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  • Julia Quinn The Viscount Who Loved Me With 2nd Epilogue : Bridgertons

    1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better... --Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1814But this time the gossip columnists have it wrong. Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry--he's even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older...

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  • Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye

    Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. At once intimate and expansive, unsparing in its truth-telling, The Bluest Eye shows how the past savagely defines the present. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison s virtuosic first...

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  • Anita Brookner A Start in Life

    Since childhood, Ruth Weiss has been escaping from life into books, from the hothouse attentions of her parents into the warmth of lovers and friends. Now Dr Weiss, at 40, knows that her life has been ruined by literature and that once again she must make a new start.

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  • Julia Quinn An Offer From a Gentleman With 2nd Epilogue : Bridgertons

    With the success of Julia Quinn's latest New York Times bestsellers A Night Like This and The Sum of All Kisses, we continue to be in the perfect position to republish her backlist gem An Offer from a Gentleman SELLING POINTSJulia Quinn has netted more than 6. 5 million copies of her books to date-and this figure does not include her two very successful Lady Whistledown anthologies. She has had spectacular sales growth and is shipping more than any other author on Avon Books's mass market original...

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  • Gail Godwin Flora

    Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of the Second World War. At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories. Flora, her late mother's twenty-two-year old first cousin, who cries at the drop of a hat, is ardently...

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  • Tracy Chevalier Falling Angels

    Will friendship overcome the social boundaries of Edwardian London in this bestselling historical tale from the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.One cold January morning, in the wake of Queen Victoria's death, two young sets of eyes meet across the graves at Highgate Cemetery. One pair belongs to smartly dressed Lavinia Waterhouse, whose mother clings to the traditional values she sees slipping away; the other to Maude Coleman,whose mother longs to escape the stifling grip of Victorian society....

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