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With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it? This...
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"Join the narrator through her day practicing good manners while she interacts with her English-speaking mother and French-speaking father.
Eleven different polite introductory phrases translated including: thank you, goodbye, excuse me, you're welcome, please, I love you, and good night.
A unique introductory bilingual phrase book. This special book includes examples in politeness and proper behaviors, helps parents read with their children in...
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"Join the narrator through her day practicing good manners while she interacts with her English-speaking mother and Italian-speaking father.
Eleven different polite introductory phrases translated including: thank you, goodbye, excuse me, you're welcome, please, I love you, and good night.
A unique introductory bilingual phrase book. This special book includes examples in politeness and proper behaviors, helps parents read with their children in...
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"Join the narrator through her day practicing good manners while she interacts with her English-speaking mother and Spanish-speaking father.
Eleven different polite introductory phrases translated including: thank you, goodbye, excuse me, you're welcome, please, I love you, and good night.
A unique introductory bilingual phrase book. This special book includes examples in politeness and proper behaviors, helps parents read with their children in...
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"Join the narrator through her day practicing good manners while she interacts with her English-speaking mother and Portuguese-speaking father.
Eleven different polite introductory phrases translated including: thank you, goodbye, excuse me, you're welcome, please, I love you, and good night.
A unique introductory bilingual phrase book. This special book includes examples in politeness and proper behaviors, helps parents read with their children...
10) Iraq
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Engaging images accompany information about Iraq. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8
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Overview: Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, both are adults; life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew...
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"Summer has come to Scotland Street. The long days have prompted its denizens to engage in flights of fancy. Some, like the Duke of Johannesburg's plan to create a microlite seaplane, are literal flights, and some, like the vain Bruce Anderson's idea of settling down with one of his many admirers, are more metaphorical. With the domineering Irene off pursuing academic challenges, Stuart and Bertie are free to indulge in summer fun. Stuart reconnects...
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Making her way through a Victorian London season in spite of gossip about a self-proclaimed descendant of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, as well as the audacious thefts of several valuable objects that once belonged to the historic queen, Lady Emily Ashton finds herself targeted by a would-be killer who has murdered a fellow socialite.
16) A fatal waltz
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When her friend's husband is wrongfully accused of murdering Lord Basil Fortescue, Lady Emily Ashton searches for answers, in a case that risks her own fiancé's life and takes her from London's glittering ballrooms to Vienna's sordid alleys.
18) Persuasion
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The story begins seven years after the broken engagement of Anne Elliot to then Commander Frederick Wentworth. Anne, then 19 years old, fell in love and accepted a proposal of marriage from the young naval officer. Wentworth was considered clever, confident, ambitious, and employed, but his low social status made Anne's friends and family view the Commander as an unfavorable partner...
In a letter to her niece Fanny Knight in March 1817, Austen wrote...
19) Anna Karenina
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The doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
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