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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
by Modern Library (Paperback) (Release Date: 2000-10-10)

Anna Quindlen
Black and Blue (Oprah's Book Club)
by Delta (Paperback) (Release Date: 2000-02-08)

Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth (Signet Classics)
by Signet Classics (Mass Market Paperback)

Ludwig Bemelmans
Mad About Madeline
by Viking Juvenile (Hardcover)

Louisa May Alcott
Little Men: Life At Plumfield With Jo's Boys
by Topeka Bindery (School & Library Binding)

Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Louisa May Alcott
Little Women: From the Original Publisher
by Little, Brown (Hardcover)

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.

Anna Quindlen
Rise and Shine: A Novel
by Ballantine Books (Mass Market Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-07-29)

From Anna Quindlen, acclaimed author of Blessings, Black and Blue, and One True Thing, a superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter most.It’s an otherwise ordinary Monday when Meghan Fitzmaurice’s perfect life hits a wall. A household name as the host of Rise and Shine, the country’s highest-rated morning talk show, Meghan cuts to a commercial break–but not before she mutters two forbidden words into her open mike. In an instant, it’s the end of an era, not only for Meghan, who is unaccustomed to dealing with adversity, but also for her younger sister, Bridget, a social worker in the Bronx who has always lived in Meghan’s long shadow. The effect of Meghan’s on-air truth telling reverberates through both their lives, affecting Meghan’s son, husband, friends, and fans, as well as Bridget’s perception of her sister, their complex childhood, and herself. What follows is a story about how, in very different ...

Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys And How They Turned Out
by Topeka Bindery (School & Library Binding)

Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school. Sequel to "Little Men."

Raymond Queneau
Exercises in Style
by New Directions Publishing Corporation (Paperback)

A twentysomething bus rider with a long, skinny neck and a goofy hat accuses another passenger of trampling his feet; he then grabs an empty seat. Later, in a park, a friend encourages the same man to reorganize the buttons on his overcoat. In Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, this determinedly pointless scenario unfolds 99 times in twice as many pages. Originally published in 1947 (in French), these terse variations on a theme are a wry lesson in creativity. The story is told as an official letter, as a blurb for a novel, as a sonnet, and in "Opera English." It's told onomatopoetically, philosophically, telegraphically, and mathematically. The result, as translator Barbara Wright writes in her introduction, is "a profound exploration into the possibilities of language." I'd say it's a refresher course of sorts, but it's more like a graduate seminar. After all, how many of us are familiar with terms such as litote, alexandrine, apheresis, and epenthesis in the ...

Anna Quindlen
One True Thing: A Novel
by Random House Trade Paperbacks (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-08-08)

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