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February
06, 2010 |
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The
Queen's Dollmaker
by Christine Trent
On
the brink of revolution, with a tide of hate turned against the
decadent royal court, France is in turmoil, as is the life of one
young woman forced to leave her beloved Paris. After a fire destroys
her home and family, Claudette Laurent is struggling to survive in
London. However, one precious gift remains: her talent for creating
exquisite dolls that Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France herself,
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Homer
& Langley: A Novel
by E.L. Doctorow
Homer
and Langley Collyer are brothers, the one blind and deeply
intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by
mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once
grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things
they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research
for Langley's proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as
prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives
of the two brothers.
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Saving
CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel
by Beth Hoffman
Twelve-year-old
CeeCee is in trouble. For years she's been the caretaker of her
psychotic mother, Camille. Camille is the crown-wearing,
lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town. Though it's 1967
and they live in Ohio, Camille believes it's 1951 and she's just
been crowned the Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia.
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