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THE TIME IN TAVEL is a book about the year the author and his fiancee lived in the south of France, Provence. It was 1982 and they were young and full of adventures. They loved Provence. the landscapes, the food and wine, and the people. The detailed descriptions make this a veritable travel book, written by someone who is a scholar and world traveler. It brings to mind the artists and expatriates of earlier times, of Paris and the impressioni...

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The time is 1920. The place is Greenwich Village in New York City. John Ballard is a young reporter for the New York Herald. His assignment is the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants accused of killing two guards during a payroll robbery in Massachusetts. The Attorney General is determined to stamp out all left-wing organizations. The Russian revolution has taken place in 1917, and communism is spreading to other countries. The...

In 1492 Columbus sailed to the New World, but in the same year the Jews in Spain who refused to convert to Catholicism were sent into exile. Graves describes a situation in which two lovers are separated because one Jewish family decides to stay and convert, and the other decides to leave Spain forever.

Christopher MarloweShakespeare's rival, brilliant poet, heretic and spy, was murdered in a tavern in Deptford in 1593. In this biographical novel he talks about his art: "Poetry is the longest arm of the human mind. As we strive for knowledge absolute, which is impossible, of course, everything eventually fails us: logic, science, and even words. The aspiration is our blessing and our curse. Our victories are brief but wonderful, our failures ...

That Kennedy Girl" tells the story of Kathleen Kennedy and her struggle to live her own life her own way, in spite of enormous pressures from her parents and the rest of the clan. Only her brother Jack, whom she loved profoundly, seemed to understand her. It was, perhaps, the saddest of all the Kennedy tragedies. Kathleen lost both her husband and her brother, Joe, in World War II, and shortly thereafter, at the age of 28, died herself in an a...

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The true story of the life of Lady Macbeth, who ruled England for 17 years with great success.

This is the story of one of the most powerful women of ancient Rome, Agrippina, sister of Caligula and daughter of Caesar.

The daughter of a publishing magnate struggles to hold onto her father's empire as she falls in love with a rogue writer.

A woman suffering from a terminal illness decides to turn her death into a theatrical production.

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