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1) Emma
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Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
5) Middlemarch
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Set in a provincial Victorian neighborhood, the author explores the complex social relationship and the struggle to hold fast to personal tragedy in a materialistic environment.
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[2014]
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"From Thrity Umrigar, the critically beloved, best-selling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about the beauty of forgiveness"--
Befriending a young Indian woman named Lakshmi--who is suicidal, lonely, and trapped in a loveless marriage--psychologist Maggie finds their relationship warped by conflicting expectations and threatened by the revelation of long-buried secrets.
11) Shroud
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Series
Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
257 p. ; 25 cm.
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In 1937, Lisette Roux and her husband, André move from Paris to Provence to care for André's grandfather, Pascal. Pascal was a pigment salesman and frame maker, and a friend of Pissarro and Cézanne who traded frames for paintings. When war breaks out, André hides Pascal's art collection to keep the paintings out of the Nazi's reach before he himself goes off to the front. Then, as the Germans come closer and set up the Vichy government, Lisette...
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"Lucy Honeychurch, 'on tour' with her spinster cousin Charlotte, discovers more than frescoes and cathedrals in Florence. In their pesione they meet the Emersons, a father and son with decidedly 'free thinking' values that startle the other upper middle class lodgers. The Emersons fascinate Lucy, who realizes for the first time how claustrophobic her life has become. What begins as simply a desire for 'a room with a view,' ends with Lucy breaking...
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Berrybender narratives volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
9 CDs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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