl in the blue dress - Mary Burchell
Can a man fall in love with a painting? The girl in the blue dress was in a portrait that Franklin Lowell had owned and admired for years. And when, at last, he met the original mo... -
The food of a younger land_ a p - Mark Kurlansky
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the *New York Times*-bestselling author of *Cod* and *Salt*.** Award-winning *New York ... -
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The Publisher_ Henry Luce and H - Alan Brinkley
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founde... -
The Name of the World - Denis Johnson
The acclaimed author of Jesus' Son and Already Dead returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel. The Name of the World is a mesmerizing portrait of a professor a... -
The Lover's Dictionary - David Levithan
A nameless couple meet, fall in love, move in together, and then the hard work of loving each other begins. Told as a series of dictionary entries, The Lover’s Dictionary is an int... -
The Last Tsar - Edvard Radzinsky
Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying... -
The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gif... -
The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir
SUMMARY: Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Tim... -
The House of Rothschild_ . Mone - Niall Ferguson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first authoritative and compulsively readable history of the rise of this legendary banking dynastyIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remark- able, elusi...