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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Brontë |
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s… |
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Dark eye
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William Bernhardt |
Sometimes her eyes seduce. Sometimes they stare straight at the kind of sights most people turn away from. But in the blazing neon and searing sun of Las Vegas, she can't see the man who is watching … |
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My Brilliant Career
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Miles Franklin |
The fierce, irreverent novel of aspiration and rebellion that is both a cornerstone of Australian literature and a feminist classic
Miles Franklin began the candid, passionate, and contrary My Bri… |
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At the Sicilian Count's Command
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Carole Mortimer |
Count Wolf Gambrelli annoyed, irritated... and aroused her. Angelica tried to hate the Sicilian, but couldn't get him out of her head! Wolf had been chosen to protect her, and Angelica hoped her bod… |
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Wizard's Daughter
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Catherine Coulter |
Dear Reader:
When Ryder Sherbrooke finds a child nearly beaten to death in an alley in Eastbourne, he takes her home to Brandon House. She doesn't speak for six months. Her first words, oddly eno… |
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Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
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Heinrich Böll |
**The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: how violence develops and where it can lead** (original German title: *Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen k… |
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Flirting with Pete
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Barbara Delinsky |
Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father -- but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town… |
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Silent honor
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Danielle Steel |
The drama of a young Japanese woman, Hiroko, who comes to the U.S. to attend college and falls in love with a white American, Peter. Their romance is shattered by Pearl Harbor. He goes off to war, sh… |
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Cool for you
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Eileen Myles |
*Cool For You* is a darkly comic novel that traces the downbeat progress of an Irish American girl through a series of stuttering efforts to leave home. *Cool For You*'s tough girl narrator wants to … |
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The awkward age
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Henry James |
Nanda Brookenham is 'coming out' in London society. Thrust suddenly into the vicious, immoral circle that has gathered round her mother, she even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for … |
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Midnight Rambler
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James Swain |
Explosive. Pulse-pounding. Heart-racing. From the bestselling author The Wall Street Journal hails as "one terrific writer," Midnight Rambler is the breakout thriller of the year--a brawny, brainy no… |
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Duainfey
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Sharon Lee,Steve Miller |
Rebecca Beauvelley is a ruined woman. In a moment of girlish folly, she allowed a high-flying young man to take her up in his phaeton, not realizing that he was drunk. When he dropped the ribbons, sh… |
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Circle of Friends
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Maeve Binchy |
It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring… |
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Angel Fire East
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Terry Brooks |
As a Knight of the Word, John Ross has struggled against the dark forces of the Void and his minions for twenty-five years. The grim future he dreams each night-- a world reduced to blood and ashes-… |
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Twenties Girl
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Sophie Kinsella |
Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don't get visited by ghosts. Or do they… |
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Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford love story
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Sir Max Beerbohm |
That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and gaz… |
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Vanishing acts
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Jodi Picoult |
Picoult's richly layered and suspenseful novel explores the power of love and memory . . . what happens when the past we have been running from catches up to us.'The compelling story weaves character… |
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