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Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maitre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present. In the midst of what should be an effulgent time of life--days bright with music, family, rowing on the Seine--Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 493 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the...
3) Swan Lake
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young prince and his beloved Odette struggle against the evil Von Rothbart to protect themselves and their infant daughter in this adaptation of the classic ballet.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiv, 705 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning home after serving in World War II to run his family business in New York, paratrooper Harry Copeland falls in love with young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, who risks everything to break off her engagement to another man.
