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Project Gutenberg
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English
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A Wholesome Christian Romance from Grace Livingston Hill. A young woman's first teaching assignment holds plenty of surprises. Margaret Earl's train journey to Arizona leaves her stranded in the desert but with the help of a handsome young cowboy, she discovers the meaning of true friendship. Then friendship deepens into something much more.
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Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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A collection by F. Scott Fitzgerald of eleven of his magazine stories. Divided into three separate parts, it includes one of his best-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" as well as the novella, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz." Unlike most story collections, this one includes the author's own commentary on each story, by way of an introduction.
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"Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her...
8) Prudence
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, headed for the darkened skies over Europe. Awaiting him at the Pines are those he's about to leave behind: his hovering mother; the distant father to whom he's been a disappointment; the Indian caretaker who's been more of a father to him than his own; and Billy, the childhood friend who over...
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When a bevy of winemakers descend on Saint-Denis, competing for its land and spurring resentment among the villagers, the idyllic town--where Benoit "Bruno" Courreges is the town's only policeman--finds itself the center of an intense drama, with suspicious fires at the agricultural research station that is working on genetically-modified crops. Two young men--Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine, and Fernando, the heir to an American...
10) The warden
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English
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Reverent Septimus Harding is wardne of the alms-house at Barchester providing charity for twelves of the town's neediest and an income for himself to the town's way of thinking. John Bold, even though he is in love with the Reverend's daughter, decides to look into this apparent misuse of church funds.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Achieving wealth and success through his savage ambitions, tycoon Rhys Winterborne resolves to marry shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, who in spite of her gentle upbringing responds to Rhys' seductions with her own unexpected passions.
13) Devil in spring
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Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Preferring a career to participating in the London season, strong-willed debutante Lady Pandora Ravenel unexpectedly meets her match in notorious rake Lord St. Vincent, who talks her into a marriage of convenience as part of his plan to win her heart.
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Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
400th anniversary edition.
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xxxv, 921 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
Description
Presents the classic early-seventeenth-century Spanish novel of chivalry and abiding optimism, depicting the exploits of a knight who attempts to bring justice and truth to the world.
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English
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"Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball-or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1898, reporter Emma Cross investigates the shocking death of a debutante at her coming-out ball among the bright lights of Newport's high society"--
17) Nine stories
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The Modern library of the world's best books volume 301
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Centennial edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"'...Here are nine of [J.D. Salinger's] stories, and one further reason that they are so interesting, and so powerful seen all together, is that they are paradoxes. From the outside, they are often very funny: inside, they are about heartbreak, and convey it; they can do this because they are pure...'" --
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Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
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543 pages; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Novel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence"--
Cotton County, Georgia, 1930. Two babies-- one light-skinned, the other dark-- are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight,...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In late August 1898, reporter Emma Cross attends the final f ete of the Newport social season and discovers the party's over for a visiting prince who was killed in the same manner as another man, recently found on nearby Bailey's Beach. Emma investigates a connection between the two victims, hoping to find the murderer before the killer slips away like the fading summer"--Provided by publisher
20) Saint Mazie
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Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always close at hand, holds her dearest secrets. When the Great Depression hits, Mazie's life is on the brink of...
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