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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)
Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN-10: 0486278077
ISBN-13: 9780486278070
Published: 1993-10-13
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Celebrated novel traces the moral degeneration of a handsome young Londoner from an innocent fop into a cruel and reckless pursuer of pleasure and, ultimately, a murderer. As Dorian Gray sinks into depravity, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait reflects the ravages of crime and sensuality.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Signet Classics)
Author: Harriet Jacobs
ISBN-10: 0451527526
ISBN-13: 9780451527523
Published: 2000-01-01
Publisher: Signet Classics
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In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Harriet Jacobs, born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina, recounts her remarkable story. From her sale to an abusive master, to her bid for freedom as the lover of a white man, to her ultimate and harrowing emancipation, this work is an outstanding example of a woman's extraordinary courage--and one of the most provocative first-person accounts of slavery in American history. Afterword by Myrlie Evers-Williams"One of the major autobiographies of the Afro-American tradition."-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Damages
Author: Bazhe
ISBN-10: 0595237649
ISBN-13: 9780595237647
Published: 2002-08-01
Publisher: Writer's Showcase Press
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Damages is a memoir about one man's fight to overcome the psychological wounds created by his peculiar upbringing as he struggled to find his true identity and freedom. In addition, it expresses his unconditional love for his mother. The story begins with the death of his abusive father, a Communist official. His mother is diagnosed with cancer, and he immediately returns to Macedonia to take care of her. Meanwhile, his more than thirty-year search for his biological mother ends, and he tells her his life story, starting with his lonely childhood and adolescence. After finding his "new mother" to be very understanding, he reveals his first gay experience in the army, his desire for self-realization that caused scandals in the College of National Security, his escape to Turkey where the female side of him emerged, and his return to Yugoslavia where he wandered in the underground world of a country that was falling apart. As Yugoslav nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism rose, he experienced them directly, almost losing his life, but he eventually succeeded in immigrating to America. Although he finds his biological mother, he ultimately discovers that it is his adoptive motherĀ’s devotion that is irreplaceable.
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The Age of Innocence (Broadview Literary Texts)
Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN-10: 1551113368
ISBN-13: 9781551113364
Published: 2002-03-21
Publisher: Broadview Press
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The Age of Innocence marks the pinnacle of Edith Wharton s career as one of the finest American novelists of her era. The narrative follows Newland Archer, of upper-crust 1870s New York, whose passion for the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska leads him to question the very foundations of his way of life. Written in the aftermath of World War I, the novel explores the psychological and cultural paradoxes of desire in a world undergoing unprecedented transformations. This edition includes a critical introduction and a range of appendices that contextualize the novel in terms of its modernist themes and tensions.
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Talking to Trees
Author: Joanna MacOwl
ISBN-10: 1466366109
ISBN-13: 9781466366107
Published: 2011-09-28
Publisher: CreateSpace
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Reduced price through May 2012Book 1 of The Fern Witches Series******************************You can never go back. This is the year Dana Quinn takes off to write her dissertation at a family cabin in Fern, New Hampshire--her first step down the merry road to tenure and her real life. She's inexplicably drawn to the serene, isolated paradise from her childhood, where she soon learns that her hazy past has beckoned her for a reason. She shares the lane with two captivating neighbors who have an agenda or two, and she meets their friends: a seer who becomes Dana's ally and more, and a priestess who reveals a family secret from the past and plays a pivotal role in Dana's future. The witches' wishes for Dana surface soon after she arrives. In Fern, she reacquaints herself with her own burgeoning powers while she searches for her future, in spite of serious setbacks and welcome distractions. Never say never. *****************************
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Sing You Home (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print))
Author: Jodi Picoult
ISBN-10: 161173052X
ISBN-13: 9781611730524
Published: 2011-04-01
Publisher: Center Point Large Print
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Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. Working with Vanessa, she finds their relationship moving from business, to friendship, and then - to Zoe's surprise - blossoming into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of children again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that she and her husband never used. But Max, having sought peace at the bottom of a bottle, has found redemption in an evangelical church, and Zoe needs his permission to take his unborn child ...SING YOU HOME is accompanied by a soundtrack of original songs created for the novel by Jodi Picoult and Ellen Wilber, available to download or listen to online.
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Midnight Cowboy
Author: James Leo Herlihy
ISBN-10: 1556111916
ISBN-13: 9781556111914
Published: 1990-09-27
Publisher: Plume
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The classic American novel that was the source for the Oscar-winning film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, now back in print from Scribner. Joe Buck, a good-looking, naively charming Texas 'cowboy' who's convinced that he's the salvation of many love-starved New York women, makes his way to the Big Apple to seek his fortune. Trouble is, his well-to-do clientele never materialises and the only wealth he finds is in the friendship of Ratso Rizzo, a scrounging, sleazy, small-time con man with big dreams. Living on the tattered fringe of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond - one that transcends their broken dreams and get-rich-quick schemes and makes MIDNIGHT COWBOY that rarest of things...every bit as moving now as it was when it was first published. MIDNIGHT COWBOY is the powerful and unforgettable novel of the compelling need of human beings for one another.
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One Small Thing
Author: Piper Vaughn
ISBN-10: 1613724969
ISBN-13: 9781613724965
Published: 2012-05-04
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
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Love Sucks: New York Stories of Love, Hate and Anonymous Sex
Author: Ken Shakin
ISBN-10: 1590211049
ISBN-13: 9781590211045
Published: 2009-05-01
Publisher: Lethe Press
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A book to hide under your pillow. The naked city stripped. The big apple ripped open to reveal worms writhing in the core. Read this book at your own risk. Walking the thin line between journalism and fiction, this relentless reportage in story form reads like a long night out on the town. The author as main character uses the perspective of anonymous sex to probe the uncomfortable facts of social relations in the urban anomie among men, women, and beasts too. From ''The Anonymous Dog'' to ''Confessions of a Smoocher,'' ''Man and His Toys'' and ''The Smelliest Man Alive,'' each chapter takes you one step further to a place you'd rather not go, calculated to make you cringe before cackling.
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Acrobat
Author: Mary Calmes
ISBN-10: 1613725000
ISBN-13: 9781613725009
Published: 2012-05-07
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
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Forty-five-year-old English professor Nathan Qells is very good at making people feel important. What he’s not very good at is sticking around afterward. He’s a nice guy; he just doesn’t feel things the way other people do. So even after all the time he’s spent taking care of Michael, the kid across the hall, he doesn’t realize that Michael’s mob muscle uncle and guardian, Andreo Fiore, has slowly been falling in love with him. Dreo has bigger problems than getting Nate to see him as a potential partner. He’s raising his nephew, trying to leave his unsavory job, and starting his own business, a process made infinitely more difficult when a series of hits takes out some key underworld players. Still, Dreo is determined to build a life he can be proud of—a life with Nate as a cornerstone. A life that is starting to look like exactly what Nate has been seeking. Unfortunately for Dreo—and for Nate—the last hits were just part of a major reorganization, and Dreo’s obvious love for Nate has made him a target too.
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