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|  | Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Alice M. Hogan, Dale Carnegie, Eleanor Bron, Jill Masters, John P. Riquelme
Because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, Hardy`s novel was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Derbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D`Urberville, a distant aristocratic relative, leads to pregnancy. Tess`s baby dies, and she finds work as a dairymaid at a farm where no one knows her story. There she falls in love with and marries a young farmer named Angel Clare, but when Angel finds out about his wife`s past, he is horrified, and deserts her. Tess meets Alec again--now a reformed character who has become an itinerant preacher--and lives with him as his wife. When Angel returns for her and finds her with Alec, he leaves her again--and Tess, in despair, stabs Alec--the cause of all her woes--and kills him. She and Angel are reunited, but only briefly: Tess is taken into custody and will be tried for murder and hanged. The cynical and sophisticated Alec`s seduction of a country girl, and the self-righteous Angel`s destructive idealization of her, can be seen as symbols of the city`s ruthless exploitation of the English countryside--a common theme in Hardy`s fiction. AUTHOR: Alice M. Hogan, Dale Carnegie, Eleanor Bron, Jill Masters, John P. Riquelme
PUBLISHER: Atria Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Your Name Here by John Ashbery
In Ashbery's 20th collection of poetry, he writes about aging, loss, memory, and dreams. AUTHOR: John Ashbery
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Falconer by John Cheever, Walter Zimmerman
Ezekiel Farragut, convicted of killing his brother, has been imprisoned in the state prison called Falconer. He is visited by his wife Marcia, with whom he has a love-hate relationship; she has the occasional lesbian affair, which makes him angry. Farragut, however, is more-than-occasionally gay. His lover, Jody, escapes and rioting at another prison affects the inmates of Falconer. This novel was based on Cheever's experiences teaching at Sing Sing. AUTHOR: John Cheever, Walter Zimmerman
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Uncle Tom's Cabin by Alfred Kazin, Charles Johnson, Elizabeth Ammons, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jane Smiley
Harriet Beecher Stowe`s powerful but sentimental and stereotyped anti-slavery novel, published in 1852, was an inspiration to the abolitionist cause. AUTHOR: Alfred Kazin, Charles Johnson, Elizabeth Ammons, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jane Smiley
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | In Search of Patrick O'Brian by King
This biography of O'Brian not only explores the roots of his fiction--the justly celebrated Aubrey/Maturin series of maritime novels--but reveals the facts about his fabricated identity. AUTHOR: King
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Time Stops for No Mouse by Michael Hoeye
A mouse named Hermux is a quiet homebody until he meets the fabulous and fascinating Linka Perflinger. A feisty mouse, Linka flies planes (specializing in daredevil stunts) and seeks out adventures; she is, in short, the very opposite of Hermux. Then one day Linka mysteriously disappears, and Hermux must become an adventurer and daredevil himself in order to come to her rescue. AUTHOR: Michael Hoeye
PUBLISHER: Putnam Publishing Group, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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