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Sylvia\'s Lovers Complete
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
A powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia's Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and… |
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Dance Upon the Air
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Nora Roberts |
When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband--and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months a… |
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The optimist's daughter
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Eudora Welty |
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel, a widow who returns to Mississippi when her father is ill and witnesses his death and funeral. From there, she embarks on a deeply personal journey to … |
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Fatal tide
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Iris Johansen |
A high-stakes treasure hunt...A twisted trail of murder...A secret one woman may die to discover...Number one New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen last electrified readers with Dead Aim an… |
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The world according to Garp
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John Irving |
"A Henry Robbins book." |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Lisa See |
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer in Yongming County, and to her family is just another mouth to feed until she can be married off. But when she is six years old she is brought before the ambit… |
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American Women Writers
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Edith Wharton,Louisa May Alcott,Kate Chopin,Edna Ferber |
[The Awakening][1] / Kate Chopin --
A whisper in the dark / Louisa May Alcott --
Selected stories / Edna Ferber --
The house of mirth (an extract) / Edith Wharton.
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Middlemarch Volume I
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George Eliot |
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent… |
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Kate Chopin
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Kate Chopin |
A precursor of the twentieth century's feminist authors, Kate Chopin (1850–1904) wrote short stories and novels for children and adults. The St. Louis native lived in New Orleans for a dozen years an… |
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan,Ronald Bass,Jordi Fibla,Tsai Chin,Wayne Wang,Gwendoline Yeo |
Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet we… |
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Caesar's Women
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Colleen McCullough |
The story of Julius Caesar and his rise to fame in Rome_ |
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Summer house
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Nancy Thayer |
After years of wandering from whim to whim, thirty-year-old Charlotte Wheelwright seems to have at last found her niche. The free spirit enjoys running an organic gardening business on the island of … |
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The Enchantress of Florence
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Salman Rushdie |
A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell … |
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The witches of Eastwick
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John Updike |
Three friends get more what they wish for when the guy of their dreams shows up in their sleepy little town. Then Darryl van Horn starts dating all three of them and reveals that they're witches. But… |
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Agatha Webb
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Anna Katharine Green |
The dance was over. From the great house on the hill the guests had all departed and only the musicians remained. As they filed out through the ample doorway, on their way home, the first faint strea… |
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Plantation
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Dorothea Benton Frank |
The New York Times bestseller—in trade for the first time.Pat Conroy called Dorothea Benton Frank's debut, Sullivan's Island, "hilarious and wise," while Anne Rivers Siddons declared that it "roars w… |
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A Sundog Moment
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Sharon Baldacci |
In Baldacci's deeply moving debut novel, a woman with multiple sclerosis faces a new journey fraught with wrenching pain, enduring wisdom, and authentic joy. |
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The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin (At the 'cadian Ball / Athénaïse / Awakening / …
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Kate Chopin |
Contains:
[The Awakening][1]
Wiser than a god.
A point at issue!
A shameful affair.
Miss McEnders.
At the 'Cadian Ball.
[Désirée's Baby][2]
Madame Celestin's divorce.
A lady of Bayou St. J… |
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Virgins of Paradise
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Barbara Wood |
Inside a beautiful mansion on Virgins of Paradise Street in post-World War II Cairo, Jasmine and Camelia Rasheed grow to womanhood under the watchful eyes of their grandmother and the other women of … |
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The murder stone
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Charles Todd |
Charles Todd's critically acclaimed novels featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge have been hailed by The Washington Post Book World as "one of the best historical series being written today.… |
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