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A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms...
2) Daisy Miller
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First published in "Cornhill Magazine" in 1878, "Daisy Miller" is Henry James' novella, which concerns the courtship of its titular character, the beautiful young American girl Daisy Miller. While travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy is taken by the delightfulness of the continent, which unlike her brother, she finds superior to their hometown of Schenectady, New York. Her brother introduces her to Frederick Winterbourne, whom she agrees to...
3) Three fates
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A family heirloom, one of a priceless, long-separated set of three small silver statues, has been snatched away from the Sullivans. Malachi, Gideon, and Rebecca are determined to recover their great-great-grandfather's treasure, reunite the Three Fates, and make their fortune. The quest will take them on an adventure that will ultimately pit them in a suspenseful fight against an ambitious woman who will stop at nothing to acquire the Fates.
4) All is fair
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Swoon Reads
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First edition.
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English
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"It's 1918, and war is raging across Europe. When Lady Mina Tretheway receives a telegram at boarding school, she doesn't want to read it--telegrams never bring good news. The message is written in a cryptic code, and Mina is soon pulled out of school and into a secret wartime mission with a dashing American spy" --
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Conspiracy of us trilogy volume 1
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G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Avery West learns her family is part of a powerful and dangerous secret society, and that her own life is in danger, she must follow a trail of clues across Europe.
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Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes; as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he has seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of a mystery that is, even by his standards, most peculiar. While investigating a high-profile murder, he uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly...
7) Vanity Fair
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Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley together leave the shelter of Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. They now inhabit the infinitely more fascinating and dangerous Vanity Fair.
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Little blue envelopes volume 1
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English
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When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
10) Foreign affairs
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Stone Barrington novels volume 35
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When he's apprised at the last minute of a mandatory meeting abroad, Stone Barrington rushes off to Europe for a whirlwind tour of business and, of course, pleasure. But from the start the trip seems to be cursed, plagued by suspicious "accidents" and unfortunate events, and some of Stone's plans go up in flames--literally. Not a believer in coincidence, Stone sets out to learn the true source of his curious misfortune and finds that what appeared...
12) The walking drum
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Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard boldly sweeps through the castles, villages, and galleys of twelfth-century Europe, in an adventure that takes him from the shores of Brittany to the steppes of Russia.
13) Black order
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Sigma Force novels volume 3
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English
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From the Himalayas' frozen peaks to the Congo's diamond fields, from a lost era's subterranean labs to the Smithsonian's glittering halls, Sigma Force will face its most daunting challenges to unravel our most perplexing scientific mystery-the origins of life. And the very future of mankind hangs in the balance. For any hope of success, Painter Crowe must make a pact like no other, aligning Sigma Force with an old enemy, one beyond redemption. And...
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James Bond volume 5
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Thomas & Mercer
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English
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From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story in early 1956 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica; at the time he thought it might be his final Bond book. The novel was first published on 8 April 1957. The story centres on a plot by SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence agency, to assassinate Bond in such a way as to discredit both...
16) Cat & mouse
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Alex Cross novels volume 4
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English
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In this New York Times bestseller, two killers-one operating in America, one in Europe-believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned.
Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued by Thomas Augustine Pierce-a brilliant and relentless detective who may even be better than Cross. As the bodies pile up, and Cross is nearly murdered...
Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued by Thomas Augustine Pierce-a brilliant and relentless detective who may even be better than Cross. As the bodies pile up, and Cross is nearly murdered...
17) Echoes
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Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time.
18) White Flag Down
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Tantor Audio
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Unabridged.
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English
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September 1942Without Swiss help, the Reichsbank will fail within six months.An American airman is shot down over neutral Switzerland, with knowledge crucial to the Allied war effort. A Russian major escapes the hell that is the Siege of Stalingrad, ordered to Bern to facilitate a Nazi-Soviet truce.A Swiss journalist seeks evidence of her country's economic support of Nazi Germany, but ruthless men are determined to stop her.All three will form an...
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Earth's children volume 6
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Crown Pub
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First edition.
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English
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Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni -- one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.
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"On a September day in Manhattan in 1939, twenty-something Caroline Ferriday is consumed by her efforts to secure the perfect boutonnière for an important French diplomat and resisting the romantic advances of a married actor. Meanwhile across the Atlantic, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish Catholic teenager, is nervously anticipating the changes that are sure to come since Germany has declared war on Poland. As tensions rise abroad - and in her personal...
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