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A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett January 31, 2018
A Country doctor is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semi-autobiographical look at the author's world. Nan struggles to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor.
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Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone February 28, 2018
With charm, humor, and deep understanding, a Japanese-American woman tells how it was to grow up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" during World War II.
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Dakota Disapora
by Sophie Trupin March 28, 2018
To most Jewish immigrants, New York was America. Not many ventured as far as North Dakota at the turn of the century. Sophie Trupin writes of her father and other Jewish farmers who came to the northern plains and adds a little-known chapter to the saga of the settlement of America.
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The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham April 25, 2018
The Great War changed everything and everyone, and Larry Darrell is no exception. Though his physical wounds from the war heal, his spirit is changed almost beyond recognition. He leaves his betrothed, the beautiful and devoted Isabel; studies philosophy and religion in Paris; lives as a monk, and witnesses the exotic hardships of Spanish life.
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A Passage to India by E. M. Forster May 30, 2018
A Passage to India is a complex, beautifully rendered story of a young Englishwoman's hallucination that she has been assaulted by a friendly young Indian doctor in an ancient cave, which leads to racial hysteria.
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton June 27, 2018
Lily Bart is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position, she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her.
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The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot July 25 and August 29, 2018
When the miller Mr. Tulliver becomes entangled in a lawsuit, he sets off a chain of events that will profoundly affect the lives of his family and bring into conflict his passionate daughter Maggie with her inflexible but adored brother Tom. As she grows older, Maggie's discovery of romantic love draws her once more into a struggle to reconcile familial and moral claims with her own desires. Strong-willed, compassionate, and intensely loyal, Maggie seeks personal happiness and inner peace but risks rejection and ostracism in her close-knit community.
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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie September 26, 2018
En route to Paris, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has booked winter passage on the fabled Orient Express. Among the curious assortment of fellow passengers, one wealthy American holds a unique distinction: he has been found dead of multiple stab wounds in the night compartment of the Calais coach.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain October 31, 2018 - Double Feature
An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems.
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A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle October 31, 2018 - Double Feature
A king. . . a beautiful woman. . .A photograph ripe for blackmail. . .Sherlock Holmes has a unique situation to handle, and he finds his adversary to be a most remarkable woman. Dr. Watson, ever by the indomitable detective's side, puts himself at risk of arrest for his friend.
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The Awakening by Kate Chopin November 28, 2018
Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened confines of her domestic situation.
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