Miss September: A NovelMiss September tells the story of a young woman who has perpetrated the perfect bank robbery and who decides to launder the money by setting up, appropriately, a drycleaning business. Gravel once again introduces us to the irresistible worlds only he can create. |
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A Novel François Gravel. he was sorting the clothes for the next load : Réjean , who was constantly asking , between coughing fits , for a glass of water , or some aspirins , or a new magazine , or anything else . Even when Réjean was at ...
A Novel François Gravel. he was sorting the clothes for the next load : Réjean , who was constantly asking , between coughing fits , for a glass of water , or some aspirins , or a new magazine , or anything else . Even when Réjean was at ...
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... Réjean had always refused : “ You aren't just my employee , Monsieur Donald , you're my teacher too . ” That was sheer flattery , but he went along with it , and taught her the prin- ciples of the trade on some old clothes from the ...
... Réjean had always refused : “ You aren't just my employee , Monsieur Donald , you're my teacher too . ” That was sheer flattery , but he went along with it , and taught her the prin- ciples of the trade on some old clothes from the ...
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... Réjean's funeral — a total waste , as it turned out . Réjean had left him nothing , instead naming in his will a raging queen whom Donald didn't know from Adam , and who'd dropped out of circulation as soon as he'd got his hands on the ...
... Réjean's funeral — a total waste , as it turned out . Réjean had left him nothing , instead naming in his will a raging queen whom Donald didn't know from Adam , and who'd dropped out of circulation as soon as he'd got his hands on the ...
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