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Silas Marner

by George Eliot

Published: 2014-05-21

Paperback: 124 pages

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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community. The novel is set...

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Silas Marner (Penguin Classics)

by George Eliot

Published: 2003-04-29

Paperback: 240 pages

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George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives...

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* * * * Persuasive,
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Silas Marner (Signet Classics)

by George Eliot

Published: 2007-08-07

Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages

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A gentle linen weaver is accused of a heinous crime. Exiling himself, he becomes a recluse, only to find redemption in his love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears one day in his isolated cottage. Somber yet hopeful, Eliot's stirring tale continues to touch the human spirit.

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* * * * * Adventurous,
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Silence (Hush, Hush Saga)

by Becca Fitzpatrick

Published: 2011-10-04

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They've overcome the secrets riddled in Patch's dark past...bridged two irreconcilable worlds...faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty and trust...and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with no...

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Silence (Peter Owen Modern Classic)

by Shusaku Endo

Published: 2003-10-15

Paperback: 312 pages

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The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

Published: 1998-09-15

Paperback: 352 pages

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As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames "Buffalo Bill," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him.That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unus...

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Silence of the Loons: Thirteen Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Crime Writers

by Minnesota Crime Wave

Published: 2005-09-30

Paperback: 224 pages

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* * * * * Insightful,
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The Silence of Trees

by Valya Dudycz Lupescu

Published: 2010-09-23

Paperback: 334 pages

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In Chicago's Ukrainian Village, Nadya Lysenko has built her life on a foundation of secrets. When she was sixteen, Nadya snuck out of her house in Western Ukraine to meet a fortuneteller in the woods. She never expected it to be the last time she would see her family. Decades later, Nadya continues...

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Silenced Voices: Uncovering a Family's Colonial History in Indonesia (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series)

by Inez Hollander

Published: 2009-01-27

Paperback: 304 pages

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Like a number of Netherlanders in the post World War II era, Inez Hollander only gradually became aware that her family had significant connections with its Dutch colonial past, including an Indonesian great-grandmother. For the most part such personal stories have been, if not entirely si...

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* * * * * Brilliant,
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The Silent Crisis Destroying America's Brightest Minds

by Sharon Rose Sugar

Published: 2009-05-07

Paperback: 614 pages

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When Will America's Children Become America's First Priority? This book goes where no educator has gone before. According to Ms. Sugar, "Most students do not learn how to succeed in the American education system; they spend most of their time learning how to survive the American education system." ...