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"It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"--ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and "bad apples": the...
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279 pages ; 22 cm
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Al crecer en las sombras de dos guerras mundiales, Annabelle ha llevado una vida tranquila y estable en su pequęa ciudad de Pensilvania. Hasta el ̕da en que la nueva estudiante Betty Glengarry entra a su clase. Betty ̀rpidamente se revela cruel y manipuladora, y aunque su intimidac̤in parece aislada al principio, las cosas escalan ̀rpidamente, y el solitario veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial Toby se convierte en el blanco de sus ataques....
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156 pages ; 22 cm
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"Written late in Anita Desai's illustrious career, these three novellas ruminate on art and memory, illusion and disillusion, and the sharp divide between life's expectations and dreams and its realities. Set in India in the not too distant past, the stories' diverse surroundings and dramas frame universal themes, which illuminate the ways in which various aspects of the Indian culture can nourish or suffocate. All are served up with Desai's characteristic...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Deep weaves a richly atmospheric adult debut following three residents of a secluded, seemingly peaceful commune as they investigate the disappearances of two outsiders. Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. James -- a well-known...
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