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21) Mansfield Park
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English
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When Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relations at Mansfield Park she seems shy and withdrawn beside her witty and vivacious cousins. But Fanny's steadfast and purposeful character makes her an indispensable part of the household. As the others become entangled in a maze of flirtation and intrigue, it is only Fanny whose deep but secret love for Edmund Bertram remains true despite his fascination with her brilliant but frivolous cousin...
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Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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When Beth disappears, everyone says she's run off with another man. She's just a fly-by-night party girl who can't be trusted. But Natalie, her best friend, doesn't believe it, not at all. She's sure something more sinister is going on. So sure that proving it just might kill her ... Meanwhile, Victor, one of Beth's and Nat's favorite bar patrons, has fallen and ended up in the hospital. When he hears that Beth is gone, he doesn't buy it either. And...
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Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Ever since she met him, Caroline has intended to wed Mr. Darcy. Intelligent and well educated, Caroline is an ambitious rising star in fashionable society--some might say conniving--but in Regency England, what can she do to better her situation but marry well? Surely, Mr. Darcy is aware that Caroline will make the perfect wife and hostess at Pemberley, his grand estate. Now, all she need do is await his proposal. Caroline's brother, Charles, takes...
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Holt Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Emma is a rising star at the marketing firm she works at as a "creative," but would have trouble describing what exactly it is she does all day. She pours most of her actual creative energy into a popular blog that all of her friends agree is brilliant, but she has yet to make a cent on it. Clem is a massively talented screenwriter just back from New York, where she picked up a fancy graduate degree in film. But until she convinces an agent to take...
25) Aurora Floyd
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Broadview Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Aurora Floyd is one of the leading novels in the genre known as sensation fiction a tradition in which the key texts include Wilkie Collins s The Woman in White, Ellen Wood s East Lynne, and Dickens s Great Expectations. When Aurora Floyd was first published in serial form in 1862-63, Fraser s magazine asserted that a book without a murder, a divorce, a seduction, or a bigamy, is not apparently considered either worth writing or reading; and a mystery...
26) Persuasión
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Editorial Alma
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Persuasion narra el emotivo viaje de su protagonista Anne Elliot, quien se encuentra con el capitán Wentworth, un pretendiente al que fue persuadida de rechazar siete años antes, y cuya reaparición la hace reflexionar sobre sus decisiones pasadas y contemplar su futuro matrimonial. La última novela completa de Austen, que representa vívidamente las ciudades de vacaciones de la sociedad de Lyme Regis y Bath e infundida con el ingenio característico...
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2020.
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English
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"August, 1939, Britain watches the headlines in fear of another devastating war with Germany and three childhood friends must choose between friendship or country. Socialite Nora is determined to find her place in the Home Office's Air Raid Precautions Department, while matchmaker, Hazel, tries to mask two closely guarded secrets with irrepressible optimism, and German ex-pat Marie worries that she and her family might face imprisonment in an internment...
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