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  Dark Waters

  by Catherine MacPhail

  Col McCann is used to being in trouble. It is always the McCann family, in particular Mungo, Col's brother, that the police think of first when trouble comes to their town. But when Col saves a boy from drowning in a nearby loch and discovers what it is like to be a local hero, his loyalty to his trouble family wavers. Beyond that, Col has seen something underwater in the loch, something that is still submerged in... (more)
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  Tipping the Velvet: A Novel

  by Sarah Waters

  This stunning and steamy debut chronicles the adventures of Nan King, a small-town girl at the turn of the century whose life takes a wild turn of its own when she follows a local music hall star to London... "Glorious...a sexy, sinewy sojourn of a young woman in turn-of-the-century England."-- The Boston Globe "Erotic and absorbing...If lesbian fiction is to reach a wider readership, Waters is the person to... (more)
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  Fingersmith

  by Sarah Waters

  In Victorian England, an orphan girl is sent to a country estate to work for-and ultimately woo-its young heiress, on behalf of a mysterious benefactor known as Gentleman.
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  Chez Panisse Café Cookbook

  by Fritz Streiff, Alice Waters

  We hung the walls with old French movie posters advertising the films of Marcel Pagnol, films that had already provided us with both a name and an ideal: to create a community of friends, lovers, and relatives that span generations and is in tune with the seasons, the land, and human appetites.   So writes Alice Waters of the opening of Berkeley's Chez Panisse CafÉ on April Fool's Day, 1980 . Located above... (more)