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1) The fraud
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
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"From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous murder in modern Irish history, at once a propulsive work of true crime and an act of literary subversion. Malcolm MacArthur was a well-known Dublin socialite and heir. Suave and urbane, he passed his days mingling with artists and aristocrats, reading philosophy, living a life of the mind. But by 1982, his inheritance had dwindled to almost nothing, a desperate...
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"What if young Arthur Conan Doyle really went to a secret school for extraordinarily gifted children called Baskerville Hall? When a mysterious man with a pipe notices young Arthur's incredible deductive skills, Arthur's offered a spot at the esteemed Baskerville Hall and a chance to lift his family out of poverty. There Arthur makes quick friends with Irene Eagle, a girl who boldly strides into any adventure, and Jimmie Moriarty, a boy whose brilliance...
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Follows the life of Chester A. Arthur from his childhood in Vermont through his brief term as twenty-first president of the United States and into his post-White House years, and includes photographs and illustrations, a time line and glossary, articles on key events that influenced Arthur, and other reference materials.
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The succession battle is heating up and it becomes too dangerous to live in the dorms. Rintarou decides to rent a place with Luna, but when she gets her hands on his checkbook, Luna squanders all of Rintarou's life savings on a mansion. Their relationship is already rocky after this, and then the two meet throne-contender Emma Michelle and her Jack, Sir Lamorak--and Rintarou has a history with Emma.
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A brief picture book following the exploits of British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington during the 1919 solar eclipse. Eddington, fascinated with Albert Einstein's then-new theory of general relativity, proved general relativity by photographing the solar eclipse and seeing how the light of stars behind the sun, visible in the shadow of the eclipse, bend around the sun's gravity.
10) His girl Friday
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An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses every dirty trick in the book to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and remarrying in this twist on The Front Page.
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Not one of some seventy plays written by the most popular playwright of the English stage in Victoria's time is known to anyone but archivists today. That same fate befell the works of England's most honored composer of the period. His oratorios, odes, symphonic music, an opera--are all but silent now, save two incidental pieces (you have heard of them: "The Lost Chord" and "Onward Christian Soldiers"). But rarely have the serious works of contemporary...
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The Hammersteins is the story of one family that changed Broadway forever. The story begins in 1864, when Oscar Hammerstein I emigrates to America, establishes himself as a successful cigar merchant and turns his attention to the business of music and theaters. He builds many theaters, including New York's most majestic opera house. He turns Times Square (then Longacre Square) into the theater capital of the world. His sons, Willy and Arthur, carry...