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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Published: 2013-08-29

Paperback: 82 pages

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson . It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The work is commonly associated...

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The Strange Files of Fremont Jones: A Fremont Jones Mystery (Fremont Jones Mysteries)

by Dianne Day

Published: 1996-01-01

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Brave, resourceful, adventurous Fremont (née Caroline) Jones is a woman ahead of her time. Hungry for independence, she's traded in her conventional life in Boston for a career as a "type-writer" in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. But Fremont soon discovers that her clients aren't alwa...

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Strange Fits of Passion

by Anita Shreve

Published: 1991-04

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Fleeing her abusive husband, Mary resettles with her infant child in St. Hilaire, Maine, but her new home brings her only fear, and soon a murder, a rape charge, and a suicide shatter the peaceful town. Reprint. AB. K.

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Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel

by Anita Shreve

Published: 1999-11-11

Kindle Edition: 351 pages

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The reader is left to uncover the truth in this labryinth of a tale, a riveting story told within the framework of one reporter's notes and a woman's letters from prison. Everyone believes that Maureen and Harrold English, two successful New York City journalists, have a happy, stable marr...

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Strange Heaven

by Lynn Coady

Published: 2000-10-15

Paperback: 198 pages

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Strange Piece of Paradise

by Terri Jentz

Published: 2007-03-20

Paperback: 752 pages

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In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate took a cross-country bike trip. As they lay sleeping in the central Oregon desert, a man in a pickup truck deliberately ran over their tent and proceeded to attack them with an axe. The horrific crime was reported in newspapers acros...

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Strange Pilgrims

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Published: 2006-11-14

Paperback: 208 pages

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In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, appare...

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A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

by Stephanie Coontz

Published: 2011-01-04

Hardcover: 248 pages

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In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read ...

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Strange Tales of the Curiously Uncommon

by Andrew Biss

Published: 2012-02-20

Paperback: 96 pages

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Strange Tales of the Curiously Uncommon is a collection of darkly humorous short stories, each with a cunning twist in the tail. When extraordinary events befall some of London's most ordinary of inhabitants, unexpected turns lead to some witty, strange, yet ultimately satisfying results. An Honest...

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Strange True Stories Of Louisiana

Published: 2010-10-15

Paperback: 390 pages

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important,...