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Set in the 1950s and '60s, this novel is about a London prostitute who remains strangely innocent in spite of her lifestyle--a situation that comes to an end when she is gang-raped by five of her customers. Her life spirals downward even further and then, unexpectedly, through a chance marriage, she becomes the respectable owner of a successful London club. Years later, one of her old acquaintances threatens to reveal the truth about her early life. AUTHOR: Jean Marsh
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Alan King's Great Jewish Joke Book by Alan King, Billy Crystal
Description not available.Presents a collection of Jewish jokes unders such categories as the Jewish psyche, bar/bas mitzvahs, Jewish boys and men, Jewish mothers, rabbis, and observance. AUTHOR: Alan King, Billy Crystal
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | An Urchin in the Storm by David A. Levine, Larry McKeever, Stephen Jay Gould
Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, cardboard Darwinism , and evolutionary theory in this lively collection. Drawings. AUTHOR: David A. Levine, Larry McKeever, Stephen Jay Gould
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Roderick Hudson by Flo Gibson, Geoffrey Moore, Henry James, Malcolm Bradbury, Patricia Crick
In Henry James's first novel, an egocentric sculptor from New England, Roderick Hudson, travels to Rome with his patron, the wealthy Rowland Mallet, who provides the moral center of the story. Away from home, Hudson becomes increasingly unstable and depressed, and comes to a violent end in the Swiss Alps--the first of James's American characters to be destroyed by Europe. AUTHOR: Flo Gibson, Geoffrey Moore, Henry James, Malcolm Bradbury, Patricia Crick
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Angel of Mercy by Lurlene McDaniel
After graduating from high school, Heather Barlow joins a mission group headed for Africa. Once she stationed in Uganda, however, Heather discovers that she is not really prepared to face the disease, famine, and misery she encounters. AUTHOR: Lurlene McDaniel
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Walk Two Moons by Kate Harper, Sharon Creech
While traveling by car with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho to visit with, and hopefully bring home, her mother, 13-year-old Salamanca Hiddle tells stories about her friend, Phoebe. As the journey progresses, and Salamanca's story moves forward, it becomes obvious that Phoebe and Salamanca have more in common than Salamanca originally thought. Will telling Phoebe's story, which also involves a missing mother, help Salamanca deal with the loss of her own mother? Winner of the 1995 Newbery Medal. AUTHOR: Kate Harper, Sharon Creech
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Fiction
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