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You deserve nothing
\" ... Paris is sensual, dazzling and dangerously seductive. It serves as a fitting backdrop for a dramatic tale about the tension between desire and action, and about the complex relationship that exists between our public and private selves.\"--Page 2 of cover.
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This Side of Paradise
The bestselling novel that established F.Scott Fitzgerald's literary reputation and brought to vivid life the glory and despair of the \"Lost Generation.\" Raised by his mother, a charismatic eccentric determined to show her son the very best that life has to offer, Amory Blaine spends his childhood traveling from one party to the next.
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Shade me
\"A teenage girl with special cognitive abilities becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding the brutal attack of a high-profile classmate and a sexy yet dangerous relationship with a stranger\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
A poor peddler, John Durbeyfield learns he is related to an ancient noble family: the d'Urbervilles. To gain part of the fortune, he sends his eldest daughter, Tess, to the d'Urberville mansion. But the relationship is not as it seems, and she ends up working as a servant. The wealthy family's son, Alec d'Urberville, tries to seduce Tess and eventually rapes her. Left pregnant, Tess returns home to have the baby, but the baby dies. Later, Tess falls in love with a man named Angel. She keeps the painful secret until their wedding night, when she reveals the horror in her past. Will Angel stay with her? This unabridged version of Thomas Hardy's important novel challenges the Victorian notions of female purity and double standards. It was first published in 1891 in the UK.
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Yonahlossee riding camp for girls
Exiled to an equestrian boarding school in the South at the height of the Great Depression for her role in a family tragedy, strong-willed teen Thea Atwell grapples with painful memories while acclimating to the school's strict environment.
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Captains Courageous
This dramatic nineteenth-century nautical adventure and classic coming-of-age story is one of Rudyard Kipling's most enduringly popular works. Harvey Cheyne Jr., the teenage son of a millionaire American railroad tycoon, is sailing to Europe on a luxury liner when he falls overboard off the coast of Newfoundland. He's saved from drowning by the We're Here, a New England fishing schooner captained by Disko Troop. He's alive, but his tough new companions find him to be spoiled and ignorant. Desperate to get back to the world he knows, Harvey must prove his worth as one of the crew by mastering the challenging tasks and physical labor of life at sea. With help from the captain's son, Dan, he braves a number of risky exploits and adventures as they travel along the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Shedding his expectations of a pampered life, Harvey begins to embrace the tough work of a fisherman. Filled with thrilling action, this classic sea story will delight and excite readers of all ages.
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Billionaire boy
Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He's the wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land. Yes, Joe has absolutely everything he could possibly want. But there's just one thing he really needs: a friend!
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we inter are
This not-quite poem is a bricolage of citations. Barring stanza three, it is composed almost entirely of the words of US feminists: Adrienne Rich (1986 [1984]), Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (1981), Donna Haraway (1988), Chela Sandoval (1991), Toni Cade Bambara (1980, 1983 [1981]). The ideas they express emerge from, and intervene in, several interrelated histories—colonial, racial, ethnic, class, gendered, sexual, bodily. To follow their logic is to parse dominant ideas into ensembles of contingent facts. The challenge to the so-called universal held a dual promise: a decolonisation of mind and a reimagination of freedom. The insistent eruption of the diversity of experiences, perspectives, myths, metaphors, visions was never an end in itself (though the market did strive where it could to domesticate it as a species of variety). It was above all an interpretive summons: a call to rethink and re-vision pasts presents futures. To re-examine experience, to specify it. The call to arms was a call for complexity. Specification as a first step towards rethinking the interrelations that constitute the social-ecological whole. The forms of expression reflected this impulse. Testimonials. Fiction. Historical excavation. Memoir. Oral history. Poetry. Ceremonies. Fantasy. Biomythography. Theory. The inter of relations refracted in the imploding of timelines, concepts and domains, in the trans-creation of literary genres, the visual arts and theatre. The material-nonmaterial, analytical-spectral, psychic-spiritual, ideological-poetic combining in new ways to speak—to, from, for, with, of, near—beauty, desire, justice, history, law and love. Binaries were inverted, subverted, on occasion subtended. In the exuberance of the moment, structure/subject, individual/community, history/agency, nature/culture, body/mind, subject/object all appeared poised to slough off the weight of history and point to terra incognita.
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Alice Munro's \Providence,\ Second-Wave Feminism, and the (Im)possibilities of Reconciling Motherhood and Liberation
Munro wrote the story in October 1976 (Thacker 311), a few years after the dissolution of her own marriage of two decades (244), and it first appeared in the August 1977 edition of Redbook, the publishing venue serving as an obvious testament to the story's underlying thematic preoccupation with women's lived experiences and the liberative upheavals of the feminist movement.2 The other stories in the collection capture episodes and eras of Rose's life, from her downtrodden childhood in Hanratty, to her socially advantageous marriage, followed by the birth of her daughter, extramarital affairs, and newfound independence after her divorce. [...]it is easily the least critically explored story in Who Do You Think You Are? Chantel Lavoie notes more generally that Munro's fiction has \"always explored\" the \"ambivalence\" of motherhood, asserting \"that staying and coping with motherhood is only [ever] an uneasy compromise, not a triumph\" (70), and that more often than not, Munro is preoccupied by \"the dark ambivalence of the monstrous mother\" (69), with stories featuring \"maternal characters [who] ache with longing for men they love, and sex with those men takes them away from their children, the fruits of earlier relationships\" (71).3 And while \"Providence\" does include a fledgling, long-distance romantic relationship that Rose is eagerly seeking to maintain, the story is much more deeply invested in the quotidian tasks of a mother raising her child, and the conflicts and difficulties of managing life as a newly-single working mother. [...]it is precisely her struggle with these competing demands and impulses which drives the narrative, as Rose longs for autonomy, freedom, and erotic love, while striving to adequately meet the obligations of mothering her young daughter.
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