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The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
2) Jane Eyre
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An orphan who endures a harsh childhood, Jane Eyre becomes governess at Thornfield Hall in the employment of the mysterious Mr. Rochester.
3) Open season
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Joe Pickett novels volume 1
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When game warden, Joe Pickett gets close to the truth about the outfitter murders and endangered species, his life and the lives of his family face terrible danger.
4) Emma
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As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her "duty"--To arrange the lives of others.
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Everyman's library volume 111
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"The book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society"--Prelim.
6) Mary Barton
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Mrs Gaskell's first novel, 'Mary Barton' portrays city life in the hungry forties of the 19th century. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell, and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect.
9) March
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From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With"pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change...
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Ramona Quimby volume 4
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The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
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Princess diaries volume 1
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Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
12) Empire Falls
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Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.
Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a succession from bad to worse. One by one,...
Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days, and for decades, in fact, only a succession from bad to worse. One by one,...
13) Never knowing
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Struggling with a need for closure, Sara Gallagher attempts to reconnect with her birth parents only to learn that her biological father is an infamous serial killer, a discovery that causes her to fear she has inherited violent tendencies.
14) Demonglass
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Hex Hall novels volume 2
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After learning that she is capable of dangerous magic, Sophie Mercer goes to England with her father, friend Jenna, and Cal hoping to have her powers removed, but soon she learns that she is being hunted by the Eye-- and haunted by Elodie.
15) Fable
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Fable (Adrienne Young) volume 1
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2020.
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Seventeen-year-old Fable joins the young, motley crew of the Marigold to escape the island where her father abandoned her, but she quickly realizes life off the island is more dangerous than she imaged.
17) June bug
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From the best-selling author of War Room comes a Christy Award finalist, now a Lifetime original movie called Child of Grace.
"I believed everything my daddy told me until I walked into Wal-Mart and saw my picture on a little poster..." For as long as she can remember, June Bug and her father have traveled the back roads of the country in their beat-up RV, spending many nights parked at Wal-Mart. One morning, as she walks past the greeter at the...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a lawyer, defends a black man accused of raping a white girl.
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