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1) Oil!
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"By turns an ardent family saga, scintillating potboiler, and anti-capitalist tirade, Oil! ranks among the most important critiques of fossil energy ever printed. This edition features a contextual introduction by Michael Tondre, which will illuminate thenovel's urgent timeliness in our warming world"--
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"On April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions of his fellow passengers. Melville's comic allegory addresses themes of sincerity, identity, and morality in its challenge to the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth-century America. Misunderstood by the author's contemporaries, the novel is praised today for its stunningly modern techniques"--
4) His last bow
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2His Last Bow3 is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle and is part of an anthology of short stories, His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (1917). It{u2019}s the final work in Conan Doyle{u2019}s classic mystery series about the legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. Supersummary.com (Summary)
5) Breakwater
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Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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A novel about a marriage torn apart by a violent secret for fans of Lauren Groff's Fates and FuriesEmilia has it all: a
rewarding career as a statistician, a wonderful husband, two healthy young sons,
and a house in the countryside. But when a brief moment of panic triggers the
memory of a traumatic experience from twelve years before, Emilia finds herself
floating away from her average existence. The secret she's kept for so long
refuses to stay...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Kit Preston is the elegant newlywed wife of British financier Anthony Preston. Shortly after moving to one of London's wealthiest neighborhoods with her husband, Kit is threatened by an unknown party. The tension mounts as the menacing phone calls continue and Anthony shows little concern, until Kit begins to doubt her own sanity and the motives of everyone around her.
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka, 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
•...
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World's classics ; 14
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1902.
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English
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Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story of two contrasting heroines and the men they love illustrates Brontë's wish to reconcile the world of romantic love and fulfillment with the gritty realities of suffering, obligation, and social duty.
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"A beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona. This features the Left Bank of Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain. It is the story of flamboyant Lady Brett Ashely and the hapless Jake Barnes in an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love and vanishing illusions." --
11) Dr. Strangelove
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Gregg Press
Pub. Date
1979.
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English
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…U.S. GENERAL RUNS AMUCK……H-BOMBERS ATTACK RUSSIA…PRESIDENT AND RED PREMIER IN HOT-LINE STRUGGLE TO SAVE WORLD… Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1963 political satire black comedy that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the USA. The novel, written by Peter George, is based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Peter George...
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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"From Drop Caps to Deluxes, Penguin Creative Director Paul Buckley presents a visual overview of the innovative covers that have put Penguin Classics at the forefront of the book design world. In Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover, Paul Buckley showcases more than ten years of stunning cover designs from Penguin Classics. This curated tour begins with the now-iconic redesign of the signature Penguin Classics black-spine series in 2003 and moves through...
14) Persuasao
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Colecao duetos
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2022.
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Portuguese
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Anne Elliot, a heroina de "Persuasao", e uma nem tao jovem solteira que, seguindo os conselhos de uma amiga, dispensara, sete anos atras, o belo e valoroso (porem sem titulo nobiliarquico e sem terras) Frederick Wentworth. No entanto, o futuro sentimental e financeiro de Anne nao e muito promissor, e quando o destino a coloca frente a frente com Frederick, agora um distinto capitao da Marinha britanica, reflexoes, conjunturas e arrependimentos sao...
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Particular Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. From The Epic of Gilgameshto the poetry of the First World War, and covering all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books and 4,000 years of world literature. Stuffed full of stories, author biographies, book summaries and recommendations, and illustrated with thousands...
18) Die Verwandlung
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Project Gutenberg
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Deutsch
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"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt." - So nüchtern beginnt Kafkas weltberühmte Erzählung über die unheimliche Verwandlung eines Menschen in einen riesigen Käfer. Unwirklichkeit und Realität vereinen sich in ihr und sind nicht mehr voneinander zu trennen.
19) The jungle
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English
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The horrifying conditions of the Chicago stockyards are revealed through this narrative of a young immigrant's struggles in America.
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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"The Abysmal Brute" is a novel by American writer Jack London, first published in book form in 1913. It is a short novel, and could be regarded as a novelette. In the story, a successful boxer, who was brought up in a log cabin and knows little of the real world, begins to realize the corrupt practices in the game of boxing.