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"Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do...
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Presents Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel about a young woman of the bourgeois class whose unhappiness in her marriage leads her to several affairs and a tragic fate. Includes a scholarly introduction and documents from the trial in which Flaubert was accused of offending public morality.
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When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first...
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"While she was writing columns for The Irish Times and her best-selling novels, Maeve Binchy also had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one these people. She would then put it in a drawer. "For the future," she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath's Crescent (which readers will recognize from Minding Frankie) is...
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Four very different women--the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs. Wilkins, the sad sweet-faced Mrs. Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs. Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lacy Caroline Dexter--are drawn to the shores of the Mediterranean in April. Each in turn blossoms in the warmth of the Italian spring, and finds their spirits stirring. Quite unexpected changes occur. Written in 1922, this is a deceptive and timely novel immured in the post-war...
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