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Macmillan classics volume 22
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English
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Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is made to repent of his greedy ways by the timely intervention of the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley, and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
83) The Swan House
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Mary Swan Middleton has always taken for granted the advantages of her family's wealth. But a tragedy that touches all of Atlanta sends her reeling in grief. When the family maid challenges her to reach out to the less fortunate as a way to ease her own pain, Mary Swan meets Carl--and everything changes. For although Carl is her opposite in nearly every way, he has something her privileged life could not give her. And when she seeks his help to uncover...
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First published in 1948, this timeless classic, released for a new generation of readers, follows Margy Shannon, a shy, eager, joyfully optimistic woman, as she searches for something better from life than the hard misery of poverty in which she lives.
85) Acid Row
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[2002]
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English
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Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate. A no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated youth controls the streets. Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. Little does she know that she is entering the home of a known pedophile ...and with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has disappeared, the vigilantes are...
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[2005]
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English
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"Prince and the Pauper": On the same day, two identical looking boys are born: one is a pauper named Tom and the other is prince Edvard. As a kid, Tom decides to sneak into the palace garden and meet the prince. They change clothes with each other but are discovered and the real prince is thrown out. "Three little pigs": Two pigs are building houses of hay and sticks and scoff at their brother who is building the brick house. But when the wolf comes...
90) Tyrell
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Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.
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Maura Murphy's memoir of life in Ireland and beyond resonates with the people, places, and struggles of an almost forgotten generation. Born "chronically ugly and cross as a briar" into a poor, rural homestead in 1920s Ireland, Maura faced adversity from birth. She grew up in the bogs of the Irish countryside and left school at fourteen for Dublin, working in service there until her marriage to a hardworking but hard-drinking womanizer. Poverty stricken...
93) A Dream to Share
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Her sister paid a terrible price. Can she avoid the same fate? A quest for revenge leads a young woman to a new friend, but also puts her in grave danger. Can love triumph over evil? Chester, 1907. Emma Griffiths' sister took her own life when she became pregnant out of wedlock to a man who refused to take responsibility. Now Emma is out to avenge her sister's death. Emma leaves her job as a maid, no longer willing to put up with unwanted attention...
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2010.
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1. āvr̥tti.
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Gujarati
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Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life, having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
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Harlequin presents volume 3415
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English
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A very pleasurable proposition!. Seth Broden needs this last deal to achieve the success he's always desired -- but to close it, he must make the one acquisition he's never wanted: a wife! A chance meeting with pretty but penniless Imogen Hayes gives Seth the chance to propose a mutually beneficial arrangement ... Jilted bride Imogen vowed to save herself for her wedding night -- but she never expected to be walking down the aisle to Seth! With the...
96) Annie
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The story of a plucky, red-haired girl who dreams of life outside her dreary orphanage. One day, Annie is chosen to stay for one week with the famous billionaire 'Daddy' Warbucks. One week turns into many and the only person standing in the way of Annie's fun is Miss Hannigan, the gin-soaked ruler of the orphanage. Will Miss Hannigan's zany attempts to kidnap the irrepressible Annie succeed? Enjoy all the unforgettable songs, including It's A Hard...
98) The beautiful tree: a personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves
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Upon its release several years ago, The Beautiful Tree was instantly embraced and praised by individuals and organizations across the globe. James Tooley's extraordinary ability to braid together personal experience, community action, individual courage, and family devotion, brought readers to the very heart of education. This book follows Tooley in his travels from the largest shanty town in Africa to the mountains of Gansu, China, and of the children,...
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This is an account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of the late 1840s, a famine which resulted in the death of about one million people and was also largely responsible, in conjunction with British government policies, for one of the great international human migrations of British history-the mass exodus of some two million people from Ireland, mostly to North America, in the years 1845-1855. This book combines narrative, analysis, historiography,...
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Start small, dream big, change lives- how one woman harnessed the power of fair trade to help women in poverty help themselves
Seven years ago, Stacey Edgar had a $2,000 tax return and a deep desire to help provide economic security for women in need. She knew that of the 1.3 billion people living on less than $1 per day, seventy percent are women. What she didn't have was a business plan. Or a passport. But that didn't stop her from creating a socially...
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