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Cinnamon and Gunpowder

Ксюша Ангел

Cinnamon and Gunpowder

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Havisham

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Havisham

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Save the Date

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Save the Date

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Secrets of Midwives

Sally Hepworth

Secrets of Midwives

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Sally Hepworth

Last Flight of Poxl West

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Last Flight of Poxl West

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Locket, The The

Kate Chopin

Locket, The The

In “The Locket”, a confederate soldier declines his fellow soldiers’ request to reveal the contents of the locket around his neck. The locket, which holds pictures of his fiancée’s parents and the date of their wedding is found on the battlefield after a battle. Later, the soldier’s fiancée visits the battlefield with the soldier’s father, both shaken with grief. The soldier’s father asks his son’s fiancée to remove her veil, as it contrasts too sharply with the beautiful day and adds that on...

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Kate Chopin

Beyond the Bayou

Kate Chopin

Beyond the Bayou

In «Beyond the Bayou», La Folle, an ex-slave, lives on an island cut off from the her old home and is afraid to venture back onto the bayou. When a small drought dries up the shallow waters between her home and the bayou, she spends some time with the son of her former master. When the son, whom she calls “Cheri” accidentally shoots himself in the leg, La Folle must overcome her fear of the unknown and go back to the bayou to alert his parents. A story about a woman finding hidden strength in...

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Kate Chopin

Respectable Woman, A A

Kate Chopin

Respectable Woman, A A

In «A Respectable Woman», Mrs. Baroda, the wife of a wealthy sugar plantation owner plays hostess to Mr. Gouvernail, a friend of her husband’s. The reserved Mr. Gouvernail is a puzzle to Mrs. Baroda who is nonetheless intrigued by the man’s retiring nature. When the two speak to each other outside one evening, Mrs. Baroda wants to get closer to her guest but realizes this would be at odds with her position as a “respectable woman”. First published in Vogue in 1894, «A Respectable Woman» is the...

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Kate Chopin

Desiree's Baby

Kate Chopin

Desiree's Baby

In “Désirée’s Baby”, the adopted daughter of a wealthy prewar French Creole couple is courted by the son of another wealthy, respected French Creole family. After they marry, their child is born with dark skin and believed to have African ancestry, a problem for a prewar white family. Accused of dishonesty by her husband, the mother, Désirée, and her child walk off into the bayou, never to be seen again. But when the father finds a letter from his mother to his father which reveals an explosive...

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Kate Chopin

Portrait of the Artist as a Young M...

James Joyce

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A A

First published in 1916, James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is his first novel. A Künstlerroman, or “artist’s novel” it describes the life of Steven Dedalus from childbirth, through his schooling and finally to his full blossoming as an artist. Loosely based on the author’s life and ritten in a mix of third person and indirect speech, the novel served as a basis for Joyce’s more experimental novels “Ulysses” (1922) and Finnegan’s Wake (1939).

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Autism: A Family's Journey

Michael Terrill

Autism: A Family's Journey

How would you feel if your two-year-old child was diagnosed as autistic and mentally retarded? That he would go into his room and never come out, and would be institutionalized by age seventeen? This was the grim life sentence handed down to Lori and Jim Cairns regarding their son, JR. This diagnosis was made in 1996 – when little was known about autism, governments offered few helpful resources, and hope for recovery was disregarded as a myth, an urban legend. Today many people still dismiss...

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Michael Terrill

Last Enchantments

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Last Enchantments

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Summer Secrets

Jane Green

Summer Secrets

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Jane Green

Dog Who Saved Me

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Dog Who Saved Me

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Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

Nightingale

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Kristin Hannah

Bliss

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Bliss

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Landline

Rainbow Rowell

Landline

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Pair of Silk Stockings, A A

Kate Chopin

Pair of Silk Stockings, A A

In «A Pair of Silk Stockings», Mrs. Sommers, a once wealthy woman who has fallen on hard times comes into possession of a small fortune of $15. Planning to spend the money on clothing for her children, she becomes sidetracked at a shop counter, entranced by the smoothness of a pair of silk stockings. She goes on to spend the money on the stockings as well as new boots and gloves for herself. In succumbing to “mechanical impulses that direct her action”, Mrs. Sommers resembles Edna Pontellier,...

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Kate Chopin

Cricket on the Hearth, The The

Чарльз Диккенс

Cricket on the Hearth, The The

In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home, is the third of these stories. Following the home life of John Peerybingle, the story introduces the many people in John's family and life along with a cricket that acts as the guardian angel of the family. Like its predecessors, this story also contains heavy social and moral implications. However it differs from A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, in...

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Чарльз Диккенс

Sunshine Over Bluebell Cliff

Della Galton

Sunshine Over Bluebell Cliff

'Utterly uplifting, pure escapism – a perfect summer read' Trisha Ashley A place to make your dreams come true…Clara King is left in sole charge of a fabulous new cliff top hotel for the summer. The owner has barely left the country when Clara realises that someone is hell bent on putting the Bluebell Cliff Hotel out of business. It becomes a race against time to hunt down the sneaky saboteur before they succeed in bringing the hotel to its knees. With her dream job under threat and...

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Della Galton

Overexposed

Michael Blair

Overexposed

Just when Vancouver commercial photographer Tom McCall thought he’d got his life back on track, a complete stranger shows up dead on the roof deck of his floating home. No one seems to know who he is, he has no ID, and there’s not a mark on him. If that isn’t bad enough, a prospective new client seems to have had one Botox injection too many, his ex-wife wants to take his daughter off to Australia for a year; and someone’s leaving mutilated dolls on his front step. And, of course, he’s in lust...

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Michael Blair

A Year Less a Day

James Hawkins

A Year Less a Day

Short-listed for the 2001 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel In the fourth Inspector Bliss mystery, Bliss teams up with Daphne Lovelace to trace the father of a Canadian woman whose husband is dying of cancer. While Ruth Jackson may believe that she was sired by a Beatle, Bliss and Daphne have other ideas. In Vancouver, Ruth’s world falls apart when her dying husband suddenly disappears and she is arrested on suspicion of murder. His substantial life insurance policy and the blood-stained...

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Depth of Field

Michael Blair

Depth of Field

Photographer Tom McCall’s only regret about accepting an assignment from the beautiful Anna Waverley to photograph her boat for a potential buyer is that he has double-booked himself and needs to hand the assignment over to his partner, Bobbi. Little does he know how much of a regret it will become. En route to the assignment, Bobbi is brutally beaten and left for dead. As his partner lies in a coma, Tom searches for an explanation for the attack. Learning that Anna Waverley doesn’t actually...

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Michael Blair

Furies

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Furies

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