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Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Hard Times by Charles Dickens considered Dickens’ harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, this novel offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with the richness of detail, brilliant characterization, and passionate social concern that typify the novelist’s finest creations.
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and Nina Bawden
The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.
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Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience.
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Vintage Munro by Alice Munro
Vintage Munro by Alice Munro includes stories from throughout her career: The title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter; The Progress of Love; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; “Differently,” from Selected Stories, and “Carried Away,” from Open Secrets.
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Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon
His new principal thinks he’s even more of a hoodlum than the last one, his coach is trying to recruit him to things he can’t even mention and the girl he’s not seeing, but is, has secrets that terrify him.
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How to be a Gentleman by John Bridges and Bryan Curtis
This book How to be a Gentleman by John Bridges is an indispensable guide for men of all ages who aspire to become gentlemen.
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Impact: Great Leadership Changes Everything by Tim Irwin
He knows most leaders work for recognition and advancement and they want more challenge and responsibility. He’s also found this to be true: Most of us want to make a positive difference through our work and to have our lives count for something more than simply making a living. We want to make an impact.
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The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor now slowly decaying in the smog and bustle of downtown Cairo:
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The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro
The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro. The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves and awakenings of women echo throughout
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In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives.
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Jar Baby by Hayley Webster
Diana Rickwood’s isolated childhood by the sea with her uncle, Rohan, a celebrated fashion designer, is dramatically shaken up by the arrival of Rohan’s ‘muse’, model Stella Avery. Diana severs her links with her past and moves to London, trying her best to forget.
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.