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Chico

by Edward Booth, John Nopel, Keith Johnson, Darcy Davis ...

Series series Images of America
Over time, the land of the Mechoopda Indians, where elk herds grazed on blue-stemmed grass, became Rancho Arroyo Chico, the land chosen by California pioneer John Bidwell for his stately creekside mansion. Bidwell later founded the town of Chico with its wooden plank sidewalksand iron-front and brick commercial buildings. Today Chico is a dynamic modern city with its own California State ... Read more

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Over time, the land of the Mechoopda Indians, where elk herds grazed on blue-stemmed grass, became Rancho Arroyo Chico, the land chosen by California pioneer John Bidwell for his stately creekside mansion. Bidwell later founded the town of Chico with its wooden plank sidewalksand iron-front and brick commercial buildings. Today Chico is a dynamic modern city with its own California State
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The Post-Girl

by Edward Charles Booth ...

Rural Life and Community: The novel provides a detailed and affectionate portrayal of rural English life, capturing the rhythms and routines of a small village. Sylvia’s interactions with the villagers reveal the close-knit nature of the community, as well as the various social dynamics at play.Romance and Personal Growth: Sylvia’s journey is also one of personal growth and self-discovery. ... Read more

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Rural Life and Community: The novel provides a detailed and affectionate portrayal of rural English life, capturing the rhythms and routines of a small village. Sylvia’s interactions with the villagers reveal the close-knit nature of the community, as well as the various social dynamics at play.Romance and Personal Growth: Sylvia’s journey is also one of personal growth and self-discovery.
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High Society Romance: 40 Gilded Age Novels

The House of Mirth, Bel Ami, Middlemarch, Hester, The Forsyte Saga, Anna Karenina, The Portrait of a Lady

by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gene Stratton-Porter, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Guy de Maupassant, Mrs. Oliphant, Alexandre Dumas fils, Edmund Yates, Robert Barr, Booth Tarkington, Albert Ross, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Leo Tolstoy, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, George William Curtis, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Henry James, Mrs. Alexander, Horatio Alger, David Graham Phillips, Theodore Dreiser, Anna Katharine Green, Grace Livingston Hill, Wilkie Collins, Mary Augusta Ward, George Meredith, George Gissing ...

High Society Romance: 40 Gilded Age Novels features an eclectic collection of literary works that traverse the intricate landscape of love, romance, and high society during the Gilded Age. The anthology spans a breadth of literary styles, from the vivid realism of Mark Twain to the intricate psychological narratives of Henry James. This collection encapsulates the essence of the era's elegance and ... Read more

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High Society Romance: 40 Gilded Age Novels features an eclectic collection of literary works that traverse the intricate landscape of love, romance, and high society during the Gilded Age. The anthology spans a breadth of literary styles, from the vivid realism of Mark Twain to the intricate psychological narratives of Henry James. This collection encapsulates the essence of the era's elegance and
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A Girton Girl

Enriched edition. Challenging Gender Norms: A Tale of Education and Empowerment

by Annie Edwards, Eric Booth ...

In "A Girton Girl," Annie Edwards weaves a rich tapestry of female empowerment and academic ambition against the backdrop of late 19th-century England. The narrative follows the life of a spirited young woman navigating the challenges of a male-dominated society while pursuing her education at Girton College, the first institution in England to offer degrees to women. Edwards employs a realist ... Read more

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In "A Girton Girl," Annie Edwards weaves a rich tapestry of female empowerment and academic ambition against the backdrop of late 19th-century England. The narrative follows the life of a spirited young woman navigating the challenges of a male-dominated society while pursuing her education at Girton College, the first institution in England to offer degrees to women. Edwards employs a realist
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40 Gilded Age Romances

Age of Innocence, A Chicago Princess, Little Women, The Lady of the Camellias, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Shuttle

by Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Guy de Maupassant, Mrs. Oliphant, Alexandre Dumas fils, Edmund Yates, Robert Barr, Booth Tarkington, Albert Ross, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Leo Tolstoy, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, George William Curtis, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Henry James, Mrs. Alexander, Gene Stratton-Porter, Horatio Alger, David Graham Phillips, Theodore Dreiser, Anna Katharine Green, Grace Livingston Hill, Wilkie Collins, Mary Augusta Ward, George Meredith, George Gissing ...

There's something undeniably enchanting about the Gilded Age—a time of horse-drawn carriages, glittering parties, and whispered confessions in candlelit drawing rooms. Stretching from the 1870s to the early 1900s, it feels like a fairy-tale realm where lavish wealth and social ambition mix with a certain innocence and optimism. Even today, we're drawn to its shimmering allure, imagining a world ... Read more

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There's something undeniably enchanting about the Gilded Age—a time of horse-drawn carriages, glittering parties, and whispered confessions in candlelit drawing rooms. Stretching from the 1870s to the early 1900s, it feels like a fairy-tale realm where lavish wealth and social ambition mix with a certain innocence and optimism. Even today, we're drawn to its shimmering allure, imagining a world
... Read more
How To Conduct Organizational Surveys

A Step-by-Step Guide

by Paul Rosenfeld, Stephanie Booth-Kewley, Jack Edwards, Marie D. Thomas ...

A manufacturing company is downsizing and wants to know the impact on employee morale. A computer corporation is considering moving its headquarters and needs to determine how many employees intend to relocate. A multinational consulting firm has had a rash of sexual harassment complaints and seeks to determine the extent of the problem. To address these and other business-related issues, ... Read more

$125.59 CAD

A manufacturing company is downsizing and wants to know the impact on employee morale. A computer corporation is considering moving its headquarters and needs to determine how many employees intend to relocate. A multinational consulting firm has had a rash of sexual harassment complaints and seeks to determine the extent of the problem. To address these and other business-related issues,
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The Silence of Water

by Sharron Booth ...

Narrated by Deryn Edwards ...

Unabridged

8 hours 15 min

When Fan's mum Agnes announces that the family is moving to Western Australia to take care of Agnes's father - a man they've never spoken of before now - Fan finds herself a stranger in a new town, living in a home whose currents and tensions she cannot read or understand. Resentful of her mother's decision to move, Fan forms an alliance with her grandfather, Edwin Salt, a convict transported to ... Read more

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When Fan's mum Agnes announces that the family is moving to Western Australia to take care of Agnes's father - a man they've never spoken of before now - Fan finds herself a stranger in a new town, living in a home whose currents and tensions she cannot read or understand. Resentful of her mother's decision to move, Fan forms an alliance with her grandfather, Edwin Salt, a convict transported to
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Alice Adams (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Vintage Movie Classics

by Booth Tarkington ...

Series series A Vintage Movie Classic
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The basis for George Stevens’s major motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in her Oscar-nominated leading role.In a small Midwestern town in the wake of World War I, Alice Adams delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russell, a gentleman of a higher social class in life. Desperate to keep her family's lower-middle-class status a secret, she and her parents ... Read more

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The basis for George Stevens’s major motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in her Oscar-nominated leading role.In a small Midwestern town in the wake of World War I, Alice Adams delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russell, a gentleman of a higher social class in life. Desperate to keep her family's lower-middle-class status a secret, she and her parents
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Lost in the City

by Edward P. Jones ...

Narrated by Cherise Boothe, Caroline Clay, Peter Jay Fernandez, Patricia R. Floyd, Kevin R. Free ...

Unabridged

10 hours 31 min

Edward P. Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the critically acclaimed novel The Known World. A finalist for the National Book Award, Lost in the City features 15 poignant short stories, each set in Washington, D.C. Far removed from marble monuments and the offices of rich politicians, the nation's capital that Jones captures is inhabited by self-willed African-Americans struggling to ... Read more

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Edward P. Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the critically acclaimed novel The Known World. A finalist for the National Book Award, Lost in the City features 15 poignant short stories, each set in Washington, D.C. Far removed from marble monuments and the offices of rich politicians, the nation's capital that Jones captures is inhabited by self-willed African-Americans struggling to
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All Aunt Hagar's Children

Stories

by Edward P. Jones ...

Narrated by Peter Francis James ...

Unabridged

15 hours 1 min

In fourteen sublime stories, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever.Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

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In fourteen sublime stories, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever.Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather
... Read more

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The Tsar of Love and Techno

Stories

by Anthony Marra ...

Narrated by Mark Bramhall, Beata Pozniak, Rustam Kasymov ...

Unabridged

10 hours 46 min

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor
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The Risen

A Novel

by Ron Rash ...

Narrated by Richard Ferrone ...

Unabridged

5 hours 21 min

New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer—and one bewitching young woman—and the secrets that could destroy their lives.While swimming in a secluded creek on a hot Sunday in 1969, sixteen-year-old Eugene and his older brother, ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

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New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer—and one bewitching young woman—and the secrets that could destroy their lives.While swimming in a secluded creek on a hot Sunday in 1969, sixteen-year-old Eugene and his older brother,
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