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Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Controversial for its honest depiction of work, desire, and urban life, Sister Carrie has endured as a classic of naturalist fiction and remains a powerful example of social critique over a century after its publication. Despite poor reviews upon publication, the novel is now considered a landmark of American literature. Tired of the countryside, Carrie Meeber moves to Chicago to live with her older...
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Originally published pseudonymously in 1893, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" follows the tragic tale of Maggie and her life in the harsh streets and tenements of the New York City Bowery district. Initially rejected by publishers for being viewed as too brutal and accurate in its descriptions of poverty and female sexuality, Stephen Crane published the work at his own expense. Following the success of Crane's novel "The Red Badge of Courage," this...
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The first installment in this exciting series followed Promise, Squeeze, and Show as they robbed, whored, and fought their way to adulthood on the mean streets of Brooklyn. Now, it's a year later. Promise is trying to get out of the gangsta life, but the streets have a powerful call. Squeeze and Show are making out like bandits with their hot new nightclub, the Brooklyn Café. Grindin' in the streets is no longer an option, but trouble still follows...
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Tilo Adams thought she had finished with the Mendoza family when she left most of its members twitching on their living room floor.
As an FBI agent, violence is nothing new to her, but this time it's murder, and the intended victim is her former lover, Victoria Mendoza. Now she's running from the memories that threaten to destroy her sanity. She has no idea of the danger surrounding her.
Left for dead, Victoria is looking for her wayward lover,...
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Drugs turn out to be a way of life for Rich, a powerful, sexy Drug Lord hailing from Washington, D. C. His desire for fast money and the extravagant things that it brings puts his family in harm's way. Soon, his ego forces him to leave his castle and empire to expand business on the West Coast. His decision to leave his love ones behind at the mercy of his enemies turns out to be catastrophic. One by one, each of Rich's children spiral out of control....
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Revisit the debut novel of one of the "New Negroes" of the Harlem Renaissance filled with Niggerati sensibilities.
Disgruntled by the treatment of Black soldiers in the military, Jake Brown heads to Harlem-the Mecca of Black creativity-to rebuild his life anew. Upon arriving, he discovers that Harlem isn't exactly the paradise of racial uplift and unity that one might read about in books; but then again, it's a far cry from the volatile streets of...
7) Main Street
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Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
8) Gabi
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Gabriella Guerrero has been independent ever since she was a little kid doing her best to care for her drug-addicted single mom. Her world changes when her mother dies, and her aunt takes her in. She has to learn everything all over again, especially how to trust her Aunt Isabel. She has to learn how to live with her aunt and her three cousins in the little house in East Los Angeles. They don't have much except for each other. Gabi does more than...
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Double Standard My Ass! Hot Alpha Biker? Too damn bad. I am a badass biker babe extraordinaire and Chase better figure that out quick or I will walk. The Maker's of Peace Motorcycle Club is my family. They're all I know, but I about to leave it all behind and find my own Happily Ever After.Chase's past keeps slapping Ainsley in the face, but when the ghosts from her past rise up, jealousy and tempters flare and two stubborn as hell childhood friends...
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Immerse yourself in the world of Oscar Wilde with the collection: "The Plays of Oscar Wilde." Containing all of Wilde's plays, this collection is a must-have for every bookshelf. Oscar Wilde was born in mid-1800's Dublin to highly intellectual parents. He found a niche in the growing trend of aestheticism and was mentored by Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Although he dabbled in short stories and poems at the beginning of his career, Wilde was taken...
11) Just One Dare
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"A one night stand with no names exchanged.Six years later, she comes face to face with her baby’s father again.Aurora Michaels isn’t the same girl she was that spring night. No longer homeless and living in the back room of a diner where she worked, she’s now a member of the wealthy Kingston family. She has her daughter, a career and has adjusted to her new normal.Billionaire Nick Dare is a man who takes charge. He runs the hotel arm of the...
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This collection of eight short stories about the struggles and triumphs of artists was published in 1920. Four of the stories originally appeared in Cather's first collection, The Troll Garden (1905), including her best known short story, "Paul's Case." Other stories include "Flavia and Her Artists," "The Diamond Mine," "A Gold Slipper," and "Scandal."
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In Jozi to Addis Aida, a Stewardess at Ethiopian Airlines and part-time fashion designer meets a business class passenger on flight E387 from ORTI to Bole International, Adis Ababa. The passenger is on a travel assignment doing a story on Ethiopia for a prestegious international travel magazine. She flirts, then they are courting and finally got engaged to this man. In the course of their courtship Aida gets recruited for a Cadet Pilot Programme...
14) A Russian Story
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He is young, intelligent, well educated, with patriotic sentiments. But certain misunderstandings oblige him to flee from Ukraine. For some reason, everything in his life builds up to a certain Russian scenario. So to what extent should one burden Ukrainians with the outcome of this Russian Story? Finding himself involuntarily identified with Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, the hero of the novel, Eugene Samarsky, becomes a 'superfluous man' in Ukraine. This...
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After being together since 9th grade; Darwin and Sabir have faced many challenges. Now adults, neither will be ready for what awaits them with Sabir's new found fame as the new Heavy Weight Champion of The World. Their relationship must compete with groupies, fame, and pride...all while keeping a clean image for the public. Secrets will be exposed and both will be forced to play the hand they were dealt.
Latoya's message - No matter what life deals...
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Apply for $1000 Boojee Informant grant to pay your student loans About The Boojee Informants As owner of Jones's Financial Bank, Kandi lives the good life. Her college buddies - Mitch, Kim, and Leon - aren't doing badly either. From the outside looking in, one would assume that their hard work and savvy corporate skills have paid off - but nothing could be further from the truth. Kandi and her crew have been living with a deadly secret - one that,...
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La crisis de diciembre del 2001 se acerca inexorable en la Argentina. En un barrio de la ciudad de Buenos Aires diferentes personajes viven acontecimientos que cambian sus vidas de forma vertiginosa, dejando al desnudo sus pecados y miserias, sus miedos y violencias, sus dolores, sus perversiones más ocultas. Pedófilos, amantes desbordados, estudiantes racistas, oficinistas codiciosos, narcos asesinos, marginales caídos en desgracia, amas de casa...
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Loreen Niewenhuis captures the vitality and pulse of modern Atlanta in her novella, ATLANTA. Niewenhuis lived in Atlanta in the mid-nineties. The city was waking up and transforming into a modern metropolis. Hosting the Olympics thrust Atlanta onto the world stage and the city rose to the occasion. Niewenhuis captures this transformation and the diverse tapestry of life in this magical city. Atlanta explores the tapestry of life in this modern, Southern...
19) No More Secrets
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Who said there's no problems amongst people in the church? Harmony is proof of that. With being a pastor's daughter, she has always lived in a glass house along with the rest of her family. But she quickly finds out that even in a glass house secrets are kept. From murder to adultery, to homosexuality. Harmony world goes upside down, and no matter how much each person prays to keep their secret cover, they all keep unfolding. Lines will be crossed;...
20) The Will of Fate
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Three university graduates find themselves in the city looking for greener pastures. Life in the city doesn't turn out as they had imagined it would. They resort to drugs to escape reality. Betrayed by destiny, fate decides the end of their story.
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