Stephanie Barron
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English
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"The twelfth installment in Stephanie Barron's fan-favorite Being a Jane Austen Mystery series. Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Jane Austen moves to Chawton Cottage in Hampshire to mourn her lost love, where she finds a large chest filled with the late Lord Harold Trowbridge's diaries, letters, and personal correspondence and orders to write a memoir of Trowbride, but before she can begin her writing, she finds a dead body and uncovers an even larger mystery than the one she is already dealing with.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
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A mystery novel that casts Jane Austen as a sleuth who is called upon to investigate the suspicious death of the Earl of Scargrave, but the matter becomes urgent when the widow is accused of orchestrating her husband's death because of her love for his nephew.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Jane Austen and her family are looking forward to a peaceful summer vacation in the seaside village of Lyme Regis. When a man is found hanged from a makeshift gibbet by the sea, his death is linked to "the Reverend", the notorious ringleader of the midnight smuggling trade. Jane, who can never resist a puzzle, is determined to solve this one.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm when she landed on its shores. As Lady Randolph Churchill, she gave birth to a man who defined the twentieth century: her son Winston. But Jennie--reared in...
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English
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The thirteenth installment in Stephanie Barron's fan-favorite Being a Jane Austen Mystery series. Between novels, Victorian England's most beloved author doubles as a sleuth in often idyllic locales. November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has left the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, Jane's favorite brother, is about to declare bankruptcy. The crisis destroys Henry's health, and Jane flies to his London bedside. While she is there, the Reverend...
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English
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If you have a Jane Austen-would-have-been-my-best-friend complex, look no further... [Barron] has painstakingly sifted through the famed author's letters and writings, as well as extensive biographical information, to create a finely detailed portrait of Austen's life - with a dash of fictional murder... Some of the most enjoyable, well-written fanfic ever created. - O Magazine May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant...
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Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
During the Cold War (1949-89) in both Germanys, the creation of art, its reception, and its theorization were closely linked to their respective political systems: the Western liberal democracy of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Eastern communist dictatorship of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In reaction against the legacy of Nazism, both Germanys revived pre-World War II German artistic traditions. This exhibition examines the...