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Agnes Grey
Published: 2011-12-23
Paperback: 202 pages
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Agnes Grey s family faces financial ruin, and she must find employment. Limited by gender and class, Agnes becomes a governess a vocation that teaches her about the corrosive power of status and wealth. A realistic meditation on Victorian mores, Agnes Grey is the first of the two novels Anne Bronte wrote...
Agnes Grey (Arcturus Paperback Classics)
Published: 2010-06-01
Paperback: 192 pages
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When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes' enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield...
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Published: 1990-01-01
Paperback: 784 pages
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The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
Published: 1963-01-02
Mass Market Paperback: 0 pages
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Agony of the Leaves (A Tea Shop Mystery)
Published: 2012-03-06
Hardcover: 320 pages
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In the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Scones and Bones, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning finds herself in hot water when a body surfaces at the grand opening of Charleston's Neptune Aquarium... The opening of the aquarium is a major Charleston event, ...
Agua para elefantes/ Water for Elephants
Published: 2007-10-30
Paperback: 432 pages
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Ahab's Wife
Published: 1999-10-01
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This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature -- along with "Call me Ishmael." And Una Spenser, the transcendent hero at the center of Ahab's Wife may well become every bit as memorable as Ahab. Inspired by a brief passage, in Moby, Dick, S...
Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel
Published: 2000-10-01
Paperback: 688 pages
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From the opening line--"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"--you will know that you are in the hands of a masterful storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Melville's Moby-Dick, where Captain Ahab speaks passionately of ...
Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.)
Published: 2005-08-02
Paperback: 668 pages
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From the opening line—"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"—you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and comp...
Ain't She Sweet? (Avon Romance)
Published: 2005-02-01
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
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Sugar Beth Carey's come back to Parrish, Mississippi, and she's brought her reputation for wreaking havoc with her. She's broke, desperate, and too proud to show it, even with her old enemies lining up for a chance to get even. Her former girlfriends have their eyebrow pencils sharpened in...
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