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Love, honor and betray
During the tumultuous times of the War of 1812, Charlotte Beckwith, a fiesty American patriot, and Seth Porterfield, the bastard son of a British Duke, forge a new life together
by Elizabeth Kary
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Anna of the Five Towns, a novel
I: THE KINDLING OF LOVE THE yard was all silent and empty under the burning afternoon heat, which had made its asphalt springy like turf, when suddenly the children threw themselves out of the great doors at either end of the Sunday- ...
by Arnold Bennett
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Rating: 5.00
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The namesake
An incisive portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life, in a debut ...
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Rating: 3.00
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The shape of time, remarks on the history of things
Arising from the study of art history, this book presents a radically new approach to the problem of historical change.
by George Kubler
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The Maiden All Forlorn
So he devised a plan to find 'a maiden all forlorn' - a girl in such desperate straits that Mia would feel compelled to hire her, if only to save her from her sad situation.
by Courtney Seligman
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Stella Fregelius, a tale of three destinies
STELLA FREGELIUS CHAPTER I Morris, Mary, and the Aerophone Above, the sky seemed one vast arc of solemn blue, set here and there with points of tremulous fire ; below, to the shadowy horizon, stretched the plain of the soft grey sea, ...
by Henry Rider Haggard
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Rating: 4.50
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Interpreter of Maladies
In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.
by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Schools Without Fail
The author of the bestselling "Reality Therapy" offers daring recommendations to "shake up educators" (Alexander Bassin).
by William Glasser
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No More Dying Then
Inspectors Wexford and Burden discover a complex and sordid web of blackmail, scandal, and murder during their investigation into the death of one child and the disappearance of another. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
by Ruth Rendell
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How children learn
Explores the natural learning processes of children at the pre-school and primary grade level and describes the ways in which formal education damages and impedes the child's independent ability to learn
by John Caldwell Holt
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