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The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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On loan to the Icelandic Police Force, former Boston detective Magnus Jonson is forced to confront difficult truths about his father's murder while investigating rumors about a priceless ancient manuscript.
4) Dead Souls
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Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
6) Lady Anna
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"Lady Anna" was written in 1871 and first published in 1874. It tells the story of Lady Lovel, whose ambitious marriage to the ill-reputed Earl Lovel left her with a child of questionable legitimacy. When her daughter, Lady Anna, is nearly twenty one, the Earl dies and his fortune is left to a distant nephew. Lady Anna must now decide to marry the young Frederick Lovel for money, or to disregard her mother's vicious meddling and marry her true love...
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Pages - Book 3, by EA Harwik - A modern family saga. ------ ISBN: 9780980677652Pages - Book 3 is the story of two the younger Page siblings, Peta and Jamie. Unlike their older brother David. Peta and Jamie are the product of a privileged boarding school education.The Pages trilogy will question and define the boundaries of normal in modern society. Where secrets challenge the fabric of friendship and family. --------- Book 1 - ISBN: 9780980677621...
8) Sam's Story
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In this captivating saga, Samantha Skylar experiences undying passion and endures one horrific act of brutality that sweeps her into the arms of the second most powerful man in the country. Samantha's journey takes her from the poverty and close-minded attitudes of a tiny, coal-mining town in West Virginia, to the estate of one of Atlanta's oldest and wealthiest families. This epic trilogy follows Samantha from the age of 14 to 40. Book Two opens...
9) The Kalevala
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"The Kalevala" is a collection of Finnish and Karelian poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from oral folklore and mythology. Lönnrot was a physician, botanist, and linguist, who in 1828 began collecting folk songs and poetry of Finland, traveling extensively in order to obtain his sources. "The Kalevala", first published in 1835, is considered to be one of the most important works of Finnish literature, and regarded as the national epic of Finland....
10) Moments of Time
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An "Edwardian soap opera" of divided family loyalties that "most will enjoy, especially those who have been following the Harvey family" saga (Booklist).
The Great War is over, and the Harvey family of Ford Farm are slowly picking up the pieces. But Alec and Emilia's newly-wedded bliss is shattered when their third child is born with a life-threatening disease, a fate which Alec finds particularly hard to accept.
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A loving family proves to be the greatest gift in this delightful British wartime saga following Wait Till Summer, the Holidays at Home series debut.
In 1940, foreign travel is no longer feasible due to the War, so "holidays at home" enjoy a new lease of life, meaning business is booming for Piper's Café at St. David's Wells. However, not everyone in the family-run business is as happy as they seem.
Beth Castle has known Freddy Clements...
12) The Tangled Web
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Unraveling the past comes at a price…
Supporting her brother between his spells in prison costs Amanda Clifford more than money. She loses friends and always has to move. But he's the only family she's ever known.
Until, that is, she's told that a great aunt has left her a cottage. The only catch: her brother isn't allowed to live there with her. Can she really leave him?
When she befriends the cottage's current occupier, her hopes grow. This...
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"Fans will enjoy more time spent with . . . favorite personalities" as a family faces challenges and finds romance in a small Cornish village after WWII (Booklist).
Can love heal the wounds of war?
It is 1948, and the village of Hennaford is struggling to recover from the war-the Harvey family along with it.
Johnny Harvey is disillusioned; injured in the war and disturbed at the changing world order; life seems to be passing him...
14) Maisie's Way
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Experience the lives and loves of the inhabitants of a charming Welsh village in this captivating fourth novel in the Pendragon Island saga series.
When Masie Vasey leaves her husband and brings her daughter to live on Pendragon Island, she causes unrest within more than one family. Underneath the happy surface of this Welsh seaside town, relationships can seem fragile and easily destroyed.
When Maisie comes to work for Edward Jenkins...
15) The Face of Eve
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One woman's passionate courage in the Second World War
When Eve left her hometown of Portsmouth, she'd never intended to return. But now she has a confidence and maturity far beyond her years.
This makes her a very attractive prospect to David Hatton, charged with selecting highly unusual, independent and intelligent candidates for the Special Operations Executive. For in the war that lies ahead, brute force won't be enough.
Eve becomes part of...
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Wartime dreams soar in this novel of ambition and resilience. Third in the World War II home front series from the author of Swingboats on the Sand.
Shirley Downs has always known she was no ordinary girl. But when she enters and wins a singing contest, she begins to realize that her talent is really something special. However, it is 1941, and a career on the stage comes second place to rationing and bomb threats. Nevertheless, Shirley is determined...
17) Ruby Chadwick
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Will true love overcome family loyalty?
Ruby Chadwick has only ever known life in London's hardscrabble East End. She spends hours playing happily with her two brothers outside their father's pub. But Ruby's world is turned upside down when a moment of disobedience results in a tragic accident, and she must learn to come to terms with the consequences.
When the Chadwick family's circumstances unexpectedly change they relocate to salubrious surroundings...
18) Maybe This Time
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A tale of frustrated love, passion and anger and in London's East End. Cathy Meadow's return to the East End can only mean one thing: trouble. Barney and Rory have a rivalry that goes back many years; a mutual hatred inflamed by the seductive Cathy. It was she who ended Rory's relationship with the poor but pretty Josie Guntrip, and then broke his heart leaving him for the better-off Barney. Having snagged herself a rich man, no one was expecting...
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The classic wartime sagas, now in a special omnibus edition
Read Grace Thompson's delightful Holidays at Home series, now in one volume!
These heartwarming sagas follow the inhabitants of St David's Wells, a small Welsh seaside town, charting the highs and lows they experience during the Second World War. From engagements to tragic accidents, ice-creams to utter deprivation, this bestselling series from the much-loved author Grace Thompson will...
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A heart-wrenching and powerful saga of one girl's journey to adulthood Lu Wilmott grows up in the Portsmouth slums of the 1920s. Stricken by diphtheria, she is sent to the Hampshire countryside where she discovers a robust fighting spirit and the first stirrings of attraction...But then must she follow her mother into the city's grim corset-making trade. Lu realizes that things must change. And she can make it happen. Her journey from shy child to...
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