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The Adventure of English : The Biography of a Language
by Melvyn Bragg
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 1 Sep 2006
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An enthralling story not only of power, religion, and trade but also of people and how they changed, and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.

Breath and Bones : A Novel
by Susann Cokal
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 15 May 2006
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A romp through the late 19th century chronicling the adventures - sexual and otherwise - of its beautiful heroine, Famke, from her childhood in a Copenhagen orphanage to her strange adventures in the American Wild West.

Lucky Strike
by Nancy Zafris
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 15 May 2006
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By turns meditative and funny, frightening, witty and refreshingly wise, Lucky Strike explores the ways that language simply put can mine the inexpressible. In the process, a young widow and her two children learn much about uranium but even more about the nature of the love that binds them.

Murder in Montparnasse : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
by Kerry Greenwood
Hardcover: Jun 2004
Paperback: 21 Mar 2006
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Join Phryne Fisher, the feminist sleuth who always gets her man, on a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia.

Relative Danger
by Charles Benoit
Hardcover: Feb 2004
Paperback: 28 Feb 2006
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'A smashingly good, action-packed first novel....Benoit is a rare discovery, and one hopes that he plans to produce more adventure-oriented mysteries with the same skill and energy that propel this excellent debut' - Publishers Weekly

Tyrant of the Mind
by Priscilla Royal
Hardcover: Dec 2004
Paperback: 31 Jan 2006
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A nun and a monk defy death and dishonor at her family's Welsh fortress in Priscilla Royal's second 'country house mystery' set in 13th century England.

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The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time.
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