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1) Emma
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Emma Woodhouse's charitable intentions toward others are increasingly undermined by her supreme narcissism. Bent on improving the looks, manners, and marital prospects of the parentless Harriet Smith, a young boarder at a neighborhood school, Emma must suffer through a series of mortifying misunderstandings before she learns to stop meddling in the lives of others.
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Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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The future could hardly look brighter for Edmond Dantes. Only nineteen years old, but already an experienced seaman, he is about to be named captain of the merchant vessel Pharaon . His deep and passionate love for the beautiful Mercedes is returned in every respect; they will be married in a few short weeks. Everyone who knows this handsome, modest young man wishes him the best -- that is, almost everyone. Edmond is unaware that three men he knows...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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"After ten years of solitary contemplation, the prophet Zarathustra descends from his mountain cave to deliver a message to the people below. In a town called The Pied Cow, he tells everyone about the Superman, a higher being who is free of all human prejudices, and unbound by societal constraints and the false concepts of good and evil. Zarathustra informs the people that they can achieve this state if they reject the teachings of the past, including...
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Publisher
Hesperus Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for 12 years-a powerful, riveting condemnation of slavery, and a story soon to be introduced to a new audience through a major film Tricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York state in 1841, Solomon Northup was instead drugged and kidnapped. Threatened with death, Northup was forced to assume a new name and fake past. Taken to Louisiana...
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