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Au Bonheur des Dames (Penguin Classics)

by Émile Zola

Published: 2002-02-26

Paperback: 464 pages

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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, Au Bonheur des Dames. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies...

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The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War

by Alexander Waugh

Published: 2010-04-20

Paperback: 368 pages

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The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist.The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history, ...

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The Jewel Box

by Anna Davis

Published: 2009-06-02

Paperback: 384 pages

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From the author of The Shoe Queen comes a jazz-age tale of love set in the world of London’s high society.London, 1927. Diamond Sharp writes a racy newspaper column, using a fake name to conceal her identity. When she meets two charismatic American men who are bitter enemies, her life is...

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Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

by Sean Strub

Published: 2014-01-14

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Sean Strub, founder of the groundbreaking POZ magazine, producer of the hit play The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, and the first openly HIV-positive candidate for U.S. Con­gress, charts his remarkable life—a story of politics and AIDS and a powerful testament to loss, hope, and survival...

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The Green Glass Sea

by Ellen Klages

Published: 2008-05-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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A heartfelt story of a budding friendship in the thick of the war--winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionIt's 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New Mexico to live with her mathematician father. Soon she arrives at a town that, officially, doesn't exis...

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Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings

by Shel Silverstein

Published: 2014-02-18

Hardcover: 192 pages

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If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer . . . Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and th...

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The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo l Summary & Study Guide

by BookRags

Published: 2013-04-02

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

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God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn't Make Sense

by Jennifer Rothschild

Published: 2014-03-25

Paperback: 240 pages

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This is a book about finding more than just answers. It's for anyone who needs hope when life doesn't make sense - for all who reach for a God who feels distant. Do you believe God is just not fair? If you're like Jennifer Rothschild, you wrestle with questions when you experience painfu...

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Little Girl Lost

by Brian McGilloway

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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A devastating crime thriller about corruption, greed, and vengeance, and a father's love for his daughterA child is found wandering in an ancient woodland in midwinter, her hands covered in blood, but it is not her own. Unwilling or unable to speak, the only person she seems to trust is ...

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Death Benefit

by Robin Cook

Published: 2012-08-07

Paperback: 544 pages

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Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center’s premier scientist on cutting edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically ill patients. But when tragedy strikes in the l...