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Set in London during the twenties, this fine novel centres on the lives of two young women, the recently widowed Cecilia
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In this electrifying debut, Ross combines political insights with the high stakes and fast pace of classic espionage fiction, as he delivers a spellbinding novel that follows an American agent's attempts to stop a Nazi spy just days before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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From the Publisher: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can deipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost fo
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By turns humorous, warm, stark, and frightening, these stories glow with childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women inflict on one another. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mundane lives, and unexpected loves. But here, too, is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them. 256 pp. National ads.
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In tough, spare, beautiful prose, this Greek tragedy in cleats describes a place where young men damage their souls and
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Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, if includes up-to-date work on variants, chronology of poems and critical commentary by Harold Bloom. An Approved Edition of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.
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This presentation of the translation and the Old English text on facing pagesallows the reader to approach the first major poem in English literature in afresh and exciting new way. High school & older.
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The bestselling phenomenon finally comes to mass-market paperback just in time for the May 19th release of Columbia Pictures' much-anticipated film adaptation, starring two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actor Tom Hanks, and directed by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind).From the Publisher:An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries...unveiled at last.As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable research and detail, Dan Brown's novel is a thrilling masterpiece - from its opening pages to its stunning conclusion.About the Author:Dan Brown is the bestselling author of Digital Fortress, Angels & Demons, and Deception Point. He lives in New England.
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Calamity and Other Stories
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In this moving and candid memoir we meet Ernestine Bradley, the wife of former senator and presidential hopeful Bill Bra
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