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Fall of giantsFollett, Ken
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as t ...
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The children's book : a novel Byatt, A. S. 1936-
When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the n ...
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The house at Riverton : a novel Morton, Kate, 1976- |
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Snobs : a novel Fellowes, Julian. |
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The return of Captain John Emmett Speller, Elizabeth.
Mary Emmett's brother John, an officer during the recently ended World War I, has apparently killed ...
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A duty to the dead Todd, Charles.
Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbrining is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-cl ...
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Howards End Forster, E. M. 1879-1970.
"A chance acquaintance brings together the prosperous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultur ...
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Maisie Dobbs : a novel Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955- |
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm : three royal cousins and the road to World Wa ... Carter, Miranda, 1965-
In the years before World War I, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King G ...
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The Forsyte saga Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933.
"The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial ...
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Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey : the lost legacy of Highclere Castl ... Carnarvon, Fiona
Tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's ...
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The titled Americans : three American sisters and the British aristocratic ... Kehoe, Elisabeth. |
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The house at Tyneford : [a novel] Solomons, Natasha.
"It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau re ...
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Into the silence : the Great War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest Davis, Wade.
Describes British climbers' attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s, discussing such topi ...
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The American heiress : a novel Goodwin, Daisy.
"Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century ...
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The Great War and modern memory Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012 |
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The remains of the day Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence fo ...
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To end all wars : a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918 Hochschild, Adam.
World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanatio ...
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The uninvited guests Jones, Sadie.
"One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant suppe ...
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The Perfect summer : England 1911, just before the storm Nicolson, Juliet.
"Before the Great War tore England apart and changed the way people lived forever, there was the glo ...
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Below stairs : the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired "Upstairs, d ... Powell, Margaret, 1907-1984.
This work is a kitchen-maid's through-the-key hole memoir of life in the great houses of England. At ...
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Atonement : a novel McEwan, Ian.
"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cec ...
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Bellfield Hall, or, The observations of Miss Dido Kent Dean, Anna.
Visiting Bellfield Hall to comfort her niece, who has been seemingly abandoned by her wealthy fiancé ...
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