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Danielle Steel: Trial by Fire

MACMILLAN, 2024

Dahlia de Beaumont is the CEO of a high-end perfume and cosmetics company based in Paris. Cruelly widowed at thirty, she brought her four children up alone.

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Danielle Steel: Zoya

DELL BOOKS, 1989

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Daphne Du Maurier: Frenchman's Creek

VIRAGO PRESS, 2011

Lady Donna St Columb is beautiful, headstrong - and bored. Desperate to escape the pomp and ritual of the Restoration Court, she retreats to the hidden creeks and secret woods of the family estate at Navron, in Cornwall.

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Daphne Du Maurier: Jamaica Inn

VIRAGO PRESS, 2014

When her mother dies, Mary Yellan makes the grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her husband, Joss Merlyn.

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Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca

VIRAGO PRESS, 2010

Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.

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Daphne Du Maurier:My Cousin Rachel

VIRAGO PRESS, 2012

I threw the piece of paper on the fire. She saw it burn ...Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose.

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Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson: The Narrow Corridor (Winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics)

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2020

By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism,...

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Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson: Why Nations Fail

PROFILE BOOKS, 2013

Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions.

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Daron Acemoglu-Simon Johnson: Power and Progress

BASIC BOOKS, 2023

Throughout history, technological change - whether in the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today's artificial intelligence - has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest

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Daron Acemoglu-Simon Johnson: Power and Progress

BASIC BOOKS, 2024

Throughout history, technological change - whether in the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today's artificial intelligence - has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest

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Dav Pilkey: Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties (Vol. 3)

SCHOLASTIC, 2018

He was the best of dogs...He was the worst of dogs...It was the age of invention...It was the season of surprise...It was the eve of supa sadness...It was the dawn of hope...

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Dave Eggers: A Hologram for the King

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.

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Dave Eggers: Heroes of the Frontier

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2017

Josie's life is falling apart - lawsuits raining down, her business down the drain and a feckless husband long gone - so she gathers up her two kids and lights out for the wilderness. The Alaskan wilderness, to be specific.

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Dave Eggers: The Circle

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2014

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Dave Eggers: The Eyes and the Impossible

KNOPF BOOKS FOR YOUNG READER, 2023

Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison.

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Dave Eggers: What is the What

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008

Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time.

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Dave Eggers: You Shall Know Our Velocity

PENGUIN, 2004

Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give the money away. They can't really say why they're doing it, just that it needs to be done.

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Dave Eggers: Zeitoun

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011

In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans has been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave.

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