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9780143121015 | 1 edition (Penguin USA, June 26, 2012), cover price $15.00
Product Description: The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members...read more
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9781849010863 | Gardners Books, August 18, 2011, cover price $13.25 | About this edition: The year is 1846.
9780143115977 | 1 edition (Penguin USA, December 29, 2009), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A beautifully imagined tale of the Brontë sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre.
Product Description: Acclaimed author Sheila Kohler's sweeping historical novel, Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness, is based on the life of Lucy Dillon, an eighteenth-century French aristocrat. Wrenched from the court of Marie Antoinette by the Reign of Terror, the brave and resilient Lucy escapes with her family to the freedom and hardships of a newly independent America where, on a dairy farm in the Hudson Valley, she discovers a new life-and her true self...read more
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9781590512623 | Other Pr Llc, April 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Frenchwoman Lucy Dillon uses her beauty and wit to gain entry into the circles of such luminaries as Talleyrand and Germaine de Staèel and struggles to protect her family during the Revolution when her contemporaries are being executed.
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9780425219614, titled "Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness" | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, March 4, 2008), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Acclaimed author Sheila Kohler's sweeping historical novel, Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness, is based on the life of Lucy Dillon, an eighteenth-century French aristocrat.
A tale based on the experiences of Jewish children who were interred in the Loiret region concentration camp in the summer of 1942 finds a pair of young sisters escaping to the shelter of an aristocratic couple's home seventeen years before a teenage student visits the home and learns the sisters' story. Reprint.
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9781581950328 | Zoland Books, June 1, 2001, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: After eighteen-year-old Deirdre finds a diary kept by two children who escaped deportation by the Nazis and their French collaborators in a small town in the Loiret, she discovers a nightmare of corruption and decadence.
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9781590512067 | Reprint edition (Other Pr Llc, June 30, 2006), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A tale based on the experiences of Jewish children who were interred in the Loiret region concentration camp in the summer of 1942 finds a pair of young sisters escaping to the shelter of an aristocratic couple's home seventeen years before a teenage student visits the home and learns the sisters' story.
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9780747551942 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, February 19, 2001, cover price $26.15 | About this edition: A schoolgirl disappears into the South African veldt.
9781581950083 | 1 edition (Zoland Books, September 1, 1999), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Forty years after Fiamma Coronna, a foreign student and classmate, disappears, a group of women gather at their old school and remember the past
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9781590512050 | Reprint edition (Other Pr Llc, May 31, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Forty years after a beautiful schoolgirl disappears into the South African veld, the survivors of her former swimming team gather at a reunion and piece together the weeks prior to her disappearance, a period marked by a dark secret.
9780747557623 | New edition (Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, March 4, 2002), cover price $11.75 | About this edition: Forty years after a schoolgirl mysteriously disappears into the South African veld, 13 members of the missing girl's swimming team gather for a reunion at their old boarding school.
9781581950267 | Reprint edition (Zoland Books, September 1, 2000), cover price $12.00
Product Description: Set in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb in the late 1960s, Crossways is a family drama of love and grief. The heroine, Kate, returns from Paris to the family home ("Crossways") for the funeral of her sister Marion. Marion was killed in a car accident that left her husband, Louis, the driver, in intensive care...read more
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9780865381124 | Ontario Review Pr, October 30, 2004, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In Sheila Kohler's riveting new novel, Kate returns from Paris to her home in South Africa for the funeral of her sister, Marion, who was killed in a car accident that left her husband Louis (the driver) in intensive care.
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9781590512098 | Other Pr Llc, September 1, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Set in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb in the late 1960s, Crossways is a family drama of love and grief.
Product Description: An award-winning author reimagines one of Freudâs most famous and controversial casesAcclaimed for her spare prose and exceptional psychological insights in her novels Becoming Jane Eyre and Love Child, Sheila Kohlerâs latest is inspired by Sigmund Freudâs Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria...read more
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9780143125198 | Penguin USA, May 28, 2014, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An award-winning author reimagines one of Freudâs most famous and controversial casesAcclaimed for her spare prose and exceptional psychological insights in her novels Becoming Jane Eyre and Love Child, Sheila Kohlerâs latest is inspired by Sigmund Freudâs Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria.
Hardcover:
9780679426066 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: With a passion verging on self-destruction, Bill seeks control of all things, including her emerging sexuality and her domineering mother's position of power in the family
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9780143119197 | 1 edition (Penguin USA, June 28, 2011), cover price $15.00
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9780679429067 | Everymans Library, October 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems about love and romance by famous poets from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries
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9780394573748 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of twelve short stories and a novella that explore the themes of violence, psychosexual bondage, and adultery
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9780143129295 | Penguin USA, January 17, 2017, cover price $16.00
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9781884235290 | Helicon Nine Editions, September 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Kohler, Sheila
Product Description: "A wholly entrancing narrative….Kohler has a fine ear for truth and untruth and the musical possibilities of their interplay."—J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize-winning author of DisgraceAt a hotel in Switzerland, a mysterious and elegant woman is recovering from an unspecified illness...read more
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9780394573731 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A chance sexual encounter at a Swiss spa triggers a process of discovery in a woman that leads to the realization that she killed a woman for refusing her sexual advances years before
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9781590512043 | Other Pr Llc, September 1, 2005, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: "A wholly entrancing narrative….
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9780865381100 | 1 edition (Ontario Review Pr, October 1, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories set in various locales around the world, including 'Casualty,' 'Baboons,' and 'Lunch with Mother.
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