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Eviction NoticeWhen three young friends, Porsha, Frankie and Sahara, decide to sublease an apartment from a mutual acquaintance, life becomes one big party for the girls. But the party comes to an abrupt end when they find out they've been fleeced for their money and...
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Beneath the WheelIn Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheel, Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the entire community presses him onto a path of serious scholarship. Hans dutifully...
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K Is for Killer: A Kinsey Millhone NovelLorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her. Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The cops suspected homicide, but they could find neither motive nor suspect. Even the means were...
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The Thanatos SyndromeReturning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had praticed psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occuring with the townfolk, a loss of inhibitions. Behind this mystery is a dangerous plot drug the local water supply, and a discovery that takes...
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Todas Las Almas / All SoulsUn profesor espa ol narra sus experiencias durante dos singulares a os en la hist rica Universidad de Oxford, una ciudad fuera del mundo y del tiempo. Todas las almas coincide con un nombre bien conocido en Oxford, el All Souls College, miembro del...
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LongingIn Longing, the third book in the Bailey Flanigan Series by bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, Bailey struggles with her feelings for longtime love Cody even as she grows closer to movie star Brandon Paul.After a long and lonely silence from Cody Coleman, Bailey Flanigan...
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Pamela; Or, Virtue RewardedOne of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists,"...
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The MoonstoneWho, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer? One of the great triumphs of nineteenth-century sensation fiction, The Moonstone tells of a mystery that for page after page becomes more not less inexplicable. A celebrated Indian diamond...
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The Island of Doctor MoreauA shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a notorious scientist, Doctor Moreau. Disturbed by the cries of animals in pain, and by his encounters with half-bestial creatures, Edward slowly realizes his danger and the extremes of...
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Seeing"The clarity and compassion of [Saramago's] vision make Seeing worthy of its name." --Washington Post "I have never read a novel that gets so many details of the political behavior that we for some reason insist on calling 'organized' so hilariously and grimly right."...
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Andersonville"The greatest of our Civil War novels" (New York Times) reissued for a new generation As the United States prepares to commemorate the Civil War's 150th anniversary, Plume reissues the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel widely regarded as the most powerful ever written about our nation's...
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The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche"Beguiling . . . Longworth evokes the pleasures of France in delicious detail--great wine, delicious meals, and fine company." --Publishers Weekly When a scandalous author moves to the outskirts of Aix-en-Provence, Verlaque and Bonnet are called in to investigate whether he's haunted by more...
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The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)"Wilson sat on the balcony of the Bedford Hotel with his bald pink knees thrust against the ironwork..." Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Heart of the Matter, tells the story of a good man enmeshed in love, intrigue, and evil in a West African coastal...
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ShirleyAuthor: Charlotte BrontePublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 09/26/2006Pages: 624Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 8.36h x 4.45w x 1.23dISBN: 9780141439860Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorCharlotte Bronte (1816-1855), English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre (1847), sister of Anne Bronte and Emily Bronte. The three sisters are almost as...
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Pietr the Latvian"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianIn Simenon's iconic first novel featuring Inspector Maigret,...
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The Late Monsieur Gallet"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianGeorges Simenon's devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal and...
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Eugene OneginStill the benchmark of Russian literature 175 years after its first publication--now in a marvelous new translation Pushkin's incomparable poem has at its center a young Russian dandy much like Pushkin in his attitudes and habits. Eugene Onegin, bored with the triviality of everyday...
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The Portable Harlem Renaissance ReaderGathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume--organized chronologically--includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon...
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The Lighthouse Keeper's DaughterFrom The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years."They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such...
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Wicked Bite: A Night Rebel NovelIn the newest Night Rebel novel, set in New York Times bestselling author Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress world, beautiful, daring vampire Veritas risks all to protect Ian...Some promises are meant to be broken...Veritas spent most of her life as a vampire Law Guardian. Now,...
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