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by Daphne du Maurier, Karen Ball, Michael Curtiz, James Dale Davidson, Stephen Koch, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Emily Dalton, Cheryl St. John, Josef Von Sternberg, Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successfull gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to films: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), and "Don't Look Now" (1973). She was named a Dame of the British Empire. In 1932, she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, with whom she had three children, Tessa, Flavia and Christian. Her husband died in 1965, and she passed away on 19 April 1989 in Fowey, Cornwall. After her death, it was revealed that she was bisexual.

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"In a follow-up to his bestseller The Great Reckoning, in this new book, economic expert Davidson says we are on the cusp of great change--a breaking point--that will have vast implications for investors and wealth managers. Despite the fact that technology and mega political forces have created the biggest and most expensive governments the world has ever seen, Davidson predicts we are entering an era of the devolution of power which will paradoxically lead to an era of economic freedom. This provocative and wide-ranging book will explain this paradox and provide a roadmap investors can use to prosper despite the coming upheavals"--

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The breaking point
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Lost in America
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Books in this Series

The breaking point

Daphne du Maurier, Karen Ball, Michael Curtiz, James Dale Davidson, Stephen Koch, Mary Roberts Rinehart
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"In a follow-up to his bestseller The Great Reckoning, in this new book, economic expert Davidson says we are on the cusp of great change--a breaking point--that will have vast implications for investors and wealth managers. Despite the fact that technology and mega political forces have created the biggest and most expensive governments the world has ever seen, Davidson predicts we are entering an era of the devolution of power which will paradoxically lead to an era of economic freedom. This provocative and wide-ranging book will explain this paradox and provide a roadmap investors can use to prosper despite the coming upheavals"--

Heaven can wait

Emily Dalton, Cheryl St. John
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Dutch Country Brides #1 In her secret heart, sheltered Lydia Beker yearned for more—a sea of sensation, a husband to be tender with. Surely such longings couldn't be wrong? And then came Jakob Neubauer, an outsider who promised her a world of passion... One simple dream sustained Jakob: to work his land and build a life with the perfect woman at his side. Lydia Beker, unaffected and so serenely beautiful, seemed the embodiment of his every desire. But would he prove himself a man worthy of such a precious gift? Dutch Country Brides Series: Heaven Can Wait (Dutch Country Brides #1) Rain Shadow (Dutch Country Brides #2)

The scarlet empress

Josef Von Sternberg
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A spoiled princess is sent to Russia to marry Grand Duke Peter, but is horrified to discover her intened is a half-wit and depravity rules in her new home. She soon is transformed into the notorious libertine Catherine the Great.

Lost in America

Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Singer, a Nobel Prize-winning author, reminisces about his leaving his friends in Poland in the 1930's, his coming to America to join his brother in New York, and his experiences in this strange new land.