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The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company.
It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges,...
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Wuthering Heights is a tale of passion, revenge, and the destructive power of love. The novel is narrated by Mr. Lockwood, a gentleman from London who rents a house called Thrushcross Grange in the Yorkshire moors. He becomes intrigued by the mysterious goings-on at Wuthering Heights, the nearby estate owned by the reserved and surly Heathcliff. The main narrative unfolds through the eyes of Nelly Dean, a servant who has witnessed the events at Wuthering...
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The final novel by Charles Dickens, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was unfinished at the time of his death in 1870. The novel revolves around John Jasper, choirmaster and opium addict, who is the guardian of his orphaned nephew Edwin Drood. Before the death of his parents, Edwin was promised to marry Rosa Bud, another orphan, but their affections have cooled upon reaching adulthood. Rosa has also attracted the affections of Jasper, her teacher, as...
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The Professor (1857) is English writer Charlotte Brontë's first novel. Rejected by several publishing houses, Brontë shelved the novel in order to write her masterpiece Jane Eyre (1847). After her death, The Professor was edited by Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nichols, who saw that the novel was published posthumously. Based on Brontë's experience as a student and teacher in Brussels-which similarly inspired her novel Villette-The Professor is...
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Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures...
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Wells Landing volume 6
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Life isn't always as simple as it seems for the Amish community of Wells Landing, Oklahoma. Neither is love...
Everyone in town knows that Sarah Yoder is enamored with Jonah Miller, even though he's been with his girlfriend, Lorie, for years. But all that changes when Lorie runs off with another man. Inconsolable, his faith in love shattered, Jonah resists everyone's attempts to ease his pain-until the unexpected happens one night.
Jonah is filled...
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Outlaws novels (Elle Kennedy) volume 3
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Reese must choose between the two men who want to claim her... or does she?
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Robin, the recipient of a brand-new heart, knows he can't give it to just anyone….
Robin's been through his share of upsets recently, from heart transplant surgery to a brutal breakup. But his experiences have taught him life is short, and he's ready to seize the day and start anew. A job at Euro Pride Tours is just the kind of adventure he's looking for. He gets to see the world and live a little, but love isn't on his radar screen. He isn't sure...
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Every girl's got one - that old boyfriend they never quite fell out of love with . . .
Tessa Hamilton's thirty, with a lovely husband and home, two adorable kids, and not a care in the world. Sure her husband ogles the nanny more than she should allow. And keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time occupation. But she's settled and happy. No seven-year itch for Tessa.
Except at the back of her mind is Patrick Cameron. Gorgeous, moody, rebellious,...
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An extraordinary new novel of art, love and ambition from Lily King, the New York Times–bestselling author of Euphoria, which sold over 400,000 copies in North America.
Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.
Blindsided by her mother's
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Earthbound volume 2
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Tavia is an Earthbound: a fallen goddess with the power to remake the Earth. A rival faction has created a virus that is literally wiping the planet out of existence. Tavia is captured and imprisoned before she can act on this, along with her eternal lover, Logan. They are rescued and taken to the Curatoria, an Earthbound faction that Tavia doesn't trust. There, she's told that she can save the Earth. But, as her abilities continue to awaken, they...
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Dans La note brisée et Une octave trop haut, Liam et Sydney font tour à tour perdre à Emma tous ses repères. Mais comment les garçons ont-ils vécu son arrivée à elle dans leur vie ? Si on revivait l'histoire selon leur perspective, Liam serait-il aussi arrogant qu'Emma le perçoit ? Et Sydney, player
Pour vous faire patienter jusqu'à la conclusion de la trilogie, ce tome propose huit moments clés qui ont chamboulé la vie – et le coeur...
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Mack. Karim. Finlay. Mack never thought he'd find love, let alone with two people. Will he make the right choice? And, can love last forever? A must-read queer love story for fans of Sex Education, written in verse by Dean Atta.
Fifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic, he blames the films he's grown up watching. He has liked Karim for as long as he can remember, and is ecstatic when Karim becomes his boyfriend, it feels like love.
But when,...
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Hassan Clarke is a self-proclaimed ladies' man with his eyes set on the prize. With his jovial ways and gift for gab, he has managed to weasel his way into the lives of two women-his wife, Destiny, and his mistress, Imani. His mistress is a gold-digging, self-serving side chick determined to be with her married lover even if it means losing everything, including her soul, to get to him. However, after putting years of hard work and her hard-earned...
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Moonlight Harbor novels volume 5
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From USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts comes a sweetly poignant new novel in her irresistible Moonlight Harbor series.
Jenna Jones has been standing on the shore of the Sea of Love for too long. Even with two good men interested in her, she’s been afraid to wade in. According to her best friend, Courtney, she should. The water’s fine. Life is great! Practically perfect, if you don’t count Courtney’s problems with her cranky ex-boss....
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Haywire brides volume 1
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When Texas Ranger Brett Tucker accidentally derails a wedding, he's determined to bring the estranged couple back together... but he never dreamed he'd start falling for the bride! Texas Ranger Brett Tucker hates to break up a wedding, but the groom-notorious criminal Frank Foster-is a danger to any woman. So he busts into the church, guns blazing...only to find he has the wrong man. STOP THAT WEDDING! Bride-to-be Kate Denver is appalled by her fiancé's...
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Love and revenge novels (Cydney Rax) volume 3
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A mistress-turned-wife with a dream marriage gone wrong. The perfect plan for payback. And fallout so explosive even winning may mean losing it all . . .
The new Mrs. Rashad Eason can't believe it. She dreamed, schemed, and seduced her way to media adoration and a fairy-tale wedding to the lover she stole from his wife. But the honeymoon phase turns into something more shattering when the groom begins to reminisce about his ex, Kiara, and devises...
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Sierra Rogers earned the title of "bottom bitch" in her man's life by playing her position well and holding the keys to his heart, ignoring the fact that he was married. Things took a turn for the worst when she came face to face with evil and was left for dead. Now she realizes that only the strong will survive in this wicked world. She must become as treacherous as the environment that raised her if she wants to keep her man and stay alive.
Shayna...
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Chicks are always screaming, "Leave my man alone!" but in reality, they need to be checking their men. Tiana Caldwell is not falling for that foolery. She lives by the code that if your man wanted you, he would not stray. She doesn't care if the man she is in love with turns out to be her best friend's man.
Ayana Beasley has it all wrong. She thinks that good sex and babies will help her hold on to the man she loves. That is, until she realizes that...
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Moonlight Harbor novels volume 2
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USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts takes readers on a wintry trip to the harbor in her latest holiday novel...
The town of Moonlight Harbor needs to convince tourists that the beach is still the place to be-even when the sunshine goes south for the winter. Jenna Jones, new proprietor of The Driftwood Inn, has the perfect idea: a holiday festival called Seaside with Santa.
Jenna is happy to throw herself into planning the event. With...
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