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"Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G.H. are an older couple -- it's their house, and they've arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept...
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This tragic love story reveals the destructive effects of wealth and social hypocrisy on Lily Bart, a ravishing beauty. Impoverished but well-born, Lily realizes a secure future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. Her downfall begins with a romantic indiscretion, intensifies with an accumulation of gambling debts, and climaxes in a maelstrom of social disasters.
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"Seven Seas is pleased to present Pride and Prejudice, an all-new, illustrated edition of Jane Austen’s most famous novel, now brought to life in a unique way featuring manga-styled artwork that will appeal to readers and fans of all ages. Alongside Jane Austen’s original, unadulterated text, this edition includes over 120 delightful black-and-white full-page illustrations, four color inserts, and gorgeous wrap-around cover art. Elizabeth...
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Después de mudarse a Long Island, Nueva York, el narrador Nick Carraway visita a su prima, Daisy Buchanan, a su esposo, Tom, y al vecino, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby y Daisy Buchanan pronto comienzan una aventura que conduce a la muerte de Gatsby.
After moving to Long Island, New York, narrator Nick Carraway visits his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, her husband, Tom, and neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan soon begin an affair that leads to Gatsby's...
7) Eva Luna
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En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su país a través de la memoria y la imaginación. La cautivadora protagonista de esta historia constituye un nosátlgico álter ego de la autora, que se llama a s̕í misma "ladrona de historias" precisamente porque en las historias radica el secreto de la vida y el mundo. Novela de hondo perfil humano, Eva Luna funde el destino individual con el colectivo mediante una fulgurante prosa de carácter...
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Brilliance Audio
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[2008]
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Persuasion: "Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, 'She is almost too good for me.' Persuasion is the story of Anne and Captain Wentworth and their long awaited union. The world of country gentry in Regency England serves as a setting while portraying the many aspects of proper society - its failings and humor"--Container
Pride and prejudice: "A delightful novel about 'how girls catch husbands.'...
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Gallimard
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2016.
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"Lorsque Myriam, mère de deux jeunes enfants, décide malgré les réticences de son mari de reprendre son activité au sein d'un cabinet d'avocats, le couple se met à la recherche d'une nounou. Après un casting sévère, ils engagent Louise, qui conquiert très vite l'affection des enfants et occupe progressivement une place centrale dans le foyer. Peu à peu le piège de la dépendance mutuelle va se refermer, jusqu'au drame. A travers la description...
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Les Escales
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[2021]
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" 'Je n'étais jamais retournée sur la tombe de Madeleine. N'y avais jamais apporté son repas préféré, de l'huile de palme, du sel ou une cruche de vin de raphia. Madeleine, pour autant que je m'en souvienne, préférait le vin rouge. Mais enfin, le vin de raphia, c'est ce que l'on déposait sur la tombe des morts dans le Haut-Fènn'. Vingt ans après la mort de sa mère, Katmé Abbia, enseignante, apprend que la tombe doit être déplacée....
11) The Paris affair
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Grand Central Publishing
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2024.
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"Fin Tighe is clinging to respectability by his nail-bitten fingers. He may be the illegitimate son of an English earl, but he hasn't spoken to his father in a decade, and his engineer's salary is barely enough to support him and his cousin Aurelie. A dancer in the corps de ballet, Aurelie is at constant risk from groping, leering men who assume any dancer is a prostitute in training. And Fin's evenings spent in the clandestine gay community may be...
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Lepta Kniga
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2023.
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"Kniga o tom, kak desi︠a︡tʹ sovetskikh zhenshchin, okazavshisʹ v odnoĭ palate rodilʹnogo doma, vdrug uznai︠u︡t, chto v dannom uchrezhdenii obʺi︠a︡vlen karantin i im pridëtsi︠a︡ provesti v ego stenakh eshchë desi︠a︡tʹ dneĭ. Odnoĭ iz nikh prikhodit v golovu povtoritʹ istorii︠u︡, rasskazannui︠u︡ florentiĭskim sochinitelem Bokkachcho: vse desi︠a︡tʹ dneĭ karantina rasskazyvatʹ drug druzhke o zhizni, o muzhchinakh,...
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Penguin Clásicos
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2021.
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Una novela breve e intensa sobre el deseo femenino en el siglo XIX y las convenciones sociales que se interponían en su camino. Publicada en la estela de éxitos como Los pazos de Ulloa y La madre naturaleza, Insolación cuenta la relación que entablan en la madrileña feria de San Isidro Asís Taboada, una viuda de 32 años, y Diego Pacheco, un joven y apuesto gaditano. La historia comienza en retrospectiva, cuando la protagonista despierta con...
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Azbuka
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2019.
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In the summer of 1924, at a glittering party held at Riverton House, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were his two sisters - and Grace, a young housemaid. In 1999, Grace is ninety-eight years old and living in a nursing home when a young director making a film about the events of that summer visits her. Grace is taken back to Riverton House where memories that she had long ago consigned to the dark reaches of her mind begin to sneak back...
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Bookouture
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2023.
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Edinburgh, 1911: When Maud and Daisy receive a letter from Daisy’s cousin, Clara, sharing her fears that two sudden deaths in her local choir weren’t accidental, at first Daisy thinks her cousin is overreacting. But Maud’s detective senses tell her something is afoot, and so they make haste to the Highlands to investigate. As soon as they arrive, Maud and Daisy go undercover in the choir to find potential suspects. But with one murder deemed...
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