Carrie Brown
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Pub. Date
2016
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From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day, here is a beautiful new period novel: a nineteenth-century story of female empowerment before its time, based on the life of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great composer and astronomer William Herschel and an astronomer in her own right.
This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world...
This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world...
3) Lamb in love
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An Englishman discovers love at the age of 51. It happens to Norris Lamb, a village postman after he sees Vida Stephen, a 41-year-old spinster, dancing naked in the moonlight. Too shy to speak to her, he writes her anonymous love letters. By the author of Rose's Garden.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
410 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"On sweltering Chicago morning in 1933, a baby is delivered in a hatbox to the Century of Progress Exposition, the World's Fair. This very tiny baby, born three months early, is brought to the fair's famous baby doctor, Leo Hoffman, to be saved."--Jacket.