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by Edward Booth, John Nopel, Keith Johnson, Darcy Davis ...

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Over time, the land of the Mechoopda Indians, where elk herds grazed on blue-stemmed grass, became Rancho Arroyo Chico, the land chosen by California pioneer John Bidwell for his stately creekside mansion. Bidwell later founded the town of Chico with its wooden plank sidewalksand iron-front and brick commercial buildings. Today Chico is a dynamic modern city with its own California State ... Read more

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Over time, the land of the Mechoopda Indians, where elk herds grazed on blue-stemmed grass, became Rancho Arroyo Chico, the land chosen by California pioneer John Bidwell for his stately creekside mansion. Bidwell later founded the town of Chico with its wooden plank sidewalksand iron-front and brick commercial buildings. Today Chico is a dynamic modern city with its own California State
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High Society Romance: 40 Gilded Age Novels

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by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gene Stratton-Porter, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Guy de Maupassant, Mrs. Oliphant, Alexandre Dumas fils, Edmund Yates, Robert Barr, Booth Tarkington, Albert Ross, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Leo Tolstoy, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, George William Curtis, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Henry James, Mrs. Alexander, Horatio Alger, David Graham Phillips, Theodore Dreiser, Anna Katharine Green, Grace Livingston Hill, Wilkie Collins, Mary Augusta Ward, George Meredith, George Gissing ...

High Society Romance: 40 Gilded Age Novels surveys the glittering yet precarious world of wealth, marriage, inheritance, and social ambition across a broad transatlantic canon. Its selections range from drawing-room comedy and sentimental courtship to psychological realism, sensation fiction, social satire, and morally searching domestic drama. Beneath scenes of balls, country houses, fashionable ... Read more

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High Society Romance: 40 Gilded Age Novels surveys the glittering yet precarious world of wealth, marriage, inheritance, and social ambition across a broad transatlantic canon. Its selections range from drawing-room comedy and sentimental courtship to psychological realism, sensation fiction, social satire, and morally searching domestic drama. Beneath scenes of balls, country houses, fashionable
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The Post-Girl

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Rural Life and Community: The novel provides a detailed and affectionate portrayal of rural English life, capturing the rhythms and routines of a small village. Sylvia’s interactions with the villagers reveal the close-knit nature of the community, as well as the various social dynamics at play.Romance and Personal Growth: Sylvia’s journey is also one of personal growth and self-discovery. ... Read more

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Rural Life and Community: The novel provides a detailed and affectionate portrayal of rural English life, capturing the rhythms and routines of a small village. Sylvia’s interactions with the villagers reveal the close-knit nature of the community, as well as the various social dynamics at play.Romance and Personal Growth: Sylvia’s journey is also one of personal growth and self-discovery.
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In "A Girton Girl," Annie Edwards weaves a rich tapestry of female empowerment and academic ambition against the backdrop of late 19th-century England. The narrative follows the life of a spirited young woman navigating the challenges of a male-dominated society while pursuing her education at Girton College, the first institution in England to offer degrees to women. Edwards employs a realist ... Read more

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The Silence of Water

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When Fan's mum Agnes announces that the family is moving to Western Australia to take care of Agnes's father - a man they've never spoken of before now - Fan finds herself a stranger in a new town, living in a home whose currents and tensions she cannot read or understand. Resentful of her mother's decision to move, Fan forms an alliance with her grandfather, Edwin Salt, a convict transported to ... Read more

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Edward P. Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the critically acclaimed novel The Known World. A finalist for the National Book Award, Lost in the City features 15 poignant short stories, each set in Washington, D.C. Far removed from marble monuments and the offices of rich politicians, the nation's capital that Jones captures is inhabited by self-willed African-Americans struggling to ... Read more

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In fourteen sublime stories, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever.Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather ... Read more

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