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Craftland
In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades
2025
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An “impassioned and inspiring account of the extraordinary men and women still doing traditional artisanal work” (The Sunday Times) in the face of massive technological industrialization—by renowned Cambridge art historian Dr. James Fox.“Beautifully written and (charmingly illustrated) . . . His chronicle of the decline of the traditional trades is staggering.”—The Wall Street JournalDuring an age of mass manufacturing, fa...
White Mischief
The Murder of Lord Erroll
2014
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The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial KenyaIn 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of "Happy Valley" indulged in morphine, alcohol, and unrestricted sex, often with their friends' spouses. But the party turned sinister in the early hours of a January morning for Josslyn Hay, Lord Erroll, ...
The World According to Color
A Cultural History
2022
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A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color.We have an extraordinary connection to color—we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors—black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green—and uncovers behind each a root ide...
2012
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Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi, with a bullet in his head.A leading figure in Kenya's colonial community, the Earl had recently been appointed Military Secretary, but he was primarily a seducer of other men's wives. Sir Henry Delves Broughton, whose wife was Erroll's current conquest...
Five Sisters
The Langhornes of Virginia
2001
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The author of the bestseller White Mischief tells the story of the beautiful Langhorne sisters, who lived at the Pinnacle of high and powerful society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Making their way across two continents, they left in their wakes rich husbands, fame, adoration, and scandal.Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora were born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War. Their father remade his fortune by collaborating with...
2 Sisters Murder Investigations
A Thriller
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- A 2 Sisters Detective Agency Mystery
2025
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Patterson’s greatest crime-solving team since the Women’s Murder Club is the Bird Sisters.Rhonda and Barbara “Baby” Bird are half-sisters—and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing.Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts.But when they take a controversial case of a loner whose popular wife has gone missing, they’re accused of being P...
2001
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Speculation abounds in regards to the premise that each of us has an identical twin; somewhere on earth a carbon copy living and breathing. If that being the case then why not the devil as well? Join us now as we follow once again Fathers Luke and Roy along with Numomo as a new enigma unfolds. As The Map of the Carpenter concluded with Levis al Natas trapped beneath the icy lake in Maine, Christmas Eve brings a new twist: the demon has a brother a twin brother who is out to avenge his deat...
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- A 2 Sisters Detective Agency Mystery
2021
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From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a thrilling novel where a sisterly detective duo finds themselves in the crosshairs of a dangerous and lawless group.Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency; and she has a teenage half sister named Baby.Baby brings in a client to th...
Unabridged
3 hours 57 min
2011
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Magnus Pym, Counsellor at the British Embassy, is hosting a dinner party at his home in Vienna when he receives an unexpected telephone call that will profoundly affect his life. Once the guests have gone, Pym breaks the news to his wife, Mary: his father, Rick, is dead. In a state of shock, he says something Mary cannot understand - 'After all these years, I'm free.' Magnus flies back to England to attend the funeral - and doesn't return. As Mary and MI6 spymaster Jack Brotherhood despera...
The Murder Inn
A Thriller
2024
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Returning to the rocky shores of Massachusetts, former police detective Bill Robinson must solve a string of murders if he wants to save his inn—from the world's #1 bestselling author.It's the perfect getaway. But the past will always find you ...When ex-cop Bill Robinson takes over The Inn by the Sea, all he wants is a quiet escape from the city. But when a crime boss moves into town and begins terrorizing Bill's friends, he can't just sit back and watch. ...
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- Harriet Blue
2017
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In this #1 New York Times bestseller from the world’s most popular storyteller, a brilliant investigator faces the shock of her brother's arrest for three brutal murders ... and her own exile in the Australian outback.Harry Blue is the top Sex Crimes investigator in her department. But even she didn't see this coming: her own brother arrested for the grisly murders of three beautiful young women. "For her own good," she's been sent to a desolate location a...
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- Harriet Blue
2020
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In this thrilling novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author, top cop and devoted sister Harriet Blue is now Inmate 3329—but even prison bars won't stop the detective from seeking justice for the murder of her brother.Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop—as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis.So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who pu...