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Advanced vocabulary & more complex expressions. Includes complete Wordlist (full recorded text) with over 1,500 worlds & expressions.
PUBLISHER: Penton Overseas, Incorporated
FORMAT: Audio & Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Vanity Fair by Catherine Peters, John Sutherland, Peter L. Shillingsburg, Ronald Colman, William Makepeace Thackeray
VANITY FAIR, Thackeray's satirical, panoramic saga of corruption in all classes of English society, stars perhaps the most maddening, amoral, and attractive heroine in literature. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it chronicles the lives of Becky Sharp, an orphan without resources except for her native wit, and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family. Becky's fluctuating fortunes eventually bring her to an affair with Amelia's dissolute husband; when he is killed at Waterloo, Amelia and her child are left penniless, while Becky and her husband Rawdon Crawley rise in the world, leading a high life in London solely on the basis of their clever schemes. (Thackeray's chapter, How to Live on Nothing, is a classic.) In the end, Becky and Rawdon part when he discovers her infidelity, and she takes her chances on the continent, while Amelia marries an old devoted suitor--not, we gather, a happy ending for her. Thackeray's view of humanity in this novel is distinctly bleak, but VANITY FAIR is also one of the great comic novels of all time. AUTHOR: Catherine Peters, John Sutherland, Peter L. Shillingsburg, Ronald Colman, William Makepeace Thackeray
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Infernal Affairs by Adrienne Barbeau, Jane Heller
Description not available.Recently divorced and frustrated by her life, out-of-shape Florida real-estate agent Barbara Chessner appeals to heaven for help and wakes up the next morning in the perfect body, with hilarious and diabolical results. Reprint. AUTHOR: Adrienne Barbeau, Jane Heller
PUBLISHER: Kensington Publishing Corporation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Ragtime Tumpie by Alan Schroeder
A fictionalized account of an event from the childhood of entertainer Josephine Baker. Readers will learn how Josephine, then known by her nickname Tumpie, first became inspired to pursue a career as a dancer. Illustrated with color paintings. AUTHOR: Alan Schroeder
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Description not available.Based on the graphic novel series The Sandman, a collection of short works includes stories that range in setting from a battlefield to a deathbed, from a ghost-ridden cellar to a hotel convention of serial killers, and includes works by Gene Wolfe, Clive Barker, Tad Williams, Barbara Hambly, and other notable writers. Reprint. AUTHOR: Neil Gaiman
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Presidents of the United States
Description not available.Follows the careers of every president through George W. Bush, offering facts about the major events, issues, and achievements of each administration.
PUBLISHER: Creative Publishing International, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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