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Miss Julia Throws a Wedding

by Ann B. Ross

Published: 2003-02-25

Paperback: 308 pages

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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust (New Edition) (New Directions Paperbook)

by Nathanael West

Published: 2009-06-23

Paperback: 208 pages

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"A primer for Big Bad City disillusionment, unsparing in its portrayal of New York's debilitating entropy."—The Village Voice. With a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem. First published in 1933, Miss Lonelyhearts remains one of the most shocking works of 20th century American literature...

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Miss Me When I'm Gone

by Emily Arsenault

Published: 2012-07-31

Paperback: 356 pages

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?A very clever wordsmith.? ?New York Times Book Review ?Ms. Arsenault?reveals strange truths beneath everyday surfaces.??Wall Street Journal Emily Arsenault's first two novels, Broken Teaglass (?a beautifully written, engaging mystery? ?Dorothy Allison) and In Search of the Rose Notes, rec...

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)

by Ransom Riggs

Published: 2016-08-02

Paperback: 392 pages

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The #1 New York Times Best Seller is now a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton, starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Samuel L. Jackson, and Judi Dench.   Bonus features • Q&A with author Ransom Riggs • Eight pages of color stills from the film • Sn...

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics)

by Winifred Watson

Published: 2008-12-31

Paperback: 256 pages

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Miss Pettigrew is about a governess sent by an employment agency to the wrong address, where she encounters a glamorous night-club singer, Miss LaFosse. 'The sheer fun, the light-heartedness' in this wonderful 1938 book 'feels closer to a Fred Astaire film than anything else' comments the Preface-writer...

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Miss Potter: The Novel

by Richard Maltby Jr.

Published: 2006-12-28

Paperback: 189 pages

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A novel based on the upcoming motion picture on Beatrix Potter�s life, starring Ren�e Zellweger as Beatrix Potter and Ewan McGregor as the man she loved. Written by the film�s screenwriter, the novel expands the plotline of his script, blending historical fact and imaginative interpretation to tell a...

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Miss Scarlet's School of Patternless Sewing (Crafty Chica)

by Kathy Cano-Murillo

Published: 2011-03-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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Sometimes to find your life's true path, you have to stray outside the lines . . .Scarlet Santana is never happier than when creating fabulous fashions for women of all shapes and sizes. Now, after years of hard work, she finally has the chance to live her dream and study under the hottest...

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Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller

by Sarah Miller

Published: 2010-08-31

Paperback: 256 pages

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Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in 1887. Desperate for work, she?d taken on a seemingly impossible job?teaching a child who was deaf, blind, and as ferocious as any wild animal. But if anyone was a match for Helen Ke...

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Miss Timmins' School for Girls: A Novel

by Nayana Currimbhoy

Published: 2011-06-21

Paperback: 496 pages

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A murder at a British boarding school in the hills of western India launches a young teacher on the journey of a lifetime In 1974, three weeks before her twenty-first birthday, Charulata Apte arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani. Shy, sheltered, and running from a scan...

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Miss Understanding

by Stephanie Lessing

Published: 2006-11-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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