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  • The Celibates Trilogy (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours & The Black Sheep (The Two Brothers)

    In The Celibates Trilogy—comprising Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours, and The Black Sheep—Honoré de Balzac examines households warped by thwarted desire, inheritance, clerical ambition, and provincial calculation. Written in the dense, observant style of La Comédie humaine, these novellas transform domestic interiors into arenas of social violence. Balzac's realism is at once documentary and ... Read more

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  • Malice at the Mall

    Illustrated by Ninon Pelletier ...
    Series Book 7 - Orca Shivers
    When eleven-year-old Mina is banned from screen time, she sneaks out of the house with her game console and takes refuge at the mall.Mina is so focused on her game that before she knows it, the mall is closed, deserted and locked with her stuck inside. But...is she really alone? Mina searches for a way out, all the while feeling as if she's being watched. To her horror, the store mannequins come ... Read more

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  • Pierrette

    The novella is set in the fictional town of Issoudun, located in the French province of Berry. It tells the story of the titular character, Pierrette, a young and innocent girl who becomes the subject of cruelty and mistreatment from her relatives after the death of her parents. She is an heiress and becomes the target of greed, jealousy, and manipulation within her own family. The story explores ... Read more

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  • Pierrette

    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • Bad Bot

    Illustrated by Vigg ...
    Series Book 2 - Orca Shivers
    What happens when a smart toy gets a little too smart?Victor is thrilled to get the toy he’s always wanted for Christmas. It’s a LenBot—a smart robot that can learn anything. For once, it’s a toy that lives up to the hype. The robot really does become Victor’s best friend. But before long the robot starts learning more than Victor has taught it and acting very strangely. Victor knows LenBot is ... Read more

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  • Pierrette

    Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac is a compelling narrative that captures the fragility of a young woman's dreams as she navigates the complexities of love, family, and social expectations. Set in 19th-century France, the novel examines the hardships faced by Pierrette, a girl whose innocence and purity are tested by the harshness of the world around her. The story delves into themes of love, betrayal ... Read more

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  • Pierrette

    At the dawn of an October day in 1827 a young fellow about sixteen years of age, whose clothing proclaimed what modern phraseology so insolently calls a proletary, was standing in a small square of Lower Provins. At that early hour he could examine without being observed the various houses surrounding the open space, which was oblong in form. The mills along the river were already working; the ... Read more

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  • The Heart of Mentorship

    Building Empowering Relationships in the Academy

    Series series Latina/o Sociology
    A fascinating and important understanding of the role relational mentoring can play in higher educationThe mentor-mentee relationship is one of the most critical aspects of academic training. Mentors provide intellectual and personal support, information about career opportunities, and arrange financial assistance through research assistantships or fellowships. The initiators of The Heart of ... Read more

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  • Challenging Fronteras

    Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.

    Challenging Fronteras reflects an important new wave of research that moves beyond sweeping generalizations that treat Latinos as a monolithic cultural group. This anthology focuses on the diversity of Latino experiences by providing historical specificity and cutting-edge research that employs the conceptual and analytical tools of social science. Contributors, selected from leading researchers ... Read more

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  • Pierrette

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    In the quiet provincial square of Lower Provins, a freshly restored house stands as a monument to petty-bourgeois pride, while beneath a girl's window a young man waits with anxious tenderness. Brigaut's Breton wedding song awakens Pierrette to a brief, secret exchange of warmth and longing, but the moment is shattered by the vigilant presence of the household's ugly old maid, whose watchful ... Read more

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  • Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This collection of papers takes linguists to the leading edge of techniques in generative lexicon theory, the linguistic composition methodology that arose from the imperative to provide a compositional semantics for the contextual modifications in meaning that emerge in real linguistic usage. Today’s growing shift towards distributed compositional analyses evinces the applicability of GL theory, ... Read more

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  • Pierrette

    A Tragic Tale of Family, Class, and Morality in 19th-Century France

    In "Pierrette," Honoré de Balzac intricately weaves a poignant narrative that explores themes of love, ambition, and the harsh realities of rural life in 19th-century France. The novel is characterized by Balzac's rich, descriptive prose and a deep psychological insight into his characters, which reflect the social milieu of the time. Set in the fictional town of乡捞 (Les Sondries), it paints ... Read more

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