Author: Sarah Dunant
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: crime, wolfe, hannah, novels, novel, fatlands
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-07-06
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0743269233
ISBN-13: 9780743269230

A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, author Sarah Dunant won Britain’s prestigious Silver Dagger award for Fatlands, a Hannah Wolfe mystery.In Fatlands, private investigator Hannah Wolfe, who’s independent though not invincible, idealistic but definitely not naive, has taken on one of the less glamorous jobs in the security world -- chaperoning teenage rebel Mattie Shepherd around London. But Mattie’s father is paying Hannah lots of money -- more than the job is worth, it seems. Or perhaps not. The girl’s father is on the Animal Liberatio

Author: Sarah Dunant
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, hearts, sacred
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2010-04-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812974050
ISBN-13: 9780812974058

The year is 1570, and a new novice has just been forced into the Italian convent of Santa Caterina. Ripped by her family from the man she loves, sixteen-year-old Serafina is sharp and defiant. Her first night inside the walls is spent in an incandescent rage so violent that the dispensary mistress, Suora Zuana, is dispatched to the girl’s cell to sedate her. Thus begins a complex relationship of trust and betrayal. As Serafina rails against her incarceration, disorder and rebellion mount inside the convent, while beyond its walls, the dictates of the Counter-Reformation begin to impose a reg

Author: Sarah Dunant
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: hannah, wolfe, novels, crime, mystery, skin
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-07-06
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0743269225
ISBN-13: 9780743269223

A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, Silver Dagger Award-winning author Sarah Dunant won critical acclaim for her Hannah Wolfe crime novels. In Under My Skin, private investigator Hannah Wolfe’s cushy new assignment takes her to the sumptuous Castle Dean health spa. While being plucked, crimped, steamed, and oiled, Hannah is ideally placed to probe some reported cases of sabotage -- fish in the Jacuzzi and steel nails in the massage heads. But spa owner Olivia Marchant has other problems besides sabotage. Someone is threatening her husband, Maurice, one o

Author: Sarah Dunant
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, venus, birth
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812968972
ISBN-13: 9780812968972

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seiz

Authors:Sarah Orne Jewett, Sarah Way Sherman, Sarah Way Sher
Publisher: New Hampshire
Keywords: fiction, new, england, books, hardscrabble, pointed, firs, stories, country
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 1997-04-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0874518261
ISBN-13: 9780874518269

Authors:Sarah Johnstone, Aaron Anderson, Sarah Andrews, Ryan
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: shoestring, guides, planet, lonely, europe
Number of Pages: 1284
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 1741045916
ISBN-13: 9781741045918

Party in Tallinn or pose in Cannes; hike the Curonian Spit; be seduced by the Aya Sofia in Istanbul or simply learn the art of the Spanish siesta. Your European Adventure starts here with the most detailed guide available, featuring more than 40 countries, 200 maps and insider tips to help you to go further, stay longer and pay less for the ultimate European grand tour. GRAND TURISMO - Itineraries to aid your planning and splurge features to help you decide where to splash out, whether it be a night in an ice hotel or haute cuisine in Paris. BE IN THE KNOW - with a detaile

Authors:Edith Wharton, Sarah Higginson Begley, Sarah Higgins
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, century, twentieth, frome, ethan
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-02-01
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0140187367
ISBN-13: 9780140187366

Ethan works his unproductive farm, and struggles to maintain an existence with his suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena’s cousin enters their household as a "hired girl", Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.