Enough: Scenes from Childhood
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In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.
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Hard Times
"My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else," proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas …
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With equal measures of wit and wisdom, the author of 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret draws a deeply original, hilarious, and telling portrait of the Queen herself.She was the most famous person on ea…
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A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)
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All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
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The Proof of My Innocence
When Phyl, a young literature graduate, moves back home with her parents, she soon finds herself frustrated by the narrow horizons of English country life. As for her plans of becoming a writer, those…
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Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
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Lessons
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Small Bomb at Dimperley
It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperley, built in the 1500s, vast and dilapidated, up to its eaves in debt and half-full of fly-blown taxi…
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