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The House of Mirth (Twentieth-Century Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 1993-05-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City – people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this ...

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We the Living (75th-Anniversary Edition)

by Ayn Rand

Published: 2011-06-07

Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages

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Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia. First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and p...

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The Sound of Waves

by Yukio Mishima

Published: 1994-10-04

Paperback: 192 pages

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Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.

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Child of the Morning: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics)

by Pauline Gedge

Published: 2010-04-01

Kindle Edition: 416 pages

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Based closely on historical events, this sensuously beautiful, astonishingly evocative novel tells the story of one of history’s most remarkable women?the first female Pharaoh of Egypt. Thirty-five centuries ago, Hatshepsut, the youngest daughter of the Pharaoh, was to marry her father...

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The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Wordsworth Special Editions)

by Jane Austen

Published: 2005-02-05

Paperback: 1436 pages

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Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first publis...

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Sacred Time: A Novel

by Ursula Hegi

Published: 2004-09-07

Paperback: 256 pages

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The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, th...

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Maus : A Survivor's Tale. I. My Father Bleeds History. II. And Here My Troubles Began

by Art Spiegelman

Published: 1993-10-19

Paperback: 300 pages

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Now in a paperback boxed set, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art—w...

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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Pantheon Graphic Novels)

by Art Spiegelman

Published: 1992-09-01

Paperback: 144 pages

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The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art—widel...

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Consequences of Sin

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne

Published: 2008-01-29

Paperback: 272 pages

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For fans of Maisie Dobbs, a riveting new Edwardian mystery series featuring detective heiress Ursula Marlow Ursula Marlow, the star of this richly detailed, beautifully paced, deeply romantic mystery, is a strong female heroine with whom fans of Dorothy Sayers, Sarah Waters, Anne Perry, a...

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The Serpent and the Scorpion: An Ursula Marlow Mystery

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne

Published: 2008-09-30

Paperback: 304 pages

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A gripping mystery of scandal and intrigue starring a spirited and beautiful Edwardian heiressIt?s the end of 1911 and Ursula Marlow, struggling to maintain control over her father?s textile empire, finds her business trip to Egypt interrupted by two violent deaths. The first victim is her...