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A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.
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"English anthropologist Andrew Banson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the Territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance encounter with colleagues, the controversial Nell Stone and her wry and mercurial Australian husband, Fen, pulls him back from the brink. Nell and Fen...
13) The friendship
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Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
16) The green mile
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In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
17) A grave man
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Verity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth attend a Hindenburg victim's memorial service, an event at which a distinguished archaeologist with possible ties to an eminent surgeon's research in the field of eugenics is murdered.
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In Lesson at Blackberry Inn, life is seen through Carol's eyes, the eyes of a homemaker in the 1930's. Her busy days are spent teaching her children in the mornings and canning their bountiful harvest in the afternoons. Guests at Blackberry Inn appreciate Carol's delicious country meals served family style on the long table.
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