Middlemarchby George Eliot[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW Dorothea Brooke is a beautiful and idealistic young woman set on filling her life with good deeds. She pursues the pompous Edward Casaubon, conviced that he embodies these principles, and becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage. Then there is Tertius Lydgate, an anguished progressive whose determination to bring modern medicine to the provinces is muddied by unrequited love. They, and a multitude of other brilliantly drawn characters, reside in the town Middlemarch - the background to George Eliot's incomparable portrait of Victorian life. A masterpiece of candid observation, emotional insight and humour, Middlemarch is a truly monumental novel. With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan.
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Hardcore Twenty-Four (Stephanie Plum, #24)by Janet Evanovich[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW Janet Evanovich?s #1 New York Times bestselling sensation Stephanie Plum returns in her twenty-fourth thriller as mutilated corpses litter the streets of New Jersey... Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Diggery, won?t let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Stephanie?s main qualification for babysitting an extremely large snake is that she owns a stun gun?whether that?s for use on the wandering serpent or the petrified neighbors remains to be seen.Events take a dark turn when headless bodies start appearing across town. At first, it?s just corpses from a funeral home and the morgue that have had the heads removed. But when a homeless man is murdered and dumped behind a church Stephanie knows that she?s the only one with a prayer of catching this killer.If all that?s not enough, Diesel?s back in town. The 6-foot-tall, blonde-haired hunk is a man who accepts no limits?that
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The Bronte Collectionby Charlotte Bront?[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte were not prolific novelists, but those that they did write have become some of the best-loved works in English literature. Collected together here are six titles, beautifully bound, that make the perfect introduction to the sisters' work. They include: Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey, Villette, Wuthering Heights, The Professor, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Moving from the wilds of Yorkshire to small-town France, these are tales of passion and romance.
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The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematicsby Norton Juster[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW Once upon a time there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love with a beautiful dot. But the dot, though perfect in every way, only had eyes for a wild and unkempt squiggle. All of the line's romantic dreams were in vain, until he discovered...angles! Now, with newfound self-expression, he can be anything he wants to be--a square, a triangle, a parallelogram....And that's just the beginning!First published in 1963 and made into an Academy Award-winning animated short film, here is a supremely witty love story with a twist that reveals profound truths about relationships--both human and mathematical--sure to tickle lovers of all ages.
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The Flatshare (The Flatshare, #1)by Beth O'Leary[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met.After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap.Desperation makes her open-minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night-shift worker, will take the apartment during the day, and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. He?ll be there only when she?s at the office. In fact, they?ll never even have to meet.Of course, since they live together, sometimes they do need to share information. Tiffy and Leon start writing each other notes?first about what day is garbage day, then politely establishing which leftovers are up for grabs and debating the evergreen question of whether the toilet seat should stay up or down. Soon, they're sharing details of their lives: their work, their families, their romances. And it's amazing how much they learn about their flatmate just by sharing a space.Even though they are complete opposites,
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Emmaby Jane Austen[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW A fine exclusive edition of one of literature?s most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series will be first editions. No more than 10,000 copies will be printed, and each will be individually numbered from 1 to 10,000. She wished she might be able to keep him from an absolute declaration. That would be so very painful a conclusion of their present acquaintance! and yet, she could not help rather anticipating something decisive. She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a something to alter her present composed and tranquil state.Beautiful, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her single life and sees no need for neither love nor marriage. However, nothing delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend, Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her prot?g?e, Harriet
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The Horsewomanby James Patterson[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW Mother and daughter, both champion riders?but only one can make Olympic history. James Patterson?s first book with hall-of-fame sportswriter Mike Lupica.? When the buzzer sounds, twenty-one-year-old Becky McCabe takes one last look around. What she?s feeling right now is why riders do this. Young or old. Man or woman. Mother or daughter.?The toughest combination comes early, a tight one, hardly any time to react after the first jump.???????????Just like that they?re into it. Big-time. Horse and rider take a killer inside turn on the rollback two jumps later. No choice but to go inside if they?re here to win. And Becky sure isn?t here to finish second.?How could anyone go faster than this??No one can. Except the rider who?s up next...
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83? Years Oldby Hendrik Groen[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. Granted, his daily strolls are getting shorter because his legs are no longer willing and he has to visit his doctor more than he'd like. Technically speaking he is...elderly. But surely there is more to life at his age than weak tea and potted geraniums?Hendrik sets out to write an expos?: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam, revealing all its ups and downs--not least his new endeavor the anarchic Old-But-Not-Dead Club. And when Eefje moves in--the woman Hendrik has always longed for--he polishes his shoes (and his teeth), grooms what's left of his hair and attempts to make something of the life he has left, with hilarious, tender and devastating consequences.
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The Authenticity Projectby Clare Pooley[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW "A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually. "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project, before leaving it behind in Monica's Caf?. When Monica discovers Julian's abandoned notebook, not only does she add her own story to the book, she is determined to find a way to help Julian feel less lonely. And so it goes with the others who find the green notebook that will soon contain their deepest selves. It will also knit the group together In Real Life at Monica's Cafe, where they'll discover the thrill and sometime-risk of being completely honest--and, for some, find unexpected love. With a cast of characters who are by turns quirky and funny,
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Girlhoodby Melissa Febos[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society.In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them.When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she?d been told about herself and the habits and defenses she?d developed over years of trying to meet others? expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs.Blending investigative reporting,
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Must Love Flowersby Debbie Macomber[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW Two women at different stages of life share a heartwarming journey to find themselves again after hardship in this uplifting novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.Joan Sample is not living the life she thought she would. Now a widow and an empty nester, Joan is content being something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to get back out into the world. With her encouragement, Joan makes big strides, taking care of her overgrown lawn, making new friends through a grief support group, and even renting out a room to a local college student. Before long Joan is finally starting to feel like herself again.Across town, Maggie Herbert works mornings as a barista, tending to rushed and annoyed customers before taking afternoon classes to become a nurse practitioner. She's been living with her alcoholic father, avoiding his temper and struggling to pay the bills. But she
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Message in a Bottleby Nicholas Sparks[*] Download Link ⇒ DOWNLOAD NOW[*] Read Link ⇒ READ NOW Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, discovers it during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with, "My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together...." For Garrett, the message is the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman he has lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shattered her trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Challenged by the mystery, and driven to find Garrett by emotions she does not fully understand, Theresa begins a search that takes her to a sunlit coastal town and an unexpected confrontation. Brought together either by chance or something more powerful, Theresa and
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