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" A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as...
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"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
3) Cold magic
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Spiritwalker trilogy (Kate Elliott) volume 1
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An epic fantasy set in an alternate Victorian era--Provided by the publisher.
4) Cold Steel
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Spiritwalker trilogy (Kate Elliott) volume 3
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In the conclusion to the Spiritwalker Trilogy, Cat Barahal and her cousin Bee have their work cut out for them as they set out to crush their enemies, rescue Andevai, and clear their names as murder suspects.
5) Poor white
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Hugh McVey moves from Missouri to the agrarian town of Bidwell, Ohio. He invents a mechanical cabbage planter to ease the burden of famers, but an investor in town exploits his product, which fails to succeed. His next invention, a corn cutter, makes him a millionaire and transforms Bidwell into a center of manufacturing. McVey, perennially lonely and ruminative, meets Clara Butterworth, who attends college at nearby Ohio State and is perennially...
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The exploitation of Niagara Falls to generate electricity leads to a murder involving members of Buffalo's ruling class. The heroine is a high-society school teacher who investigates and through her eyes is seen the conflict between industrialists and environmentalists of the day. A first novel.
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Henry Whittaker is a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's daughter, Alma, inherits both his money and his brilliant mind, ultimately becoming a botanist of considerable gifts. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of...
10) Zbroja światła
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W "Zbroi światła" mieszkańcy miasteczka Kingsbridge będą musieli zmierzyć się z zagrożeniami, jakie niesie rewolucja przemysłowa. I zastanowić się, jak można ją wykorzystać do własnych celów. Wielka historia widziana oczami zwykłych ludzi. Emocje, które ścierają się z beznamiętnymi trybami przeznaczenia. Bunt, walka o rodzinę i wolność słowa. Proza Kena Folletta w najlepszym wydaniu. Rewolucję czuć w powietrzu. Rok 1792....