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  • Plunder

    A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure

    A New York Times Critics' Best Nonfiction Book of 2021Canadian Jewish Literary Award for BiographyFrom a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that followsMenachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the ... Read more

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  • Mr. Skeffington

    Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.Elizabeth von Arnim was a popular British writer in the early 20th century. One of Arnim's best known novels is Mr. Skeffington. The book was made into a film that starred Bette Davis and was nominated for an Academy Award. ... Read more

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  • Christopher and Columbus

    Set just before the first world war as the onset of conflict looms, 'Christopher and Columbus' tells the story of seventeen-year-old twin orphans, Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas as they are thrust upon their relatives by their Uncle Arthur.Arthur, a patriot, is suspicious of their half-German heritage and worries that they may be spying. He ships the twins off to America, and on their voyage, they ... Read more

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  • In the Mountains

    Written as a journal, 'In the Mountains' tells the story of an English woman who after WWI decides to escape her personal troubles in London and seeks refuge at her chalet in the Swiss Alps. She arrives exhausted, and as she begins to regain her strength, two English women also escaping their personal circumstances show up on her doorstep. The hostess invites them and, together, the three women ... Read more

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  • The Enchanted April

    Elizabeth von Arnim's novel tells the story of four dissimilar women in 1920s England who leave their damp and rainy environs to go on a holiday to a secluded coastal castle in Italy. Mrs Arbuthnot and Mrs Wilkins, who belong to the same ladies' club but have never spoken, become acquainted after reading a newspaper advertisement for a 'small mediaeval Italian castle on the shores of the ... Read more

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  • The Enchanted April

    In The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. The lure of Italy is hard to resist. For four British women, the attraction brings them to San Salvatore, a Tuscan villa, for an entire month of vacation. 
 
The women are very different. Lotty Wilkins, nervous and talkative, is treated like a child by her husband and is starting to chafe from his oppression. Rose Arbuthnot, with a "face like a ... Read more

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  • The Kaiser's Dawn

    The Untold Story of Britain's Secret Mission to Murder the Kaiser in 1918

    In mid summer 1918 a top secret mission, which has remained classified information for a century, was set in motion to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II. It was felt that by killing their head of state and commander in chief it would serve as a mortal blow to the German forces and they would collapse very quickly after the assassination. The facts are borne out in never-before-published notebooks, maps and ... Read more

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  • The Enchanted April

    A charming Italian castle holds the key to happiness for four English women in this classic by the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden.It begins on a rainy London afternoon in February. Four ladies, whose only common trait is dissatisfaction with life, answer an ad placed in the advice column of The Times. Addressed "To Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine," it offers the opportunity ... Read more

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  • 1968 in America

    Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation

    From assassinations to student riots, this is "a splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy" (Arthur Schlesinger Jr.).In the United States, the 1960s were a period of unprecedented change and upheaval—but the year 1968 in particular stands out as a dramatic turning point. Americans witnessed the Tet offensive in Vietnam; the shocking assassinations ... Read more

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  • The Enchanted April

    Beguiling, witty, and gently comedic, The Enchanted April tells the tale of four very different women who escape dreary London for an Italian castle in Portofino, shortly after World War I. Elizabeth von Arnim’s ageless novel compellingly responds to the eternal question of how to achieve happiness in life. An immediate best seller upon its first publication, the story of unlikely female ... Read more

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  • Quantum Legacies

    Dispatches from an Uncertain World

    by David Kaiser ...
    "Engrossing . . . Leave[s] us with a richer picture of physics as a lived activity." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn Quantum Legacies, David Kaiser introduces readers to iconic episodes in physicists' still-unfolding quest to understand space, time, and matter at their most fundamental. In a series of vibrant essays, Kaiser takes us inside moments of discovery and debate among the great minds of ... Read more

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  • The Enchanted April

    Step into the enchanting world of "The Enchanted April" by Elizabeth von Arnim, a captivating novel that whisks readers away to the sunny shores of Italy. Set in the 1920s, the story follows the transformative journey of four diverse women who embark on a shared holiday to escape their mundane lives.Lottie Wilkins and Rose Arbuthnot, two dissatisfied Englishwomen, discover an advertisement for a ... Read more

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