The House of Fortune

The sequel to the million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist , The House of Fortune returns us to the mysterious Brandt family in Amsterdam in 1705 for a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman's determination to rule her ...

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Returning to the magical Amsterdam of her million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton's The House of Fortune is a story of love, fate, and two women determined to make their own way. A Richard & Judy Book Club pick The No.1 Sun...

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Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, the Commodore, built up a fortune that made him the worlds richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodores death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, ...

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An acerbic, withering account of the ascent of the Bush family to the pinnacle of the American political and social elite and the implications of the dynasty's hold on power for democracy in America. With an unerring instinct for fakery and humbug...

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A former Nixon White House strategist, Phillips details the making of the Bush family dynasty across four generations, documenting how it has exemplified many of the growing trends in American political life and how it has touched all the major &q...

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The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, and promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate. Zimmerman deftly traces the astonishing rise of Margaret and the Philipse women who ...

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This behind the scenes glimpse into major personalities in the homebuilding industry helps us understand whether they did it for fame or fortune." Harvey Rafofsky President Owner of HealthTrust America and former Senior Vice President of Levi...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revol...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revol...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revol...

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revol...

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The legend is only the beginning . . . 'A spectacular story of shape-shifting, love and faith . . . It enthralled me' Jessie Burton, multi-million bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The House of Fortune 'Astonishing . . . a s...

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The legend is only the beginning . . .'A spectacular story of shape-shifting, love and faith . . . It enthralled me'Jessie Burton, multi-million bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The House of Fortune'Astonishing . . . a scorching vision of...

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"Michael Gross's new book...packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego... Even more crammed with billionaires and their exploit...

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Michael Grosss new bookpacks [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego Even more crammed with billionaires and their exploits than 740 Pa...

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Can these Fortune?s ever be tamed?A House Full of Fortunes! By Judy DuarteToby Fortune Jones has been a single dad for long enough, now it?s time to get back in the dating pool?and he has his eye on Angie Edwards, the Queen of First Dates. Toby kn...

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The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller The sequel to Jessie Burtons million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist, The House of Fortune returns to Nella's mysterious family in historic 18th-century Amsterdam for a story of fate and fortune. Elegant, atmo...

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Returning to the magical Amsterdam of her million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton's The House of Fortune is a story of love, fate, and two women determined to make their own way.A Richard & Judy Book Club pickThe No.1 Sunday Times B...

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"Originally published in Portuguese as A casa dos budas ditosos by Editora Objetiva Ltda.,1999"--T.p. verso.

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Three wonderful volumes of classic fantastical children's fiction Everyone familiar with children's fiction has heard of Edith Nesbit, who is rightly acclaimed as the first modern writer for children and the originator of the children's adventure ...

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Three wonderful volumes of classic fantastical children's fiction Everyone familiar with children's fiction has heard of Edith Nesbit, who is rightly acclaimed as the first modern writer for children and the originator of the children's adventure ...

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Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1660, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly r...

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print ...

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