Rumer Godden
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Pax is the motto of Brede Abbey. Yet its peace is the peace of God--"not," as Godden brings to her readers' notice, "the world's peace." The walls of Brede witness life of unceasing work and prayer, little creature comfort, persistent disappointment and misunderstanding--yet a life of peace all the same, unswervingly joyful and loving. Into this life enters Philippa Talbot, ambitious, independent, successful, forsaking her beautifully arranged career...
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High in the Himalayas, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. Built for the General's harem, laughter and music once floated out over the gorge. But now it sits abandoned; windswept and haunting. The General's son bestows the palace to the Sisters of Mary, and 'the House of Women', as it was once known, becomes the Convent of St Faith. Close to the Heavens, the nuns feel inspired, working fervently to establish their school and hospital....
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The Ganges River runs through young Harriet?s world. The eleven-year-old daughter of the British owner of a successful jute concern, she loves her life in Bengal, India, on the river?s edge, so far removed from the English boarding school she attended before the outbreak of hostilities in Europe. Often left alone by an overworked father and preoccupied mother, Harriet is enchanted by the local festivals, colors, and vibrant life surrounding her. Now,...
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A hotel in southern India is home to a host of romantic intrigues and human misadventures in this delightful novel from a New York Times–bestselling author. Over a decade before The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, award-winning author Rumer Godden was delighting readers with the exploits of the residents and staff at a quaint getaway resort in southern India. Wily and winning Anglo-Indian hotel owner Auntie Sanni has entertained all manner of guests...
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Before she was La Balafrée -- the Scarred One -- one of post-War Paris's most notorious and successful madams, Lise was simply Elizabeth Fanshawe, a young Englishwoman with a spirit of adventure. A chance encounter with Patrice Ambard, whose hypnotic charm belies an inescapable sadism, draws Lise into the destructive, depraved world of prostitution. Only after a sudden and shocking crime does she find release, followed by respite and renewal at the...
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Greengage Summer: Two English sisters' lives are transformed when their father brings them to India. At fifteen and twelve, the daughters of Sir Edward Gwithiam of the diplomatic service have already seen more of the world than most children their age. But when Una and her younger sister, Halcyon, are summoned from their English boarding school to join their father in New Delhi, they encounter a reality...
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For nearly one hundred and fifty years the Quin family has lived at China Court, their magnificent estate in the Welsh countryside. The land, gardens, and breathtaking home have been maintained, cherished, and ultimately passed along--from Eustace and Adza in the early nineteenth century to village-girl-turned-lady-of-the-manor Ripsie Quin, her children, and her granddaughter, Tracy, in the twentieth. Brilliantly intermingling the past and the present,...
10) The dark horse
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Dark Invader, a thoroughbred training in India for the Viceroy Cup race, bolts from a malicious jockey and is given refuge by a convent of nuns.
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Two English children travel to Italy to rescue their wayward mother from her lover and save their family in this New York Times-bestselling novel. The lives of the two Clavering children, Hugh and Caddie, have been abruptly upended by the bitter divorce of their parents, British Army colonel Darrell and the formerly solid, dependable Fanny. Their English country home has been abandoned in favor of a London flat, and the fate of their adored pony,...
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A troubled European family struggles to make a life in India during WWII in this "absorbing" novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). Eight years ago, Louise Pool left her husband, Charles, in India, fleeing a marriage marked by anger, disillusion, and mistrust. Now, with Europe engulfed in the flames of World War II and Germany's Nazi juggernaut rolling through occupied France, Louise is reluctantly returning to East Bengal,...
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Three sisters battle poverty and prejudice in 1930s India in this heart-wrenching tale from a New York Times–bestselling novelist. Life is difficult for the three Lemarchant sisters in the latter years of the British Raj. Born of two cultures and rejected by both-the "half-caste" daughters of an Englishman and an Indian mother-twins Belle and Rosa and their younger sibling, Blanche, live with their widowed father and "Auntie" in an apartment in...
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With Black Narcissus, her novel of five nuns in a remote Himalayan convent struggling against nature-both physical and human-Rumer Godden established her impeccable literary reputation. Having spent her formative years in colonial India, she would continue to return to that setting for inspiration in several subsequent novels. Black Narcissus: Led by Sister Clodagh, the youngest Mother Superior in the history of their order, the European Sisters of...
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Die meisten Leute erleben in einem ganzen Leben nicht, was den fünf Geschwistern in diesem einen heißen Sommer in Vieux-Moutiers widerfährt, da sind sich die beiden ältesten Joss und Cecil einig. Ihre Mutter ist unerwartet erkrankt, und die Kinder sind in dem in die Jahre gekommenen Hotel in der Champagne auf sich allein gestellt. Einzig der charmante Eliot nimmt sich ihrer an. Alle im Hotel, Erwachsene wie Kinder, erliegen seinem Charme; die...
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Love, intrigue, and death ensue when a statue of a Hindu god is stolen from an Indian hotel in this masterwork from a New York Times–bestselling author. Sydney Cromartie is aghast when London officials inform him that his precious statuette of the Hindu god Shiva is in fact an artifact stolen from India, its mother country. But, despite the insistence of the Indian government, the irate Canadian art collector will not give it up without a legal...
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Ghosts past, present, and future haunt an old London house in this masterful work of fiction from a New York Times–bestselling author. Sir Roland Ironmonger Dane is the last of his family to occupy the house at Number 99 Wiltshire Place in London. Now, in the early days of World War II, the elderly former general has been told that he must vacate the premises when the ninety-nine-year lease is up, leaving the only home he has ever known. But...
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Four evocative and moving works of fiction set in India from the New York Times–bestselling author of Black Narcissus-including her final novel.
Having spent her formative years in colonial India, British novelist Rumer Godden would continue to return to that setting for inspiration throughout her career-from her best known work about five nuns in a Himalayan convent, Black Narcissus, to her final novel, Cromartie vs. the God Shiva.
Cromartie...
19) Pippa passes
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W. Morrow
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1994
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A romance in Venice between an Italian gondolier and an English dancer from a visiting ballet company. It is complicated by lesbian advances by the company's ballet mistress. By the author of Great Grandfather's House.
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Morrow
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c1997
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Lawyer Michael Dean is sent from London to India, the land of his birth to investigate the theft of an 11th century statue of the Hindu god Shiva. The assignment leads him into a romance with a woman archeologist. A look at Hindu culture.