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In 1946 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf's most influential women--the wives of powerful tobacco executives, uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive.
Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who's just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina--the tobacco capital of the South--where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years of...
2) Brenner
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Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Shrouded in a thick cloud of cigar smoke, Hermann Arbogast Brenner, scion of an old and famous cigar dynasty, needs to settle his affairs, codifying his forty-six years of life, in a Proustian attempt to conjure the wounds, joys, and sensations of his childhood in the rolling countryside of the Aargau region of Switzerland. Estranged from his wife and two children, he decides there is no point in squirreling away his fortune, so he buys himself a...
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Almuzara
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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Anibal Rosanegra subsiste con su madre en la miseria en la España del siglo XVIII, sufriendo la codicia de los mercaderes. Aprende a sobrevivir gracias a su trabajo como guía; mas tarde, se abre camino con su espada Longina y el apoyo Cucha, un soldado que se convirtio en guardia en la Real Fábrica de Tabacos; se enfrentará a los enemigos e incluso será seducido por una mujer despiadada.
Anibal Rosanegra subsists with his mother in misery in...
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