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This classic bestselling novel about a man who encounters a woman whose power to destroy is as strong as her power to love evokes Hemingway in its naturalistic portrayal of elemental forces in both nature and humanity. Ellen's beauty was radiant, and Harland had been so struck with her personality and the strength of her character that he knew he could never leave her. When he found that she returned his adoration, he could marry her with joy, bothered...
83) El hombre celoso
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"Un detective experto en celos que debe dar caza a un hombre sospechoso de haber asesinado asu hermano. Un padre afligido que se plantea cuál es el lugar de la venganza en una sociedad que ha sucumbido a los más bajos instintos. Dos amigos que, de camino a los Sanfermines en Pamplona, se enamoran de la misma chica. Un basurero que, mientras se recupera de una profunda resaca, tiene que averiguar qué pasó exactamente la noche anterior. La historia...
84) Big sister Sarah
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Sarah is excited about her new baby sister, until the new baby gets all the attention and the presents.
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Riverbend friends volume 1
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"Tessa has lived a trouble-free life as the only child of two loving parents--she is well-liked, gets straight As, is on the competitive swim team, and is active in her church youth group. It's a pretty perfect life! That is, until she comes home from swim practice one day to find that her parents are divorcing. Along with that, her BFF has moved to Florida, and Tessa gets stuck in Intro to Drama--possibly the worst class ever! Soon Tessa's mom sinks...
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After her brother joins the family in Philadelphia at the end of the Civil War, Addy wants to be with him as much as possible, so she is jealous when he starts spending time with her friend's cousin. Includes information about the life of African Americans in Philadelphia in the 1860s and a recipe for letter cookies.
89) The girls
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Inspired by Clare Booth Luce's "The Women," students at the Maroon Bells School for Girls in Aspen, Colorado, experience bonding, jealousy, competition, and fighting over boys as they make decisions about their lives.
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"When her old friend Hannah doesn't show up at her house in the south of France, everyone assumes that Claudia, who has known Hannah since their shared years at boarding school, will know where she is, and what has happened. But as Claudia travels from the USA to France to help Hannah's husband and children conduct their search, she is forced to deal with her old jealousy of Hannah, as well as her own relationship in the present with her French lover,...
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"Ann Pearlman's The Christmas Cookie Club enthralled readers everywhere with a heartwarming and touching story about the power of female friendship. Now, in A Gift for My Sister, she once again explores the depth of the human heart, and this time it's through the eyes of two sisters. Tara and Sky share a mother, but aside from that they seem to differ in almost every way. When a series of tragedies strikes, they must somehow come together in the face...
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To everyone else it was "just" a weekend house party?complete with a pheasant shoot, inside jokes, and after-dinner games. But for American Nicola Harris, swept off her feet by aristocratic Englishman James Shuttleworth, the weekend is her first chance to penetrate his close-knit circle of posh friends?people with names like Badger and Trez, people who will soon have the titles of Earl and Countess. Nicola is eager to fit in, but she can?t seem to...
93) The superstar
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Daniela and Rinad's friendship is tested when soccer ace Kennedy joins their high school team.
96) The natural
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Kamal's position on the soccer team--as well as his relationship with his best friend--is threatened when a new player joins and steals the spotlight.
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The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited. In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale, we...
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Fifteen-year-old Julia Epstein feels her life is over when her family moves from Montreal in the early 1970s to what she considers a suburban wasteland outside Toronto. As her world starts to unravel, Julia meets her new neighbor, the brash and uninhibited Carla Cabrielli, who works her "assets" and knows how to get what she wants. Their instant dislike for each other quickly turns to loathing when they realize they are vying for not only the same...