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Summary: Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2017
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Summary: "One winter night, Peter Lake--master mechanic and second-story man--attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty , the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: A Roman student is torn from his carefree life when World War I breaks out, and fifty years later, recounts the triumphs and tragedies of his existence to an illiterate factory worker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
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Summary: A young prince and his beloved Odette struggle to protect themselves and their infant daughter from the evil Von Rothbart in this adaptation of the classic ballet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1989
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Summary: Navy Captain Rensselaer runs afoul of the US president, who demotes him. But he takes the assignment in stride, having fallen in love with a woman who becomes his beacon in his challenging new mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Mark Helprin's enchanting and sweeping novel asks a simple question: Can love and honor conquer all? New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns home to run the family business. In a single, magical encounter on the Staten Island ferry, the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale falls for him instantly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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Summary: Ridiculed by the British press, Prince of Wales Freddy and his wife, the frivolous Fredericka, are sent to colonize the barbaric land of America, during which they engage in a freight train ride, an art theft, and a wayward presidential election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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Summary: A bestseller that takes readers on a journey to New York of the Belle Epoque, where Peter Lake attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between the middle-aged Irishman and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. "This novel...is a gifted writer's love affair with the language" (Newsday).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1983
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Contents: The Schreuderspitze -- Letters from the Samantha -- Martin Bayer -- North light -- A Vermont tale -- White gardens -- Palais de justice -- A room of frail dancers -- La Volpaia -- Tamar -- Ellis Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1981
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Contents: Il colore ritrovato -- Reconstruction -- Monday -- A brilliant idea and his own -- Vandevere's house -- Prelude -- Perfection -- Sidney Balbion -- Mar nueva -- Rain --Passchendaele -- Jacob Bayer and the telephone -- Sail shining in white -- Charlotte of the Utrechtseweg -- Last tea with the armorers -- The Pacific.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2004
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Summary: One night, Peter Lake -- orphan, master-mechanic, and master second-story man -- attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between the middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying. Because of a love that at first he cannot fully understand, Peter, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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Summary: The authors of the best-selling Game Change present an account of the 2012 presidential election that draws on hundreds of insider interviews to illuminate what the election meant to both parties, covering such topics as the dramatic Republican nomination fight, the rise and fall of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's Election Day triumph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2013