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1) The broker
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
John Grisham, delivers another legal thriller of unparalled suspense. With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The classic story about Isabel Archer, who is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt, but has plans of her own.
This book is the most stunning achievement of Henry James' early period- in the 1860s and 70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. Isabel Archer, the "lady" of the title, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Emily Price, art restorer and would-be artist, finds herself in Atlanta, restoring objects recovered from a house fire. As she strives to make all the pieces of her life fit, secure a gallery opening for her own art, and care for her sister and mother, she finds herself enthralled by Chef Benito Hillam, who is in town from Italy visiting his brother Joseph, Emily's boss. Ben spends all his time cooking and repeatedly proposing marriage to Emily. When...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a traveling portrait painter in 19th century New England. They include abduction and months of captivity at the hands of a wealthy man seeking intimacy. She escapes and travels to Italy, where she meets art critic John Ruskin and becomes famous.
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