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One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Websteras Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), also told in letters, follows the progress of Judyas former orphanage now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life. Full of irrepressible female characters that both recall Alcottas Jo March and anticipate the popular heroines of contemporary literature, Websteras novels are witty, heartfelt, and delightfully modern. |
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Chinese edition of the bestseller Churchill, a biography of the political figure whose work impacted the entire world. Paul Johnson is a consummate biographer who doesn't hide the fact that he likes Churchill, but the biography is first rate, scholarly as well as entertaining. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. |
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The #1 New York Times bestseller is now a major motion picture, staring Academy Award winners Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, and Golden Globe winner James Franco. |
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Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She's always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she can no longer bite back. Her friend Minny has certainly never held her tongue, or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secrets that leave her speechless. And white socialite Skeeter has just returned from college with ambition and a degree but, to her mother's lament, no husband. Normally Skeeter would find solace in Constantine, the beloved maid who raised her, but Constantine has inexplicably disappeared. Together, these seemingly different women join to work on a project that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town — to write, in secret, a tell-all book about what it's really like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the South. Despite the terrible risks they will have to take, and the sometimes humorous boundaries they will have to cross, these three women unite with one intention: hope for a better day. |
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«The «New York Times» — bestselling authors return with a heart-stopping new novel. On the first day of Royal Ascot, a man steps forward claiming to be Ned Talbot's long-lost father. Barely an hour later, the man is found stabbed to death. Ned embarks on a race to solve his father's murder.» |
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Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Even more so when Kinsey Milhone's only lead is a grown man dredging up a repressed childhood memory — of something that may never have happened. (Grafton's) most structurally complex, psychologically potent book to date. |
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In this sequel to The Chase, Detective Isaac Bell returns to try and stop the mysterious saboteur of the Southern Pacific railroad known as The WRECKER. Who is he? What does he want? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, The WRECKER knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done-that, in fact, The WRECKER is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. Clive Cussler is the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of Medusa, Spartan Gold, and The Lost Empire. |
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In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense. |
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Eight-year-old Charlie was born with the most destructive personality power a human being has ever commanded. |
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«The number-one «New York Times» bestselling prequel to King's Dark Tower series is available again with a beautiful new package and black-and-white artwork by David Palladini.» |
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When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosphy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him. This edition contains a special Afterword by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from Ayn Rands' own notes on the making of The Fountainhead. As fresh today as it was then, here is a novel about a hero — and about those who try to destroy him. |
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Tully Sullivan is just like any other suburban mom — except she's just woken up in a strange place surrounded by strange people who keep insisting that they're dragons — and that she's one too... |
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When Francesca arrives at GothFaire to save her mother from the trickster god, Loki, things go from bad to worse. Her immortal ex, Benedikt, is there, full of secrets-and with a new girlfriend. Now Fran must battle a power-hungry group who wishes to dominate both the immortal and mortal worlds-and the woman who claimed Ben's heart. It's a good thing Fran's no ordinary mortal... |
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Two of Wells's masterpieces get the red-carpet treatment here in these luxurious editions. Along with annotated texts, they feature scholarly introductions and appendixes, bibliographies, illustrations, and indexes. Though they are perhaps a tad pricey for most public libraries, academic collections supporting English departments should definitely invest in these volumes. |
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Theodore Boone. |
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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living, in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) to never marry. However, when Felipe was unexpectedly kicked out of the United States by U.S. Immigration officials, the couple was faced with a strict ultimatum: get married or Felipe could never enter America again. Over the next ten months, as Elizabeth and Felipe wandered Southeast Asia waiting for permission to return home and wed, the author searched far and wide for wisdom, advice, and perspective on the subject of romantic commitment. Infused with her singular wit, intelligence,-and compassion, Committed is a fascinating meditation on compatibility, fidelity, and family, and — ultimately — an enthralling celebration of love. |
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«The #1 «New York Times» bestseller, based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, is now available in paperback. Revisiting the past can be a dangerous business, and what begins with the pursuit of Jane Doe's real identity ends in a high-risk hunt for her killer.» |
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Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee's father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee's past starts coming back to haunt her. |
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