Jane Austen: A Life
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Jane Austen: A Life

By
Carol Shields
Carol Shields
2001 • 185 pages

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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
The Luminaries
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

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History

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Jane Austen's Letters
Jane Austen: A Life
Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
The Reluctant Empress
Queen Victoria: A Personal History

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Biography

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Jane Austen's Letters
Jane Austen: A Life
Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
The Reluctant Empress
Becoming Queen

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Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
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Deadly Spider Bite!
The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick
Skulls!
Half-Earth

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Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Jane Austen: A Life
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I am Gandhi
Greta's Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went on Strike to Save the Planet
Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame

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Devotion: A Memoir
Silk is for Seduction
The Sisters Brothers
The Murder at the Vicarage
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A duke by default
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

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A Box of Matches
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
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An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
A Parchment of Leaves
Beyond the Gap
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Trainspotting
A Box of Matches
A Fine and Private Place
Absolute Beginners
A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Flag for Sunrise
A Girl in Winter

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Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
All the Lives I Want
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Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites

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