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"Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone--no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can't fully answer: What exactly is John doing in Lisbon? Why would he drag her along on his business trip? Who would want to harm him? And why does Ariel know so little about her new--much younger--husband? The clock...
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1941. Klaus Felsen, forced out of his Berlin factory into the SS, arrives in a luminous Lisbon, where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs, dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen's assignment takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a devious and brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler's bliztkrieg. There he meets the man who plants the first seed of greed and revenge that will grow into a thick...
4) Skylight
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English
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"A previously unpublished novel by a literary master, Skylight tells the intertwined stories of the residents of a faded apartment building in 1940s Lisbon. Silvestre and Mariana, a happily married elderly couple, take in a young nomad, Abel, and soon discover their many differences. Adriana loves Beethoven more than any man, but her budding sexuality brings new feelings to the surface. Carmen left Galicia to marry humble Emilio, but hates Lisbon...
5) The pursuit
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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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Lori Wick's bestselling English Garden series (more than 720,000 copies sold) is filled with engaging characters and stories. Now with fresh, new covers, each of the four books in the series will hold a favorite spot on the nightstand or bookshelf of any reader who loves a great romance.
The Pursuit, book four in the series, is set in the spring of 1812, in Collingbourne, England. Edward Steele has enjoyed a great adventure in Africa with his brother,...
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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Portugal, 1944. Recruited by British intelligence to help uncover Nazi secrets of atomic warfare, math prodigy Andrea Aspinall soon disappears into the crowds of Lisbon, hiding behind a new identity. Karl Voss, an attaché for German intelligence, arrives in the city under the purported agenda of helping the Reich, all the while secretly working to save his beloved home country from annihilation under their reign. Two lost souls meet in a city filled...
7) Lisbon
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NAL Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
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English
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In eighteenth-century Europe, Charlotte is forced to choose between the husband she has and the lover she wants.
10) Adam Runaway
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Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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By turns funny, bawdy, wise and bittersweet this novel is set against a background of a weathy, but soon to be lost Lisbon (from earthquake and tidal wave) and the grim shadow of the Inquisition.
11) Lucky in love
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Carcanet in association with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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A writer's walk through Lisbon and the encounters it brings, real and imaginary. Part travelogue, part biography, the novel was written in Portuguese by an Italian as homage to a city in which he worked. The story ends in a midnight conversation on a quay between the narrator and a dead poet.
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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A writer of travel books, Herman Mussert, goes to bed one night in Amsterdam and wakes up in a Lisbon hotel in the very room where 20 years earlier he slept with another man's wife. Is he dead, or dreaming, or travelling backwards through time? A surrealistic tale by the author of The Knight Has Died.
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Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1964]
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English
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An escape story and a love story told by one refugee to another, in a Portuguese interlude in the World War II flight of refugees from Europe. The narrator is a German who returned to see his wife and bring her out of Germany, but tragedy strikes the two.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London comes a moving new novel inspired by the true history of America's library spies of World War II. Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile,...
18) That hair
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Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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""The story of my curly hair," says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, "intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the indirect story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics." Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from...
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Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"A metaphysical detective story about love and existence. When Tadeus sets out to find Isabel, his former love, he soon finds himself on a metaphysical journey across the world, one that calls into question the meaning of time and existence and the power of words. Isabel disappeared many years ago. Tadeus Slowacki, a Polish writer, her former friend and lover, has come back to Lisbon to learn of her whereabouts. Rumors abound: Isabel died in prison...
20) The conspirators
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Harper & Brothers Publishers
Pub. Date
1943.
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English
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"Why was he about to kill a man whose face he hadn't seen, whose name he did not know? Gripped by something stronger than his own will or intellect, he yet sought in himself the answer to the question which gave him no rest. And throughout the long day and night of joy and danger intermingled, of exultation and blind confusion, of suspense and horror, he moved like a man about to experience a dreadful initiation. Frederic Prokosch has set his latest...