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Adam Bede (Wordsworth Classics)

by George Eliot

Published: 2000-12-05

Paperback: 528 pages

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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length...

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The Stone Carvers

by Jane Urquhart

Published: 2003-11-25

Paperback: 400 pages

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In 1867 a good-natured Bavarian priest, is sent by God and mad King Ludwig to the wilds of North America. Soon the backwoods are transformed into a parish and the settlers into a congregation, and Joseph Becker, a woodcarver, meets his future wife. Several decades later, Joseph Becker teaches his astounding...

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A Woman's Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers

by Hannah Kimberley

Published: 2017-08-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereo...

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Mother's Milk

by Edward St Aubyn

Published: 2012-02-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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First published in 2006, Mother's Milk is the fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year and won the 2007 Prix Femina Etranger and the 2007 South Bank Literature Award. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril....

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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance: A Novel

by Ruth Emmie Lang

Published: 2017-11-14

Hardcover: 352 pages

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"Exquisite and adventurous" ?Bustle, "11 New Fiction Books You Need""Told with brains and heart" ?Michelle Gable, New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment"Bristles with charm and curiosity" ?Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of Forrest Gump"A wholly original an...

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Baltimore's Mansion

by Wayne Johnston

Published: 2000-05-16

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The acclaimed author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams introduces us to the Johnstons of Newfoundland in an intimate, captivating memoir of three generations of fathers and sons.The New York Times called Wayne Johnston's The Colony of Unrequited Dreams "an eventful, character-rich book......

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Eddie's Bastard: A Novel

by William Kowalski

Published: 2009-05-28

Kindle Edition: 387 pages

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"Eddie's Bastard" is William Amos Mann IV, known as Billy -- the son of a heroic pilot killed in Vietnam and an unknown woman. The last in a line of proud, individualistic Irish-American men, Billy is discovered in a basket at the door of the dilapidated mansion where his bitter, hard-drin...

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The Electrical Field: A Novel

by Kerri Sakamoto

Published: 2000-06-17

Paperback: 328 pages

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Winner of the Commonwealth Prize for First Fiction, finalist for the Canadian Governor General Award, the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize: a rare and haunting debut about memory and murder, the unusual friendship between an aging Japanese...

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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

by Michael W. Twitty

Published: 2017-08-01

Hardcover: 464 pages

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2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, ra...

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Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11

by Kevin Tuerff

Published: 2017-02-15

Paperback: 134 pages

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“Kevin Tuerff’s firsthand account takes us inside a 9/11 story that is largely unknown and helps to restore our faith that human beings need not always be divided by our differences.” —Wade Goodwyn, NPR “Kevin Tuerff tells a delightful and heartwarming story that takes us from on...