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Betty Leicester's Christmas

Category: Author:Sarah Orne Jewett萨拉•奥恩•朱厄特 

Betty, a sixteen year old American girl who's visiting England, is invited, along with her widowed father, to attend a Christmas house party at the home of a woman Betty adores.


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Death and Taxes

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 "It's a crime, Your Honor," said the young man with the dreamy eyes and paint-smeared sport-shirt. "The Council not only proposes tearing down this picturesque landmark, but would thereby destroy the home of our only local ghost."


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Alone in West Africa

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Hereditary taste for wandering—A first adventure—“Little girls you must not be tired”—How Carlo was captured by savages in West Africa—Life in Ballarat—Nothing for a woman to do but marry—Marriage—Plans for wandering twenty years hence—Life in Warrnambool—Widowhood—May as well travel now there is nothing left—London for an aspirant in ...


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Life Gleanings

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The author of these pages first saw the light of day at the family home of his father, Mr. Miles Gary Macon, called “Fairfield,” situated on the banks of that historic river, the “Chicahominy,” in the good old County of Hanover, in Virginia. My grandfather, Colonel William Hartwell Macon, started each of his sons on the voyage of life ...


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Savrola A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania

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 There had been a heavy shower of rain, but the sun was already shining through the breaks in the clouds and throwing swiftly changing shadows on the streets, the houses, and the gardens of the city of Laurania. Everything shone wetly in the sunlight: the dust had been laid; the air was cool; the trees looked green and grateful. It was...


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The Outlet

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At the close of the civil war the need for a market for the surplus cattle of Texas was as urgent as it was general. There had been numerous experiments in seeking an outlet, and there is authority for the statement that in 1857 Texas cattle were driven to Illinois. Eleven years later forty thousand head were sent to the mouth of Red R...


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The Nanny Diaries

Category: Author:Emma McLaughlin 

Annie, 21 years old, is a New York university student, business and anthropology higher honors. After graduation, Anne in mother's pressure forced to put on being installed to the upper east side looking for work, but Anne hobbies or anthropology, therefore give up halfway interview. Annie in an accidental opportunity, met the upper ea...


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Violets Are Blue

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The book begins where Roses are Red ended, with Dr. Alex Cross at the home of murdered FBI Agent Betsey Cavalierre. Alex is in her room when his cellphone rings. Alex answers and the Mastermind is on the line. He tells Alex that he killed Cavalierre to toy with Alex. He's going to kill his grandmother and his children, and John Sampson...


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Rabbit Remembered

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Rabbit Remembered is a novella sequel to the four John Updike "Rabbit" novels, all of which focus on their central character Harry Angstrom. In Rabbit Remembered, several old strands at last come together, and the dead Harry's survivors fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness. The time is the last months of 19...


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