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|  | Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
Description not available AUTHOR: Jasper Fforde
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Prince of the Clouds
In postwar Palermo, a retired military strategist applies his skills to a dispute between an imperious landowner--the mother of a beautiful young woman--and the peasants on her land. This is Riotta's first novel to appear in an English translation.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Run of the House by Wyatt Prunty
The work of Wyatt Prunty has been acclaimed by critics and poets alike. In this latest book of poems, Prunty finds beauty and violence, mystery and humor, in a variety of private and public worlds. AUTHOR: Wyatt Prunty
PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Persuasion by Ann Mavrolean, Claude Rawson, Gillian Beer, Jane Austen, John Davie
Jane Austen's last and most melancholy novel was posthumously published in 1818. In PERSUASION, Austen presents men and women as moral equals, inverting the conventional roles of hero and heroine, and creates a strong, mature, and independent heroine, Anne Elliot, who spurns the binding reins of paternal authority. She heeded the advice of a friend by breaking off an engagement eight years earlier to Frederick Wentworth, a naval officer who had not yet risen in his profession and was deemed unworthy of her. Anne has always remained in love with him, and has regretted her susceptibility to persuasion; now that Wentworth has become wealthy, the two are able to marry, but only after a series of painful misunderstandings. AUTHOR: Ann Mavrolean, Claude Rawson, Gillian Beer, Jane Austen, John Davie
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
Description not available.In the third part of Dante's epic poem, The Divine Comedy, about the three realms of the Christian afterlife, having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise. Reprint. AUTHOR: Dante Alighieri
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, Townsend Ludington
Three personalities face the First World War with a variety of reactions. Dan Fuselli is an Italian-American with a cheerful conformist attitude. Chrisfield is an Indiana farm boy who is repulsed by the horrors of war, but advances to the rank of corporal in spite of himself. John Andrews is a hypersensitive recent graduate of Harvard who eventually escapes to Paris in order to study music and begin composing a symphonic work. When the authorities discover him and order him put to death before a firing squad, he reacts by scattering the pages of his manuscript into the wind. AUTHOR: John Dos Passos, Townsend Ludington
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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