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  The Ragged-Trousered...

  Robert Tressell

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  The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a classic novel that exposes the harsh realities of working-class life in early 20th century England. It follows a group of painters and decorators struggling with poverty, exploitation, and the constant threat of unemployment. The story is infused with social commentary as one character, Owen, a socialist, attempts to awaken his fellow workers to the injustices of the capitalist system.

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  Buried Secrets - A Psychological...

  S.F. Baumgartner

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  Expanded and revised. Originally published as "The Secret". 
  A destitute young man. Wanted dead by a criminal mastermind. Will he prove to be the downfall of the psychopath? 
  Dylan Roche is shocked. The 25-year-old management trainee is astonished by the visit of an attorney. After years of blissful ignorance of his heritage, he is leery of the invitation to visit his wealthy maternal grandmother. 
  Wishing his mother was alive to advise him, Dylan sets off to investigate the family’s history, despite his feeling of foreboding. But with the sinister maniac creeping at each turn, he fears his mother’s faith in him was grossly misplaced. 
  Will Dylan find the secret hidden by his mother and survive the attack by the lunatic?

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  Dream of Little Tuk The - Story...

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales are like exquisite jewels, drawing from us gasps of recognition and delight. Andersen created intriguing and unique characters -- a tin soldier with only one leg but a big heart, a beetle nestled deep in a horse's mane but harboring high aspirations. Each one of us at some time, has been touched by one of Andersen's Fairy Tales. Here you'll find his classic tales such as: "The Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, "and "The Ugly Duckling," 38 of your favorite tales in all. This deluxe Children's Classic edition is produced with high-quality, leatherlike binding with gold stamping, full-color covers, colored endpapers with a book nameplate. Some of the other titles in this series include: Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Heidi, King Arthur and His Knights and The Secret Garden.
  In this book "The Dream of Little Tuk": 
  Ah! yes, that was little Tuk: in reality his name was not Tuk, but that was what he called himself before he could speak plain: he meant it for Charles, and it is all well enough if one does but know it. He had now to take care of his little sister Augusta, who was much younger than himself, and he was, besides, to learn his lesson at the same time; but these two things would not do together at all. There sat the poor little fellow, with his sister on his lap, and he sang to her all the songs he knew; and he glanced the while from time to time into the geography-book that lay open before him.

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  A Whisper in the Dark

  Elizabeth S. Devecchi

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  Sarah Parker thinks she has found the perfect place for a fresh start when she moves her family from the Midwest to a sleepy suburban neighborhood in an idyllic southern town. Leaving a position as a serious journalist to write fluff pieces for a local paper is a compromise she is willing to make to escape the past and rebuild her family. 
   
   
   
  Ten years earlier, Ben and Mary moved to the same neighborhood in search of their own fresh start, leaving a trail of death and disfigurement in their wake. Now that cancer has taken Mary, a blossoming friendship with the Parker family offers Ben a glimpse of the things he missed out on and the child he and Mary were denied. As he questions the sacrifices he made to be with Mary and the evil he harbored to protect her, that evil has set its sights on Sarah's eleven-year-old son, Sam, putting the entire town in danger.

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  Mark of the Fallen - A Devilish...

  Eve Archer

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  Billionaire playboy or the devil? A fallen angel can be both. 
  Not only is Dominick Vicario tall, dark, and wickedly attractive, he's also the head of the world's most powerful underworld family. And the leader of the Fallen—former heavenly Watchers banished to earth who've become wealthy playboys. 
  When I meet him, my life is circling the drain. My job is going nowhere, my boyfriend is a jerk, and I'm in debt up to my eyeballs. 
  So, when the dangerously seductive mafia don offers me a deal that will solve all my problems, I take it. All I have to do is spend the rest of the summer with the mysterious billionaire. A couple of months of jet-setting on private planes and yachts isn't too high a price to pay, right? 
  But Dominick believes I'm destined to be his mate—and the key to all the fallen angels being restored to their rightful place in the celestial order. 
  And it doesn't matter if I think he's crazy. He's convinced I'm his for eternity. And so are the demons chasing us. 
  Can I escape from his immortal curse? Or will his dark past come back to haunt us both? 
  *Beware the cliff!* 
  Mark of the Fallen is a devilishly steamy, fated mates paranormal romance with a mafia twist. This is book 1 in the Dark Fallen Angels trilogy, it's a full-length novel, and it ends on a cliffhanger. Consider yourself warned!

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  Colorblind - A Novel

  Leah Harper Bowron

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  The time is 1968. The place is Montgomery, Alabama. The story is one of resilience in the face of discrimination and bullying. Using the racially repugnant word “nigger,” two Caucasian boys repeatedly bully Miss Annie Loomis--the first African-American teacher at the all-white Wyatt Elementary School. At the same time, using the hateful word “harelip,” the boys repeatedly bully Miss Loomis’s eleven-year-old Caucasian student, Lisa Parker, who was born with cleft palate and cleft lip. Who will best the bullies? Only Lisa’s mood ring knows for sure.

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