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The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Published: 2002-10-07

Paperback: 256 pages

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This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the...

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Virginia Woolf: The Waves (Landmarks of World Literature)

by Virginia Woolf, Eric Warner

Published: 1986-10-31

Paperback: 128 pages

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Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme with her earlier, more accessible works. A final chapter...

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The Virginian

by Owen Wister

Published: 2010-03-11

Paperback: 536 pages

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The Shelf2Life Western Fiction Collection is a fascinating set of pre-1923 materials that capture the beauty, mystery and adventure of the old west. From honorable cowboys and spirited pioneer women to questionable sheriffs, notorious gunslingers and unruly outlaws, these classic westerns introduce...

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The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (Thrift Edition)

by Owen Wister

Published: 2006-04-28

Paperback: 304 pages

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Set in the vast Wyoming territory, this masterpiece helped establish the code of the West and its stereotypical characters: the genteel but brave, white-hatted cowboy, the pretty spinster from back East, and villains beyond redemption. The novel is also on record for incorporating the firs...

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Virgins

by Rivers

Published: 1986-11-02

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Virgin's Lover

by Philippa Gregory

Published: 2005-04-25

Paperback: 496 pages

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Sumptuous historical novel set in the court of Elizabeth I, from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced...

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The Virgin's Lover

by Philippa Gregory

Published: 2005-08-30

Paperback: 464 pages

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The National Bestseller In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utter dread. She is Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, and she knows that Elizabeth's ambitious leap to the throne will draw...

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The Virtue of Selfishness

by Ayn Rand

Published: 1964-11-01

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Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds man's life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.

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Virtuosity

by Jessica Martinez

Published: 2011-10-18

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Now is not the time for Carmen to fall in love. And Jeremy is hands-down the wrong guy for her to fall for. He is infuriating, arrogant, and the only person who can stand in the way of Carmen getting the one thing she wants most: to win the prestigious Guarneri competition. Carmen's whole ...

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A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club)

by Kaye Gibbons

Published: 1997-11-05

Paperback: 165 pages

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When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He h...