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Deaf-mute John Singer becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Carson McCullers
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A Study Guide for Carson McCullers's "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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On her 28th birthday, Emma Swan meets Henry, the son she gave up for adoption 10 years ago. Henry believes Emma is the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, prophesied to break a powerful curse. Unconvinced, Emma returns Henry to Storybrooke, where she encounters the enigmatic Mr. Gold and clashes with mayor Regina Mills, the boy's adoptive mother, who Henry insists is none other than the Evil Queen!
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In Margaret Brown Kilik's coming-of-age novel, The Duchess of Angus, Jane Davis has just graduated from college and returns home to the flophouse hotel her mother runs in San Antonio. She quickly discovers that she must navigate the constricting realities of prefeminist America. Race and class segregation, limitations on gender and sexuality, and derogatory attitudes toward Mexicans and Mexican Americans mark the city's social world-and drive Jane's...
13) Yours, Jean
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"When she refused me," Charlie says at his trial. "Well, I had that gun. What else was I to do?"
Lawrenceville, Illinois, 1952: Jean De Belle, the new high school librarian, is eager to begin the next phase of her young life after breaking off her engagement to Charlie Camplain. She has no way of knowing that in a few short hours, Charlie will arrive at the school, intent on convincing her to take back his ring.
What happens next will reverberate...
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Viking Adult
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2014.
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"A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has...
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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë and Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, both published in 1847, were the first in-depth, psychological portraits in literature of the transition of a strong-willed but troubled, misfit girl into an adult. They are generally said to be the first female versions of the genre known as the bildungsroman: the coming of age novel. They are female in three senses: they were written both by and about a woman and were intended for a...
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Random House Publishing Group
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2012
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of cultural observation and seductive storytelling...
The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle
In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of cultural observation and seductive storytelling...
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Hack/Slash vs. Vampirella volume 1
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The Vegas strip heats up as Cassie Hack and her companion Vlad are on the trail of a deadly slasher and meet the lovely, yet lethal Vampirella. The team-up event you've been waiting for is a high stakes game of chance when they have to take on The Queen of Hearts! This Volume collects the complete, 5-issue series by Shawn Aldridge (The Dark and Bloody) and Rapha Labosco (James Bond), and features all of the covers by Jenny Frison, Carli Ihde, Jen...
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What is the price of passion?
Who knows the power of love?
Meet Martha Beck, a young nurse dedicated to healing others until her own hurting heart lured her down a darker path.
Loneliness led her to Raymond Fernandez, but love led her all the way to the electric chair.
This is the tragic true story of the Lonely Hearts Killers.
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