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When pickpockets cause trouble at her aunt's antique store, fifteen-year-old Christine attempts to uncover the thief and meets a mysterious young man.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens's sentimental classic about little Nell and her grandfather—a tale that has moved readers for generations.
Little Nell Trent, as beautiful as she is virtuous, lives with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. The only ambition of Nell's loving caretaker is to provide the young girl with a better life. But after attempting to gamble his way out of poverty, the old man finds himself indebted to the wicked and deformed moneylender Daniel Quilp. Thrust into a life of begging on the street, Nell and her grandfather are pursued by villains at every turn—but they never lose the compassion and generosity in their hearts.
With a diverse cast of characters that ranges from scoundrels and vagrants to the truly pure of heart, The Old Curiosity Shop shows Dickens at his best.
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The light over London
Unable to confront the challenges in her own life, Cara Hargraves immerses herself in work for her antiques-dealer boss, uncovering relics from the life of World War II British \"Gunner Girl\" Louise Keene and her complicated relationship with a man named Paul.
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Horace Walpole and the Objects of Literary History
Fielding's famous comment has itself served to point critics toward a relationship between fiction and history in the period that focuses on the temporality of historical narrative offered in the two genres, encouraging the pairing of the long novels of fielding, samuel richardson, and lawrence sterne with the grand narrative histories of Gibbon and think about the relation between the genres of history and fiction of eighteenth-century britain not only because The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and The History of England are literary- they are, famously, stylistic masterpieces-but also because of the part narrative is thought to play in historical consciousness. \"11 The sort of empiricism promoted by the royal society \"demanded not an appeal to authority, a search for support in the opinions of revered figures of the past, nor in the application of a priori reasoning such as that of antiquity\" but instead an appeal to the senses and to reason.12 Still, while empiricism encourages antiquaries of all kinds, it does not exactly-to use dart's terms-give \"method and manner\" to the pursuit.\\n So too do Greenblatt and Gallagher's central essays in the volume, which focus on the eucharist (Greenblatt) and the potato famine (Gallagher), treating what david simpson calls \"[t]he model of modernity . . .
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A married man
Lucy Fellowes is still trying to get over her husband's death - but its hard when you're a struggling single mother in London. So when she's offered a dream house in the country, Lucy snatches at the opportunity. Not only can her boys run wild, but maybe it's a way back into the dating game.
The shadow of memory
As Kate Hamilton plans her upcoming wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, she is also assisting her colleague Ivor Tweedy with a project at the Netherfield Sanatorium, which is being converted into luxury townhouses. Kate and Ivor must appraise a fifteenth-century painting and verify that its provenance is the Dutch master Jan Van Eyck. But when retired criminal inspector Will Parker is found dead, Kate learns that the halls of the sanatorium housed much more than priceless art. Kate is surprised to learn that Will had been the first boyfriend of her friend Vivian Bunn, who hasn't seen him in fifty-eight years. At a seaside holiday camp over sixty years ago, Will, Vivian, and three other teens broke into an abandoned house where a doctor and his wife had died under bizarre circumstances two years earlier. Now, when a second member of the childhood gang dies unexpectedly--and then a third--it becomes clear that the teens had discovered more in the house than they had realized. Had Will returned to warn his old love? When Kate makes a shocking connection between a sixty-year-old murder and the long-buried secrets of the sanatorium, she suddenly understands that time is running out for Vivian--and anyone connected to her.
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Secrets of the chocolate house
\"The second novel in a bewitching series \"brimming with charm and charisma\" that will make \"fans of Outlander rejoice!\" (Woman's World Magazine) New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's The Little Shop of Found Things was called \"a page-turner that will no doubt leave readers eager for future series installments\" (Publishers Weekly). Now, Brackston returns to the Found Things series with its sequel, Secrets of the Chocolate House. After her adventures in the seventeenth century, Xanthe does her best to settle back into the rhythm of life in Marlborough. She tells herself she must forget about Samuel and leave him in the past where he belongs. With the help of her new friends, she does her best to move on, focusing instead on the success of her and Flora's antique shop. But there are still things waiting to be found, still injustices needing to be put right, still voices whispering to Xanthe from long ago about secrets wanting to be shared. While looking for new stock for the shop, Xanthe hears the song of a copper chocolate pot. Soon after, she has an upsetting vision of Samuel in great danger, compelling her to make another journey to the past. This time she'll meet her most dangerous adversary. This time her ability to travel to the past will be tested. This time she will discover her true destiny. Will that destiny allow her to return home? And will she be able to save Samuel when his own fate seems to be sealed?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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