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Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the hypocrisy of a Victorian clerical family's domestic life. It also foreshadows the crumbling of nineteenth-century bourgeois ideals in the aftermath of the First World War, as well as the...
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When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes...
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In this novel two very different men cross each other's paths in St. Louis, Missouri. Ben Hudnut is an upper-middle-class entrepreneur determined to bring an affordable cashew to American consumers. When he isn't pursuing this goal, he's usually in the company of his wife and four daughters-occasionally joined for family dinner by his dull but devoted secretary. Jeremy Cook, meanwhile, is a cynical unemployed academic, a linguist who doesn't know...
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When her family becomes a local gossip blog's new favorite subject due to her sister's impending nuptials, Cass Coventry finds her weekend stay in Newport becoming a full summer of frenzied wedding planning and society drama that reveals one surprise after another.
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Inside the rising tech microcosms of Seoul, Singapore, Japan, and India, far from the mendacity of Silicon Valley, a serial tech entrepreneur pursues a last-ditch attempt to build something great: COMPASS, an open-source network platform that Microsoft has labeled "reckless." At stake are his reputation, his dwindling bank account, and his fifteen-year relationship with the only woman he's ever loved-a woman in the midst of reckoning with who she...
6) Dog days
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A newly divorced mom fends off her matchmaking friends-with unexpected results-in this novel from a Jane Austen in modern dress.
Patricia's marriage of eleven years is over. Aside from her doubts about the arrival of Brian, a dog who has become a father-substitute for her ten-year-old daughter, Patricia is more than ready for a fulfilled life as a single parent. But then the matchmaking begins.
Even her most trusted friends are determined to provide...
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Mountain Brook novels volume 3
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A newlywed woman's return to Southern society begins an epic and hilarious journey of self-discovery in this satirical novel.
Katherine Clark's The Harvard Bride begins with the wedding of Daniel Dobbs and Caroline Elmore, college sweethearts introduced in Clark's novel, All the Governor's Men. In this wry comedy of manners, their new life-complete with freshly minted Ivy League educations- begins in the "Tiny Kingdom" of Mountain Brook, Alabama.
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"Following a rewrite job in New York City, veteran screenwriter D. K. Kecskeméti finds himself not in his home in Hollywood Hills but in an unfamiliar house in a strange town, where he's greeted by an obsequious houseman who informs that his wife, Hope, is gone. The note she left reveals that she's on a retreat to deal with a personal crisis of which DK was somehow unaware. Confused and disoriented, unable to sleep, he wanders the deserted streets....
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