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A French Affair

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:07:21 PST

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Some secrets are too devastating to be told...When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France, her mother - the very poised and elegant Jessica - knows instinctively there is more to it. However, Natalie's father - the glamorous, high-flying Charlie - is so paralysed by the horror of losing his daughter that he refuses even to discuss his wife's suspicions. In the end, when their marri ...

The Chocolate Lovers' Diet

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 1:54:54 PST

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Lucy Lombard thought her 'Happily Ever After' was all sorted when her gorgeous boss finally declared his love for her, but when she catches him in bed with another woman it's time to call an emergency meeting of The Chocolate Lovers' Club. Inevitably, she's not the only member with problems - Autumn, Nadia and Chantal all find themselves with dilemmas to face - the question is how much chocolate ...

Sleep With Me

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 1:53:08 PST

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Richard and Lelia's child is conceived in a moment of giggling chaos as they dress for a Christmas party. They arrive rudely late and still glowing, and barely register a slight, drab woman in the hall. Sylvie. As their baby grows, so does the presence of Sylvie - she seems to be nowhere, yet everywhere, harmless yet sinister. Richard is seduced by her subtle, inexplicable charm, while Lelia, str ...

The Castle in the Pyrenees

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 8:47:42 PST

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Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western Norway. It is a place they both have fond memories from, and their meeting turns out to be fateful. But is it purely coincidental that they meet a ...

The Second Husband

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 8:40:27 PST

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When Davis Calder moves in next door to Kate Easton and her seventeen-year-old daughter Roxy, neither has any idea of the devastation about to be unleashed.

Reunion

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 8:33:53 PST

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A heartbreaking new novel about lost loves and past regrets. A guaranteed tearjerker. Blue Reynolds has the world at her feet. Her successful daytime chat show and the attendant wealth make her the envy of women all over the globe. But little do her fans know that behind the facade of designer clothes and luxury apartments, Blue is tormented by a tragic event in her past. Whilst on a work trip ...

Delia's Frugal Food

Thu, 3 Feb 2011 0:05:37 PST

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At a time when money worries are front-page news, Britain's most trusted cook, Delia Smith, is once again on hand with a wide range of tasty recipes that are cheap and easy to prepare. Being frugal can be fun once you've learned a few simple tricks, among them: buying fresh produce when it's in season replacing more expensive ingredients with humbler alternatives experimenting with different cuts ...

Jamie's 30-Minute Meals

Thu, 3 Feb 2011 0:04:30 PST

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Jamie at Home

Thu, 3 Feb 2011 0:02:21 PST

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The international number one bestselling chef is guaranteed to dominate the bestseller charts with this new cookbook. To tie-in with a new multi-part Channel 4 TV series, this concentrates on no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. With an emphasis on seasonal and homegrown produce, Jamie spends time in his home village and comes up with 100 new recipes inspired by his veg ...

I Can Cook

Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:49:45 PST

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This title ties into the enormously successful CBeebies and BBC2 programme, "I can Cook" - showing 3-5 year olds how they can cook fantastic food themselves. "I can Cook" has been a great hit on CBeebies (and BBC2, where each 15 minute programme repeats daily during its run), regularly achieving a 30 per cent audience share. Led by charismatic presenter Katy Ashworth, 3-5 year olds learn how they ...

The River Cottage Family Cookbook

Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:40:09 PST

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'Fizz Carr and I share the view that there are no really good cookbooks for the whole family to use together. It is our immodest intention to write a classic of this genre' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's well-loved RIVER COTTAGE books have become a phenomenon, inspiring hundreds of thousands of people all over Britain to cook and enjoy good food. His new book THE RIVER ...

The Flavour Thesaurus

Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:39:41 PST

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Here are a couple of randomly chosen entries: Celery and Dill: Like a couple of spryseptuagenarians who still bother to find the right necklace for their frock ...

The Bride's Baby

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:46:11 PST

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The wedding of the season!Events manager Sylvie Smith is organizing a glittering fund-raising event: a wedding show in a stately home. She has even been roped into pretending to be a bride…a bride who's five months pregnant!The bride everyone is talking about! It should be every girl's dream to design a wedding with no expense spared, but i ...

Irresistible Forces

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:45:14 PST

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One week of mind-blowing sex on a beautiful Caribbean island. Of all the business proposals financial tycoon Dominic Saxon has heard, Taylor Steele's is ...

Slow Ride

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:37:39 PST

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Hollywood Nobody

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:36:00 PST

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Fifteen-year-old Scotty Dawn has spent her young life on the road, traveling to movie sets with her single mom, Charley, a food designer. Yet even though Scotty is wise beyond her years, she still struggles to find her identity. Complicating matters is a mother who offers no guidance and a father she's never met. Now Scotty is determined to discover what she wants from life. She's even docu ...

This Perfect World

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:38:51 PST

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Heddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that. Heddy Partridge was never my friend because I was pretty, popular, clever and blonde and my friends were pretty, popular, clever and generally blonde, too. Heddy Partridge was none of these things. Laura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving and successful husband, two beautiful children, an expensive home and a set of equ ...

Committed

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:31:42 PST

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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love,Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love withFelipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been ...

The Stolen Child

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:31:17 PST

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Her love for her Stolen Child burns fiercely and soon, secrets long kept will be broughtinto the light.Stolen Child is a love story about two families who are ...

Eat, Pray, Love

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:30:47 PST

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It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor.

Room

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:30:23 PST

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Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. 'This book will break your heart ...It is the most vivid, radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read' - "Irish Times". 'Startlingly original and moving ...Endearing and as utterly compelling as "The Lovely Bones"' - "Scotsman". 'I've never read a more ...

Breaking the Silence

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:29:56 PST

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This title is from the number 1 bestselling author of "The Lost Daughter". Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard him speak of before. A woman who remembers nothing - except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. But Laura's promise results in another death - her husband's. And after their five- ...

Fang

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:29:23 PST

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Fang is Max's best friend, her soulmate, her partner in leadership of her flock ofwinged children. A life without Fang is a life unimaginable.

Maximum Ride

Sun, 9 Jan 2011 17:20:19 PST

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When the planet faced destruction, they saved it. Max and the flock have traded in Antarctica's subzero temperatures for sunny Los Angeles, where they're taking over the skies with their hair-raising air show. But far below, a deadly assassin watches their every move, waiting for the perfect moment to send them plummeting to earth. Now the battle for survival rages on. Suddenly, the flock lear ...

One Day

Sun, 9 Jan 2011 17:17:44 PST

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'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows? Twenty years ...

Soul Identity

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:36:41 PST

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Are they running a freaky cult? Or a sophisticated con job? Scott needs to save Soul Identity from an insider attack.

Monsters of Men

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:10:50 PST

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As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrousdecisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from ...

The Ask and the Answer

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:10:47 PST

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We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men. Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Imme ...

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:10:44 PST

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A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard — and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret. Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the mid ...

The Vampyre

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:39:31 PST

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The Adventure Of Wisteria Lodge

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:37:53 PST

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Quite so. Why did they fly? There is a big fact. Another big fact is the remarkable experience of our client, Scott Eccles. Now, my dear Watson, is it beyond the limits of human ingenuity to furnish an explanation which would cover both of these big facts? If it were one which would also admit of the mysterious note with its very curious phraseology, why, then it would be worth accepting as a tem ...

The Happy Prince and Other Stories

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:03:07 PST

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These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include "The Happy Prince", who was not as happy as he seemed; "The Selfish Giant", who learned to love little children; and "The Star Child", who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents...Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

The Magician's Apprentice

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:48:19 PST

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Set hundreds of years before the events of "The Magicians' Guild," THE MAGICIAN'S APPRENTICE is the new novel set in the world of Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy. In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer. Her mother would rather she found a husband. But her life is about to take a very unexpected turn. When the advances of a visitin ...

Homer and Classical Philology

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:59:47 PST

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc.

The Eleven Comedies Volume 2

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:53:56 PST

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Now for the First Time Literally and Completely Translated from the Greek Tongue into English

The Eleven Comedies Volume 1

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:52:32 PST

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The eleven plays all that have come down to us out of a total of over forty staged by our author in the course of his long career deal with the events of the ...

History fo the Conflict Between Religion and Science

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:51:43 PST

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... I. THE OKIGEST OF SCIENCE. Religious condition of the Greeks in the fourth century before Christ.— Their invasion of the Persian Empire brings them in ...

Plato

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:47:16 PST

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Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the first time in European thought, a central question: is it right to disobey the state? Socrates' controversial answer in "Crito" has generated much contemporary literature, but no English commentary of the Greek text for seventy-five years. This new edition aims to provide an up-to-date literary and ph ...

An Introduction to Philosophy

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 2:15:39 PST

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The present book has been made as clear and simple as possible- that no unnecessary difficulties may be placed in the path of those who enter upon the thorny road of philosophical reflection. (Excerpt from original Preface)

Eleven Minutes

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:15:32 PST

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After being tricked into moving to Geneva with the promise of being a dancer, Maria finds herelf working the streets as a prostitute for a year. During this time she develops a fascination for sex. This fascination becomes a passion for her work, a desire to make people happy and enjoy sex. But behind the dedication to her work is a deep aversion to the idea of falling in love. That is until she ...

Five Little Peppers Abroad

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:33:25 PST

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Polly obeyed with an awful feeling at her heart. She glanced at Phronsie's little bed; she was not there! Mrs. Fisher threw the pink wrapper over her head; Polly thrust her arms into the sleeves, feeling as if she were sinking way down. "Now come." And Mamsie seized her hand and hurried her through her own room without another word. It was empty. Father Fisher and Phronsie were nowhere to be seen ...

Five Little Peppers Midway

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:33:25 PST

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This important declaration over, the two set forth on their way toward the kitchen, Phronsie clinging to his hand, and chatting merrily over the particular pie in prospect, with varied remarks on pies in general, that by and by would be ventured upon if this present one were a success

Five Little Peppers and Their Friends

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:33:21 PST

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Oh, you beggar! exclaimed Joel, not to the dog, but to the oar drifting off quickly. It was an easy thing, however, so he thought, to recover it, and he made no special haste to paddle along as best he might after it. Just at this moment another boat came suddenly in sight around a curve. It didn't hold Joel's friends, but a wholly different set, some city boys who had no rights on the pond. And ...

Five Little Peppers Grown Up

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:33:17 PST

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No more had you a right to tell, Polly, said her mother, "if that is the case," and she turned a cheerful face toward her; "I can trust my girl, that she won't keep anything that is her own, away from me. There, there;" and she smoothed Polly's brown hair with her hand. "How I used to be always telling you to brush your hair, and now how nice it looks, Polly," she added approvingly.

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:33:15 PST

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No, said Polly, firmly; "not one, Joe; she'll guess if you do." But Mrs. Pepper was so utterly engrossed with her baby when she came home and heard the account of the accident, that she wouldn't have guessed if there'd been a dozen cakes in the cupboard. Joel was consoled, as his mother assured him in a satisfactory way that she never should think of blaming him.

The Saddest Girl in the World

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:17:59 PST

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The bestselling author of Damaged tells the true story of Donna, who came into foster care aged ten, having been abused, victimised and rejected by her mother.

Cut

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:17:57 PST

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In her latest paperback, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her. Dawn was the first girl Cathy Glass ever fostered. Sweet and seemingly well balanced girl, Dawn's outward appearance masked a traumatic ...

The Devil and Miss Prym

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:15:56 PST

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A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time seems to stand still -- a s ...

Veronika Decides to Die

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:52:57 PST

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The Ice Cream Girls

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:23:05 PST

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At only eighteen years of age, Poppy and Serena were the only witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated public debate and scrutiny, the two glamorous teens were dubbed 'The Ice Cream Girls' by the press and forced to go their separate ways and to lead very different lives. Twenty years later, Poppy is keen to set the record straight about what really happened, while married mother-of-two Serena wa ...

Before I Fall

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:22:19 PST

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Her Fearful Symmetry

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:21:29 PST

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Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second ...

The Cuckoo Clock

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:57:06 PST

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But it is, said Griselda, getting rather vexed. "If it isn't a garden it's grounds, private grounds, and nobody should come without leave. This path leads down to the wood, and there's a door in the wall at the bottom to get into the lane. You may go down that way, little boy. No one comes scrambling up the way you did."

The life, adventures and pyracies, of the famous captain Singleton

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:54:38 PST

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:53:15 PST

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At this there was bustling at the Sheriff's castle, and men ran hither and thither upon this business and upon that, while the forge fires of Nottingham glowed red far into the night like twinkling stars, for all the smiths of the town were busy making or mending armor for the Sheriff's troop of escort. For two days this labor lasted, then, on the third, all was ready for the journey.

The black arrow

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:49:08 PST

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An inland voyage

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:48:30 PST

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As a young man, Robert Louis Stevenson made a canoe voyage along the rivers and canals of Belgium and Northern France, continuing on foot in the Loire region. This is his little-known account of that voyage, with a glimpse of the changing scenery along the route captured in the watercolour and ink illustrations. For today's traveller retracing the journey, the route has been divided into four iti ...

Silverado Squatters Audiobook

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:48:12 PST

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Like the winemakers he visited, Robert Louis Stevenson bottled the flavors of the Napa Valley in the summer of 1880. He had just married Fanny Osbourne and, with her son, the new family set up camp in a bunkhouse near an abandoned silver mine. The unique characters and serene beauty of the valley gave the young author much to write about. He was dubbed by some locals "the scribbler" for his hab ...

The Adventures Of Caleb Williams, Or, Things

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:47:32 PST

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He figured himself, as about to be deserted by every creature in human form; all men, under the influence of a fatal enchantment, approving only what was sophisticated and artificial, and holding the rude and genuine offspring of nature in mortal antipathy. Impressed with these gloomy presages, he saw Miss Melville with no sentiments but those of rancorous aversion; and, accustomed as he was to t ...

The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:47:07 PST

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Sejanus his fall

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:46:32 PST

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This edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy is more intensively researched than any that has previously appeared.

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:46:08 PST

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Based on the experiences of Trollope's son Frederic, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil deals with the problems facing a young sheepfarmer, or `squatter', in outback Australia. Using the conventions of the Christmas story, established by Dickens in the late 1840s, the novel shows Harry Heathcote thwarting the envious ex-convict neighbours who harbour his disgruntled former employees and who attempt to se ...

The Duke's Children

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:44:09 PST

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Designed for both general readers and students of English literature at all levels, this edition of Trollope's novel contains an introduction, notes and comments on the text.

The Kellys and the O'kellys

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:43:02 PST

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Vendetta

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:42:43 PST

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Large format for easy reading. Work from the 'La Comedie Humaine' series from the man hailed as the 'Charles Dickens of France' and one of the founding ...

The Nabob

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:41:21 PST

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Furthermore, this nabob has all the physical qualities for the part--a copper- colouredskin, eyes like burning coals, and, what is more, gigantic wealth, of...

Strong As Death

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:41:01 PST

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GUE DE MAUPASSAN" ...

The Magic Skin/la Peau De Chagrin

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:40:16 PST

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The devil take you! said Raphael. "How are you to enter into my feelings if I do not relate the facts that insensibly shaped my character, made me timid, and prolonged the period of youthful simplicity? In this manner I cowered under as strict a despotism as a monarch's till I came of age. To depict the tedium of my life, it will be perhaps enough to portray my father to you.

Angels of Destruction

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:39:49 PST

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"-"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" Margaret Quinn lives alone, quietly mourningthe disappearance of her only child, who fled ten years earlier to join a radical ...

The Chimes: Unabridged

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:38:53 PST

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The second of Dickens' "Christmas Books", "The Chimes" recounts the tale of a poor day laborer, Toby Veck. Like Scrooge, Toby is guided by a specter through the scenes that refocus his views of Victorian London with all its "stern realities".

The Uncommercial Traveller

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:38:31 PST

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No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me, no boots admires and envies me. No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of public entertainment in the ...

Going into Society, and Hunted Down

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:37:57 PST

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Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), also known as "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters, and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. The popularity of his novels and short stories has me ...

The Betrothed

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:37:34 PST

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Scott was uneasy about how The Betrothed would be received by the reading public, so it was originally published with The Talisman as Tales of the Crusaders on June 22, 1825. He shouldn't have been. The story here -- a sordid tale of Eveline Berenger and the de Lacys involving love, loss, seeming betrayal, and redemption -- was a good one; well received when published with The Talisman, and grea ...

The Dawn of a To-morrow

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:35:55 PST

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A Lady of Quality

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:34:48 PST

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The White People

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:29:22 PST

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I went to tea under the big apple-tree. It was very big and old and wonderful. No wonder Mr. MacNairn and his mother loved it. Its great branches spread out farther than I had ever seen the branches of an apple-tree spread before. They were gnarled and knotted and beautiful with age. Their shadows upon the grass were velvet, deep and soft.

The Shuttle

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:28:59 PST

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consider the step if he had not been driven hard by circumstances. His fortunes had reached a stage where money must be forthcoming somehow — from somewhere ...

Robin

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:26:42 PST

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1922. Burnett, began as a novelist, but she is now best remembered for her children's books including The Secret Garden and Sara Crewe (which was later rewritten to become The Little Princess). Her romance novels were also quite popular during her lifetime. Robin was one of her last novels for adults. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Due to the age and scarcity ...

The Land of the Blue Flower

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:24:16 PST

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In the finest fairy-tale tradition, THE LAND OF THE BLUE FLOWER tells of the transformation of the hateful kingdom of King ...

The Lost Prince

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:23:54 PST

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Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy. Following the death of her mother in 1872, eighteen-year-old Frances found herself the head of a family of four younger siblings. She turned to writing to support them all. Her main writing talent was c ...

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:23:33 PST

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This is the story of a small, angelic boy from New York who is told he is the heir to an English Earldom and is whisked away to the English countryside where he begins to win over his bad-tempered old grandfather. When the boy's identity is challenged, his old friends from New York come to his rescue.

Painless Writing

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:23:08 PST

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Updated with many new references, this entertaining book advises students on ways to enliven their essay assignments with vivid images, avoid the dull passive voice, and construct smooth, well-crafted sentences that flow together to create unified themes. Short quizzes called “Brain Ticklers” appear throughout the text. Titles in Barron’s Painless Series are written especially for middle school ...

Hans Christian Andersen's Fairytales

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:22:46 PST

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Lisbeth Zwerger is one of the world's preeminent children's book artists, and one of the most original interpreters of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairytales. This handsome collection, originally published in 1991 now returns in celebration of Hans Christian Andersen's 200th birthday. It includes eleven favorite stories, such as "The Princess and the Pea" and "The Emperor's New Clothes," as ...

Writing Well

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:21:42 PST

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Naming the World

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:19:43 PST

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You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering dialogue to setting the scene, Naming the World jump-starts your creativity with inspiring exer ...

The Modern Library Writer's Workshop

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:17:30 PST

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“Make [your] characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.” —Kurt Vonnegut “‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.” —John Le Carré Nothing is more inspiring for a beginning writer than listening to masters ...

Plot & Structure

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:16:58 PST

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The second book in the Write Great Fiction series, Plot & Structure offers clear and concise information on creating a believable and engaging plot that readers can't resist. Written by award-winning thriller and suspense author James Scott Bell, this handy instruction guide provides: * Easy-to-understand techniques on every aspect of plotting and structure, from brainstorming story ideas to bu ...

The Art of Styling Sentences

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:15:54 PST

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Accepted writing style conventions change very slowly, but they do change. That is all the more reason why this favorite reference book for students, writers, and educators requires periodic updating. In this new edition, the authors review the fundamentals of correct sentence structure, then present twenty basic sentence patterns that encompass virtually every effective way of writing simple, co ...

The Art of Writing

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:13:58 PST

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In these essays, Stevenson gives advice on a variety of subjects, ranging from inspiration and direction to the technical methods of writing. He explains the basic tools of word choice, rhythm in verse and prose, plotting, and style, with a discussion of the morality of writing--the potential for good that literature has, and the responsibility of the writer to wisely use that power. Newly design ...

Behind a Mask

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:12:02 PST

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Six years before she wrote Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, in financial straits, entered "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," a novelette, in a newspaper contest. Not only did it win the $100 prize, but, published anonymously, it marked the first in the series of "blood & thunder tales" that would be her livelihood for years. In Behind a Mask, editor Madeleine Stern introduces four Alcott thrille ...

Pauline's Passion and Punishment

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:11:37 PST

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Wholesome and moralistic stories for children from the author of Little Women. ...

A Modern Cinderella or The Little Old Shoe And Other Stories

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:11:08 PST

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Marjorie's Three Gifts

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:10:46 PST

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Louisa May Alcott (1832 -1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, published in 1868. Due to the family's poverty, ...

Jo's Boys

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:10:04 PST

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This is the fourth and last book about the March family. Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, there is now a college, built with a legacy from old Mr. Lawrence. All Jo's original children are grown young men, scattered around the world, and graceful young women with high ambitions. But young men face as many troubles as children do, and they are still 'Jo's boys'.

Jack and Jill

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:09:38 PST

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Jack and Jill never cared to say much about the night which followed the first coasting party of the season, for it was the saddest and the hardest their short lives had ever known. Jack suffered most in body; for the setting of the broken leg was such a painful job, that it wrung several sharp cries from him, and made Frank, who helped, quite weak and white with sympathy, when it was over.

Under the Lilacs

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:09:18 PST

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Classic novel by the author of "Little Women."

Rose in Bloom

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:08:56 PST

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Six years before she wrote Little Women, and in financial straits, Louisa May Alcott entered "Pauline's Passion and Punishment, " a novelette, in a newspaper contest. Not only did it win the $100 prize, but, published anonymously, it marked the first of the series of "blood & thunder tales" that would provide her livelihood for years. For as she said, "They are easy to 'compoze' & are better paid ...

Eight Cousins

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:08:39 PST

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After the death of her father, orphan Rose Campbell has no choice but to go and live at the 'Aunt Hill' with her six aunts and seven boy cousins. For someone who was used to a girl's boarding school, it all seems pretty overwhelming, especially since her guardian Uncle Alec makes her eat healthy things like oatmeal, and even tries to get her to give up her pretty dresses for more drab, sensible c ...

Work

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:08:15 PST

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For a week she enjoyed her liberty heartily, then set about finding something to do. Her wish was to be a governess, that being the usual refuge for respectable girls who have a living to get. But Christie soon found her want of accomplishments a barrier to success in that line, for the mammas thought less of the solid than of the ornamental branches, and wished their little darlings to learn Fre ...

Little Men

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 3:01:53 PST

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