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1) Venus envy
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"A misdiagnosis of cancer leads successful art dealer Mary Frazier Armstrong to send letters to her loved ones in which she comes out of the closet--letters she wants to retrieve when she finds that the diagnosis was a mistake."--NoveList Plus.
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"In this wild, picturesque romp through some of the world's most exotic and undiscovered travel destinations, Hanns Ebensten recounts his adventures hiking across deserts, hacking his way through jungles, and climbing mountains over the course of nearly sixty years - and he describes the fascinating cast of characters he has encountered. Beginning in 1935, when eleven-year-old Hanns met (and developed a crush on) King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, Ebensten...
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David Leavitt's deliciously sharp new novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead eighties, when outrageous success lay seductively within reach of any young writer ambitious enough to grab it.
At the dawn of the Reagan era, Martin Bauman-nineteen, clever, talented, and insecure-is enrolled at a prestigious college with a hard-won place under the tutelage of the legendary and enigmatic Stanley Flint, a man who...
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Has any other love story become so enmeshed in our culture as the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet? In fair Verona the families of Montague and Capulet are locked in a long-standing, bitter blood feud when young Romeo Montague slips into a masquerade party at the Capulet's. During the dance he glimpses Juliet, the daughter of the house, and is struck by love at first sight. She returns his passion and they promise each other everlasting love notwithstanding...