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The Peony Pavilion (Classical Chinese Love Stories) (Classic Love Stories)

by Cao Shan

Published: 1999-01-01

Paperback: 225 pages

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Du Liniang has a dream in which she meets a young scholar and promises to marry him. When she wakes up, she yearns for her lover and falls ill; after a while she dies of lovesickness. The young scholar in her dream was Liu Mengmei, who later made his way to the capital to take the imperial examination....

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Peony: A Novel of China

by Pearl S. Buck

Published: 2006-01-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid -- an awkward role in which she is more than a servant, but less than a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However, tradition forbids them to wed. How she resolves...

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The People Next Door

by Bettye Griffin

Published: 2005-04-05

Paperback: 304 pages

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Lisa and Darrell Canfield have finally started building their dream house, right on the Florida waterfront. Everything seems perfect until they meet the couple building on the site next door. Apparently, Lisa's first husband, his stay-at-home wife, and their family are planning a move of t...

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The People of Forever Are Not Afraid: A Novel

by Shani Boianjiu

Published: 2012-09-11

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A “searing debut” about three young women coming of age, experiencing “the absurdities of life and love on the precipice of violence” (Vogue)    Yael, Avishag, and Lea grow up together in a tiny, dusty Israeli village, attending a high school made up of caravan classrooms, pass...

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The People of Paper

by Salvador Plascencia

Published: 2006-11-13

Paperback: 256 pages

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THE PEOPLE OF PAPER is an astonishing debut novel about the anguish of lost love. Author Salvador Plascencia, a "once-in-a-generation talent" (George Saunders), weaves together the stories of a large cast of colorful characters, including: a disgruntled monk, a father and daughter, a gang ...

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People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization (Cornell Paperbacks)

by Michael G. Kammen

Published: 1990-09

Paperback: 368 pages

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People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)

by David M. Potter

Published: 1958-10-15

Paperback: 248 pages

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America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a people of plenty—a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this ...

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The People of Sparks (Books of Ember)

by Jeanne DuPrau

Published: 2005-04-12

Paperback: 352 pages

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The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off. Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above, and it isn?t long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember. The Emberites soon come across a town where they are welcome...

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People of the Book: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

Published: 2008-01-01

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The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and warInspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and ...

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People of the Thunder (North America's Forgotten Past)

by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Published: 2009-11-03

Paperback: 496 pages

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By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls. Great armies are on the march, an...