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  The Hill - A Novel

  Harriet Clark

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  After her mother is sentenced to life in a hilltop prison, Suzanna vows to return to the hill forever. An unexpectedly funny and deeply moving novel about the many ways we punish and return to each other.Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up at the prison gates among the other children, each dressed as if for celebration. Inside there is a nursery and a cemetery; there are watchful guards and distractable nuns; there are women counting down to release and women like Suzanna’s mother, who will never be released.At home, Suzanna is raised by her grandmother, who is entirely unforgiving of her daughter’s crime and refuses to visit the prison. Surrounding Suzanna are her grandmother’s friends, who know one another from their years in the Communist Party and still spend extended cocktail hours debating the Hitler-Stalin pact. Though these women once insisted on changing the world, they are torn between teaching Suzanna how the world works and shielding her from it.Suzanna vows to return to the prison forever but her mother wants her to be free. Harriet Clark’s The Hill is an incandescent novel of a child growing up between worlds, the last of three generations whose fates have been tied to punishment. It is the tale of a family broken apart by the desire for change, told with irreverent wisdom and visionary force. The Hill brings new music to American fiction.

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  The Cave of Hira

  Assala

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  Hira's journey explores the intersection of dreams, reality, and faith, as she seeks to uncover the meaning behind the visions that haunt her nights and the strange emotions they awaken. Is it a call to something greater, or merely the manifestations of her loneliness?

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  Chasing Heartbreak

  Kat T. Masen

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  My life is my work. 
  There's nothing wrong with being a strong, career-driven woman. 
  And especially nothing wrong with keeping a lover on the side. 
  Dominic has his life in the States, and I have mine here in Paris. 
  It was all working just fine. 
  Until my former best friend suddenly shows up. 
  Noah Mason.  
  We mutually parted ways three years ago.  
  Noah fell in love, got married, and I didn't want front row seats filled with heartbreak. 
  But now he's back and throwing around the dreaded 'D' word. 
  Divorce. 
  Things begin to shift. 
  Lines start to blur. 
  Our friendship is taking a different turn, and jealousy is an ugly curse. 
  Throw in a possessive lover, and you have yourself a complicated love triangle. 
  The odds are somebody's bound to get hurt. 
  They say you should never fall in love with your best friend. 
  Because when heartbreak strikes and you're falling, you risk not having a net to catch you. 
  But what if your best friend is the right man all along?

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  Cherished By A Highlander -...

  Donna Fletcher

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  Shade is a dedicated healer focused solely on gaining as much knowledge as possible to help those suffering and in need. Consumed with her work, she has had no time to find a husband and at twenty and six years most believe she is past her prime.Quint arrives at her cottage one day with a wound that needs her skills. It is obvious that he is a seasoned warrior. His injury requires him to remain at her cottage for a few days and she finds she quite enjoys having him there. It does not take long for her to find what she never thought she would or for Quint to rediscover what he lost . . .  love.But Quint is harboring a secret, one that could possibly destroy the happiness both have finally found. When Shade receives a desperate message from her best friend at Clan MacLeish for help, she has no choice but to go. Quint refuses to let her make the journey alone and unprotected, and he refuses to lose her. So, they wed.Surprise and shock fill Shade's wedding day when she discovers Quint's true identity. He is the ruthless warrior known as The Monk and he is on a mission of revenge.What Quint does not know is that Shade is one of those people.Will revenge or love triumph in this battle?

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  Jane Eyre

  Charlotte Brontë

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  “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”From Jane EyreJane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on October 16, 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman that follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall. The novel revolutionized prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are colored by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness". The work contains elements of social criticism with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core, and it is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane's individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of class, sexuality, religion, and feminism. Jane Eyre is one of the most famous romance novels of all time.

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  GOBLIN MARKET - Magical tale...

  Christina Rossetti

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  Goblin Market is the classic yet for ever sensual long poem which inspired Alice Adventures in The Wonderland. It tells the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, tempted by diabolical goblin merchants selling magical fruits. Like Alice Adventures In The Wonderland, Goblin Market is a surrealist masterpiece about magic, diabolical goblins portrayed as beastly devils, forbidden fruits and guilty pleasure. Throughout the poem set up in a small farm of the British countryside of the nineteen century, a phantasmagorical secret hangs in the air like an allegory for something from the realm of human intimacy, something in conflict with guilty pleasures and forbidden biblical food. 

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