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Jamaica Inn

by Daphne Du Maurier

Published: 1995-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimps...

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* * * * * Inspiring,
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James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl

Published: 2000-04-26

Paperback: 144 pages

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Roald Dahl's children's classic will be rediscovered with wonder and delight in this handsome gift edition with all-new black-and-white illustrations by Caldecott Honor Book artist Lane Smith (who also designed the characters for the Disney animated film).��How James escapes from his miser...

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James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)

by James Baldwin

Published: 1998-02-01

Hardcover: 869 pages

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"Collected Essays" is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published. The collection confirms his as a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. Included are such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto", "Everybody's Protest Novel", Many Thousands Gone", and "Stra...

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James T Farrell: Studs Lonigan a Trilogy (Library of America)

by James T. Farrell

Published: 2004-02-09

Hardcover: 1024 pages

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An unparalleled example of American naturalism, the Studs Lonigan trilogy follows the hopes and dissipations of its remarkable main character—a would-be “tough guy” and archetypal adolescent, born to Irish-American parents on Chicago's South Side—through the turbulent y...

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* * * * Adventurous,
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Jamrach's Menagerie: A Novel

by Carol Birch

Published: 2011-06-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for FictionA thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal. Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-cent...

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Jane

by April Lindner

Published: 2010-10-11

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Forced to drop out of an esteemed East Coast college after the sudden death of her parents, Jane Moore takes a nanny job at Thornfield Park, the estate of Nico Rathburn, a world-famous rock star on the brink of a huge comeback. Practical and independent, Jane reluctantly becomes entranced ...

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Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery (Jane Austen Mysteries)

by Stephanie Barron

Published: 1996-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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For everyone who loves Jane Austen...a marvelously entertaining new series that turns the incomparable author into an extraordinary sleuth!On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Isobel's husband�...

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Jane Austen - 8 Books In 1: Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love & Friendship

by Jane Austen

Published: 2006-10-01

Paperback: 792 pages

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The Jane Austen Book Club (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)

Published: 2005

Cards: 0 pages

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This Audiofy audiobook chip packs Kimberly Schraf's one hour reading of "The Jane Austen Book Club" on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory...

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The Jane austen book club

by KAI LUN QIAO YI FU LE ZHU

Published: 1991

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