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by Jane Austen
The life and loves of two starkly different sisters:
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Secrets, betrayals and confessions soon complicate the lives of the Dashwoods, whose goal is nothing less than the achievement of perfect happiness.
by Keith Ainsworth
Life, death and the relationships we forge between: The Courage of Intimacy is a collection of modern poetry exploring the fundamental human need to connect with others.
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by Lewis Carroll
A work of children's literature about a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures. It is considered to be a characteristic example of the genre of literary nonsense.
by Charles Dickens
The moral message of A Christmas Carol and the spirit of the Christmas Holiday -- to give, rejoice and love friends, family, neighbors and strangers alike -- are forever linked.
by Kahlil Gibran
A book of poetic essays, each of which discusses the fundamental aspects of human experience.
by Washington Irving
The story of Ichabod Crane, a lanky schoolmaster who competes for the hand of the young, beautiful Katrina Van Tassel. He is also pursued by a Headless Horseman.
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by David A. Ross
A community is literally divided when an outraged homeowner catches a teenager spray-painting the wall of his house and champions the building of a wall to section off a wealthy subdivision from its only slightly less affluent neighbors.
by David A. Ross
These short essays examine both local and expatriate lifestyles through the lens of one deeply immersed yet forever removed, fundamentally involved yet perpetually on the perimeter of a most curious culture.
by Kelly Huddleston
This is about people and their treasured possessions—a running tape recorder, a collection of diplomas, an attic full of disfigured mannequins, or shelves and shelves of books in an all but abandoned public library—and the distinctive role that each of us plays as part of a group dynamic. The book questions where each of us essentially exists—within the singular, the plural, or both.
by David A. Ross
A lonely and deranged sorcerer; a noon-time Bozo, a local television-star; observant and bewildered tourists; angry, drunken cock-fighters; obedient anarchists; a guilt-ridden engineer; each one experiences the curious juxtaposition of the two overriding ideas contained within the collection’s title, Sacrifice and the Sweet Life.
by David A. Ross
In this whimsical novel, a star-crossed weekend sailor is shipwrecked on a wayward South Seas island. Stranded there by the trickery of a Hawaiian kahuna, and accompanied only by his sagacious parrot, Julian Crosby eventually meets the island’s only other human resident, a soft-spoken siren who seems at once out of place yet somehow thoroughly natural to her environment.
As Julian is initiated by the longtime foundling in the ways of this Shangri-La, the female solitary alludes time and again to a past that seems to suggest a solution to one of the century’s inimitable mysteries – the disappearance of 1930’s flying ace Amelia Earhart.
