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Vicious Little Darlings

by Katherine Easer

Published: 2011-06-21

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Sarah Weaver wasn't looking forward to starting at an all-girls school. But that was before she met Maddy. Maddy and her best friend, Agnes, are fun and rich and interesting-and for some reason, they seem to really like Sarah. Before long, Maddy and Agnes have moved Sarah into a big house ...

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Victims: An Alex Delaware Novel

by Jonathan Kellerman

Published: 2012-02-28

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction's #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with inc...

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Victoria Line

by Maeve Binchy

Published: 1980-08

Paperback: 154 pages

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Millions of people travel on London's tube every day, yet we usually only give our fellow passengers a cursory glance. Maeve Binchy infuses the nameless people with stories to provide a cross-section of London life. From the author of DUBLIN, SILVER WEDDING and CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.

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A Victorian Flower Dictionary: The Language of Flowers Companion

by Mandy Kirkby

Published: 2011-09-20

Hardcover: 187 pages

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?A flower is not a flower alone; a thousand thoughts invest it.? Daffodils signal new beginnings, daisies innocence. Lilacs mean the first emotions of love, periwinkles tender recollection. Early Victorians used flowers as a way to express their feelings?love or grief, jealousy or devotio...

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Victorian Summers at the Grand Hotels of Long Branch, New Jersey

Published: 2000

Hardcover: 120 pages

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Victorian Summers vividly re-creates a way of life when spacious "grand hotels" flourished along the oceanfront at the resort city of Long Branch, New Jersey. Ideally situated on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, "The Branch" with its cool breezes was an extremely popular "watering place." It was...

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The Victoria's Secret Catalog Never Stops Coming: And Other Lessons I Learned from Breast Cancer

by Jennie Nash

Published: 2003-10-01

Hardcover: 156 pages

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Breast cancer made Jennie Nash a wise old woman at the age of thirty-six. She learned, among other things, that her instincts are good, her kids are resilient, and that, in the fight against breast cancer, the journey for patients, family, and friends can be a surprisingly positive experie...

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Victory (Oxford World's Classics)

by Joseph Conrad

Published: 2009-09-28

Paperback: 400 pages

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Victory was the last of Conrad's novels to be set in the Malay Archipelago. It tells the story of Axel Heyst who, damaged by his dead father's nihilistic philosophy, has retreated from the world of commerce and colonial exploration to live alone on the island of Samburan. But Heyst's soli...

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Victory (Penguin Classics)

by Joseph Conrad

Published: 1995-11-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when...

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The Victory Club

by Robin Lee Hatcher

Published: 2005-06

Paperback: 368 pages

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In times of war, sometimes victory seems like an impossible dream. In 1943, the women of America banded together to make a life for themselves while their husbands and sons fought overseas. Even as the men engaged in war, these women faced battles of their own on the homefront. Margo, Dottie, Lucy, and...

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Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution

by Linda Hirshman

Published: 2012-06-05

Hardcover: 464 pages

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A Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit details the enthralling and groundbreaking story of the gay rights movement, revealing how a dedicated and resourceful minority changed America forever. When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted?most notably at a bar called Stonewall in Gre...