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The Long Song - Andrea Levy
SUMMARY: THE AUTHOR OF "SMALL ISLAND "TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA "Small Island "introduced ... -
The Beast Within - Emile Zola; Roger Whitehouse
Product DescriptionA superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master ...mile Zola considered The Beast Within-also kno.... -
S Is for Silence - Sue Grafton
EDITORIAL REVIEW: This is the nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton's ever popular "alphabet" series featuring PI Kinsey Millhone. Just after Independence Day in July 1953 Violet Sulliva... -
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
SUMMARY: The lives and adventures of the four March sisters--Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy--are set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century New England while their father is off fighti... -
For All the Tea in China_ How E - Sarah Rose
From BooklistStarred Review Through the adventures of Robert Fortune, a nineteenth-century plant hunter, the reader learns a delicious brew of information on the history of tea cu.... -
Doctor Who_ The Burning - Justin Richards
SUMMARY:The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialization. Britain is the workshop of the world, the center of the Empire.Progress has... -
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
SUMMARY: Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himse... -
Conquistadora - Esmeralda Santiago
A gorgeous epic of love, discovery, and adventure by the beloved author of When I Was Puerto Rican.Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the ex... -
A Map of Glass - Jane Urquhart
Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto and Prince Edward County, Ontario, the other in the nineteenth century on the northe...