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Chess Story (05 Edition)
by Stefan Zweig  Publisher Comments Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig?s final achievement, completed in his Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at...
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L'Assommoir
by Emile Zola Synopsis Lantier and Gervaise are fresh from the south, making a new life in Paris. But Lantier soon succumbs to urban degeneracy and abandons her. Gervaise, marries Coupeau the roofer and strives to realise her dream of running her own laundry. Hardship, however,...
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The Post-Office Girl
by Stefan Zweig Publisher Comments The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed...
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The Other Shulman
by Alan Zweibel Publisher Comments Shulman, a chubby, middle-aged stationery-store owner from New Jersey, has always claimed that he's been gaining and losing the same thirty-five pounds since junior high — and that if you added all of that discarded weight together, he had lost an...
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The Belly of Paris
by Emile Zola Publisher Comments Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. Hefinds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann...
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Broken Colors
by Michele Zackheim Publisher Comments Sophie Marks' path to artistic and personal fulfillment takes her from World War II England to postwar Paris and the Italian countryside. She leaves Europe in 1967 and spends the next two decades in the American Southwest. Acclaimed at last as an artist,...
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The Bowl Is Already Broken
by Mary Kay Zuravleff Publisher Comments A big, rewarding novel about art, politics, family, terrorism, courage, and happiness. Promise Whittaker, the diminutive but decisive acting director of the National Museum of Asian Art, is pregnant again--and that's just the beginning of her...
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The Bear Comes Home
by Rafi Zabor Synopsis In this "hilarious, richly imagined bear's eye view of love, music, alienation, manhood and humanity" ("Publishers Weekly"), "Zabor's knack for detail makes the absurd premise (a walking, talking, Blake- and Shakespeare-quoting bear) believable" ("The...
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The Last Windowgiraffe (Anthem Art and Culture)
by Peter Zilahy Publisher Comments 'Péter Zilahy is just the vagabond polymath the New Europe needs. Don't wait. Climb aboard the rollercoaster today. Read The Last Window–Giraffe as an elaborate, erudite, gut-wrenching belly-laugh at everything that went wrong and all the...
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Drinking Den (03 Edition)
by Emile Zola Synopsis Part of the "Les Rougon-Macquart" series about two branches of a French family traced through several generations. The behaviour of the two families is shown to be conditioned by environment and inherited characteristics, chiefly drunkenness and mental...
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Masterpiece (99 Edition)
by Emile Zola Publisher Comments The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most...
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Violette's Embrace
by Michele Zackheim Publisher Comments Violette Leduc was born the illegitimate daughter of a servant seduced by the son of the house. Growing up in the coldhearted glare of her mother, she suffered the guilt of having been born unwanted. In her thirties, during World War II, Leduc worked as...
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The Dukays
by Lajos Zilahy Synopsis A family pulled apart as tradition meets the changing values and politics of the 20th century. Count Dukay's castles and thousands of acres aren't enough to stem the tides of Nazism, fascism and communism while his sons and daughters are forced to find...
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Nana (Penguin Classics)
by Emile Zola Synopsis The French novelist's classic study of a prostitute's dissolute existence and spiritual disintegration reflects his concern with the influence of heredity and environment....
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We (06 Edition)
by Yevgeny Zamyatin Publisher Comments “[Zamyatin’s] intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism– human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself–makes [We] superior to Huxley’s [Brave New World].” –George Orwell An inspiration for George...
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Bete Humaine, La (Penguin Classics)
by Emile Zola Synopsis One of Zola's most violent works, this novel is on one level a tale of murder and possession, and on another a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. It evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France,...
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Dating Big Bird
by Laura Zigman 
Review "Keep you hooked from the first line." -New York...
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Therese Raquin (05 Edition)
by Emile Zola Publisher Comments Now available in Penguin Classics....
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Dirty Weekend
by Helen Zahavi Synopsis Bella, a young woman living alone in Brighton, is terrorized by an obscene phone-caller. The aggressor lives nearby and when he starts to harass Bella in the street, she decides she has had enough. She proceeds to murder her oppressor and then a whole...
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They're Not Your Friends
by Irene Zutell Publisher Comments Look Out for Falling Stars Charlotte “Lottie” Love has a thing for celebrity. Actually, it’s more of an obsession. All her life she’s lurked in the shadows of Hollywood, desperate to step into the light. When she lands a job at...
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