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Franz Kafka
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on... more
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Jane Austen ,
Marilyn Butler
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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At Northanger Abbey Jane Austen's charmingly imperfect heroine, Catherine Morland, meets all the trappings of gothic horror and imagines the worst. Fortunately she has, at hand, her own fundamental good sense and the irresistible but unsentimental hero, Henry Tilney. Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days.... more
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Jane Austen ,
Kathryn Sutherland
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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First published in 1814, this is a study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices - in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price, to explore the social and moral values by which these families' lives are ordered. Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed,... more
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Jane Austen ,
Ros Ballaster
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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The Dashwood sisters are very different from each other in appearance and temperament; Elinor's good sense and readiness to observe social forms contrast with Marianne's impulsive candor and warm but excessive sensibility. Both struggle to maintain their integrity and find happiness in the face of a competitive marriage market. The... more
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C Bronte
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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When it was first published in 1847, Jane Eyre was remarkable for its portrayal of a thinking, feeling woman who is rich in individuality and passionate in her desire for a full life. And as contemporary readers the world over can attest, the novel has lost none of its fire.... more
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Leo Tolstoy
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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"War and Peace" is a novel whose story takes place in early 19th century Russia in the midst of Russia's War of 1812. The elaborate plot is the tale of three affluent families over a term of fifteen years throughout Russia's hostilities with Napoleonic Europe. Her early defeats are recounted... more
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Jane Austen
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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A classic love story in which the heroine is the last to find out who it is she really loves. Emma is the loveable heroine of this enduring story about the relations between men and women, and one girl's confused journey into womanhood. Pretty, bright, and born atop the social... more
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Jules Verne
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2007]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet... more
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Jane Austen
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any... more
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Jane Austen
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 15 selections every 1 days. Printing allowed, unlimited pages every unlimited days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. From the book: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want... more
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Laurie Viera Rigler
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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In this Jane Austeninspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern LA girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austens time. After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or... more
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Bich Minh Nguyen
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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A wry, involving story of estranged American-Vietnamese sisters, a kind of Vietnamese }The Joy Luck Club{. Linny and Van Luong are two second generation Vietnamese immigrant sisters from the American mid-West. Linny, the youngest, is pretty and popular but trapped in a cycle of dead-end jobs and hopeless affairs. Van,... more
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Mahbod Seraji
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2009]
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From aa striking new talenta(Sandra Dallas, author of "Tallgrass") comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution. In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming... more
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Nora Roberts
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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#1 "New York Times"abestselling author Nora Roberts takes us deep into the rugged Black Hills of South Dakota, where the shadows keep secrets, hunters stalk the land, and a childhood friendship matures into an adult passion. Asummer at his grandparentsa South Dakota ranch is not eleven-year-old Cooper Sullivanas idea of... more
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Laurie Viera Rigler
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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"Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict" took 21st-century, free-spirit Courtney Stone into the social confines of Jane Austen's era. This follow-up introduces Jane Mansfield, a gentleman's daughter from Regency England, who inexplicably awakens in Courtney's overly wired and morally confused L.A. life. The eagerly anticipated sequel to Confessions of a... more
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Meg Wolitzer
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Ten-Year Nap" comes a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. Description: From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School... more
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Eleanor Brown
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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"There is no problem that a library card can't solve." The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home, ostensibly to care for... more
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Rafael Sabatini
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Description: The Sea Hawk is a seafaring adventure set at the end of the sixteenth century. A retired Cornish gentleman is betrayed by his jealous half-brother and ends up a slave on a Spanish galley. He is freed by Barbary pirates and he joins their crew, swearing vengeance on his... more
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Anne Bronte
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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It is autumn of 1827 when a woman named Helen Graham moves into the deserted, stately moorland manor Wildfell Hall with her young son. The neighbors take immediate notice of this awkward circumstance, and she is subjected to their jealousy and the idle rumor they spread. They discover she is... more
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Charles Dickens
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2012]
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Description: A enthralling story about the inequalities of the 19th-century English legal system Bleak House is one of Charles Dicken's most multifaceted novels. Bleak House deals with a multiplicity of characters, plots and subplots that all weave in and around the true story of the famous case of Jarndyce and... more