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"In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor's A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, Annabel Abbs, the award-winning author of The Joyce Girl, returns with the brilliant real-life story of Eliza Acton and her assistant as they revolutionized British cooking and cookbooks around the world. Before Mrs. Beeton and well before Julia Child, there was Eliza Acton, who changed the course of cookery writing forever. England, 1835. London is...
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Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's London boarding school a wealthy, well-mannered, thoughtful young girl. Four years later, she suddenly becomes penniless after her father's death, and is forced to wear rags, live in a dreary attic, and work for her living. Through it all, she struggles to keep a positive attitude. Although Sara may no longer seem like a little princess, she is determined to remain one on the inside. This is a story of a young...