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Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)

by W. Somerset Maugham, Jane Smiley

Published: 1991-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 736 pages

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The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the...

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The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women

by Harriet Rubin

Published: 1998-03-09

Paperback: 208 pages

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A legacy of leadership for women only.For centuries men have used the lessons of Machiavelli's The Prince to gain and hold power. Today's women, struggling to succeed in a man's world, must learn a crucial lesson of their own: men and women are not equal--and that is a woman's greatest str...

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Shame: A Novel

by Salman Rushdie

Published: 2008-03-11

Paperback: 307 pages

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The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men–one a celebrated wager of war, the oth...

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The Truth About Alice

by Jennifer Mathieu

Published: 2014-06-03

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When Healy High star quarterback, Brandon Fitzsimmons, dies in a car crash, it was because he was sexting with Alice. Ask anybody.  Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over the "slut stall" in the girls' bathroom:...

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Black Diamonds: The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England

by Catherine Bailey

Published: 2014-12-30

Paperback: 544 pages

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From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England’s wealthiest familiesFans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by England’s aristocrats...

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Emma Speaks: A Journey into the Soul of an Animal Friend

by Diana St. James

Published: 2013-10-25

Paperback: 294 pages

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This true story, filled with discovery, challenges our understanding of how deeply animals are connected to us and how they are involved in our lives in ways we could never imagine. Telepathic animal communication provides the gift of voice for Diana’s horse Emma and brings to light Emma...

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Intimate Apparel/Fabulation

by Lynn Nottage

Published: 2006-04-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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“Lynn Nottage’s work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history—and the startling simplicity of desire—with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion.” —Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrightIntimate Apparel: �...

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StrengthsFinder 2.0

by Tom Rath

Published: 2007-02-01

Hardcover: 175 pages

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Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents, Gal...

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Native Guard: Poems

by Natasha Trethewey

Published: 2007-04-03

Paperback: 51 pages

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Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first black regiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. Trethewey's reso...

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A Thousand Mornings: Poems

by Mary Oliver

Published: 2013-09-24

Paperback: 96 pages

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The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether...