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Madam Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Published: 2014-07-06

Paperback: 232 pages

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Madame Bovary (1856) is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal,...

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Four Midwestern Sisters' Christmas Book

by Holly J. Burkhalter

Published: 1991-11-06

Hardcover: 144 pages

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With easy warmth, the director of the Washington D.C. Office of Human Rights Watch describes the Christmas holiday rituals and traditions her family has treasured since her childhood in Iowa--the sorts of personal reminiscences that make a family a family. Illustrated.

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The Sad Truth About Happiness

by Anne Giardini

Published: 2011-06-07

Kindle Edition: 304 pages

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A beautiful and affecting novel -- bittersweet and comic -- on the elusive nature of happinessMaggie is in her early thirties, gainfully employed, between relationships, and ready for a change. But when she takes a quiz in a magazine that promises to predict the date of a person's death, s...

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Seven Letters from Paris: A Memoir

by Samantha Vérant

Published: 2014-10-07

Paperback: 272 pages

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Twenty years, seven letters, and one long-lost love of a lifetime At age 40, Samantha Verant's life is falling apart-she's jobless, in debt, and feeling stuck... until she stumbles upon seven old love letters from Jean-Luc, the sexy Frenchman she'd met in Paris when she was 19. With a quic...

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Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

by Billy Collins

Published: 2014-10-21

Paperback: 261 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“America’s favorite poet.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins comes his first volume of new and selected poems in twelve years. Aimless Love combines fifty new poems with generous selections from his fo...

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The Best of Everything Baseball Book (The All-Time Best of Sports)

by Nate LeBoutillier

Published: 2011-02-01

Paperback: 64 pages

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When was the first World Series played? What MLB pitcher holds the league record with seven no-hitters? Which player stole home 54 times during his career? Learn the answer to these questions and more in The Best of Everything Baseball Book.

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The First Christmas of the War (The Coleman Family Saga Book 1)

by Alan Simon

Published: 2010-06-01

Kindle Edition: 222 pages

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Also available now: THANKSGIVING, 1942...the first of three sequels to THE FIRST CHRISTMAS OF THE WAR.' Twas the week of Christmas,Nineteen forty-one;The season's joy overshadowedby the war just begun.The Great Depression years finally behind them, the entire Coleman family of Pittsburgh h...

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The Altered I: Memoir of Joseph Kempler, Holocaust Survivor

by April Voytko Kempler

Published: 2013-11-13

Paperback: 373 pages

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Joseph Kempler is eleven years old in 1939, when World War II begins. German soldiers have invaded his hometown of Krakow, Poland. Forced with his family to leave their home, business, and belongings, Joseph embarks on a journey that changes his life forever.

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The Diary of a Nobody

by George Grossmith

Published: 2013-02-24

Paperback: 100 pages

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This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare’s finesse to Oscar...

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The Moonglow Cafe

by Deborah Garner

Published: 2014-04-28

Paperback: 252 pages

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New York reporter Paige MacKenzie has a hidden motive when she heads to the small town of Timberton, Montana. Assigned to research the area's unique Yogo sapphires for the Manhattan Post, she hopes to reconnect romantically with handsome cowboy Jake Norris. The local gem gallery offers t...