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The four-month-old baby at the end of Rebecca Mark's first novel, A Calm Round of Hours, is all grown up, living in Chicago, working as an emergency room doctor at Northwestern, and trying to find the love of his life.It's the Monday after Easter in 2014, and this new novel's first-person narrator, Dr. Peter Byron White, has just turned thirty-three. Stopping after work one night in a Lincoln Park bar, he hopes to meet a woman he can take home...

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He is a sea captain who has come back from the Napoleonic wars. She is a London shopkeeper. She and her love are pitted against each other for the sake of their families and some terrible accusations. She gathers evidence to convict his brother of a harrowing crime, and he is disheartened to discover something startling about her sister. Can their love survive the results of their investigations? They devise a dangerous plan to get to the trut...

New Yorks most valuable citizen" - this honorary title was given to Adolph Lewisohn. When he was born in Hamburg in 1849 as the son of Orthodox Jews and successful merchants, a career as a merchant was put in his cradle. In search of personal freedom he persuaded his strict father in 1867 to let him go to New York. The fact that Lewisohn, as an industrialist in the USA, will generate millions of euros in only twenty years time would have seeme...

This book investigates the narrative properties of the 19th-century verse novel. The genre grew out of Lord Byron's Don Juan and established itself in various European literatures, with famous examples such as Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. The proposed analysis is unique in the existing literature in defining the genre based on formal properties and in examining its exceptional, reflexive structure in detail. Apart from 19th-century texts, verse no...

June Simpson has lost everything. Her family, the love of her life, and now her freedom. And it's her own fault.Drugs have taken her health and what little happiness remained in her life, and now, incarcerated after a failed attempt at armed robbery, June is forced to detox and to face the reality of the misery and abuse she has perpetrated on those closest to her, especially her children.Getting clean is just the first of her challenges, and ...