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Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, a plain, impoverished girl in Belle Epoque Paris, is hired by Countess Dubern to make her headstrong daughter, Isabelle, look more beautiful by comparison but soon Maude is enmeshed in a tangle of love, friendship, and deception.
"Women have always constituted at least half of the church's membership, but for almost 2,000 years were excluded from any significant part in its leadership. After the example of Jesus, the earliest Christian communities were wholly inclusive in their organisation, but a patriar...
"1945: War widow Peggy is grateful to have inherited Orchard House from her husband's Aunt Maude; she looks forward to making a fresh start in rural Cambridgeshire with her young son. The moment she sets eyes on the rambling property, however, doubt sets in. From the bricked up c...
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as ...
"The 12th century comes to life as Chadwick weaves a tale of betrayal, deceit and intrigue..." -RT Book Reviews A Deadly Rival. An Ancient Family Dispute. An Impossible Love. He should have known better than to fight with the future King John. Ruthless and feared, John is no...
The descendents of Lily Molyneux raise questions about their family history and turn to Maude, Lily's niece, for answers. Maude tells the story of Lily's life in a fascinating narrative which includes her aristocratic upbringing, the shame she brought to her family, and her new ...
Nineteenth-century Bangor, known as the Queen City, is a city of sharp contrasts--from the elegant mansions of Broadway, built from lumber fortunes and bootlegged alcohol money to the poverty-stricken Joppa neighborhood lined with taverns and frequented by desperate men and "fall...