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William Crimsworth escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both teacher and pupil in Reuter's school. Also included in this edition is Emma, Charlotte Bronte's last, unfinished novel. Both works are drawn from the original Clarendon texts.
2) Villette
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English
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With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully...
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English
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In 1942 in Belgium, young Micheline leads the Sapphire Line, an underground network that helps downed British airmen escape from occupied Europe. Hannah, a member of the Resistance, arrives in Belgium after narrowly escaping the Gestapo in Berlin and finds refuge with her cousin Lily. While Hannah is grateful to Lily, every day in Belgium increases her risk of arrest. Meanwhile, Lily attempts to keep life as normal as possible for the sake of her...
6) The capital
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2019.
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English
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Set on capturing the elusive inner workings of the European Union, Robert Menasse, one of Austria's most creative thinkers, moved to the EU's headquarters in Brussels for an enthralling, wine-soaked tour of supranational institutions. The resulting novel has become an international sensation, translated from German into more than twenty languages and deemed "the first great EU novel" (Politico). At the heart of a cast as diverse as the union itself...
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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In Belgium, criminologist Henri Castang investigates the kidnaping of an eight-year-old boy whose mother, Anita, reports receiving a call from him. The boy was abducted four years earlier and Castang suspects revenge, Anita's father having served in Hitler's SS in World War II. By the author of You Who Know.
8) You who know
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Series
Henri Castang mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
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An Irish bureaucrat is shot in Brussels. IRA or Mafia? PI Henri Castang of the European Community goes after the killers, a search that takes him to Italy, Germany and Ireland. By the author of The King of the Rainy Country.
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Henri Castang mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
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Inspector Henri Castaing of the European police retires to Biarritz, but has to return to work to rescue his granddaughter. She has been kidnaped to force Castaing to sell his house overlooking the sea, so a land development can get underway. By the author of The Seacoast of Bohemia.
11) Expo 58
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Publisher
New Harvest
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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An English public employee becomes embroiled in a Soviet plot while he oversees the construction of an authentic British pub being showcased at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
14) Back up
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Point Blank
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Berlin, 1967: four members of the British rock band Pearl Harbour die at the same time but in separate locations. Inexplicably, the police conclude natural causes are to blame. Brussels, 2010: A homeless man is hit by a car outside the Gare du Midi, leaving him with locked-in syndrome, able to communicate (sometimes) by blinking. An Irish journalist starts to investigate. How did the members of Pearl Harbor die, and how is this linked to the homeless...
15) The pact
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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After their parents die in a helicopter crash, two girls and a boy, all three students in the American School in London, vow to stick together forever. As adults the pact is tested many times, culminating in the search for a killer when one of them discovers the crash was no accident. By the author of Laura.
16) Imperial scandal
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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When her husband, Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch, is sent on a perilous mission in the wake of Napoleon's escape from Elba, Suzanne must help him expose a killer as they are both forced to play a deadly game of murder, espionage and betrayal.
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Regal House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"After failing at a prestigious music Académie, nineteen-year-old Marie-Thérèse is finally meeting with success at a Brussels nursing school. But in August 1914, just as her third and final year begins, German armies invade Belgium, swiftly overcome the Allies, and press on toward France, leaving behind an occupying force. This upends everything in Brussels and in Marie-Thérèse's world. There are reports of ongoing brutalities which fuel burgeoning...
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Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"From a wartime brothel to the intricate high society of 1870s Brussels, "Under the Poppy" is a breakout novel of childhood friends, a love triangle, puppet masters, and reluctant spies. Under the Poppy is a brothel owned by Decca and Rupert. Decca is in love with Rupert but he in turn is in love with her brother, Istvan. When Istvan comes to town, louche puppet troupe in tow, the lines of their age-old desires intersect against a backdrop of approaching...
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