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Wildwood Road

Michael and Jillian Dansky become caught up in a nightmare when Michael nods off while driving home from a party and wakes to find he has almost hit a little girl who he drives home to an empty house haunted with stolen childhood memories.
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Ethan Frome

The tragic story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.
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Ethan Frome and other short fiction

Contains the story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer who is married to a hypochondriac, but in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie; and includes the novella "The Touchstone, " and three additional short stories by Edith Wharton.

The taming of the shrew

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play about the volatile courtship between Katherine and Petruchio, who sets out to subdue Katherine's legendary temper and win her dowry, side-by-side with a modern version; discusses the author and the theater of his time; and provides quizzes and other study activities.

A streetcar named Desire

Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.

The taming of the shrew

Describes the volatile courtship between the shrewish Katherine and the canny Petruchio, who is determined to subdue Katherine's legendary temper and win her dowry.

The Lincolns

a scrapbook look at Abraham and Mary
A dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary, using photographs, letters, engravings, and cartoons to look at their childhoods, courtship, marriage, children, and other joys and traumas of their years together, including their deaths.

The temporary gentleman

2014
"Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957,he's writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel--as a soldier in World War II, an engineer, a UN observer--has brought him to this point. But the memory that weighs heaviest on his heart is that of the beautiful Mai Kirwan, and their tempestuous, heartbreaking marriage. Mai was once the great beauty of Sligo, a magnetic yet unstable woman who, after sharing a life with Jack, gradually slipped from his grasp"--Provided by publisher.

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