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“thomas van essen”

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  • The Center of the World

    A Novel of J. M. W. Turner and His Lost Painting

    by Thomas Van Essen ...
    Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner’s The Center of the World, a mesmerizing and unsettling ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    The Center of the World

    by Thomas Van Essen ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance, Paul Michael, Cassandra Campbell, Vanessa Benjamin, Gildart Jackson, various narrators ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 53 min

    Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner's The Center of the World, a mesmerizing and unsettling ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Goldfinch

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    by Donna Tartt ...
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    Unabridged

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    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    The Cuckoo's Calling

    by Robert Galbraith ...
    Narrated by Robert Glenister ...
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    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike.After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Becoming Jane Eyre

    A Novel

    by Sheila Kohler ...
    A beautifully imagined tale of the Brontë sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre. Sheila Kohler's memoir Once We Were Sisters is now available.The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Queen Victoria's Book of Spells

    An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy

    by Elizabeth Bear, James P. Blaylock ...
    This Gaslamp Fantasy anthology features all-new stories set in a magical Victorian Era, with entries from Jeffrey Ford, Tanith Lee, and others.Renowned anthologist Ellen Datlow draws together some of today's most exciting historical fantasy authors for a bewitching journey into Victorian England. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells presents eighteen original stories ranging from steampunk adventures ... Read more

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  • The Short Stories Of Virginia Woolf

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Boy Called Dickens

    by Deborah Hopkinson ...
    Illustrated by John Hendrix ...
    For years Dickens kept the story of his own childhood a secret. Yet it is a story worth telling. For it helps us remember how much we all might lose when a child's dreams don't come true . . . As a child, Dickens was forced to live on his own and work long hours in a rat-infested blacking factory. Readers will be drawn into the winding streets of London, where they will learn how Dickens got the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • All For Love

    The Scandalous Life and Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson

    by Amanda Elyot ...
    The amorous adventures of a celebrated English courtesan come to life in a novel rich with the pageantry of history—and with the notorious desires of the men and women who helped to define it.Overnight she became a star. Over many nights she became a legend.At only fifteen, Mary Robinson was married off to an unfaithful wastrel. During the next seven years, her spellbinding talent, beauty, and ... Read more

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  • The Blacks

    A Clown Show

    by Jean Genet ...
    An English translation of Genet's classic symbolic drama, first performed in Paris in 1959.France's master of the absurd explores racial prejudice and stereotypes using the framework of a play within a play. The New York Times hailed The Blacks as "one of the most original and stimulating evenings Broadway or Off Broadway has to offer," while Newsweek raved that Genet's plays "constitute a body of ... Read more

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  • The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits

    Stories

    by Emma Donoghue ...
    Emma Donoghue vividly brings to life stories inspired by her discoveries of fascinating, hidden scraps of the past. Here an engraving of a woman giving birth to rabbits, a plague ballad, surgical case notes, theological pamphlets, and an articulated skeleton are ingeniously fleshed out into rollicking, full-bodied fictions.Whether she's spinning the tale of an English soldier tricked into marrying ... Read more

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  • William Hogarth: 171 Paintings and Drawings

    by Narim Bender ...
    William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who have been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are ... Read more

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