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Penguin USA. 11/01/1994. Dickens's second novel was a far cry from THE PICKWICK PAPERS, his first. The story of an orphan who flees the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of thieves and prostitutes in London's sleazy underworld, it was a trenchant criticism of England's poor laws. Enacted in the 1830s, these laws provided assistance for the poor only through workhouses, which were deliberately squalid and miserable to encourage the poor--who were considered lazy and immoral--to better themselves and get out. The inequities between rich and poor were one of Dickens's constant themes, and with OLIVER TWIST he established himself as a staunch champion of the downtrodden, particularly children. The novel also, however, has its cheerful moments, and contains some of Dickens's most memorable characters, including Fagin, the Artful Dodger, the evil Bill Sykes, and the unfortunate Nancy. Originally published at $4.99 You save 60% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 01/01/2003. Large Print. 464 pgs. Seven years ago, Joy Anderson was a romantic 20-year-old who fell in love with reporter Gabe Venture. Joy was furious when Gabe left her to pursue a big story, and so, when she discovered she was pregnant, she lied to Gabe and told him that she had their child aborted. Now Gabe has returned to discover that he is a father...and that he and Joy still have very strong feelings for each other. Will Joy be able to get past her pain and let Gabe back into her life? Author Elizabeth Lowell has called this book a "reimagining" of her 1986 book SEQUEL. Originally published at $19.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins Childrens Books. 06/01/1996. Illustrated. 127 pgs. Dickens's second novel was a far cry from THE PICKWICK PAPERS, his first. The story of an orphan who flees the workhouse only to fall in with a gang of thieves and prostitutes in London's sleazy underworld, it was a trenchant criticism of England's poor laws. Enacted in the 1830s, these laws provided assistance for the poor only through workhouses, which were deliberately squalid and miserable to encourage the poor--who were considered lazy and immoral--to better themselves and get out. The inequities between rich and poor were one of Dickens's constant themes, and with OLIVER TWIST he established himself as a staunch champion of the downtrodden, particularly children. The novel also, however, has its cheerful moments, and contains some of Dickens's most colorful characters, including Fagin, the Artful Dodger, the evil Bill Sykes, and the unfortunate Nancy. Originally published at $3.99 You save 50% off the cover price!

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Trafalgar Square. 12/01/1999. Nate O'Riley, a high-powered D.C. lawyer and recovering alcoholic, must fight both a morally corrupt legal system and his own recurring addiction to find Rachel Lane, a young woman working as doctor deep in the Brazilian wetlands. Rachel has inherited a multi-billion-dollar fortune, but with her other siblings clamoring for a piece of the pie, she unknowingly needs Nate's help to fend them off. But Nate's journey to Brazil becomes a greater, more dangerous adventure than he expected, eventually proving that he needs her help much more than she needs his. An independent, self-assured woman, Rachel opens Nate's eyes to a world he had never known: a world devoid of corruption, money and liquor, and instead, filled with faith and spirituality. A Publishers Weekly best-seller for 31 weeks, THE TESTAMENT was the magazine's longest-running fiction hardcover best-seller in 1999. Originally published at $10.01 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 10/01/1993. Sharon Rabbitte is single and pregnant, with a baby whose father's name she won't reveal. A bright Irish comedy about the Dublin family introduced in THE COMMITMENTS. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1996. Reprint. 152 pgs. Margaret and Alec Stuart have a happy marriage despite Alec's reliance on the bottle. When Margaret's sister comes to stay with them and falls in love with their thriving Iowa farm, things change, and Margaret finds herself tested by a cruel series of events. Stegner wrote REMEMBERING LAUGHTER in response to a 1936 Little, Brown contest offering $2500 for an original "novelette." He won the contest with this story, based on a reminiscence by his wife of her two aunts back in Iowa. It also owes a debt to Edith Wharton's ETHAN FROME. This was Stegner's first published work. Originally published at $14.00 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 09/01/1979. Reissue. Originally published at $11.95 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Oxford Univ Pr. 12/01/1998. 552 pgs. In his autobiography, Trollope summed up the plot of this novel in these words: "In it a young girl, who is really a lady of high rank and great wealth, though in her youth she enjoyed none of the privileges of wealth or rank, marries a tailor who has been good to her, and whom she had loved when she was poor and neglected." Trollope's readers strongly disapproved of his allowing an heiress to marry a humble tailor, and at the end of the novel, Lady Anna, facing these same prejudices from her family and friends, emigrates to Sydney with her husband. (Trollope added, after the above description, "What would they have said if I had allowed her to jilt the tailor and marry the good-looking young lord? How much louder, then, would have been the censure!") Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 06/01/1979. Although Maupassant's own introduction to his novel proclaims a general distaste for the so-called psychological novel, "Pierre and Jean" (1888) emerged as a very intimate and internal study of jealousy, suspicion, and love within families. Pierre, a doctor, and Jean, a lawyer, are the sons of a retired jeweler who live with his wife in Le Havre. Pierre is jealous of his brother's relationship with Madame Rosémilly, and he becomes suspicious about his mother's fidelity when his brother inherits the fortune of an old family friend. These emotions conflict with an abiding respect for his mother and genuine affection for Jean, so Pierre turns inward and escapes by accepting a job as a doctor on a transatlantic liner. Originally published at $12.00 You save 88% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1995. Reprint. Originally published at $10.00 You save 81% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 01/01/1996. Illustrated. 256 pgs. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1997. 226 pgs. A popular and successful talk show host named Ruby Maxwell has always tried to hide her dirt-poor Appalachian past, which includes ne'er-do-well parents and an illegitimate daughter. A muckraking reporter digs up the truth, and Ruby is afraid that the man she loves will no longer want to marry her. Originally published at $18.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1998. 325 pgs. The third volume--after "The Book of Saints" and "In a Glass House"--of Ricci's autobiographical trilogy of a childhood in Italy, and the adventure of immigration to Canada. In this installment, young Victor returns to Italy after his father's death to discover the truth about his family origins and his half-sister Rita's maternity. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1999. 322 pgs. A photographer with a troubled marriage flees to Ireland when her aunt dies. She encounters her unconventional niece, Jenny Rose, as well as an old beau, who is in Cork making a film. And she also uncovers some disturbing questions about how exactly her aunt died: accident or murder? Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Ulverscroft Large Print Books. 08/01/2001. Large Print. 464 pgs. Trish Maguire investigates the murder of an old man whose daughter, Deborah Gilbert, has been imprisoned for his murder. Trish believes Deborah is innocent, and wonders if the murder has something to do with the fact that Deborah may have had an illegitimate child with politician Malcolm Chaze, recently assassinated on the steps of his home. Originally published at $32.50 You save 97% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/2004. Reprint. 352 pgs. Alice's father is a wildly progressive publishing magnate, and Alice herself is, for her time (the early 20th century), a surprisingly liberal young woman. She becomes engaged to an army officer who is also the son of a baronet, but when her father gets into hot water for publishing a sex manual, the wedding is off. But Alice is pregnant, and Alice flees to Russia to become a governess--just as World War I and the Russian Revolution are looming in the offing.... Originally published at $15.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/2002. 320 pgs. Jack Macarthur is the head of a Scottish clan that includes his playwright brother, his gay son, and a nephew who is being blackmailed because of his strange sexual tastes. When Jack dies, some of the family's dark currents come to the surface, with the reading of Jack's surprising will the culminating event. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 08/01/2002. In the age of New World exploration, a young Spanish and Aztec boy named Cristo the Bastard makes his way from Central America to Spain. Searching for his birthright, he finds adventure, violence, and beautiful women. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 08/01/1997. 381 pgs. A physicist, Minakis, conducts a revolutionary experiment on the island of Crete. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/01/2002. 348 pgs. In a grim workhouse for indigent, unwed mothers, an Irish woman dreams of a better future for herself and her unborn child, and finds solidarity amongst the other women who work with her in a laundry run by nuns. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1998. 320 pgs. Originally published at $5.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/2001. 293 pgs. In this Regency romance, sparks fly between a poor but handsome American named Marshall MacDougal and a wayward heiress named Sarah Palmer, who meet in a quaint Scottish village. Originally published at $6.50 You save 69% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 08/01/1994. Reissue. Something of a modern classic, this is the story of T. S. Garp, who is raised by his eccentric feminist mother and spends most of his life surrounded and preoccupied by woman. Irving depicts Garp's pursuit of a writing career against the backdrop of the odd assortment of characters in his life--wrestlers, radical feminists, transsexuals, and rape protesters. Part fictional biography, part examination of the writing life, and part meditation on modern American society gone amok. Originally published at $7.99 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 11/01/2002. Rhonywn, the illegitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales, is forced into marriage with Edward de Beaumont, and surprises herself by actually falling in love with her husband. When Edward sets out to fight in the Crusades, Rhonywn insists on accompanying him. Then Edward falls ill, and it is up to the feisty Rhonywn to lead his troops into battle--which she does well until she is captured by Emir of Cinnebar. Now a prisoner in Emir's harem, her captor introduces her to sexual pleasures the likes of which she has never known. Yet, even as she enjoys tremendous sexual pleasures, all she can think about is returning to her beloved Edward...and teaching him all she has learned. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 06/01/2002. Mail-order bride Kate Whittington arrives in Texas to find that her groom-to-be has recently been wounded in an Indian raid, and has also abducted a wild young boy who may be his son. To complicate matters further, he has no idea who Kate is. Originally published at $6.99 You save 84% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 11/01/2002. 304 pgs. Originally published at $5.25 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Harlequin Books. 02/01/2003. Originally published at $5.99 You save 67% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 09/01/1999. Large Print. Hill-country lawyer Billy Bob Holland returns to keep Houston oil tycoon Earl Deitrich from reeking more havoc on his life and the lives of his loved ones in this sequel to the Edgar Award-winning CIMARRON ROSE. Having already married Billy Bob's high school sweetheart Peggy Jean Murphy, Earl is now threatening Billy Bob's oil-rich landowner friends, arranging the false arrest of a troubled business victim, and committing arson and murder through a San Antonio youth gang. When Billy Bob's illegitimate son is suddenly swept into the chaos, the wise country attorney steps in to face his nemesis. Originally published at $24.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/01/2001. 322 pgs. October Brown, an African-American teacher at a private school in Kansas, becomes pregnant by the father of a student and returns home to Ohio, where she and her sister were raised by their aunts after their father killed their mother 20 years before. Confused and unhappy, October gives the baby to her sister and goes back to teaching. Then she regrets her decision. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 07/01/1999. 430 pgs. DON VICENTE combines TREE and MY BROTHER, MY EXECUTIONER, the second and third of the five novels in José's Rosales saga. The novels are set in the town of Rosales, in the Philippines, and each deals with a son of the Asperri family. TREE is about a conflict between Don Vicente, the family patriarch, and his son. MY BROTHER is about another son, this time illegitimate, and his guerilla brother. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 09/01/1981. Originally published at $12.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 07/01/1990. Reissue. When John Chapman is asked to find the three orphaned children of a Frenchwoman and an American actor, he discovers that the sisters have been living disparate lives, and that only one is aware of her origins. From Appalachia to Paris to New York to Boston, Chapman tracks the fated trio in places high and low, hoping to give them the gift of their history. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 09/01/1996. A grandmother writes a series of letters to her granddaughter describing her ways of overcoming generations of pain. "Follow Your Heart," a tremendous best-seller in Italy, won that country's Premio Donna Citta di Roma. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 08/01/2000. 706 pgs. Originally published at $6.50 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 05/01/1988. Originally published at $18.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 09/01/1994. Reprint. The Earl of Chase leaves almost his entire inheritance to his illegitimate daughter, Josephine, adding conditions in his will that only her marriage to his nephew Marcus will prevent the entire legacy from being passed on to distant American relations, all of whom are eager to break up any budding romance between the two. Originally published at $7.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 01/01/1995. Reissue. The family of high school principal Tom Gardner most cope with the revelation that the new boy in school is the result of a one-night stand Tom had years ago. Originally published at $7.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 03/01/1997. Reprint. A story-within-a-story, concerning a former slave, 17-year-old Moses, who tries to set straight four elderly white men in a North Carolina general store. They regret the end of slavery and the beginning of expanded rights for blacks. Moses tells them the story of a white plantation owner who prefers one of his slaves to his own wife, who in turn is seeing another slave. The author details the perils of interracial love in the Reconstruction South, and the difficulty of biracial children growing up during that time. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 01/01/2003. 256 pgs. Elizabeth's father takes off, her mother dies, and Elizabeth, thrown out into the world, becomes pregnant by a married architect who deserts her. She marries a fisherman, continues to long for the architect, and eventually has an affair with him that threatens her precarious marriage. All this happens in a pretty little Maine village on the ocean. Originally published at $21.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 07/01/1997. Reprint. 394 pgs. Feisty Roseanna, love child of King Edward IV, is promised in marriage to Ravenspur, her father's fiercest warrior. Originally published at $7.50 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Random House Childrens Books. 02/01/1992. Reprint. The third installment of the trilogy that began with "The Friends" and "Ruby". In this volume Ruby, a Harlem orphan living with a foster family in Peekskill, New York, plods through high school awaiting her 18th birthday, when she can legally take a factory job and begin to provide for her three younger sisters. Although friends advise her to continue her education and enter a profession, Ruby is impatient to make enough money for a home of her own--until she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and must set her priorities in a hurry. Originally published at $3.50 You save 71% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 04/01/1987. Reprint. Elise, bastard daughter of Henry II, is taken prisoner by Sir Bryan Stede, but will she in turn capture his heart? Originally published at $3.95 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 11/01/1989. Reissue. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 03/01/1999. In this sequel to "Garden of Lies", Rose and Rachel--two middle-aged women who were switched at birth--come to terms with death, children, and failing relationships, all while struggling to comprehend the secrets of their past. Originally published at $7.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 03/02/2001. Reissue. 260 pgs. Miriam Weiden, a prominent philanthropist, has been murdered. Private detective Desiree Shapiro--the elderly, food-loving heroine of this series--investigates, and soon finds that, beneath her benevolent exterior, Miriam was capable of some very nasty behavior. Originally published at $6.50 You save 85% off the cover price!

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New Amer Library. 02/01/2002. 542 pgs. Elaine Wager, a San Francisco lawyer, is murdered, and a junkie named Cole Burgess is arrested at the scene of the crime with the murder weapon in his hand. But the case isn't as open-and-shut as it looks. The hapless Cole is caught in a web of personal and political intrigue among warring D.A.s. Lawyer Dismas Hardy comes to his aid. Originally published at $7.99 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1993. Reprint. Ruth Anne Boatwright ("Bone"), growing up in a close-knit extended family of Southern poor whites, is molested by her violent stepfather. Allison's powerful--and highly autobiographical--novel of family dysfunction and individual survival was a best-seller when it appeared in 1992. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 01/01/1999. 299 pgs. Originally published at $5.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Random House Value Pub. 08/01/1984. Set in the worlds of art and modeling, this is the story of artist Julien Mistral and his relationship with three red-haired women. Originally published at $4.99 You save 80% off the cover price!

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