Bruce Holsinger
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everything: healthy children, a stable marriage, a lucrative career for Brantley, and the means for Daphne to pursue her art full-time. Their deluxe new Miami life has just clicked into place when Luna-the world's first category 6 hurricane-upends everything they have taken for granted. When the storm makes landfall,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read."-Meg Wolitzer.
"This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and...
Author
Series
John Gower novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"The poet John Gower is the perfect narrator and amateur sleuth" in a medieval thriller that "delivers up a world where even the filth is colorful" (New York Times Book Review).
London, 1385. Surrounded by ruthless courtiers—including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt's artful mistress, Katherine Swynford—England's young, still untested king, Richard II, is in mortal peril. Songs are heard across
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"The invention of handguns presages a radical change in warfare" in an acclaimed author's "skillful and engrossing second medieval whodunit" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The author of the highly praised historical thriller A Burnable Book imagines the beginnings of gun violence in the Western world.
London, 1386: A mass murder has taken place within the city walls. Sixteen corpses have been dumped where...
The author of the highly praised historical thriller A Burnable Book imagines the beginnings of gun violence in the Western world.
London, 1386: A mass murder has taken place within the city walls. Sixteen corpses have been dumped where...
Author
Series
John Gower novels volume 2
Language
English
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"Though he is one of England's most acclaimed intellectuals, John Gower is no stranger to London's wretched slums and dark corners, and he knows how to trade on the secrets of the kingdom's most powerful men. When the bodies of sixteen unknown men are found in a privy, the Sheriff of London seeks Gower's help. The men's wounds--ragged holes created by an unknown object--are unlike anything the sheriff's men have ever seen. Tossed into the sewer, the...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "Richly detailed and illustrated...An engaging exploration of book history."-Kirkus Reviews For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of...
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