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1) Lavinia
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In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.
Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus....
2) Lavinia
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Excerpt: ""I shall never get over it." This is a phrase that has issued from the same lips very often before; and in general Lavinia Carew listens to it silently, in the impatient confidence that at her next visit to Mrs. Prince, that lady will have got over "it" so completely as to have forgotten that "it" ever existed. She is silent now, but from an opposite reason to that which has hitherto tied her tongue. In her opinion neither Mrs. Prince nor...
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"Lavinia Warren never let her height--or the lack of it--prevent her from leading a full and adventurous life. Although she never grew more than three feet tall, she became a beloved teacher, a world traveler, an entertainer and the friend of many powerful figures, including President and Mrs. Lincoln"--
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AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE… A nursing job in Holland was the only way Lavinia Hawkins could ensure a home and security for herself and her young sister, Peta. Yet within weeks of arriving she was married to the devastatingly handsome Professor Radmer ter Bavinck. Radmer had assured Lavinia that the marriage would be on a friendly basis only. He needed a kind stepmother for his daughter and a competent housekeeper to run his home. It seemed to...
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Extrait : "La marquise de R... n'était pas fort spirituelle, quoiqu'il soit reçu en littérature que toutes les vieilles femmes doivent pétiller d'esprit. Son ignorance était extrême sur toutes les choses que le frottement du monde ne lui avait point apprises. Elle n'avait pas non plus cette excessive délicatesse d'expression, cette pénétration exquise..."
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The shocking true story of America's first female serial killer, half of a husband and wife team who terrorized Charleston, SC, in the early 19th century.
On February 18th, 1820, John and Lavinia Fisher were executed in front of some two thousand South Carolinians. To this day, legends of the husband-and-wife serial killers range from the fearsome to the fantastical-and many swear they have encountered Lavinia's ghost haunting the Old Charleston Jail...
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The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages between their respective families. In After Lavinia, John Watkins traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually...
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"What can a fortysomething childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, MIa Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of her 'guardian angels'--explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen—of Out of Africa—fame lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching...
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Lavinia Greenlaw's mesmerising debut novel about growing up in the surreal banality of mid-'70s Essex. Lavinia Greenlaw puts before us the monochrome, immemorial middle England of the 1970s in all its dowdy glory, and has us see through the mercurial, bewitching Mary George's eyes how a seemingly static landscape is suddenly illuminated by the most vivid bursts of energy, colour and drama. Punk's torch flares into life and singes the fringes of England....
10) Taken by Desire
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"Treat yourself to the spectacular work of Lavinia Kent."
—Lisa Kleypas
An extraordinary new talent in historical romance, Lavinia Kent dazzles again with Taken By Desire, a deliciously dark and sensual wonder set in England's colorful Regency Era. The spellbinding story of a man and a woman inadvertently trapped in the stranglehold of an unwanted marriage...until desire changes everything, Taken By Desire is a treat...
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The Importance of Music to Girls is the story of the adventures that music leads us into-how it forms and transforms us. As a soundtrack, it's there in the background while we go about the thrilling and mortifying business of growing up: raging, falling in love, wanting to change the world. Lavinia Greenlaw turns the volume up loud, and in prose of pure fury and beauty makes us remember how the music came first.
For Greenlaw, music-from bubblegum...
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The second book in the fabulous Masters family series from bright new romance star Lavinia Kent's, Bound by Temptation is the tale of an arrogant, self-assured gentleman with a strong sense of propriety who is tempted by a scandalous young widow. A wickedly delicious "opposites attract" love story, Bound by Temptation is darkly fun and wonderfully sensual-a sensational follow-up to Lavinia's A Talent For Sin, which inspired Lisa Kleypas to exclaim,...
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Lavinia Kent-a four-time Golden Heart Award nominee and one of the most exciting talents in the new generation of historical romance writers-explores What a Duke Wants in this darkly sensuous tale of a woman running from a secret past who finds herself in the arms of a handsome reluctant English nobleman whom she desires intensely but dares not love. Any reader who has ever been entranced by the passionate romance of Anna Campbell, Stephanie Laurens,...
14) Interior cero
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Cristina tiene treinta años y trabaja como secretaria en una constructora de Bucarest. En una sucesión de episodios tragicómicos asistiremos a su lucha diaria por sobrevivir en un anodino entorno empresarial -marcado por el autoritarismo de su jefa y la condescendencia de sus compañeros-, y al desamparo emocional que se oculta tras inconsistentes relaciones sentimentales y la ausencia de su madre, que trabaja en España desde hace años. Con tremenda...
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A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author's much-praised debut novel 'Mary George of Allnorthover'. 'An Irresponsible Age', Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but the country unwilling to 'abandon an idea just because it proved to be a bad one'. In these hesitant times we follow the life of Juliet Clough and her three siblings, all of them interdependent in a not-quite...
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"Les cicatrices de l'école" est le témoignage poignant d'une expérience personnelle de harcèlement scolaire. Il dépeint le parcours tumultueux d'une victime qui a trouvé le courage de se dresser et de faire entendre sa voix. L'auteure vous plonge dans les années de calvaire qu'elle a endurées, décrivant les premiers signes de maltraitance, ses sentiments confus et les obstacles rencontrés, mais aussi les sources de force qui lui ont permis...
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Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert's bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love) to write one's own memoir; the second, an explosion of social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to document and share their experiences instantaneously. Thus, the act of chronicling one's journey has never been more popular, nor the urge stronger. Writing Away: A Creative Guide to...
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Few cities anywhere are as vibrant, historically rich, and just plain fun as New Orleans. But it's not a "dummy proof" destination. Too many travelers leave town wondering what all the fuss is about.
That doesn't happen to those carrying this book. Written by travel experts Lavinia Spalding and Tami Fairweather, Frommer's EasyGuide to New Orleans introduces travelers to the experiences other visitors miss; and has the type of insightful commentary...
19) Unmasking
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'Drop the mask and revel in the beauty of being bare.' The only directive Phoebe has to adhere to.
With the return of Damien Ambrose, changes were bound to happen. Phoebe Smith expected no less. However, finding herself in a new, odd and out-of-norm friendship with Federick Archer was inconceivable. And the conception of feeling at ease between Federick's arms was beyond her wildest dreams. Particularly when the man in question and she had a truculent...
20) Belladonna
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"I am surrounded by beautiful things... but I am not one of them."
Agent Alyssa Rawkesby never thought she'd relate so strongly to a serial killer's letter. But the moment she reads it, she knows there is no going back - she must find the notorious Belladonna Killer, even if it breaks the mental stability she spent seven years repairing. Women in Ottawa, Ontario are being poisoned to death and left posed with a bizarre signature. The grief and fear...