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1) The American
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1877 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
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Haunting readers since its first publication in 1911, the classic story of the disfigured Erik who haunts the Paris Opera House and secretly trains singer Christine Daa, leading to an obsessive love and pattern of fear and violence, remains a riveting journey into the darkest regions of the human heart. This updated edition features a new introduction to the gothic horror classic.
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2023 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List
Goodreads Choice Nominees 2022
Lariat List 2023
NYT - Mass Market
Goodreads Choice Nominees 2022
Lariat List 2023
NYT - Mass Market
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Publisher Annotation: Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up - to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? - he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the...
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Hemingway's first bestselling novel, the story of a group of Americans and English on a sojourn from Paris to Paloma, evokes in poignant detail, life among the expatriates on Paris's Left Bank, during the 1920s and conveys in brutally realistic descriptions the power and danger of bullfighting in Spain.
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Grim lovelies volume 2
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[2019]
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Anouk is forced into a sinister deal with Crown Prince Rennar in order to help her friends, who are trapped in their animal forms, and save Paris from the Coven at Oxford.
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"Now: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris ... When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America after World War II ... However, the more time she...
10) Grim lovelies
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Grim lovelies volume 1
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Anouk envies the human world, where people known as Pretties lavish themselves in fast cars, high fashion, and have the freedom to fall in love. But Anouk is a Beastie, enchanted from animal to human girl and forbidden to venture beyond her familiar Parisian prison. She will spend her life serving Mada Vittora, the evil witch who spelled her into existence. But when she finds her mistress murdered in a pool of blood, Anouk is accused of the crime....
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While in Paris, France on a class trip, Colette Iselin enlists the help of her charming French tour guide to help uncover a possible connection between Marie Antoinette, a series of gruesome murders, and perhaps her own family history, and he also gives her insights into herself.
12) Hasta los huesos
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2019.
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Harley is over the moon when she is given a trip to Paris where her beloved cousin Gretchen lives. The girls have changed since the last time they have seen one another. In an attempt to win back her cousin's friendship, Harley accompanies a group of friends to a forbidden part of the Paris catacombs. When a cave-in kills a guide and leaves the group wounded, terrified, and lost, they must desperately try to find a way out of a place where death...
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Rocket Robinson graphic novels volume 2
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September 2018.
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English
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