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Rasputin's Daughter
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Rasputin's DaughterRasputin's Daughter

In an endeavor similar to his debut novel, The Kitchen Boy, Alexander couples extensive research and poetic license, this time turning his enthusiasm toward perhaps the most intriguing player in the collapse of the Russian dynasty: Rasputin. This eyebrow-raising account of the final week of the notorious mystic's life is set in Petrograd in December 1916 and narrated by Rasputin's fiery teenage daughter, Maria. The air in the newly renamed capital is thick with dangerous rumors, many concerning Maria's father, whose close relationship with the monarchy—he alone can stop the bleeding of the hemophiliac heir to the throne—invokes murderous rage among members of the royal family.
 
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Tags: Rasputin, Maria, dangerous, rumors, concerning, Daughter, thick
Full Bloom by Janet Evanovich & Charlotte Hughes
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Full Bloom by Janet Evanovich & Charlotte Hughes

The temperature's on "sizzle" again in Beaumont, South Carolina, where peach trees are in season and ripe for the picking. So is its newest entrepreneur, Annie Fortenberry, who has inherited her grandmother's B&B (and its eccentric handyman Erdle Thorney). According to a local psychic she also inherited a spirit from its glory days as a brothel-- not the kind of publicity the Peach Tree Bed & Breakfast needs if it's hosting millionaire Max Holt's upcoming wedding! If rumors of a naughty, prank-playing ghost aren't stressful enough, a mysterious man has arrived ...
 
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Tags: inherited, Annie, wedding, rumors, naughty, millionaire, upcoming, hosting
The Shadow of the Wind
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The Shadow of the WindThe Shadow of the Wind

The time is the 1950s; the place, Barcelona. Daniel Sempere, the son of a widowed bookstore owner, is 10 when he discovers a novel, The Shadow of the Wind, by Julián Carax. The novel is rare, the author obscure, and rumors tell of a horribly disfigured man who has been burning every copy he can find of Carax's novels.

Edited by: frufru2 - 15 January 2010
Reason: the author's name was missing

 
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Tags: novel, Shadow, horribly, rumors, obscure, Shadow, novel