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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

by Steven Millhauser

Published: 1997-03-25

Paperback: 293 pages

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award FinalistYoung Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store.  In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied  by two sisters--one a dre...

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Martyrs' Crossing (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Amy Wilentz

Published: 2002-01-02

Paperback: 330 pages

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“SOPHISTICATED AND SUSPENSEFUL . . . TAUTLY WRITTEN . . . Wilentz knows the world she writes about very well, and her descriptions have a solid specificity that lends authority to her fiction.”–The New York Times Book Review“At a closed Israeli checkpoint, Marina, a Palestinian mot...

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Maru (African Writers Series)

by Bessie Head

Published: 1997-01-23

Paperback: 128 pages

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Margaret Cadmore, an orphaned Masarwa girl, comes to Dilepe to teach, only to discover that in this remote Botswana village her own people are treated as outcasts. In the love story and intrigue that follows, Bessie Head brilliantly combines a portrait of loneliness with a rich affirmation...

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Marvin's Best Christmas Present Ever (I Can Read Book 3)

by Katherine Paterson

Published: 1999-10-31

Paperback: 48 pages

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Christmas is coming...... and Marvin is worried. His big sister, May, always makes great presents for their parents, and Marvin's are never as good. But this year, he is determined to make the best Christmas present ever -- one that will last forever.

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Mary

by Janis Cooke Newman

Published: 2012-12-10

Kindle Edition: 636 pages

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A fascinating and intimate novel of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself   Mary Todd Lincoln is one of historyâ??s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. She was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of th...

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Mary & Joseph

by Robert Marcum

Published: 2006

Hardcover: 406 pages

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Mary (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Vladimir Nabokov

Published: 2009-10

Paperback: 128 pages

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Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due...

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MARY AND O'NEIL

by JUSTIN CRONIN

Published: 2003

Paperback: 256 pages

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A luminous work of fiction that celebrates the uncommon in common lives, and the redemptive power of love.Mary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they'd ...

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Mary and O'Neil: A Novel in Stories

by Justin Cronin

Published: 2002-01-29

Paperback: 256 pages

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Mary and O’Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they’d come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not healed. How likely was it that they could...

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Mary Barton

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Published: 2011-04-27

Paperback: 344 pages

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This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.