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The book is set in the 1880's in the gem city of Mandalay during the last years of the opulent, decaying Kingdom of Burma. Into the Royal Palace, with its whispering gardens, its elaborate ritual, its savage violence, its intrigue, comes Fanny Moroni, the yough daughter of a ne'er do well British merchant and a Burmese woman. Pretty, vain, impertinent, and brave - just back from a dull boarding school in Brighton - Fanny becomes the favorite of the Burmese queen Supayalat.

The author takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J Edgar Hoover. This is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities.

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The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his 13th birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in this divisively hilarious, yet heartfelt work. Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from this tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more - except maybe 'Maggie', Mary of Magdala - and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascent without a fight.

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The last of the Roman army have set sail and left Britain for ever, abandoning it to civil war and the threat of a Saxon invasion. Aquila deserts his regiment to return to his family, but his home and all that he loves are destroyed. Years of hardship and fighting follow and in the end ther is only one thing left in Aquila's life - his thirst for revenge.

Larry Weller is an ordinary guy made extraordinary . His dreamy adolescence, spent avoiding the atmosphere of tragedy that haunts his parents, gives way to adulthood by accident: marriage too early, a job in a flower shop, a child, divorce, another wife, then a career that slowly grows out of an obsession. Larry loves garden mazes - so like life with their teasing teaching and promise of reward - and he learns how to build them to please the baffled child in his rich clients. Driven by happenstance, Larry moves through the spontaneity of the seventies, the blind enchantment of the eighties and the lean, mean nineties, finding at last, at the heart of his own personal maze, a studdorn selfhood and surprised happiness.

In 1066, a 'jumped-up little Norman and his bunch of psychopaths' cross the water and alter the course of English history. Three years later and Walt, King Harold's only surviving bodyguard, is still emotionally and physically scarred by the loss of his king and country. Wandering through Asia Minor, headed vaguely for the Holy Land,, he tells his extraordinary story.

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'Norman Eisen has written an enthralling history of a palace and its very real ghosts. By telling the story of the Prague mansion where he resided as America's ambassador, Eisen provides a poignant reflection on the haunting twists of the past century, including his ow very American family tale.' - Walter Isaacson

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The novel, which has an autobiographical basis, is set in the winter of 1916, when the central character, Serezha, visits his married sister. Tired after the long journey, he falls into a restless sleep, and half-remembers , half-dreams the incidents of the last summer of peace before the First World War, 'when life appeared to pay heed to individuals.' As a tutor in a wealthy, unsettled Moscow household, he focuses his intense romanticism on Mrs Arild, his employer's paid companion, while spending his nights with the prostitute Sashka and others.

A collection of 17 short stories by the author. 212 pages.

In the late 1930's Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico and find out how the ordinary people had reacted to the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroyed or closed and the priests dirven out or shot; and it provided him with setting and theme for one of his greatest novels, The Power and the Glory.

A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father - Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on the Jersey Shore is thriving. But as a presidential election hands in the balance, and a post nuclear-family Thanksgiving looms before him, Frank discovers that what he terms the 'Permanent Period' is fraught with unforeseen perils.488 pages.

Not a book on demand this is a 1967 fac reprint of the original printed in Paris. Wear to wraps interior sound and clean. Prev owner name reading copy.

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