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Heat and Dust
Hotel du Lac
When We Were Orphans
Offshore
Dracula
Robinson Crusoe
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
Death on the Nile
The Body in the Library
Villette, a novel
El Dorado
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, and Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Shopaholic Series, Books 1, 2, & 3)
The little drummer girl
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
The Italian's Price
Flashman from the Flashman Papers 1839-1842
Prudence
Valenti's one-month mistress
Voyage Out
To the Far Blue Mountains
An Infamous Army (Alastair-Audley #4)
Tai-Pan (Asian Saga
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Scoop
The Riddle of the Sands
A Handful of Dust
Money
The Return of Tarzan
A Caribbean Mystery
Wide Sargasso Sea
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