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The Blessing is one of Nancy Mitford's most personal books, a wickedly funny story that asks whether love can survive the clash of cultures.When Grace Allingham, a nave young Englishwoman, goes to live in France with her dashingly aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard, she finds herself overwhelmed by the bewilderingly foreign cuisine and the...

Vintage Movie ClassicsThe basis for Joseph L. Mankiewicz&'s cinematic romance starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. Burdened by debt after her husband&'s death, Lucy Muir insists on moving into the very cheap Gull Cottage in the quaint seaside village of Whitecliff, despite multiple warnings that the house is haunted. Upon discovering the rumors...

Never before published in English, Orhan Pamuk&'s second novel is the story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980. In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a widow, Fatma, awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever...

From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet.From the Trade Paperback edition....

A Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Spot of Bother is Mark Haddons unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting married to the deeply...

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!General Simon Bolivar, ';the Liberator' of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and...