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"The stifling summer streets of Lisbon are teeming with spies and informers when Andrea Aspinall, a brilliant English mathematician turned spy, disappears under a new identity. Double agent Karl Voss, experienced in the illusions of intrigue, arrives in Lisbon under the German Legation, though he is secretly plotting against the Nazis. In the lethal tranquility of a corrupted paradise, Andrea and Karl meet and embark on a brief, intense love affair."--back cover.

The haunting story of a soldier who redeems four white feathers sent to him for cowardice. This stirring adventure set in the Sudan.

A biography of early nineteenth-century English poet George Gordon, sixth Lord Byron, focusing on the emotional, physical, and creative significance of the country of Greece on the poet's life and work.

Seventeen-year-old Livia Stowe travels from England to Princeton, New Jersey, to visit her brother who is studying there and to celebrate her recovery from a year-long struggle with leukemia, and while she is there she writes a blog about her experiences, which include falling in love.

Reprint of a 1978 novel of adventure and romance in the Himalayas.

Forced to give up her posh life and move to a tiny Manhattan apartment when her husband loses his job, Lucy unexpectedly falls in love with her new home and forges close friendships with three women who are also struggling with the disparities between the ambitions of their youth and middle age.

Written in 1843 to provide immigrants to Illinois with practical information about everyday life on the prairie. Presents an accurate look at the Middle West in the 1840s.

After British Major James Achilles Kirkpatrick falls in love with a young Indian woman who is a direct descendent of Muhammed, he becomes a Muslim convert and wears the traditional white dress while following the customs of India. He is labeled a "white mughal" with his new identity but secretly he works as a double agent.