The Distant Land of My Father
'My father was a millionaire in Shanghai in the 1930s.'Anna Schoene was a golden child. Her parents, Joseph and Genevieve, were rich American expats in Shanghai before the Japanese invaded, before …
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- 9780099427964
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- 373 pages ; 20 cm
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- 813.6 CAL D
Northanger Abbey
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who introduc…
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- 9780141439792
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- Penguin Classics
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- 823.7 AUS N
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of a…
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- 9781848373075
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- 220 Pages; 20 cm
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- 823.7 AUS N
Pride And Prejudice
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Mel…
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- 9781848373105
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- 351 Pages ; 20 cm
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- 823.7 AUS P 02
Persuasion
As is often the case with Ms. Austen's fiction, "Persuasion" deals with the social issues of the times and paints a fascinating portrait of Regency England, especially when dealing with the class s…
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- 9781848373082
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- 223 Pages; 20 x 13 cm
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- 823.7 AUS P
Reservation blues
The life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar…
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- 9780446672351
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- 306 pages ; 21 x 13,5 cm
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- 813.54 ALE R
The Handmaid's Tale
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women a…
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- 9780525435006
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- 324 pages ; 20 cm
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- The Handmaid's Tale
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- 813.54 ATW T
Sense And Sensibility
Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistol…
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- 9780194792332
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- 104 pages ; 20 cm
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- Oxford Bookworms Library
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- 823.7 AUS S
Mansfield Park
The main character, Fanny Price, is a young girl from a poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, Tom Bertr…
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- 9781848373112
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- 346 pages ; 21 cm.
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- 823.7 AUS M
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