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  • NEW BOY
    CHEVALIER, TRACY
    Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and i...
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  • GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
    CHEVALIER, TRACY
    An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist's desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence.When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their g...
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  • REMARKABLE CREATURES
    CHEVALIER, TRACY
    I don't remember there ever being a time when I weren't out upon beach. Mam used to say the window was open when I was born, and the first thing I saw when they held me up was the sea.Mary Anning may be young and uneducated, but she has "the eye". Scouring the windswept Jurassic coast near Lyme Regis, she find the fossils nobody else can, making discoveries that will shake the ...
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  • AT THE EDGE OF THE ORCHAD
    CHEVALIER, TRACY
    In the inhospitable Black Swamp of Ohio, the Goodenough family are barely scratching out a living. Life there is harsh, tempered only by the apples they grow for eating and for the cider that dulls their pain. Hot-headed Sadie and buttoned-up James are a poor match, and Robert and his sister Martha can only watch helplessly as their parents tear each other apart. One particular...
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  • LA JOVEN DE LA PERLA
    CHEVALIER, TRACY
    Tracy Chevalier evoca la vida cotidiana en el siglo XVII holandés en esta hermosa novela sobre el despertar a la vida y al arte. ¿Quién es esa muchacha que parece sonreírnos, bajo un complicado tocado azul, con una perla como único adorno? La modelo que utilizó Johannes Vermeer en uno de sus cuadros más famosos y admirados es un misterio que Tracy Chevalier tomó como punto ...
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  • SINGLE THREAD
    CHEVALIER, TRACY
    It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiancé and her brother and regarded by society as a ‘surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone.A new life awaits her in Winchester. Yes, it is one of draughty boarding-houses and sidelong glances at her naked rin...
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  • AT THE EDGE OF THE ORCHARD
    CHEVALIER, TRACY
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  • NEW BOY (HOGARTH SHAKESPEARE) : OTHELLO RETOLD (HOGARTH SHAKESPEARE)
    CHEVALIER, TRACY
    She noticed him before anyone else...Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden g...
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