 | The Beautiful and Damned (Penguin Hardback Classics)
Release Date: October 25, 2011| Series: Penguin Hardback Classics "We know the old adage about judging books by their covers, but howcould you not when the covers are as lovely as these?"-Vogue (U.K.)The jacket design by Coralie Bickford-Smith reflects the eleganceand glamour of the Art Deco period paired with the modern aesthetic ofmechanical repetition. Each jacket comes with a detachable bookmark.Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliantand magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy thatis thrilling. New York is a playground where the...
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 | Free Style
Release Date: March 18, 2008 I realized that no matter how much I wanted the past to remain intact, what was would never be again. We all got older. We all moved on. And maybe things were supposed to change... Funny, intelligent, and, above all, relevant, Free Style is an inspiring novel about two thirtysomething married moms -- one who is separated and the other whose marriage is hanging on by a thread. They decide to escape their to-do lists to revisit their past at Club 90, a nightclub they frequented in the early nineties. There they meet up with old friends and lost loves and dance thei...
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 | The Magick Bookshop
Publication Date: May 8, 2004In the heart of Oxford sits Malynowskys Bookshop selling books that both lure and intimidate. Six short stories take you inside this little world full of mystery, realmagick, and moral lessons. Meet Paul Magwitch, possessed bythe spirit of a young girl who compels him to buy expensivethings he does not want; the Witch in the City, who ekes out a living reading Tarot for strangers in the park; and Eurydice, a shop employee who tragically becomes the victim of acustomers magical attack. ...
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 | The Beginning of Spring
Publication Date: September 3, 1998Frank Reid is a struggling printer in Moscow. On the eve of the Revolution, his wife returns to her native England, leaving him to raise their three young children alone. How does a reasonable man like Frank cope? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his bookkeeper? And should he, in his wife's absence, resist his desire for his lovely Russian housemaid? How can anyone know how to live the right life? ...
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 | On a Slow Train Through Arkansas
Publication Date: November 1985Illustrated. Reprint of a very popular book published in 1903. Period piece of wit and humor of that time. ...
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 | Plays Onstage: An Anthology
Publication Date: September 27, 2005| ISBN-10: 0205405746 | ISBN-13: 978-0205405749| Edition: 1Plays Onstage features a diverse range of plays ranging from the Classical Greeks to the present, including many important plays rarely seen in anthologies. This new anthology includes twenty-one plays from a diverse group of playwrights. Both female and male playwrights are well-represented as well as plays from African-American, Hispanic, and Asian writers. An introduction to each play provides contextual analysis and background information for each play. ...
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 | ... The book of French songs (The "Chandos classics")
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 | Hawthorne's Literature for Children
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 | Florentine Histories: (New translation) Introduction by Harvey Mansfield, Jr.
Publication Date: August 3, 1990"This translation . . . of Machiavelli's thoughts on his native city is meant to be less colloquial and closer to the original than the typical translation. This highlights how Machiavelli used words (and thought) differently from us. . . . Machiavelli is too often remembered merely as the realist who took the morality out of virtue.' As the Histories demonstrate, he was also a gifted writer and historian."--Virginia Quarterly Review"Banfield and Mansfield's new rendition of the Renaissance humanist's study of Florentine history aims to supply contemporary rea...
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| Endymion, Volume II (The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield)
Publication Date: 1904Illustrated with two plates (prints), one of which has been tinted. ...
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 | Little Big Ears: The Story of Ely
Publication Date: December 1, 1996| Age Level: 3 and up Handicapped by crooked front legs, Ely the little elephant faces a grim outlook but is supported by his devoted mother and sister, who help him to adjust and eventually walk on his own, in an inspiring true story enhanced by full-color photographs. ...
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 | Hansel y Gretel / Hansel and Gretel (Little Classics) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Kleiner Eisb
Publication Date: April 1, 1992| Age Level: 5 and up Kurzbeschreibung: Lars, der kleine Eisb...
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 | Oliver: A Story About Adoption
Publication Date: June 1991| Age Level: 3 and up Oliver, a lizardlike animal who has been adopted, sulks after being scolded and wonders what his "real" parents are like. ...
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| Where Babies Come from
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 | Feet (Spot the Difference)
Publication Date: June 27, 2007| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | The Prince Child
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up When the prince child is born, all of the animals of the forest must decide what gifts they will bring to him. The heron brings a song, the snow cat brings a crystal ball, and the gerbil brings flowers. How are they to know what the prince wants most of all? ...
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 | Four Valentines in a Rainstorm
Release Date: February 13, 1990| Age Level: 4 and up The day it rained hearts, Cornelia Augusta thought, ‘It must be getting close to Valentine’s Day,’ and started turning the hearts into cards, each different and special in its own way.A small book that ‘sparkles with color and wit; one that anyone would love to find in the mailbox on St. Valentine’s Day.’ —Publishers Weekly....
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