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Slammerkin
Clothes make the woman. Mary asks herself if the prostitute who hires out her body is more or less free than the "honest woman" locked into marriage, or the servant who runs a household not her own? And is either as free as a man? Ultimately, Mary remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets: Never give up your liberty.
Slammerkin: A loose gown; a loose woman. A dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth, and the position of household seamstress, the ordinary life of an ordinary girl with no expectations.
Under the Skin
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THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE
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The Essex Serpent: A Novel
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The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel
His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter’s teachings—his Bible is their “book of strange new things. But peter is rattled when bea’s letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling.
Bea’s faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter. Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made The Crimson Petal and the White such an international success, The Book of Strange New Things is extraordinary, mesmerizing, and replete with emotional complexity and genuine pathos.
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Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us.
The Doll Factory: A Novel
In this “sharp, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art, a beautiful young woman aspires to be an artist, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train, and obsession” Paula Hawkins, scary, while a man’s dark obsession may destroy her world forever. In 1850s london, the great exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance.
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
Perhaps the most beloved of john fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. Great product! Filled with enchanting mysteries and magically erotic possibilities" New York Times, the novel inspired the hugely successful 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons and is today universally regarded as a modern classic.
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