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  An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde. Published by MobileReference (mobi).

  by Oscar Wilde

  A Play by Oscar Wilde
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  The Slow Natives

  by Thea Astley

  Torn apart by conflict, the Leversons--music teacher Bernard, bored with his marriage and career; his unfaithful wife, Iris; and their rebellious teenage son, Keith--rediscover new meaning in their lives and relationships through tragedy.
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  Still A Dog

  by Mark Anthony

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  Grace's Mountain

  by Teresa Brophy

  TERESA BROPHY-loves the beauty of the native Oregon home she shares with her husband, Michael, and their children. She has been passionate about early childhood teaching, worship leading and songwriting for over twenty-five years. Profound experiences in her life have led her to discover a gift for writing, and her debut novel, Grace's Mountain, is the first of many books on her heart. Giving God glory for the... (more)
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  Little Bird of Heaven: A Novel

  by Joyce Carol Oates

  Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, romantic, and captivating tale, set in the Great Lakes region of upstate New York—the territory of her remarkably successful New York Times bestseller The Gravedigger's Daughter . Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late-twentieth-century... (more)
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  The Emotional Affair: How to Recognize Emotional Infidelity and What to Do About It

  by Ronald T. Potter-Efron, Patricia S. Potter-Efron

  Friendships with members of the opposite sex are healthy and normal, but how do you know when your partner has crossed the fine line separating platonic intimacy and emotional infidelity? Emotional affairs do not necessarily include sex or physical intimacy of any kind, and can even occur over the Internet between two people who have never met face to face, but the effects can be just as devastating to... (more)
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  Die schöne Schrift.

  by Rafael Chirbes

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  Between here and April : a novel

  by Deborah Copaken Kogan

  When a deep-rooted memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago disappearance of her childhood friend April Cassidy. Driven to investigate, Elizabeth discovers a thirty-five-year-old newspaper article revealing the details that had been hidden from her as a child: April's mother, Adele, drove with her two young daughters deep into the woods where she killed first them and then... (more)
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  Eine Liebe am Tiber : Roman

  by Jan Koneffke

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  Ethan Frome

  by Edith Wharton

  Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie’s vivacious cousin enters their household as a "hired girl," Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction’s finest and most intense narratives, Edith... (more)
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  Oresteia. (English)

  by Aeschylus

  The Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy--the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. In this family history, Fate and the gods decree that each generation will repeat the crimes and endure the suffering of their forebears. When... (more)
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  The Crucible

  by Arthur Miller

  Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism. Introduction by Christopher Bigsby
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  Lady Windermere's Fan

  by Oscar Wilde

  Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. -- Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere descends from a pillar of Victorian society to a woman of wandering morals. The woman who pulls her up is the one she suspected of being her husband's mistress. A wonderful comedy of social manners and morals with acerbic repartees and witty quips, in the great Oscar Wilde tradition. ... (more)
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  Snow Angels: A Novel

  by Stewart O'Nan

  Soon to be a major motion picture from Warner Independent starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale Arthur Parkinson is fourteen during the dreary winter of 1974. Enduring the pain of his parents' divorce, his world is shattered when his beloved former babysitter, Annie, falls victim to a tragic series of events. The interlinking stories of Arthur's unraveling family, and of Annie's fate, form the backdrop of... (more)
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  The Believers: A Novel

  by Zoe Heller

  When radical New York lawyer Joel Litvinoff is felled by a stroke, his wife, Audrey, uncovers a secret that forces her to reexamine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel’s children will soon have to come to terms with this discovery themselves, but for the meantime, they are struggling with their own dilemmas and doubts. Rosa, a disillusioned revolutionary, has found herself... (more)
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  The Age of Innocence (Norton Critical Editions)

  by Edith Wharton

  The text of Wharton's richly allusive Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of Old New York is accompanied by necessarily rigorous annotation. Contexts constructs the historical foundations of the novel, with documents on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, and archery (the sport for daughters of the upper-crust), among others. Also featured in this section are contemporary reviews and some of... (more)