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Sister Carrie
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Theodore Dreiser |
Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York. |
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The Adventures of Caleb Williams
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William Godwin |
The Adventures of Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Int… |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent … |
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Fools Die
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Mario Puzo |
Merlyn, a famous writer, is addicted to Las Vegas Casinos and the delights of Hollywood. |
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Maybe the Moon
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Armistead Maupin |
Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast an… |
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La meta
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Jeff Cox,Eliyahu M. Goldratt |
The Goal is about new global principles of manufacturing. It's about people trying to understand what makes their world tick so that they can make it better. As they think logically and consistently … |
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Доктор Живаго
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak |
***This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987.*** One of the results of its publication in the… |
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The Abbess of Crewe
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Muriel Spark |
The Abbess has been newly elected crushing her one rival, the bleeding heart Felicity. The abbey Crewe finds itself deeply troubled with police and their dogs and the scandal-scenting media, and it a… |
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Jude the Obscure
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Thomas Hardy |
Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control. Jude Fawley, a poor vill… |
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The Satanic Verses
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Salman Rushdie |
The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published September 26, 1988 and inspired in part by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magi… |
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Escuela De Ilusiones
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Maeve Binchy |
In Dublin, an evening class of Italian language and culture changes the lives of its students. A girl finds love, a boy abandons crime, a man regains a reason for living. It is the work of the teache… |
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Just kidding
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Trudy Ludwig |
With help from his father, older brother, and teacher, D.J. learns how to handle a classmate who claims that his mean-spirited "teasing" is just a joke. |
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What's bred in the bone
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Robertson Davies |
Francis Cornish was always good at keeping secrets. From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, a master art restorer, a Bavarian cou… |
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