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Agatha Christie's Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)

by Agatha Christie

Published: 2002-10-21

Paperback: 124 pages

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The heiress of Styles has been murdered, dying in agony from strychnine slipped into her coffee. And there are plenty who would gain from her death: the financially strapped stepson, the gold digging younger husband, and an embittered daughter-in-law. Agatha Christie's eccentric and hug...

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Age before Beauty (Sister-to-Sister, Book 2)

by Virginia Smith

Published: 2009-02-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Desperate to stay home with her baby, Allie Harrod launches a new career. Sure, she dropped out of Girl Scouts because she was lousy at cookie sales, but makeup is different, right? She'll do anything to make enough money to cover her share of the household bills, but how can she focus on her business...

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Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life

by Dara Torres, Elizabeth Weil

Published: 2010-03-02

Paperback: 248 pages

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From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of ...

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The Age of Desire

by Jennie Fields

Published: 2013-06-01

Hardcover: 528 pages

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The Age of Grief

by Jane Smiley

Published: 2002-06-11

Paperback: 224 pages

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The luminous novella and stories in The Age of Grief explore the vicissitudes of love, friendship, and marriage with all the compassion and insight that have come to be expected from Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize?winning author of A Thousand Acres.In ?The Pleasure of Her Company,? a lone...

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* * * * Beautiful,
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The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2004-01-16

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”This is Newland Archer’s world as he ...

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The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 1999-03-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was s...

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* * Confusing

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The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2006-03-09

Paperback: 278 pages

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The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pu...

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The Age of Innocence (Signet Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2008-03-04

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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Edith Wharton’s masterpiece brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age. Set among the very rich in 1870s New York, it tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite May Welland, when he meets her cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman unbound by...

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* * * * Gloomy,
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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2013-06-22

Paperback: 296 pages

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Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, "The Age of Innocence", won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Set in the high society circles of late nineteenth century New York, Wharton beautifully contrasts the intensity of true passion against the complacency of a loveless but proper marriage; delicately questioning the...