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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and freedom. By day, she's a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city's wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. She's found,...
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Summary of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale is a historical novel by writer Kristin Hannah. It tells the story of two French sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Fifty years after the end of the war, a recently widowed woman in a coastal town in Oregon is preparing to move to a nursing home because her cancer has returned. Her son, a surgeon, comes to help her and finds her in the...
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Into the Badlands volume 9
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In the penultimate episode, Sunny relies on an unlikely person to help him defeat a common foe, while Bajie discovers a shocking secret from his past.
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The "Ode to a Nightingale" is one of the beautiful poems of John Keats. One day in a forest area the poet hears a beautiful song of the nightingale bird. This provokes him to ponder over the matters relating to human mortality, the nature of the world, human sufferings etc. The poem explores the relationship between two different types of life. On the one hand, there is the human life. It is filled with sorrow. On the other hand, there is nature represented...
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A moon shines indoors, bats fly through the stacks, and a wolf howls in the distance. That's unexpected-even for the Nightingale Library. A parade of zombie monks is marching through, and they're eating books. The only hope? Mary Shelley and Ben Franklin. Between Mary's monster of books and Ben's electricity, will the zombies be defeated?
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While fables are often seen as tales of old, this collection breathes new life into the genre, addressing contemporary themes that resonate with today's world. In the titular story, Where To?, a globe shatters, yet no one claims responsibility.Imagine an orchestra where discordant instruments ruin the symphony. Similarly, in 'Monkey', a tone-deaf primate is advised to embrace his true talent: leaping between branches. 'Dear Fox' portrays a fleeting...
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Class lines are blurred when a baron's son is accused of killing his groom in this 1920s mystery.
The Nightingales are on a mission, set on solving a twenty-year-old murder to exonerate Lord Buxley. When the groom at a neighboring estate is bashed to death, the young heir becomes a suspect. Summoned by her fast friend, Lady Bess rushes to Castle Morse with Lady Vicky in tow, only to find herself knee deep in a baffling mystery.
Despite warnings...
11) The Secret Daughter of Venice: An Absolutely Emotional and Gripping World War 2 Historical Novel
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The paper is stiff and brittle with age as Kate unfolds it with trembling hands. She gasps at the pencil sketch of a rippling waterway, lined by tall buildings, curving towards the dome of a cathedral. She feels a connection deep in her heart. Venice.
England, 1941. When Kate Arden discovers a secret stash of drawings hidden in the pages of an old volume of poetry given to her as a baby, her breath catches. All her life, she has felt like an outsider...
12) The Snow Queen
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The Snow Queen
Original by Hans Christian Andersen
Adapted for the stage by Neil Duffield
Acclaimed musical stage version of The Snow Queen is a hit with theatres in the UK and abroad.
This timeless classic is brought to life for the 21st century by award-winning children's playwright Neil Duffield.
Seasonal favourite for Christmas and winter productions.
This vibrant adaptation of beloved children's author Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen...
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He fled his village in eastern Hungary to escape his father's iron fist. But now, fighting for the SS, he's facing starvation on the Eastern Front as the deluge of enemy fire from the Russian army comes closer every hour.
The Upside of Hunger is the powerful story of Adam Baumann's coming of age in the midst of WW2 and his journey toward manhood, from the rarely told perspective of a Hungarian-born German.
EASTERN HUNGARY, 1941—desperate to escape...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War II novel about two sisters who join the war effort, one as a codebreaker and the other as a pilot, and the secrets that threaten to tear them apart--perfect for fans of The Rose Code and The Nightingale."--
15) Nightingale
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Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and is also the most mythologized of birds. Nightingale juxtaposes the bird of poetry, music, myth and lore with the living bird of wood and scrubland, unpicking the entangled relationship between them. Covering a huge range of poets, musicians, artists, nature writers and natural historians, from Aristotle, Keats...
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When Emily Stone inherits the sprawling Stonehaven Manor from a distant relative she barely knew, she sees it as an opportunity for a fresh start. Eager to leave her troubled past behind, she moves into the old mansion with hopes of starting anew. However, her dreams of a peaceful life are shattered when she discovers a mysterious antique mirror hidden in the attic. Drawn to the mirror's ethereal beauty, Emily becomes increasingly obsessed with its...
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Phoenix Rising recounts the paradoxical birth of SOF through the prism of Operation Eagle Claw, the failed attempt to rescue fifty-two American hostages in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. When terrorists captured the embassy on November 4, 1979, the Joint Chiefs of Staff quickly realized that the United States lacked the military capability to launch a rescue. There was no precedent for the mission, a mission that came with extraordinary restrictions...
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Isle of Iona, 1927: Cast away on a remote locale, Jane's latest assignment depends on concealing her identity and blending in at an occult gathering. Not even her fiancé, Redvers, can be too close as she uncovers the truth about Robert Nightingale, enigmatic leader of the Order of the Golden Dawn--a group made up of supernatural ceremonies, influential people, and an undefinable darkness. When a woman tries to escape to the mainland only to be found...
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