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The Holly-Tree

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2014-02-06

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The Holly-Tree is a short story by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During...

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* * * * * Fantastic,
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A Christmas Carol (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2013-10-04

Leather Bound: 120 pages

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"I have always thought of Christmas time . . . as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely." So wrote Charles Dickens in A Christmas Caro...

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* * * Confusing

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My Sister's Secret

by Tracy Buchanan

Published: 2015-08-13

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A paperback copy 2015. There are 360 pages in this book.

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Five Spice Street (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

by Can Xue

Published: 2012-04-24

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'Five Spice Street' is a novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. The novel interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasy.

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Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

by J. K. Rowling

Published: 2015-04-14

Hardcover: 80 pages

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J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for an...

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Battleborn: Stories

by Claire Vaye Watkins

Published: 2013-08-06

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The extraordinary debut collection from the Guggenheim Award-winning author of the forthcoming Gold Fame Citrus   Winner of the 2012 Story Prize Recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2013 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Named one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Und...

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Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach

by Laurence Leamer

Published: 2009-10-27

Paperback: 400 pages

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Love, lust, and fatal hatreds inside America's most exclusive enclave of wealth and privilege--Palm Beach. Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme devastated the eternally sunny world of Palm Beach, bringing down multimillionaires and destroying once-wealthy widows. The South Florida island and its ...

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* * * * * Dramatic,
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The Language of Solitude: A Novel (The Rising Dragon Series)

by Jan-Philipp Sendker

Published: 2017-05-02

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Internationally bestselling author Jan-Philipp Sendker’s Whispering Shadows was “a darkly beautiful, heart-wrenching” (Booklist, starred review) journey through bustling Hong Kong’s sinister underbelly. The captivating second book in the high-stakes Rising Dragon series plunges us ...

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The Gustav Sonata: A Novel

by Rose Tremain

Published: 2016-09-27

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A breathtakingly radiant story of an unlikely childhood friendship that survives the test of time.Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only chil...

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A Night Divided

by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Published: 2015-08-25

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From NYT bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a stunning thriller about a girl who must escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall divides her family between east and west.With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and h...