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St. Petersburg, 1917. As the new year dawns, a diver pulls the murdered body of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, from the icy waters of the Neva River. Hours later, his daughters are taken to the Tsar′s palace as wards of the Romanovs, where the Tsarina makes a shocking request: would Masha, 18, take her father′s place at the sickbed of the tsarevitch Alyosha? Shaken, Masha agrees to do what she can for the imperious young prince, haunted as she is by questions about her father′s powers and her future in a country accelerating toward political apocalypse.
Two months later, the Bolshevik Revolution forces the Tsar to abdicate, and the whole royal family is placed under arrest in the Alexander Palace. Trapped together in increasingly harsh living conditions, Masha and Alyosha find themselves taking increasing solace in one another′s company. The two teenagers, with radically different experiences of Russia, of Rasputin, and of Alyosha′s parents′ unlucky reign, create a private realm of magic and of love, as Masha introduces the young tsarevitch to a wild and beautiful land he will never live to rule.
An unusual, gorgeously told love story, and a rich tapestry of unparalleled storytelling, ENCHANTMENTS brings to life the final days of Rasputin and the Romanovs. It is a breathtaking tour-de-force by this acclaimed writer.
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Enchantments
St. Petersburg, 1917. As the new year dawns, a diver pulls the murdered body of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, from the icy waters of the Neva River. Hours later, his daughters are taken to the Tsar′s palace as wards of the Romanovs, where the Tsarina makes a shocking...
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Envy
Will has a good sex life - with the woman he married. So why then is he increasingly plagued by violent erotic fantasies? He′s about to lose his grip when he attends a college reunion and there discovers evidence of a past sexual betrayal, one serious enough that it threatens to...
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All the Summer Girls
By Meg Donohue
In Philadelphia, good girl Kate is dumped by her fiancé the day she learns she is pregnant with his child. In New York City, beautiful stay-at-home mom Vanessa finds herself obsessively searching the Internet for news of an old flame. And in San Francisco, Dani, an aspiring writer who can't...
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Benjamin Franklin's Bastard
By Sally Cabot
An absorbing and compelling work of literary historical fiction, set in colonial Philadelphia, that brings to life a little-known chapter of the American Revolution—the story of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son, and the women who loved them Sixteen-year-old Anne is an uneducated serving...
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